SUMMARY:

• Innovative, solutions - oriented Software Engineer and Architect with over 20 years experience in the design, implementation, and deliveryof large-scale enterprise software systems. Considered an expert by recognized leaders in the field with regard to relational database and transaction processing systems, as well as object-oriented analysis and design. A published author in software journals and books, and invited presenter on papers at IEEE and ACM conferences and workshops
• Recognized expertise in all phases of software product lifecycle management from requirements gathering to performance testing to product end-of-life processes.
• Led teams of up to 30 engineers in the design and development of software products used to run many major manufacturing plants worldwide.
• Possesses command of the processes involved with problem (bug) identification, impact analysis, root-cause analysis, and problem resolution.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Unix (Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64, AIX, Linux), QNX, MS-DOS, Windows (up to Windows 7/8), Novell Netware, 3Com.

Databases: Oracle (6.0 thru 11g), Informix, Sybase/SQL-Server, Ingres, Interbase, xBase, ZIM (E/R real-time database), Access, C-Tree, DBM.

Development Environment s: Visual Studio and .NET, Eclipse, J-Developer, Make, autoconf.

Requirements, Modeling Languages, and Tool s: UML 1.0 and 2.0, Visio, Rational Rose, ROOM (ObjectTime - now Rational RealTime UML), Telelogic Tau G2, Telelogic Doors, Requisite-Pro, Caliber-RM, Sparx Enterprise Architect.

Configuration Management and Source Control: RCS, CVS, ClearCase, StarTeam, Accurev, GIT.

Programming Language s: C++, C, PHP, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, Transact-SQL, sh, csh, ksh, XML (Xerces, XSD, XSI, WSDL, SOAP), Perl, VB 5 & 6, x86 assembler, SmallTalk, DIBOL.

Messaging Systems: TIB/RV, JMS, MQ-Series, MSMQ, BEA/DEC Message-Q, DMBX, MPI.

QA, Test, and Bug Tracking/Reporting Tools: IBM/Rational (ClearQuest, Purify, Quantify, and PureCoverage), Mercury Interactive (LoadRunner, WinRunner), SQA-Robot, Remedy, Siebel.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Rolling Meadows, Illinois

Senior Software Engineer / Architect 

Responsibilities:

• Design and engineer software to integrate PanaCIM, automation MES software with the SMT tools belonging to other companies.
• Required extensive use of Sparx Enterprise Architect, programming with C++, and a fundamental understanding of surface mount technology devices such as are sold by Panasonic and other companies.

Confidential, Newton, Massachusetts

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Act as a consultant to Adobe customers who are incorporating Adobe Marketing Cloud tools in their enterprises.
• This position required a significant understanding of SQL database, JavaScript, and similar programming skills.
• In this position I was a remote worker, working from my home office.
• Operating systems we supported included Linux and Windows server systems up to 2012, as well as PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Senior Systems Developer and Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed tools to capture real-time system, application, SNMP data and log files to a Hadoop-based time-series database (OpenTSDB). These tools are used to capture over 10 billion data points per day of analytical data. All of these Hadoop tools used Java for data analysis requirements, such as mapreduce, etc. The data capture tools were written in C++, but the analytical tools were in Java.
• Was trained by Cloudera in Hadoop and MapReduce/Pig/Hive programming and operations.
• Designed and developed tools to capture to a MySQL database cell phone performance data. Each run loading approximately 16 web pages would generate in excess of 22000 data points which had to be captured in real time. The tool is capable of storing 100,000 data points per minute in the database. The data acquisition tools were written in C++ and the analytical and graphical display tools were written in PHP, HTML, and JavaScript.
• Designed and developed a cell phone emulator in PHP that was used to verify other performance acquisition tools for correctness.
• Assisted network operations staff in analyzing performance issues with Nokia production servers.
• Designed and developed tools for the quality engineering team to speed up their generation of performance reports related to new releases of phone firmware.
• Performed extensive analysis and bug remediation of netty/jetty java frameworks that were causing serious server issues for Nokia.
• Was responsible for and managed Nokia’s research and development Amazon cloud systems, comprised of 500+ servers running CentOS 6.x systems running in AWS. These ran two Hadoop/HBase clusters that I built, configured, and managed, as well as load testing servers, and other tools for performance, analytics, and capacity planning purposes. These accounts were in the range of $10,000 to $20,000 per month in billing costs. One of my tasks was to minimize the costs for these purposes. I reported directly to the director of my division with regard to billing.
• Received training on the use of C# and .NET for building web sites.

Confidential, Batavia, Illinois

CEO/Owner

Responsibilities:

• Engaged in the architecture of performance analysis tools for Seagate Technologies manfufacturing systems.
• Managed network and security aspects of companies and legal firms in Chicago.
• Taught AT&T Technicians in the Chicago area classes on TCP/IP as well as WiFI and Cellular wireless communications as a contractor for Applied Professional Training based in Carlsbad, CA.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Principal Software Engineer and Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design and development of C++ framework and application classes used to implement all aspects of an options trading risk analysis package, including portfolio management, integration to high-speed exchange data feeds, and real-time computation of risk factors commonly used in the derivatives trading industry.
• Developed and presented technical overviews of the system for industry specialists and analysts.

Confidential, Chelmsford, MA

Principal Software Engineer and Architect

Responsibilities:

• Fully responsible for C++ development framework used to implement all company enterprise class software products (at least 4 major product lines).
• Developed and presented custom training to major corporate clients.
• Provided internal consulting and software engineering training for all software product lines including advanced UML modeling and C++ classes.
• Managed audits of all administrative departments and hardware product lines as an internal corporate ISO-9001 auditor.
• Collaborated in the architecture and design of FACTORYworks, a premier manufacturing execution system (MES) used to operate most semiconductor, flat panel display, and disc drive manufacturing plants worldwide.
• Collaborated in the architecture and design of CELLworks, a premier manufacturing real-time cell control system used in many major manufacturing plants world wide, including General Motors, Ford, John Deere, and others.
• Was responsible with another FASTech engineer for the design and development of major parts of the TCP/IP protocol suite for the QNX real-time operating system, based solely upon the DDNS protocols, and no existing implementations - a white-box implementation as it were.
• Designed and managed the implementation of an object-oriented distributed transaction processing framework supporting all major relational databases including Oracle, Sybase, Informix, and Ingres, used to implement FACTORYworks and other FASTech/Brooks enterprise applications.
• Managed the Y2K analysis and remediation effort of all FASTech products comprised of some 10 million lines of C, C++, and Visual Basic code.
• Founded the software QC and performance testing departments.
• Designed and implemented corporate software quality and performance standards, processes, and procedures.
• Managed first corporate formal software QA testing projects, resulting in effectively zero defect product releases and increased customer satisfaction ratings.
• Designed and developed performance test methodologies, plans, databases, and reports.
• Designed and implemented a real-time scheduler in C and C++ to enable LoadRunner to properly balance execution in the load test environment.
• Uncovered previously unknown bug in HP PA-RISC Ethernet interfaces which was subsequently acknowledged by HP Engineering as an irresolvable hardware flaw.
• Formulated and documented formal software build and release engineering and configuration management processes still in use at Brooks and Applied Materials.
• Designed and led the development of numerous server applications to manage and control real time manufacturing processes and equipment.
• Designed and developed software for real-time manufacturing equipment controls, PLC controls, and robotics (Adept + others) that are used in many automotive and other manufacturing cell control systems, including the US Navy’s R.A.M.P. project.