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SUMMARY OF SOFTWARE SKILLS

Skill	Used Since	Familiarity Level	Freq. Use
------------------	-------------	--------------------	------------
C++	Late 1996	Very Strong	Consistent
C	Early 1996	Very Strong	Consistent
UNIX Environ.	Early 1996	Very Strong	Consistent
UNIX Progr.	Early 1997	Relatively Strong	Occasional
UNIX Admin.	Early 1997	Relatively Strong	Occasional
Perl	Late 1997	Relatively Strong	Occasional
Shell Scripts	Late 1997	Relatively Strong	Occasional
80x86 Assembly	Late 1996	Reasonable	Rare
OOA/OOD/OOP	Late 1996	Relatively Strong	Consistent
Java	Mid 1996	Reasonable	Rare
Team Dev.	Early 1997	Relatively Strong	Consistent

KEY SELLING POINTS

• Three years industry programming experience, 10 yrs as hobbyist
• Strong problem-solving and reasoning skills
• Intensive experience with both the C and C++ languages, with Unix commands, shells, tools, system programming, sys admin.
• Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly and concisely
• Experience with a variety of computing environments, and tools: numerous compilers, source control, windowing systems & apps
• Understanding of many computing concepts: OOA/OOD/OOP, compilers, assembly languages, operating systems, real-time OS, multithreading, networking, databases, client-server arch.
• Academic grounding in computer science, engineering, and math
• Experience in the telecommunications industry

JOB OBJECTIVE

Design and implement system software, libraries or firmware

EMPLOYMENT

• Designed and implemented protocol and management features for SoftSwitch connects PSTN to IP network for voice & data calls
• Protocols included SS7 ISUP, IPDC, and SIP.
• Management features included billing and switch monitoring.
• Switch had an object-oriented design, was implemented using C++
• Identified and corrected incorrect locking for multi-threading
• Provided support for revenue-generating 400M production sys.
• Led, responsible for porting state engine from Solaris to Linux
• Managed vendor employee who was "on loan" to Level 3

• Determined if test failures & OEM reports showed product flaws
• Investigated and resolved product flaws and OEM product flaws, often complex: involved, eg, multithreading, assembly debugging
• Learned advanced features of C++ language, corresponded with both compiler vendors and the ISO C++ language committee
• Participated in complete software life cycle:

  • Helped test & validate product for several releases
  • Corrected defects in the product
  • Helped document product
  • Helped train technical support personnel on product

• Interviewed job candidates

• Researched the structure and processing of satellite telemetry
• Designed, partially implemented object-oriented C++ class library for satellite telemetry processing
• Designed and implemented C functions for parsing, socket-based messaging, time calculations, and optimized file I/O
• Enhanced system messaging using sockets and shared memory, while avoiding process deadlock; fixed other system bugs
• Performed installation and maintenance of Linux and HP-UX

• Designed and implemented dynamic debugging interface for Real-Time system, using Remote-Procedure Calls RPC
• Implemented test scripts in a proprietary scripting language
• Reviewed and suggested improvements to scripting language

• Developed Java Applets and C language CGIs
• Learned Java and details of UNIX programming
• Devised workarounds for bugs in 3rd party software

• Taught course material and expressed course concepts

EDUCATION & ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

2002-
Candidate, B.A. Mathematics
University of Colorado at Boulder; Boulder, Colorado

1996 - 99
Bachelor of Applied Science coursework, Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo; Waterloo, Ontario

1994 - 96
Diploma of Collegial Studies, Pure & Applied Sciences
Marianopolis College; Montreal, Quebec