JGO  
Tallahassee, FL, USA 
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Macintosh / UNIX Software Product Developer
Objective Target Experience Skills

OBJECTIVE

I am a software developer seeking a full-time permanent Mac OS X or iOS or UNIX software product development and maintenance position.
I am experienced on the Macintosh and UNIX platforms and with the following technologies: Fortran, C / C++ / Objective-C, HTML, SQL, PHP and Perl.

 

TARGET JOB Target Job Titles: Software Engineer, Analyst,
Software Product Developer,
Feature-Set Development Manager
Desired Job Type: Employee
Desired Status: Full-Time, Long-Term
Location: USA except DC area (Virginia).
Relocate: Yes
Career Level Mid Career (10+ years of experience)
Date of Availability: Immediately
 
Description of my perfect job:
I would like to develop cutting edge applications for the Macintosh and UNIX platforms, working with other talented individuals in a dynamic, collegial environment.

TARGET
COMPANY
TYPE 		Company Size: 30 employees to 100,000 employees
Category: Computers, Software Products, Software Publishers,
Macintosh/iOS, UNIX
Description of my ideal company:
An organization with highly motivated employees who are developing ethical, leading edge software products that are used and enjoyed by many people to improve our lives.

US Citizen I am "authorized" to work in the USA with any employer, and eligible for security clearance.

EXPERIENCE     San Diego, CA
Software Engineer  

  • Developed text editors and word processors for Mac OS 7, 8, 9 and OS X (C, C++, Objective-C, assembly language).
  • Helped write and manage the distribution of the company e-newsletter.
  • Miscellaneous system administration.

  Added this: more document analysis statistics reporting

  Improved that:

  • HTML generation.
  • Support for import of sounds, images, and multi-media.
  • Search & Replace.
    • Greatly expanded size limits on search specifications.
    • Improved handling of general expressions (a la GREP) in search.
  • Foot-notes.
  • File catalog.
  • RTF import-export.
  • File difference / comparison.

  Best aspects of the work:

  • good products
  • constant learning
  • access to current equipment and systems
  • bright co-workers
  • flexible schedule

    
      Tallahassee, FL
Consultant
  • Helped individuals and small businesses set up and configure their new micro-computers.
  • Researched and advised on network access options.
  • Enhanced data-bases and added standard reports.

  Best aspects of the work:

  • flexible schedule
  • interesting people

    
      Tallahassee, FL
Lead Hot-Line Consultant
  • Trained and mentored other consultants.
  • Analyzed, located and solved problems using computers and networks.
  • Wrote small programs for data analysis (Fortran, C).
  • Helped people do statistical analyses (SPSS, SAS, Minitab).
  • Miscellaneous minor system administration.
  • Enhanced and maintained system for tracking hardware problems.

  Best aspects of the work:

  • mentoring others
  • access to many systems

    
    Control Data Kansas City, KS; St. Louis, MO;
Senior Analyst Corporation Arden Hills, MN

System administration, functionality demonstration, performace testing, customer support, software quality assurance, software development (held DoE Q security clearance).

  Developed this:

  • CAD/CAM design file translator product (Fortran, assembly language)
  • system usage / accounting analysis and report generation (Fortran, shell script, system administration),
  • cross-platform SQA test library & testing system (Fortran, C, assembly language, shell scripts, source code library),
  • small programs and shell script equivalents to define relational data bases and load engineering data into them (Fortran, assembly language, shell script equivalent)

  Improved that: Wrote functions to improve time-stamp handling in system accounting report generator and CAD/CAM/CAE software.

  Activity Areas:

  • helped customers develop and maintain their shell scripts (and shell script equivalents)
  • prepared & ran custom demos and tests for major customers to provide proof of functionality and performance
  • prepared multi-millon dollar sales proposal packages
  • helped engineering customers with their programming problems
  • assisted engineers in use of our CAD/CAM/CAE systems
  • improved communications between customers and developers through liaison activities
  • taught customers (engineers) the use of relational data bases
  • helped software developers and SQA testers in programming and use of shell scripts (and shell script equivalents)

  Special Training:

  • System Installation, Analysis & Administration (for super-computers; module 3 of 3-part sequence)
  • Object-Oriented Data-base Modeling and Design
  • Data-base Analysis (NIAM/Object-Role Modeling)
  • Data-base Tuning
  • Mechanical CAD/CAM/CAE - Advanced Design
  • TQM

  Best aspects of the work:

  • team-work, collegiality (working with some of the best people in the field)
  • great products
  • being a respected member of a great huge conglomerate

    
    NASA/Langley Research Center,
Florida State Government		 Virginia,
Florida
Programmer/Analyst (held DoD confidential and Secret clearances)
  • Programmer and mentor to programmers & analysts at state Public Utility Commission.
  • System Administrator and Programming Consultant at NASA Langley Research Center (Secret clearance, Fortran, assembly language).
  • SQA (Fortran, assembly language, source code library management).
  • Ported Minitab from IBM mainframe to Cyber super-computer (Fortran and assembly language).
  • Assisted professors and students in use of statistical packages (SPSS, Minitab).
  • Custom programming and consulting (Fortran, assembly language).
  • Mentored university computer consultants (Fortran, Pascal, assembly language, APL, SNOBOL, BASIC, SPSS...).
  • Econometric programming (Fortran, Pascal).
  • Tutored Fortran & assembly language.
  • Taught short seminars on using text editors, back-up utilities.

  Best aspects of the work:

  • team-work
  • mentoring
  • flexible schedule
  • interesting, worthwhile projects
  • research
  • puzzle solving


SKILLS
Skill Name Skill Level Experience
Macintosh Expert 10+ years
Fortran Expert 10+ years
     
Metrowerks CodeWarrior Advanced 5+ years
C Advanced 10+ years
Pascal Advanced 5+ years
COMPASS assembly language Advanced 3+ years
SQL Advanced 10+ years
HTML Advanced 10+ years
UNIX (AT&T, BSD, Irix, Solaris, AIX, Linux) Advanced 10+ years
     
Xcode Intermediate 10 years
C++ Intermediate 4+ years
Mac OS X Intermediate 10 years
C++ Intermediate 5+ years
Perl Intermediate 2 years
Apache Intermediate 2 years
SPSS & SAS & Minitab Intermediate 10+ years
User Interface Design Intermediate 10+ years
PHP Intermediate 5 years
     
Objective-C Intermediate 10 years
Cocoa Intermediate 10 years
iOS/Cocoa Touch Novice 2 months
Python Beginner months
POWER assembly language Beginner 2 years
 
Java Novice Negligible
PL/SQL Novice Negligible
XML Intermediate Negligible




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