Summary

Technical Summary

Relevant Work Experience

Hewlett-Packard Company, May 2002 - Present

• Developed the Backup and Restore feature for HP Image Zone Plus (HPIZ+), a digital image management software package, written in C#.
• Developed a "Digital Negative" feature for the HPIZ+; this allows you to revert an image back to its original state (as it came from a camera, for example) after any changes.
• Developed a Sync-to-iPAQ feature for the HPIZ+, which synchronizes and optionally resizes images between the PC and an iPAQ.
• Developed a dramatically simplified localization strategy and the tools (in C# and Python) to implement it for the division's contributions to the HPIZ+ project.

Eclipse Data Technologies, April 2002 – May 2002

• JSP and JavaScript code for customer support web page.
• Setup and configuration of MS Exchange server on Windows 2000.

Artima Software Company, May 2001 - August 2001

• Developed XML-processing code in Python (using pyxie, pyexpat, sax, etc.) and Java (using Sun's JXTA).
• Developed some miscellaneous tools, for example a "comment formatter" that will format the commented sections of code to look good in printed format (for publishing in a book).
• Design and development of a Java unit test kit.

Hewlett-Packard Company, June 1996 - May 2001

• Championed and then developed a System Recovery on bootable CD for restoring (i.e. re-installing) all or part of the software on the system. The bulk of this project was written with C++, with some utilities written in assembly.   This system includes security to prevent the CD from being used on non-HP systems (also known as a BIOS-lock).   This system greatly increases productivity by replacing the previous system that was used; in comparison it requires fewer CDs, is dramatically faster and is much more flexible.   Not only did this recovery system save HP many millions of dollars, it has proven to be the best System Recovery in the industry.
• Developed a Windows 9x/Millennium Application Recovery program for re-installing selected applications and drivers from the Recover CD, while in windows.
• Developed more than 50 separate applets, tools and utilities; some are used in the Windows OPK (pre-installation) process and some are delivered as part of the HP Pavilion system, most were written with C++ (using MSVC and Borland C++ Builder) with inline assembly as needed. If you have used an HP Pavilion PC, then you have already seen some of my work.

Fujitsu (FPSI), June 1997 - October 1997

• Implemented Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 OPK + SP 3 on Pen-based computers.
• Wrote utility applications with MSVC or Borland C++ Builder as needed (for example, an application for APM verification).

Saratoga Systems Inc., October 1995 - June 1996

• Developed Designs for Windows 95 product written with Microsoft Visual C++. This product is a configurable sales force database.
• Established coding standards and debugging strategies.
• Developed product prototypes using Borland Delphi with relational database and presented the results internally and to selected customers for review and feedback.

Multidata Corporation, February 1994 - October 1995

• Developed C++ code for insurance business automation software applications written with the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). Worked with client/server SQL databases (ODBC + Oracle, Sybase, Q+E, dBase).
• Performed extensive research and analysis of various PC database vendors to select the optimum price/performance/features for our product, leading to a recommendation (ODBC with Watcom’s database engine) which was used to build a successful business solution.
• Developed System Administration software tools for the above application programs.
• Solved long-standing problems dealing with printing, database performance, and custom controls.
• Was instrumental in all aspects of releasing several versions of the OpenAccess product and the associated System Administrator software.

TGV Inc., October 1994 - June 1995

• Designed and implemented keyboard mapping utility for Telnet application in C++, using MFC. This required trapping all Windows keystroke input messages, looking up their resulting emulator equivalents in dynamic, user-configurable tables and sending those results to the emulation library at run time.
• Designed and implemented visual layout descriptions for both PC keyboards and various target emulator keyboards, such as VT300 and TN3270. This allowed for adding new keyboard definitions simply by defining new Custom Windows resources (stored in DLLs).
• Implemented key mapping logic, from PC-Windows keys to the various types of keys on emulator keyboards, handling of special keys (such as the Compose key on the VT300). Additionally, defining macros for special Windows keys (such as Ctl-Esc, Alt-Tab, etc.) was supported, via windows hookprocs.
• Provided an easy-to-use drag-and-drop configuration interface for users, with a storage and retrieval mechanism for keyboard mappings and macros.

Software Publishing Corporation (SPC), June 1990 - September 1993.

• Developed and maintained code for a platform-independent layer for Windows 3.1 and Macintosh, in C and C++. This layer was used by Harvard Graphics for Windows and other SPC products.
• Developed Windows 3.1 C and C++ code on a SQL database access product. Designed and wrote the error handler, developed code for spreadsheet and crosstab data viewers.
• Redefined the default C++ new and delete operators to use SPC's internal cross-platform memory management API and added conditional memory debugging features, resulting in large savings of engineering debugging time on the project.
• Wrote test drivers and used code coverage and metrics tools on my own code.
• Wrote drivers for white box testing of C++ code. These drivers automated testing by allowing access to the program's function calls and data while using code coverage tools.

InfoAlliance Software Development

• Wrote a tool (in C, for DOS and OS/2) that gathered data from the version control system and other data sources on the network and created a source code database for the entire project.

Harvard GeoGraphics SQA (contract position)

• Wrote and implemented test plans and automated testing scripts for SPC's geographic presentation product.

Ascent Logic Corporation (ALC), May 1990 - November 1990

• Designed and implemented test plans for ALC's Requirements Driven Developer (RDD-100, 300), Computer Assisted Engineering (CAE) tool on various platforms: Sun Sparc, Apollo, Macintosh.

IBM / Siemens-ROLM Systems Inc., July 1988 - June 1990.

• Developed detailed strategic and technical product test plans, schedules and task assignments for myself and four other engineers.

Redwood Test Tool Hardware and Software Development

• Developed hardware and software (in C) for the Redwood Automated Tester (RAT).
• Coordinated and directed engineers in software script writing for the RAT.

Education

• Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform
• Electrical/Electronics Engineering, California State University, Chico, 1983-88.
• Numerous junior college and University of California at Santa Cruz extension classes
• German language - Goethe Institute, Rothenburg odT, Mittelstufe II. Deswegen kann ich ein Bißchen Deutsch sprechen.