OBJECTIVES

To develop software solutions as a senior or principle software developer — contracting or permanent — in the North of Boston (495 ring) or Southern New Hampshire area, and to continue working with state-of-the-art technology, especially Web technologies. This will allow me to make the best use of my abilities — to grasp new concepts and techniques quickly.

This hypertext résumé is best read on the web because of the hot links to supporting information as well as direct access to my portfolio JavaScript and Java applets.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Summary)

An aggressive problem solver with a masters degree and 20⁺ years of experience with software and computer technology, click on the hot links in this section to jump to the details of my significant expertise with:

• web technology : Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0, Web Services, Struts and the MVC design pattern, Java Server Pages (.jsp), XML and SOAP, [dynamic] html, ActiveX, IIS, JavaScript, AXIS, and Active Server Pages.
• languages : 15⁺ years of OO software development (Java, C#, C++ and Ada™); VB, C, plus a host of other languages.
• database : 15⁺ years of SQL (Microsoft SQL 2005, 6.5, 7.0 & SQL 2000 and also Oracle, PL/SQL and 8i) both in-line SQL (from Java/JDBC and C#/ADO) and Stored Procedures; Persistent Objects and OO frameworks for interfacing with Rdb technology; SQL applications.
• component software engineering : significant JavaBeans, EJBs and J2EE-based product development; hands-on developer training and exposure to Microsoft's C# and .Net technologies; significant OLE, COM / DCOM; and JNDI; complemented with some exposure to CORBA and webMethods B2B component technologies.
• OO Design : Used UML and Rational Rose to compile use cases and scenarios and to do high-level design of systems and components. Some experience with TogetherJ.
• operating systems : Windows XP (and NT/Win2003), Windows 95/98, and many versions of Unix including OSF/1, HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris; VAX/VMS, MS-DOS, and others.
• scripting languages : Python and Perl, Visual Basic, OLE Automation, Microsoft Office VBAs, Unix tools (sed & Awk) and others.
• Software tools, UI design, WinFORMs / WebFORMs, Visual Studio 2005, Eclipse, and Swing.
• career development : An avid reader of industry trends, especially via the Oracle OTN and Microsoft msdn; courses such as C# (when it first came out), Webinars, the Vista launch, and on-going technical seminars allow me to keep my skills up to date.
• development paradigms : a proven record in research, prototyping, and product development.

This experience is complemented by strong personal skills, an outgoing personality, and an aptitude for assimilating disparate technologies and making them work together effectively.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Eluma (Mirror-Image Internet)

Tewksbury, Mass

(Jan-June 2007)

Eluma™, an award-winning start-up (spin-off of Mirror-Image Internet), is a pioneer in the area of web- and Desktop integration; "Bringing the connectivity of the web's communisphere directly to your Desktop".

With Eluma, as a hands-on .NET Technology Specialist, I:

• Helped architect a way that Eluma's .NET 2.0 Desktop application (our flagship product, the Eluma™ Desktop) can host PlugIns which are independent of the application yet tightly integrated with it.
• Used ASP.NET 2.0 technology (including C# and WebFORMs) to create a PlugIn called "Slideshow" which allowed the Eluma™ Desktop application to configure modules which display sequences of digital images using 3^rd-party APIs such as Flickr™ and Google's API to Picasa Web Albums.
• Building on previous work with Web Services, I used Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET to design a way of doing PlugIns not based on web technology but rather client-side WinFORMs and server-side .NET 2.0 code connected together with a set of Web Services. I then used this to implement a Blog PlugIn so that configurable objects on the Eluma™ Desktop can essentially be Blogs. With persistence being . done by the Eluma™ database layer, these Blogs allow convenient communication within Eluma™ Communities.
• All of this work was done in C# and built on SOAP and Xml interfaces which I designed to connect up the 3-tier layers. In the database layer I designed and implemented a relational database model using Microsoft SQL 2005. For all 3 PlugIns the Web Services accessed all of the data via SQL Stored Procedures.

SkillSoft

Nashua, NH

(2004 - 2006)

SkillSoft is a leading global provider of comprehensive, multi-modal e-learning content and software products for business and information technology. I joined SkillSoft because of the opportunity to hone my skills in leading-edge technologies — both Java / J2EE and Microsoft technologies — to work on a software development team committed to getting a better product to market faster.

With SkillSoft as a contractor and then a Senior Software Engineer, I:

• Created a Single Sign-On mechanism that lets SkillPort Add-Ons integrate seamlessly with the company's LMS (Learning Management System).
• Designed and implemented Façade, a Java API which acts as an RPC bridge between our newer-generation Add-Ons (J2EE/Java) and SkillPort (older legacy code).
• Using Java, .jsp, Tomcat, and Struts, I was a key member of the team that created SkillPort's Instructor-Led Training Module, integrating the new-generation into the legacy environment via the Façade.
• As part of the core SkillPort team I interfaced with marketing folks to document and solidify requirements. I also followed through hands-on with Java, JUnit and ColdFusion to create, test and maintain web-based modules within our 3-tier web application (the LMS).
• Designed and implemented BCS to MML, a prototype that allows 3^rd-Party web applications to integrate with SkillPort. This paved the way for OLSA (our Open Learning Services Architecture) which is a Web Services gateway to SkillSoft's LMS. For OLSA we are using Apache AXIS.

Interactive Constructs, Inc.

Medford, Ma.

(2003 - '04)

A consulting and educational frameworks startup, Interactive Constructs Inc., grabbed my attention as a Senior Software Engineer because their business is based on consulting engagements requiring both Java / J2EE and Microsoft Technology skills.
On two unrelated projects, I:

• (2003) Used Microsoft technology — Active Server Pages (.asp) and SQL Server — working on a team of 5 software engineers to provide a web-based custom Learning Management System and Training / Testing environment for Prentice Hall, the “world's leading educational publisher”.
• (2004) Using iConstruct's own J2EE Lycea framework, I am working in Java and Xml using our Lycea wizard engine to produce a content authoring tool called The CAI. This high-level web-based tool allows the creators of educational software (for an elementary-school reading curriculum) to create and 'link up' persistent (via SQL) objects which are later used by a MacroMedia Director front end. Eventually this design calls for rehosting the EJBs on JBoss using MySql, but for expediency we are initially building this Java/JDBC middleware running on WebLogic and Oracle.
• Facilitating the CAI's manipulation of complicated structures, we created an ActiveX control which provides direct manipulation of Xml objects but at a high level so you do not even see any "Tags".

Upromise, Inc.

Needham, Ma

(2002 to 2003)

I joined Upromise.com — a Loyalty and Financial Services startup — as a Senior Software Engineer to solidify my J2EE skills and because I wholeheartedly support the unique Upromise vision.

Working mostly in Java — using a wide variety of web infrastructure technologies, I:

• Designed and implemented new functionality on the Upromise.com web site. This J2EE Application supports more than 3⁺ million members with an extensive backoffice transaction processing part that collects rewards from Upromise partners for members who demonstrate product-buying Loyalty. I also did bug fixing and enhancements on the front end (Javascript, .jsp, and WebGenz), backoffice (Java/JDBC), middleware (WebLogic), and back end (Oracle) tiers.
• Worked on all tiers of our call center "CSR App" — a J2EE / WebLogic Weblication that supports hundreds of Customer Service Reps who answer 1-800 support calls.
• Implemented the middleware tier of a TOOLs App Server. Running with WebLogic and interfacing to an Oracle 9i back end, this server uses Xml and provides XML-RPC access to program metadata stored in the database but available for high-level manipulation by a variety of web-based (and Swing) front ends.
• Used Swing and XML-RPC to prototype a client for the TOOLs App Server in an effort to give non-technical users an intuitive GUI for manipulating the metadata that "drives" Upromise.com.
• Enhanced and integrated our use of Revenio (automated eMail) technology to accommodate Upromise marketing workflows.
• Helped design the metadata / API and implemented the EJB middleware needed to support "Generic Promotions" — the mechanism used by Upromise to let project managers create a sequence of web pages (such as this) used to capture sponsor-based promotions without any programming whatsoever.

Viridien Technologies

Westford, Ma.

(Feb 2000 to Oct 2001)

As a Senior Web Architect with Viridien Technologies (formerly http://www.viridien.com/), writing primarily in Java, I worked on a variety of web and web infrastructure projects, including:

• Using Microsoft's SQL 7.0 and Active Server Page technologies, I was the senior contributing developer on the PlanetRAD Portal project. Using Java, I wrote back-end processes for fetching articles daily from MedLine, inspired directly by my previous Java work at MyWay.
• Like PlanetRAD - only built with Site Server 3.0 eCommerce Edition technology - I led the team that created TechOnLine's eStore site. I did the UI part of this project plus work on the database and Admin & Tools pieces (the technology for managing what products the store offers).
• Working closely with consultants at DIGITAS, I was one of the senior developers who used ATG Dynamo (a Java-based web technology) to create the Woolworths and SuperDrug web sites (for Kingfischer, a UK conglomerate).
• Helped create the 3rd-generation Viridien Technologies web site itself ("http://www.viridien.com/", but no longer on-line). One of my own initiatives was the Xml-based generation of the Leadership pages.
• I was a key player in Viridien's largest-ever project which re-architected and rebuilt CVS.com (originally a Microsoft / .asp site) using EJB technology (J2EE with iPlanet). I personally worked on all layers: Architecture (MVC), User Interface (.jsp & JBs for the UI), middle tier (EJBs & JDBC), backend tools, and the database layer itself (Oracle 8i).
• Continued my previous at-home Java work to broaden my experience with Java and Xml technologies. See my personal Java Portfolio page for details.

MyWay.com

Andover, Ma.

(April 1998 to Jan 2000)

Writing mostly in Java as a Senior Software Engineer with MyWay.com (formerly Planet Direct), I:

• Worked on a team to re-architect Planet Direct's web portal based on custom Java components and using Microsoft's Site Server 3.0 technology. Designed and implemented a Java interface to SiteServer's "membership directory" (using LDAP and JNDI).
• Designed and wrote JavaBeans for the personalization part of the portal, wrapping them as COM objects using the ActiveX Bridge so they can be invoked from the .asp layer of Planet Direct's (now defunct) web portal.
• Used the above components to create a Microsoft SQL 6.5 data migration tool which served as the initial benchmark that led to us discarding SiteServer (and SQL) and moving to Oracle.
• Wrote several Java and C++ "feeds" - standalone programs that harvest 3rd-party content from our partner [web] sites, canonicalizing the content, and storing it in relational database tables. This automated content populated MyWay's web portal - host to well over 2 million members with multimedia (pictures, audio, video) as well as textual (Articles, News stories, and graphics) content - just as it still does today with MyWay's progeny.
• Used in-line SQL (from Java) initially but then we reworked all feeds to use Stored Procedures (using Oracle's PL/SQL) in order to regularize and homogenize our feeds' infrastructure.
• Wrote XML specifications so that our partners - and therefore MyWay, too - could use XML technology for automated content exchange.
• Ported numerous feeds to webMethods B2B technology as part of an effort to scale up.

As a Lead Developer with Sapient Corp., a fast-growing business software consulting company, I:

• Used Rational Rose™ and Visio™ for OO design and process flows, doing the follow-on implementation of large-scale business software using Visual Basic, Visual C++ and COM. In this medium-sized team environment we used Rogue Wave's SourcePro™ DB (formerly “DBTools.h++”) for SQL database transparency.
• Took part in Sapient's intensive, client-centered, workshop process (formerly “Sapient's QUADD™ workshop”) where we host clients to gather requirements for business solutions, specifying the design such that the software can be delivered on a fixed-time fixed-price basis.
• Did three-tier client/server development using dynamic html in a Web browser on the client side, using Corba to communicate with the business objects (in C++) which run on HP-UX accessing an ORACLE database.
• Continued working on my own to gain experience with Java and other web technologies. See my sample Java applets page for a growing list of demos as I work towards Java Certification.

As a Software Scientist with Intergraph Corp., a Unix workstation and Windows PC manufacturer, I:

• (1997) Did Web prototyping using Java, ActiveX, and IIS (including ISAPI extensions) to develop a framework for WorkShare™ on the Web, focusing on Microsoft's “Active Platform” technologies. If you are reading this on the Web, see my sample Javascripts page, visit the sample Java applet that I wrote using Visual J++™ to plant the seed for "WorkShare/Web", or try out the highly interactive yet firmly Web-based demo/game, modeled after Wheel-of-Fortune, that I wrote using JScript™.
• (1996) Designed a major part of the user interface for document management product called “WorkShare™,” implementing the Criteria Editor (a GUI for performing Queries) with Microsoft Visual C++ in an MFC framework. Evangelized the Microsoft Repository technology.
• (1995) Thoroughly learned the Component Object Model by writing COM interfaces for extending Microsoft (TypeLib) metadata as part of the “Jupiter” framework.
• (1993/94) Worked with six engineers to prototype a GUI and underlying metadata engine which provided an Entity Relationship Data Modeling capability for Intergraph's early “Jupiter” (moving to COM) initiative.
• (1993) Adapted a 600-table Rdb system (e911) to use Vortex accelerator technology from TriFox Inc.; did benchmarking wrt SQL performance and bottlenecks.
• (1992) Prototyped mechanisms to map terabyte MGE/Dynamo object stores into persistent object databases, defined with Versant Object Technology, rendering the geometry (maps) with X Windows on Unix. Exposure to topology and spatial operators in a database context.
• (1992) Co-authored with John Herring the paper "A Corporate Database Approach to GIS: Techniques for Integrating Multiple GIS Applications", published in the GIS '92 Proceedings. This work, with a leaning towards Spatial Operators, led to "Oracle Spatial" once John Herring moved to Oracle.
• (1991) Worked with Bentley Systems technical people to develop a version of Microstation where the CAD elements were stored in a persistent object database that I defined in C++ using Versant Object Technology as the data store.
• (1990) Investigated a variety of persistent object databases and application frameworks doing prototypes and benchmarks of capturing GIS (map) data - geometry and attribution - and storing it all persistently. Within this framework, an application could define a dynamic schema to access disparate data in a seamless fashion. This work eventually led to GeoMedia.
• (1990) Worked (in C++) on a team to transition Intergraph's Unix/Clix platform to X Windows.

As a Senior Software Engineer, I designed / implemented an iconic Object-Oriented user interface for Apollo's well-known DSEE, the "Domain Software Engineering Environment". After the HP buyout, the DSEE folks created ClearCase based on DSEE — first as Atria, which then became PureAtria, was then bought by Rational, and finally became part of IBM.

• Prototyped various UI mechanisms using Motif Open Dialogue objects (Apollo's UIMS) to demonstrate alternative object-oriented user paradigms appropriate for DSEE.
• Gave presentations of various user models; assimilated feedback from my colleagues.
• Developed the UI product definition for DSEE incorporating time and manpower constraints.
• Implemented the DSEE graphical user interface which was OSF's Motif compliant.
• Helped port HP's SoftBench to Aegis, Apollo's distributed Unix operating system. Learned about HP's "tool integration environment for the 90s" - SoftBench, HP Widgets, a message-based intra-tool communication architecture, and a truly integrated hypertext Help system.

At this French startup as a Senior Software Toolsmith, I worked directly with the inventors of the Ada language ("Green"), focusing on innovative CASE tools written in and for Ada development.

• Conceived of and prototyped the "Ada Program Viewer", a smart user interface layer capable of helping users to understand programs written in Ada.
• Merged this browser tool with a debug component to productize Alsys's AdaPROBE.
• Prototyped AdaEDIT, an edit assist tool that interacts directly with the Ada program library and numerous (15+) off-the-shelf (PC-based) text editors.
• Wrote technical documents leading to Alsys product brochures.
• Presented a paper and my Ada Viewer prototype at SigAda's "Ada In Use" (ACM) conference in Paris; published in the May 1985 conference proceedings.

INRIA : the French National Computer Science Research Center

Paris, France

(1983)

As a full time researcher at INRIA, a famous European research center, I:

• Ported MIT's NU window system to a 68010 workstation.
• did Unix-based tools: visual shell, bitmap (font) editor, a viewer of satellite images.
• Published a research report available from INRIA upon request.
• Presented my CASE prototyping work at various French research facilities.

As a beginning Software Engineer on the original VAX/VMS development team, I:

• Produced the first version of DEBUG-32, VMS's multi-language symbolic debugger.
• Created DEBUG-16: a distributed debugger for several PDP-11 operating systems.
• Prototyped the first version of DEC's electronic book tool: FLIP, a hypertext document pioneer.
• Evolved a tool integration environment prototype (VME) over an extended period.

Post-Secondary EDUCATION

1975 to 1979 - University of Waterloo : Masters of Mathematics (M.Math)
Major: Computer Science. Published research papers and wrote a C compiler for Texas Instrument's TI990 micro as part of my masters thesis on runtime environments and higher-level machine architectures (CISC).

1970 to 1975 - University of Waterloo : Bachelors of Mathematics (B.Math)
This was a co-operative (work/study) program during which I had six work terms - an accumulated two years experience in commercial and scientific computing. My work terms included stints at CERN (where Web technology was invented), and at UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

1969 - La Universidad de Las Américas, Puebla (Mexico City, D.F.)
Studied Spanish, French, and Mathematics during this "preparatory year" in place of my "grade 13" (last year of high school in Ontario, Canada) year.

PERSONAL DATA

• Canadian citizen, permanent resident (green card holder) in the USA (since 1982)
• happily married (since 1979), with two school-age children
• I have studied/worked/lived in six countries, speaking English, Spanish, and French.
• Leadership positions on New England (MDI) men's teams, an active member of our church choir, and local Java (NEJUG), Microsoft Boston and .Net User Groups.

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