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• Certified Master C/C++ and Windows SDK programmer
• Received the highest score on the C++ test for the state
• Outscored 99.7% of all C++ testers nationwide
• 22 years in software engineering; 15 in commercial environments
• 10 years development in Windows
• 10 years experience in telecommunications/networking
• Expert Windows programmer
• Expert C/C++ and Assembly Language programmer
• Excellent engineer and customer relations history
• Successful track record of producing low-maintenance, well-debugged code, on-time
• Recent experience: Winsock, SNMP, SQL, TCP/IP, UDP broadcasting, networking, SDK, MFC, multithreading, linux, hardware protocols, internet protocols, apache, HTML, PHP, CGI, perl, Microchip PIC parts
• Past experience: MPEG streams, ADSL, ATM, DOCSIS cable modem spec, terminal emulation, MAPI, TAPI, Unimodem, Windows kernel drivers, codecs, UARTs, fax, CCITT T.4 compression

• DNCS - Digital Network Control System team - Solaris server / C++
  • Optimized existing server processes for a 40000% efficiency improvement
  • Participated in system code reviews
  • Designed system fault monitoring applications for "lights out" remote system
  • Developed SNMP manager for custom hardware servers on the DBDS (SNMP++ toolkit)
• EMS - Element Management System - Solaris, Windows - C++ / Java / Delphi
  • Whistleblower on out of control project; reward was being made lead of the project
  • Lead small analysis team in identifying deadlocks, memory leaks and inefficiencies
  • Carried product through two beta cycles and into full system product release (SPR)
  • Assisted Integration test team, SVT team, test plan team on all aspects
  • Coordinated with customer to identify field issues and resolve them on a large, live cable plants
• SNMP Agent - Alarm monitoring and network equipment management
  • Identified and corrected MIB design flaws
  • Mentored system design developers in SNMP MIB design issues
  • Designed large-scale MIB/Agent representing entire proprietary network with multiple sub-agents
• XDC - eXtreme Digital Controller - Solaris, Windows, Linux - C++ / Boost / STL / ACE
  • Made platform design decisions for new project requiring multiple OS portability
  • Participated in architecture designs and reviews for distributed, scalable network server system
  • Contributed to data driven architecture object model design

• Sole software engineer, carried products through total life cycle from conception to retail sale
• Developed series of embedded software projects for autonomous ethernet devices on PICs in PIC-C
• Repaired, upgraded and extended minimal IP/UDP implementation into robust TCP/IP stack
• Repaired and extended embedded SMTP client and HTTP server
• Developed embedded Telnet server
• Created embedded FLASH drawing toolkit to improve protocol efficiency
• Interfaced with various serial ports, temperature monitors, memory chips and other peripherals

• Wrote Windows client software for online photo sharing system
• Developed buffered thread-safe Winsock class for robust communications
• Developed HTTP/1.0 protocol class for file transfer
• Designed data structures in XML for cross-platform compatibility
• Developed XML/HTTP-based data transport layer
• Developed server-side software in PHP (Linux, Apache) using mySQL backend
• Evaluated and used several imaging toolkits, ending up with LEADTools Pro
• Developed toolkit abstraction layer to allow for migration to other tools

• Embedded application to support subsystem management on a Fixed Wireless Broadband system
• Embedded SNMP Agent and MIB (AdventNet toolkit)
• MySQL database management for provisioning persistence (using MySQL++)
• Remodeled inherited (existing) database structure

• High-speed, low-level protocol decoders for real-time MPEG data stream analysis
• SNMP manager protocol object to manage "outside plant" hardware via RF modems (UCD-SNMP)
• Develop client & server components for Track Link™ Element Management System (EMS)
• On-site customer field setup and testing in Spain, Norway, Argentina and the United States
• EDFA hardware protocol code for Track Link™ Element Management System (EMS)
• Various MFC GUI and print engine enhancements and bug fixes (someone else's bugs :-)

• Software lead designer and engineer for ADSL modem project using ATM-based networking.
• CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) technologist
• Contributor to Cable modem and ADSL modem RFP replies
• Developed multithreaded Win32 C++ datacomm objects; voice modem objects
• Many "emergency du jour" projects

• Designed/developed embedded systems software on small PIC microcontrollers
• Wrote Windows 95 and Windows NT kernel mode drivers (Ring 0)
• Conceived, designed and authored award-winning utility software for Win95 and NT

• Developed/enhanced cable TV ad-channel display software in C
• Designed/developed concurrent remote access software for unattended field systems in C

• Designed/developed high-speed voice modem drivers for DOS and Windows in C++
• Developed network datacomm drivers for Windows-based remote control app in C and C++
• Enhanced and maintained Mirror III datacomm and terminal emulation software in 8086 assembly language
• Developed fax encoding/decoding/transmission software
• Developed DOS user interface module in assembly language
• Developed/enhanced Kermit, Zmodem, Ymodem, NASI, DEC VT, Minitel, ANSI, PRISM script language
• Conceived/designed/developed DOS security program (SENTRY) in Assembly through complete software life cycle

• Perfect track record of level-headed diplomacy in high stress customer relations environment
• Consistently received superior performance evaluations

• Developed and installed custom office automation software
• Developed customer applications in dBase, Clipper and QuickBasic
• Developed small library patron database app in Clipper

• Developed custom office automation and testing programs for small offices in several dialects of interpreted BASIC

• 1989 ACM Scholastic Programming Contest, FSU Team.
• Math minor; also courses in VLSI circuit design, numerical analysis, operating systems design, microcode implementation and design
• Graduate level courses in OS, languages, and computability theory

• 1986 South East Junior College Programming Contest, GCCC Team