Ian Macrae Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Continue providing software support to Canada Border Services Agency.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Providing software support to Canada Border Services Agency.Monitor CECP systems (24/7 uptime), provide software support. [Windows, TSO/ISPF/OMVS, SQL, IBM DB2, WebSphere MQ].Design and implement applications to monitor and support daily operations, generate reports. [Windows, C, C++, VB6, Perl, Excel].

Ottawa, Canada Area

Providing software support to Canada Border Services Agency.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Working on high-speed communications system for DRDC at Shirley's Bay

Kanata, Ontario

At EMS SATCOM (now Honeywell), bug tracking/fixing airplane telephone system for onboard and ground communications. As Windows developer, repair and develop MCDU emulator [C, C++, ARINC 429 and 739]

At Transport Canada, Web Application Developer/Analyst working on web-site enhancements for aircraft maintenance reporting [ASP, ASP.NET, SQL, C, C++].

At Alcatel-Lucent, investigate hanging start-up sequence in LAN switch firmware; wrote real-time stack trace debugging for multiple threads under RTEMS and pSOS; invent workaround [C, C++, SunOS, RTEMS].

Kanata, Ontario

3 months writing/reviewing software proposals; mock-up/prototype new systems development projects, laid off due to lack of work [Java, ASP .NET, C, C++].

Kanata, Ontario

Design and develop EGSE for Cassiope/DSU (MDA, CSA) [Visual C++, Java, Windows XP/2000].Re-design, enhance and ship Cassiope/DSU Flight Software [RedHat Linux, BlueCat RTOS, gcc, VMWare].Design and develop EGSE and BSP Firmware for NEOSSat Instrument Electronics (MSCI) [Visual C++, TASKING DSP56303].

Ottawa, Canada Area

Control IT-related hardware assets (computers, monitors, laptops, etc.) for ADM(Mat) in the National Capital Region.Design, and maintain SQL forms, queries and reports [Microsoft Access, SQL Server].

Ottawa, Canada Area

Develop kernel-mode caching system (for SCSI hard disks, removable media and jukeboxes), automatically intercepts and redirects all disk I/O requests and monitors media movement [Microsoft DDK, Visual C++, Windows NT].Implement CD-R Burner/Duplicator, burning concurrent CD-R drives in a tower [Visual Basic, Visual C++, Windows NT].

Ottawa, Canada Area

Develop “MonteCarlo” API for Pika's telephony boards [Microsoft Visual C++, MFC, Windows NT]. Port to RedHat Linux.Wrote sample (PBX, voice-mail, FAX, text-to-speech) applications and automated test scripts [Windows, RedHat Linux].

Ottawa, Canada Area

Design and develop Windows kernel-mode device driver for SCSI (WORM and rewritable) optical disks and jukeboxes.Design and develop GUI applications to install, configure, and support “OptiServer” [Microsoft SDK, MFC, DDK, Windows NT].Support “OptiServer/VMS” [Alpha AXP]. “OptiServer/Unix”, certifying jukeboxes and drives [C, SunOS, Solaris, HPUX].

Ottawa, Canada Area

At JetForm, port form-filling package from PC/X Windows to Macintosh platform. Also design and code a very fast AppleTalk-aware printer driver, bypassing Apple's standard printing code [C, XVT, MPW].At DND (DGLEM), develop LSAR (Logistics Support analysis recording) utilities for PMO-LLAD [C, Oracle].At DND (DGLEM), wrote Configuration Management data-entry and utility reports [PowerBuilder, SQL/Windows, FoxPro].

Ottawa, Canada Area

Design and code real-time data acquisition system “DAS”, three PDP-11s linked across Ethernet using custom-designed packet software, part of a standalone medical imaging storage and manipulation system [RT-11, PDP-11/73 Macro assembler, Fortran].Port “OptiFile” (block-level I/O filter to make WORM media seem rewritable) device driver from VMS to Unix. Subsequently re-design to improve portability/maintainability for other Unix systems [VMS, Micro-VAX assembler, C, SunOS, OSF, HP-UX].Debug device driver “OptiFile II/VMS” for WORM optical media, allowing the disk to be used as if it was rewritable. Add multiple new drive support, and provide customer assistance [VMS, VMS assembler].Design system architecture and multi-tasking operating system, for a standalone device “OptiFile III” (with two SCSI buses and the proprietary OptiFile technique) between a host PC and a WORM optical disk to allow it to be used as rewritable [C, x86 assembler].Design and code real-time voice&data-logging system “OptiLogger” with simultaneous playback and recording of digital audio on a WORM optical disk using a custom real-time file system, designed for rapid searching and retrieval. We built D/A and A/D boards with custom firmware [x86], and multi-user control software [RT-11, PDP 11/73 Macro assembler].Design and code “OptiServer/VMS” to manage optical disk jukeboxes, providing near-line access to all surfaces of all media in a jukebox by automatically swapping disks whenever data was needed that was not in a drive [VMS, C, DCL, Rdb].Design and code a document image management system “AIMS”, including an integrated SQL database (Gupta, Ingres) and API to maintain document and image-related keyword information. [Windows 3.0, Borland C, SQL].Design and develop a similar document storage and retrieval system “Bazooka” [SCO Unix] using a workflow processing language which I invented. Featured automatic indexing of documents via “compound document” format (ODIF) [C, X Windows, Ingres].

Ottawa, Canada Area

Member of a team developing a NAPLPS (Telidon) database retrieval system, still used by OC Transpo [COBOL, C, RSX-11M].Implement a multi-user NAPLPS (Telidon) system for data entry and reporting [COBOL, experimental Pasopia mainframe].

Montreal, Canada Area

Design and build a sophisticated standalone word-processing system and VT-100 emulator inside a DEC VT-100 terminal (replacing the logic board with our custom-built board).Design and implement a multi-tasking operating system “Thoth”, a GUI word-processing system and a local/host-based file system, a cross-compiler [C-like, Z8000], fast linker and hex EPROM burner [RT-11], and host file software [RSTS/E, RSX-11M].Hire and train programmers, a technical writer, and support technicians.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Code and maintain “ANOM”, a simulation of traffic on a Telephone network [Fortran, IBM VM/CMS].Create a model predicting MTBF/MTTR from a parts list and a connection graph using MIL Handbook [BASIC, Fortran].

Ottawa, Canada Area

Teaching assistant, 3rd-year real-time programming course (PDP-11s). All my students got either A or A+.Research assistant. Code and debug LALR grammar compiler system [XPL].