Work experience

Freelance work

2001–2005

• Code software to test network vulnerability to spoof IP packets.
• Analyzed requirements of automated information retrieval system using VoIP.
• Drafted business plan for Web-based rebate validation and redemption service.

Senior Engineer

Wherewithal

Jan 2001–Aug 2001

Belmont, CA

• Implemented routines to make a SOAP server to return search engine results and category lists in XML, using PHP scripting module for Apache Web server.
• Designed scripting language and developed interpreter for Internet Web Directory, a Web-based system that generates taxonomically organized Web directory pages using fully customizable templates.

Partner

ZoneEdit

May 2000–Dec 2000

New York, NY

• Created Web-based system to edit DNS and mail server configurations, generating HTML with data from ODBC data sources using PSX scripting module for Apache Web servers.
• Started secure online service offering round-robin domain name resolution, e-mail forwarding, and Web forwarding, with branding capabilities for ISPs and registrars.

Web Consultant

Xtreme Solutions

Mar 1999–Jun 1999

Edison, NJ

• Wrote ColdFusion pages for A.E. Bruggemann to convert historical market quotes into dynamic charts using Chart FX Web applet.
• Wrote missing data entry modules and fixed reported problems with ColdFusion intranet site for General Motors Service Parts Operations Marketing Division.

Senior Programmer/Analyst

NaviSys

Aug 1998–Oct 1998

Edison, NJ

• Debugged custom client version of LifeCAD/MP client/server software for life insurance policy administration, using C++, Oracle and Sybase stored proceduces in SQL, and VisiBroker CORBA libraries. Worked with 7-person team.

Webmaster/Site Designer

New World Computers Direct (Nationwide)

Dec 1997–May 1998

Edison, NJ

• Redesigned disorganized e-commerce Web site by extensively rewriting HTML code and designed more attractive graphics for menus, title bars, and advertised specials in PhotoImpact.
• Replaced unmaintained pages of out-of-date prices with ColdFusion catalog pages dynamically generated from FoxPro and Access stock databases.
• Added navigational dropdowns using JavaScript.
• Wrote perl scripts to process on-line catalog requests into mailing list records.

Consultant

J.P. Morgan & Co.

Sep 1996–Jan 1997

New York, NY

• Developed employee evaluation groupware using Envy/VisualWorks Smalltalk environment and Sybase DBMS to replace Lotus Notes system.

Staff Technologist

Bellcore

Summer 1995

Red Bank, NJ

• Updated and enhanced intelligent network software using VisualWorks Smalltalk environment and Versant object-oriented database management system. Specifically, worked on modules for call routing decision trees and access to 3rd party services.
• Upgraded database server from SunOS to Solaris and migrated application software.

Affiliations

W3C: The World Wide Web Consortium

Mar 2007—

Cambridge, MA

• Developing the specification for HTML 5 as an Invited Expert member of the HTML working group.

The Mozilla Organization

Jun 1999—

Mountain View, CA

• Patch bugs in Firefox, Mozilla, and Netscape family of cross-platform Web browsers.
• Develop and maintain browser test suite.

The Open Directory Project (Netscape Communications Corporation)

Sep 1998—

Mountain View, CA

• As an editall, performed broad category reorganizations and maintained entire categorized directory of websites.
• Designated editor of many large categories, including the top-level category Games.

The GNU Project (Free Software Foundation)

May 1989–1997

Cambridge, MA

• Co-authored NetHack versions 2.3–3.2, a greatly expanded version of an open source Unix game.
• Core member of a 38-person development team.
• Developed extensive knowledge of over 5 megabytes of intricate C, lex, and yacc source code.
• Maintained multi-platform portability across dozens of operating systems (various Unixes, X Windows, VMS, MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2, Mac, Amiga ...).

Education

Wake Tech

Sep 2005–Jul 2008

Raleigh, NC

• Associate in Applied Science in Simulation and Game Design, Associate in Science, Associate in Arts.

Other

Extracurricular studies and activities in computing since 1985.

• Designing game for 13th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.
• Reverse-engineered Z-machine virtual machine code to develop InfoTaskForce interpreter.
• Operated a public BBS networked on FidoNet for 4 years.
• Authored several public domain programs.
• Beta-tested Myst Online, Lineage II, Star Chamber, Chron X, Acrophobia, and Trinity.

Speak Japanese, French, and Esperanto.

References

Available on request.