CIT - Joe C. Oliphant's biography

- Biography -

Joe C. Oliphant
Email: joeo@zimmer.csufresno.edu
Phone: (559) 278-2066
Fax:(559) 278-6033

Areas Of Expertise

Testing of Irrigation and Related Equipment: Hydraulic testing of irrigation equipment, test procedures, instrumentation and data acquisition; calibration of test equipment; analysis of test results in accordance with industry, national and international standards.

Computers and Software Development: Top down structured programming, user friendly interactive systems, data base management, local area networks, real time data acquisition and control algorithms. Programming languages: Basic, QuickBasic^TM, Visual Basic^TM, Windows^TM Applications, Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, Algol. Equipment: CDC 330 0, Cyber 170, Digital PDP 11/45, VAX, Honeywell mainframe, Apple Macintosh, IBM PC

Education

BS, Ag Business, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California

MS, Ag Business, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California

Experience

1987 - Present: Research Technician III, Hydraulics Laboratory, Center for Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno. Duties include developing software for data analysis of test results on irrigation equipment, office automation, and custom software as requested by clients; developing instrumentation and computer controlled data acquisition for a wide range of test procedures, developing test fixtures and procedures for testing irrigation equipment, scheduling equipment testing in the laboratory, maintaining calibration of test gages, supervising student assistants, and writing articles for publication.

1985 - 1987: Athletic Equipment Manager, California State University, Fresno. Duties included preparing yearly budgets, ordering, and maintaining inventory of athletic equipment.

1983 -1985: Equipment Technician I, California State University, Fresno. Duties included maintenance of various types of shop equipment in the Art and Agricultural Mechanics Departments, including foundry and ceramic furnaces, machine and wood shop equipment, and boilers and air conditioning equipment.

1982: Computer Operator, Fresno City College. Duties included operating a Honeywell main frame computer and various other electronic data processing equipment, processing grades reports, class schedules, payroll and financial reports for the school.

1977 - 1981: Computer Operator, California State University, Fresno. Duties included operating several types of electronic data processing equipment including a Control Data Corporation Cyber 170 main frame computer, a Digital Equipment PDP 11/45 mini computer, and various types of batching and sorting equipment, batch processing of faculty and student projects, processing of grade reports and class schedules. Supervised student assistants.

Special Training

Backflow Prevention and Control Valve Seminar, Ames, Woodland, California, 1988

Computer Software and Data

1996. Oliphant JC. SPACE Data Disk. Electronic Sprinkler Test Data Base, copyright 1994 by the Center for Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California.

1995. Oliphant JC. SPACE Data Disk. Electronic Sprinkler Test Data Base, copyright 1994 by the Center for Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California.

1994. Oliphant JC. Hyper-SPACE for Windows, Software and Documentation, CATI Publication No. 941002, Center For Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California, 42 p.

1993. Oliphant JC. SPACE for Windows, Software and Documentation, CATI Publication No. 930404, Center For Irrigation Technology, California State University - Fresno, Fresno, California, 42 p.

1993. Oliphant JC. PIVOT, Software and Documentation, Center For Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California, 15 p.

1994. Oliphant JC SPACE Data Disk. Electronic Sprinkler Test Data Base, copyright 1993 by the Center for Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California.

1993. Oliphant JC SPACE Data Disk. Electronic Sprinkler Test Data Base, copyright 1992 by the Center for Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California.

1992. Oliphant JC SPACE Data Disk. Electronic Sprinkler Test Data Base, copyright 1991 by the Center for Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California.

1991. Oliphant JC SPACE Data Disk. Electronic Sprinkler Test Data Base, copyright 1990 by the Center for Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California.

1990. Oliphant JC SPACE Data Disk. Electronic Sprinkler Test Data Base, copyright 1990 by the Center for Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California.

1989. Oliphant JC and DF Zoldoske. Sprinkler Profile And Coverage Evaluation (SPACE), Software and Documentation, CATI Publication No. 890403, Center For Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California, 39 p.

1989. Oliphant JC SPACE Data Disk. Electronic Sprinkler Test Data Base, copyright 1989 by the Center for Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California.

Publications

1996. Center for Irrigation Technology¹. Sprinkler Performance Index, CATI Publication No. 960801, Center For Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California, 16 p.

1996. Center for Irrigation Technology. Drip Emitter and Microsprinkler Performance Report², CATI Publication No. 960201, Center For Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California, 282 p.

1992. Solomon KH, Zoldoske DF and JC Oliphant. Laser-Optical Measurement of Drop Sizes Under Sprinkler Irrigation. Reclamation and Water Management, Moscow, 1992, Nos. 5-6 (May-June), 43(5-6):45-48.

1992. Center for Irrigation Technology . Sprinkler Performance Index, CATI Publication No. 920602, Center For Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California, 14 p.

1991. Oliphant JC Sprinkler Coverage: Getting the Big Picture Through Software. Irrigation Journal 41(7):29-30.

1991. Oliphant JC Sprinkler Coverage: Getting the Big Picture Through Software. Landscape & Irrigation 15(12):60.

1991. Solomon KH, Zoldoske DF,and JC Oliphant. Sprinkler Drop Sizes: Keeping Irrigation On Target. Landscape & Irrigation 15(11):55-57.

1991. Solomon KH, Zoldoske DF, and JC Oliphant. Drop Size Measurement and Sprinkler Performance Evaluation. Proceedings, Irrigation Association 1991 International Irrigation Exposition and Technical Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 10-13, 1991 (in press).

1991. Solomon KH, Zoldoske DF, and JC Oliphant. Laser Optical Measurement of Sprinkler Drop Sizes. Proceedings, Automated Agriculture for the 21st Century Symposium, American Society of Agricultural Engineers, Chicago, Illinois, December 16- 17, 1991, pp 87-96.

1991. Zoldoske DF, Solomon KH, and JC Oliphant. Perspective of an Independent Laboratory. Presented as ASAE Paper No. 91-2169 at the 1991 Summer Meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 23-26, 1991, 6p.

1991. Center for Irrigation Technology. Sprinkler Performance Index, CATI Publication No. 910802, Center For Irrigation Technology, California State University - Fresno, Fresno, California, 12 p.

1991. Oliphant JC Sprinkler Profile And Coverage Evaluation (SPACE), Programing Documentation, CIT Internal Publication. 279 p.

1991. Center for Irrigation Technology. Drip Emitter and Micro Sprinkler Performance Index, CATI Publication No. 910102, Center For Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California, 12 p.

1990. Zoldoske DF, Oliphant JC, and KH Solomon. Sprinkler Spacing Designs: From Rules of Thumb to Computer Analysis. Proceedings, 3rd National Irrigation Symposium, American Society of Agricultural Engineers, Phoenix, AZ, October 28-November 1, 1990, pp 571-576.

1990. Zoldoske DF and JC Oliphant. "Efficient Irrigation With Spray Heads." in Zoldoske, DF and VPJ Farley, editors, Xeriscape Update: Planning and Practice. CATI Publication No. 90047, Center for Irrigation Technology, California State University - Fresno, Fresno, California, pp 77-79.

1990. Center for Irrigation Technology¹. Sprinkler Performance Index, CATI Publication No. 900404, Center For Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California, 12 p.

1989. Oliphant JC Modeling Sprinkler Coverage with the SPACE Program. CATI Publication No. 890802, Center for Irrigation Technology, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California, May 1989, 4p.

¹Indexes were not assigned an author, but were prepared and edited by JC Oliphant

²Performance Report was not assigned an author, but was prepared and edited by JC Oliphant

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