# JAMES J. KILROY

**Technical and Quality-Control Resume — 1945**

Barracks 14, U.S. Naval Operating Base, Guam, M.I.  
c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, California  
Telephone: Naval Base Extension 214

## Civilian Position Desired After Discharge

Technical or quality-control work involving communications apparatus, cipher equipment, calculating and tabulating machinery, testing methods, or technical records. Available for civilian employment upon honorable discharge from the United States Navy.

## Qualifications

- Thorough inspection and testing of electrical, mechanical, and communications equipment.
- Experience with radio, telephone, cipher, plotting, calculating, and punched-card machinery.
- Able to devise repeatable test procedures and visual test patterns.
- Skilled in locating intermittent faults, checking operation at extreme limits, and confirming repairs.
- Prepares clear technical reports and explains equipment operation to supervisors, operators, and repair personnel.

## Experience

### Communications Equipment Test Technician

**U.S. Naval Operating Base — Guam, Mariana Islands — 1944–1945**

- Inspected shore radio and telephone equipment before return to service.
- Prepared repeatable fault reports so repair crews could reproduce intermittent failures.
- Checked operation under weak-signal, overload, and end-of-range conditions.
- Maintained test records and equipment-status sheets for communications supervisors.

### Cipher and Coding-Machine Test Specialist

**Naval Communications Annex — Territory of Hawaii — 1943–1944**

- Tested reversible enciphering operations and compared output against known results.
- Used reduced alphabets and short test messages to expose repeating cycles and faults at operating limits.
- Documented equipment failures without recording classified message content.
- Worked with operators and maintenance personnel to confirm repairs.

### Tabulating and Plotting Machine Inspector

**War Production Statistical Office — Boston, Massachusetts — 1941–1943**

- Checked punched-card tabulations, numerical plots, scales, labels, and figures falling outside established ranges.
- Devised nested star-shaped plotting patterns whose scale, position, and angle could be varied predictably.
- Used those patterns to reveal plotting errors and give mechanics clear visual evidence of defects.
- Compared figures, formulas, and printed formats when verifying duplicate record sheets.

### Office Machines and Telephone Systems Technician

**Legal and Commercial Offices — Boston Area — 1938–1941**

- Installed standardized deskside equipment and traced telephone and office-machine faults.
- Maintained form-letter, legal-pleading, proof-of-service, and customer follow-up systems.
- Explained equipment operation to clerical personnel in plain language.

## Military Service

Enlisted, United States Navy, 1943. Naval communications and equipment-testing assignments in Hawaii and Guam. Available for civilian employment upon honorable discharge.

## Education and Service Training

### United States Navy Service Schools — 1943

Radio maintenance, communications procedure, electrical fundamentals, and technical record keeping.

### Evening Technical Courses — Boston, Massachusetts — 1938–1942

Shop mathematics, radio servicing, office machinery, mechanical drawing, and punched-card methods.

## References

Naval and civilian references furnished upon request, subject to wartime security regulations.