Rob Phipps Email & Phone Number

Rob Phipps is a Principal Consultant at Bleeding Edge Software. He possess expertise in software development, software engineering, object oriented design, xml, java and 17 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Rob was initially recommended and brought in to work on a project that was behind schedule because of his experience in programming Java. It soon became apparent that Rob brought a lot more to the project than “just a typical programmer”. Rob has the rare combination of having both exceptional technical knowledge and people skills. He led the team in the redesign of the GUI's architecture to meet system performance requirements. At the same time he mentored other team members in Java programming while delivering on his scheduled commitments. He is a Software Engineering professional that I recommend without hesitation and would welcome the opportunity to work with again." and "As a manager, Rob set high standards and could make tough decisions when necessary, but at the same time was always very supportive of his employees. He was extremely knowledgeable and competent technically but also understood how to motivate and manage people – an unusual and much appreciated combination of skills in a software manager."

Listed skills include Software Development, Software Engineering, Object Oriented Design, Xml, and 18 others.

• Principal Consultant

  Bleeding Edge Software

  Jan 2000 - Present

  Manage consulting firm providing clients with object-oriented architecture, design, implementation, mentoring, and project management services. Provide technical leadership and mentoring to client teams. Project Highlights:Mosaic and image editing for NASA/JPL Mars Rover using Java, SWING, JAI and C++. Made major feature and performance improvements to undocumented application from old mission. Java Advanced Imaging toolkit for Sun using Java, JAI, JNI, C++. Designed… Show more Manage consulting firm providing clients with object-oriented architecture, design, implementation, mentoring, and project management services. Provide technical leadership and mentoring to client teams. Project Highlights:Mosaic and image editing for NASA/JPL Mars Rover using Java, SWING, JAI and C++. Made major feature and performance improvements to undocumented application from old mission. Java Advanced Imaging toolkit for Sun using Java, JAI, JNI, C++. Designed and implemented extensions to API including making JAI multi-threaded. Kiosk imaging system for Eastman Kodak using Java, SWING, JNI, C++, XML. Led client’s GUI team, also wrote Java imaging. Re-architected product for considerable (over 4x) performance improvement using a combination of dynamic loading and caching of critical components. GUI design created a SWING architecture to dynamically load, create and display application screens in a multithreaded environment allowing concurrent application navigation and image processing. Knowledge management product for a software startup using Java, JDBC, J2EE, Servlets, JSP, XML. Architected from user stories and worked through implementation. Product used servlets within the Apache Tomcat container and communicated through JDBC with both local and global databases. GUI was browser based.Geographic Information System for defense contractor using Java, SWING, JAI, JNI, C++, J2EE, JDBC, SQL, Servlets. Re-architected product for performance and memory usage problems and implemented changes. Product had a SWING UI that connected to Tomcat server. Used servlets to construct, render, and fetch image tiles from extremely large images in database. Application displayed tiles with additional image processing and graphical overlays within tight timing constraints. Show less

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  Massachusetts Institute Of Technology

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