Who is Guy?

My name is Guy Strupper, and I'm retired from the USAF, and owner of Strupper Enterprises. I was raised in Delaware, Ohio, a nice community in central Ohio.

My first few years in the service was relatively uneventful. From approximately 1979 to 1982 I was a shift supervisor for United States Air Force's Military Airlift Command's Special Security Office Telecommunications Processing Center. From 1982 until assignment to Germany in 1984, I was a shift supervisor for the USAF's second largest Telecommunications Processing Center. I was responsible for approximately 30 personnel, and providing critical communications to the United States Air Force's Military Airlift Command and United States Transportation Command Staffs during several world crises the United States was involved in. This position I held was suppose to be filled by a person two grades higher than I was.

From 1984 to 1986, I was again shift supervisor for United States Air Force's Special Security Office Telecommunications Processing Center at Boerfink Mountian, Germany. We provided direct support for the Intelligence Section that also monitored enemy (Soviet) aircraft movement. We were responsible for the operation of four computer systems.

From 1986 to 1989, I was in the United States Air Force's Military Airlift Command's Teleprocessing Center, where we operated and managed 15 computer systems, including Honeywells, DEC, HP and Tandems. I was the Assistant Shift Supervisor with approximately 40 personnel under my direction. At the end of my time in this position I was the Shift Trainer for the all computer systems.

In 1989, the USAF allowed me to cross train from operations to programming. From May 1989 to June 1995, I was in the Tandem Systems Shop at Scott AFB, IL. During this time, I was directly responsible for numerous projects, including interfaces for S&R (Search and Rescue) and Command and Control support.

After I left the USAF, I had several jobs to include contracting to ACI in Omaha, NE. During my time at ACI, I was sent to the Camen Islands, where I learned about scuba diving, and love it to this date.

From April 1997 to July 1999, I was the Database Administrator (DBA) at MacGregor Medical in Houston, TX. During my time there, I spear heading, planned and successully migrated MacGregor from their old Tandem K20,0000s to their current S70,000s.

From July 1999 until September 2001, I was working with the country's 6th largest insurance company as a DBA. I'm one of several DBAs responsible for approximately 3 terabytes of data over 7 Tandem (COMPAQ) mid range computers.