Bernard T. Higonnet
42 rue de Lévis
75017 Paris France
bth@higonnet.net
dual national US/FRANCE
Tel 01.43.80.04.39
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EDUCATION
Primary and
Secondary
French and American public schools and American private
schools
University
1965 BA Harvard College (Applied Mathematics)
1966 MS Harvard University (Applied Mathematics)
1966-1967 Faculté des Sciences Paris
Languages
Bi-lingual American/French
Able to understand, speak, and read Spanish
WORK EXPERIENCE
9/2000-8/2002
Sharing Technologies SA
Paris France
English Technical Writer and Localisation
Manager (French and German). Designing GUI
and user documentation (help files and manuals for
end-user and administrator) in English for Papirus,
a Lotus Notes add-on product. Webmaster from
2/2002 to 8/2002. This company was liquidated in
July 2002.
Teaching French curriculum mathematics for
1998-1999
École Bilingue
grades 9,10,11 in French at Belmont High School.
Belmont MA USA
www.belmont.k12.ma.us/bhs/hs.html
1996-9/2000
Freelance translating English <-> French.
1994-1996
Parametric Technology Corp
Waltham MA USA
http://www.ptc.com/
Hired on January 3 1994 as Manager of
Translations, I was promoted to Manager of
Documentation and Translation in May 1994. As
such I managed two releases of the documentation,
printed, and on-line, in English as in French,
German, Italian, and Japanese. The documentation
consisted of 6,500 pages of English text.
1984-1993
Polyglot Productions
Cambridge MA USA
This is a business I started to sell and rent French
language videotapes by mail order. During this
time I produced
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three important catalogues
published two books I commissioned
began to use on-line databases (e.g.
DIALOG) and CD-ROM
wrote programs in C to conjugate and
recognize all 7,100 French verbs
programmed a HyperCard stack to drive a
laserdisc version of the classic French film
La Grande Illusion
did free-lance translation to and from
English and French.
1982-1983
Multisystems
Cambridge MA USA
http://www.multisystems.com/
Programming for a CICS-based report generator.
1976-1981
J. Bobst & Fils
Lausanne Switzerland
http://www.bobst.ch/
This company purchased the machine developed
by Lumitype (see below). Here I worked on
simulation models of proposed photocomposers
and on programming of micro-controllers for
photocomposers in development.
1975-1976
Lumitype Ltd.
Boca Raton FL USA
In this position I managed a group of five people
developing a prototype photo-composer. In
addition to the day-to-management of a mechanical
engineer, a draftsman, an electronics engineer, an
electronics technician, and a secretary/bookkeeper,
I did all the programming for the prototype of a
'second generation' photocomposer.
1969-1975
MIT and Multisystems
Cambridge MA USA
During this time I worked two periods for MIT and
two periods for Multisystems, a company formed
by a group of MIT professors, with the same
hierarchical superiors in both cases. When I left
MIT, I was a Research Associate. The work at MIT
was US Transportation Department funded
research in the CARS (Computer Aided Routing
System). This was a real-time demand-responsive
trip request-to-vehicle assignment system designed
as a public transportation system. The work at
Multisystems was systems programming for a
porting of the ICES system to a UNIVAC machine.
1967-1969
IBM Systems Engineer
Detroit MI USA
Worked primarily in installing OS/MFT and
OS/MVT at Fisher Body Division, General Motors
Technical Center.
Hardware and Software used
The hypertext links in this list exist for those cases in which I reached a significant level
of competence. The absence of a link indicates I am an ordinary user.
<<<<<<<<<<<leads to programming which can either be tested on the Web
or downloaded and tested on your machine.
Machines
IBM 7090, 7094, 7094/II
IBM 1401
IBM 360/30/40/50/60/67, 370
DEC PDP-8, PDP-10
UNIVAC 1108
Custom-built microprocessors
Data General Nova
Intel 8008 - 80486, Pentium
IBM PC
Apple MacIntosh
HP workstation, Sun workstation
Operating systems
FMS (FORTRAN MONITOR SYSTEM)
DOS OS/MFT OS/MVT CP/CMS
PDP-10
UNIVAC EXEC-8
Pure binary
DOS
ICE (In-Circuit Emulator)
PC/DOS, Windows 3.1/95/98/ME/NT/2000, Linux, FreeBSD
MacIntosh System 6, System 7
Unix
Assemblers
Compiled Languages
Interpreted Languages
7090/7094/7094II FAP
(FORTRAN ASSEMBLY
PROGRAM)
IBM 360 BAL Assembler
UNIVAC 1108 Assembler
Data General NOVA Assembler
INTEL 8086 Assembler
FORTRAN II, FORTRAN
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PL/I
Editors, Utilities
Word Processors
Syntax checkers
Brief
TECO
C-shell
bash
vi
VSS
Typeset/Runoff
XyWrite
FinalWord
WordPerfect
Word for Windows
FrameMaker
ForeHelp
Dreamweaver
RightWriter
Hugo
PostScript
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HyperCard<<<<<<<<<<<
EasyCad
HTML, Javascript
Java
C++<<<<<<<<<<< AWK
PHP
Perl
Telecommunications/Networking Database
Miscellaneous
telnet, ssh
DNS server
Dialog
Questel
Knowledgeman
Postfix
FTP
Samba
Ht/dig
Apache
Publications
Several articles and conference papers in the field of transportation with Prof. Nigel
Wilson (MIT), and two articles with my brother Prof. Patrice Higonnet (Harvard) on a
statistical analysis of voting patterns of deputies to the French revolutionary assemblies
1789-1795.