Summary of Experience:

• Lead Programmer at MIT, SRI, Centric, Oracle. C, Lisp, shell, assembly language expert. Specialties: portability, process efficiency, internationalization (Unicode), XML, interactive cartography.

Employment:

• March 2005 - Present: Sold my house in the bay Area, moved to rural northern California to develop a lot and build my own house.
  
  
• January 1999 - February 2005: Principal Developer, CORE/XML, Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA. Wrote and maintain Oracle's C/C++ XML validating SAX/DOM parser, Schema validator, Class Generator and part of XSLT processor (all with full Unicode support); wrote Oracle's zic-like timezone package and Javadoc-like auto-documenter for C. Current project: rearchitect XML components with multi-threaded SAX pipeline model; SOAP.
  
  
• November 1996 - January 1999: Principal Developer, Mobile Systems Group, Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA. Continued development of Oracle Mobile Agents client-agent-server middleware under Unix and NT, including DES/RSA-based security. Ported Unix code to HPUX and AIX. Developed and administered wireless connectivity over ARDIS (DataTAC 4000), DataTAC 5000, and RAM (Mobitex) using radio modems and X.25. Reengineered product build process. Administered Unix workstations.
  
  
• February 1995 - October 1996: Systems Programmer, Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA. Continued development of Interleaf program for filtering single-sourced documents into multiple output formats (Oracle Book/Help, WinHelp, CCML and HTML), and client-server archiving system using Lisp, awk, C and HTML, accessible by TCP, e-mail and the Web. Administered documentation server (docsun) and related hardware.
  
  
• July 1993 - January 1995: Software Engineer, Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA. Developed Interleaf LISP applications in support of Documentation Services group (drag&drop document archival system, Interleaf-to-Oracle Book translator).
  
  
• March 1991 - January 1993: Systems Programmer/Administrator, Centric Engineering Systems, Palo Alto, CA. Sole systems support for start-up FEA company. Systems: SGI (PI, Indigo, 4D), Sun (SPARC, IPX), IBM (RS/6000), Convex (C120), Cray via remote link, plus various PCs and Macintoshes. Networks: Ethernet (thick, thin), AppleTalk.
  
  
• June 1990 - September 1990: Software Engineer, Cisco Systems, Menlo Park, CA. Summer employment porting X11R4 to the TOPS-20 environment.
  
  
• June 1987 - December 1988: Software Engineer, SRI International, Network Information Center, Menlo Park, CA. Maintained and upgraded proprietary database internals, utilities, network servers and user programs. Authored suite of public-access information tools (WHOIS, SERVICE, TACNEWS, QUERY, WEBSTER, etc) used daily by hundreds of users.
  
  
• October 1983 - June 1987: Systems Programmer, SRI International, Network Information Center, Menlo Park, CA. Performed Systems Programmer duties (Monitor, EXEC, and system utility development and maintenance). Developed TOPS-20 C (KCC) and runtime libraries; wrote STDIO and Unix I/O simulation layers, put together math and network packages.
  
  
• July 1982 - October 1983: Systems Programmer, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA. Developed and maintained systems and user software for TOPS-20 and ITS operating systems.
  
  
• April 1982 - July 1982: Programmer, Databex, Tijuana, Mexico. Developed 2650-based database system for recording, balancing and reporting daily transactions for the Bank of Mexico.
  
  
• November 1980 - June 1982: Programmer and Research Assistant, Chalice Organ Company, Alpine, CA. Assisted in development of company's S-100 CPU and peripheral boards. Helped with artwork, wire-wrap of prototypes, PC assembly, and debugging. Developed software to aid in PC layout.

Education:

• University of California at Santa Cruz -- December 1988 to December 1990: Completed BA as a CIS (Computer Information Systems) major after an eight-year working break. Senior thesis topic: PAT, a portable interactive cartography system written in ANSI C.
  
  
• San Diego State University -- September 1980 to June 1982: Computer Science major. Completed two years of study before accepting position as Systems Programmer for the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Related Experience:

• Languages: C, C++, LISP, Bourne shell, assembler (PDP-10, x86, 2650, 360), FORTH, Pascal, BASIC; some experience with PL/1, ALGOL, COBOL, FORTRAN.
  
  
• Hardware/OS: Unix (Linux, SunOS, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, HPUX, ConvexOS, Unicos), TOPS-20, ITS, DOS, Lisp Machines, RSTS, HP-2000, and various micros.
  
  
• Web: HTML expert; wrote Oracle's HTTP client library; operate collector's reference site (peninsulators.org).

Awards:

• Honors Senior Thesis -- UCSC 1990
• California Grant `A' -- 1980
• Bank of America Honors Science Student -- 1980