James Avakian:
CLASS OF 1975
William H. Taft High SchoolClass of 1975
Woodland hills, CA
James's Story
James is single. His schools include William H. Taft High School. He later attended California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) (Electronics). He works(ed) at Optical Automation, LLC.
It was my love for computers, the IBM-PC in 1983 and Computer Science classes that gave me support for todays software development. I need to mention I took an early C programming class from UCLA extension in 1987 and that's when I woke up to real world self-employment. It was the combination of webpage development and my writing photojournalism that propelled me. From graduation I could write technical documents and shoot photography as a means to communicate ideas.
While attending Cal Poly, SLO, I learned Fortran, Basic, Pascal, and assembly language computer programming. My electronics classes require I write software to make the electr...Expand for more
onic microprocessors operate and took several classes to program microprocessors. I learned to control the 8080, 8088, 8086 Intel, Z 80 Zilog, and Motorola CPU's using assembly language. I used Turbo C, Microsoft C++ and later .net C# to program computers. Of course I stated from Microsoft DOS v2.1, v3, and CPM to write assembly language programs from computer diskettes into the microprocessor system memory.
It was Windows 95, 98, 2000, Vista, Windows 7 and 8 with v 8.1, including Apple MacPro laptop and desktop OS/X 10.5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 to accomplished website networks. Today I use Apple and Dell server computers to develop Windows and php software. I use Microsoft WebMatrix, Blend, and Visual Studio including Adobe Dreamweaver for AJAX, CSS, and jquery Graphical User Interface languages for website "Front End use interaction.
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