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Austin, TX, US

Houston, TX, US

• Designed and implemented a live-streaming "Firehose" network API for high-volume flight tracking by customers. Data is encoded in JSON and the service is implemented in Tcl and C++.
• Implemented a commercial web service "FlightXML" API that allows programmatic flight tracking and searching in any language via SOAP. Created automated regression tests in Jenkins for this API against Node.JS, Perl.
• Implemented data importing/scraping/translation services for multiple new flight information providers, including Australian, European, regional airlines, weather data, and others.
• Coordinated remote development teams of separate mobile apps on iPhone/iPad, Android, Windows Phone 7, Symbian, PlayBook, Blackberry. Designed and implemented server-side REST/JSON interfaces to support the mobile.
• Created Facebook and Twitter apps in Tcl for allowing users to schedule and receive flight alerts.
• Reimplemented high-speed memory-only caching service to facilitate rapid flight lookups, including performance analysis.

Specializing in light aircraft management, maintenance, and operations.

Development and operations of a large-scale distributed computing network of >50,000 computers worldwide by a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity. Designed and implemented servers, network proxies, and distributed computing clients in (C++ and native assembly language) for multiple platforms. Completed several multi-year computing projects to analyze algorithms.

Troy, Michigan, US

Continuation of roles and responsibilities from United Devices after merger with Univa, plus additional focus relating to the Open Source community with the UniCluster sponsorship. Globus Toolkit, Sun GridEngine, Subversion, Drupal, Mediawiki, Bugzilla.

US

Design, architect, implement, and support the highly-scalable distributed computing Grid MP software product for enterprise customers, including many of the top-10 pharmaceutical companies for their R&D work. Grid MP development includes extensive use of C++, SQL stored-procedures, support for DB2 v8 and Oracle v9/10g, XML+XSLT for neutral schema.

Redmond, Washington, US

Security group of Windows Server Division for Windows XP and 2003 releases. I was the lead developer implementing the kernel sandbox functionality of the "Software Restriction Policy" feature (aka WinSAFER) that was first available in Windows XP, involving user-mode and kernel-mode code development and the creation of several new public Win32 APIs..

Design and total implementation of the company's embedded PocketGenie software application for two-way wireless pagers: RIM Blackberry (C++), RIM Inter@ctive Pager 850/950 (C++), Motorola PageWriter (FlexScript). Development included creation of a light-weight embedded HTML web browser. Server-side infrastructure design, implementation (Perl/C++), and.

Pasadena, CA, US

Implementation of v2 of KidSat/EarthKAM Flight Software for Win32 to be flown aboard NASA Space Shuttles for image acquisition (Visual C++, TWAIN). Implementation of v1 of the Data System web pages and server-side implementation of image database and manipulation (CGI in C, Perl, Bourne Shell, and pbmplus). Software was operational in multiple earth-orbit.