User:ChardingLLNL

Brief Professional Biography

Hi! As my user name suggests, I work at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Computer Operations and Support. I have been in the computer industry for 33+ years, working in such positions as operations, administration, programming, and maintenance. I began my career in the US Air Force as a maintenance technician for the second-generation AN/FSQ-31V mainframe that functioned as the Data Processing Central for the SAC Automated Command and Control System (SACCS DPC). I also worked in weather satellite operations assigned to Detachment 1, 4000 Aerospace Applications Group (SAC) located near Fairchild AFB, Washington (near Spokane, Washington). I later was reassigned to the headquarters of the 4000AAG at Offutt AFB, Nebraska (near Omaha, Nebraska and did Telemetry Analysis, Technical Training Instruction, and finally writing custom telemetry analysis software in Fortran 5 on Data General S-230 systems running the Advanced Operating System (AOS). After 9 years total service I decided to separate from the Air Force and started working strictly as a computer programmer for several different aerospace companies in Southern California. Did that for 10 years, then when the SoCal defense industry slowed down, moved back to my hometown of Livermore, California and worked for different companies again as a computer programmer. I was able to get hired at LLNL in 2002 and have worked here since. Update: On December 9, 2022 I was retired from the lab. I have been doing a lot of things around my house that I couldn't get to while I was working.

wikipedia involvement

I normally spend a fair amount of time clicking on the random article link on wikipedia for both entertainment and enlightenment. I've also gone looking for specific information about places I've lived, and worked, and noticed that there was either some outdated information, or incomplete information, and decided to help the wikipedia community by becoming an occasional editor.

Plots and Plans

I want to take part in more of the community - perhaps in some project or other - I see looking at the list of current projects that there is none specific to hobbies - perhaps I could start one?

If you want to get in touch with me try my talk page - I do check it every once in a while.