Charles Knight Email & Phone Number

Annandale, New Jersey

Provided strategic/advisory input to Senior Technical Professionals, Subject Matter Experts, Business Line Leadership, and Functional Management.Responsible for career path definition, development and assessment of all Technical Software Engineering personnel working for ExxonMobil. This included understanding future workforce needs and developing.

Annandale, New Jersey

Provided architecture, design and development guidance to ExxonMobil’s corporate research teams. This position included participation in the development of large scale (100K core) MPI and CUDA computational science applications to assess the validity of scientific research. As senior member of ExxonMobil’s Research and Engineering IT team, my duties also.

Houston, Texas Area

Provided architectural and design guidance for various proprietary software development efforts within ExxonMobil’s Upstream. These development efforts included research in visualization, well and reservoir management, interpretation, and subsurface exploration. As architect my duties also included:Keeping management apprised of the status of software.

Houston, Texas Area

Member of ExxonMobil’s Integration Center of Expertise charged with fostering integration efforts across the various organizations within ExxonMobil’s Upstream community. These efforts included.Net evangelism and design guidance in the adoption of service oriented integration platforms.

Houston, Texas Area

Member of Exxon's development team charged with developing a new object oriented Reservoir Simulation and Management system. System design and development was done using Visual C++, GNU C++, Rational Rose and ClearCase. Specific areas of responsibility included:Developed a communications infrastructure allowing the system to run simulationdomains spanning.

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for the development of a service level monitoring and control Web portal. This portal allows Conoco and its external partners to monitor contract conformance of its various subcontractors providing computer system management. Specific areas of responsibility included:Developed Web portal using IIS/Active Server Pages and ADO.Developed Java.

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for re-hosts of all financial market trading systems from Cobol OS/2 Presentation Manager environment to Visual C++ MFC/SDK running under Windows NT. Specific areas of responsibility included:Developed Web application to support futures trading using HMTL, Java, Java Beans, and the Java Infobus.Developed data access agents using Visual C++.

Houston, Texas Area

Project leader and communications architect for the development of two new product lines. The goal of these projects was to re-host petrochemical control systems currently running on proprietary or embedded operating systems to open real-time systems eliminating the need for custom hardware and software. This reduced product prices from $10M to $1M.

Houston, Texas Area

Developed and teach courses on software development to corporate clients. Course list includes:Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 and the MFC This course discusses Microsoft Visual C++, the Document-View architecture, ActiveX/COM and other MFC library features.DIGITAL UNIX: Fundamentals and Basic System Administration This course introduced the student to the UNIX.

Houston, Texas Area

System architect and technical lead of CENTRA 2000 Visual C++ Win32 development team. This product provides Electronic Document Management (EDM) and workflow management within a mixed platform environment. With this product users can model their products or processes in a way which supports ISO 9000 certification. Specific duties included:Provided.

Houston, Texas Area

Lead developer for a Windows NT version of BMC’s network management and monitoring product called Patrol. This product allows a user to monitor and proactively manage platforms and the applications that run on them in a networked environment.Ported a UNIX and X-Window based distributed network management system to Windows NT using native MS-Windows Visual.

Houston, Texas Area

Designed and developed an embedded and extensible data definition language using Visual C++ which allowed users to define data base columns and rows dynamically from within a Microsoft Windows application. Provided support for Visual Basic for Applications using OLE 2.0 APIs.

Houston, Texas Area

Technical leader responsible for the development, packaging and deployment of a generalized instrumentation interfacing system sold to hospital laboratories. System used Oracle and client-server technologies to communicate with hospital information systems. Other activities included:Developed a generic client-server library utilizing TCP/IP sockets and.

Houston, Texas Area

Project leader of Space Station Program Master Object Data Base Manager (MODBM) development effort. The MODBM is a distributed object-oriented data base management system running under UNIX, VMS and MVS environments using the X-Window System, Motif, DB2, TCP/IP and remote procedure calls (RPC). Other activities included:Developed custom protocols and.

Houston, Texas Area

Provided management consulting to NASA’s Johnson Space Center systems development organization. Specific areas of responsibility included:Development and presentation of Statements Of Work, industry briefings, and Requests For Proposals of NASA information systems contracts.Leader of contractor proposal evaluation team.Developed contractor selection.

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for the maintenance and upgrades of Space Shuttle thermal analysis systems.

Mba, Finance, Magna Cum Laude

Ms, Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude

Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: ACM