Subject: your email
Resent-Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 18:04:21 -0400
Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox <fox@mailer.scri.fsu.edu>
Resent-To: Geoffrey Fox <gcf@nu.cs.fsu.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 12:09:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: John E West <jewest@mail.com>
To: fox@csit.fsu.edu

prof fox,

[the dod is under attack from an email virus, so dod email is shut down.
probably best to use jewest@mail.com for the next while]

having just completed (sort of) a move myself, i understand completely.

do i want to pursue a phd?
nominally, yes.  but i recognize the environment i have created for myself
as not sufficient to create success for me.  i have definitely been way to
disconnected, and left to my own devices, have screwed myself into the
ground.  what i am after is a topic that a) i can finish b) i can finish in
a reasonable amount of time c) my dissertation director is very interested
in, so he/she will spur me on.  i'm not out to save the world anymore, just
to finish and move on.  that may mean that my current topic can be salvaged,
but it may also mean picking a new topic.  whatever it takes, but i'm stuck
right now and need help getting unstuck.

it may also be that my interaction requirements are beyond what you can
handle given your current life changes.  completely understandable, just let
me know.  i'd much rather know now than try to limp along and have to bail
out later...

work/skills?
work-wise i am most interested in exploring how technology can impact and
improve peoples' lives - how computers can transform and extend ordinary
tasks and tie people together.  also i am interested in working with new
technologies, and probably in moving out of traditional supercomputing as a
field unto itself and into doing things that affect a broader base of
people.  distance education and computer-supported cooperation seem to fit
nicely into these topic areas.  ubiquitous computing is also an area of
interest along these same lines, but the term has become too diluted to be
meaningful.

i would say my best skills relate to my ability to pick up a new technology
and quick assimilate it to best advantage in a project.  i have quite a bit
of development experience on the unix side, and reasonable exposure to pc
development with microsoft tools (developer studio).  i have always been the
network communications (from tcp/ip to native hippi and atm) and computer
graphics (opengl, open inventor, vrml) guy in my groups, and have done
several interesting projects that probably fall into what is now called
metacomputing.  several of these efforts included web technologies and
2/3-tier software systems.  of course there is the parallel stuff as well.

i think it is important you know that i am not a visionary (at least not
yet), but given a little direction i think i am very talented at execution,
whether by writing applications myself or marshalling resources to get them
written.

long email message...i have attached a resume and list of pubs(word format,
if you need another, let me know).

best,
john.

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