Summary

Software engineer with 25 years of experience developing a wide range of commercial and corporate software applications.

Experience

2004-Present
nextype development
Boston, MA

Co-founder of nextype development, a software development consultancy specializing in Windows .NET development.

Projects:

• Sole developer of the Windows version of the Bondi Reader, a digital magazine reader for Bondi Digital and their Cover to Cover series of digital magazines. (New York Times Article.) (Amazon.com Product Page Playboy) (Amazon.com Product Page Rolling Stone)
• Developed the Sterling Management System, a custom studio management program for Sterling Sound, one of the largest Music Mastering Studios in the world.
• Sole UI developer of BlueNote Networks SessionSuite Desktop VoIP Softphone. (Data Sheet)
• Sole developer of the Windows version of The Complete New Yorker. (Amazon.com Product Page)

2002-2004
Onfolio, Inc.
Cambridge, MA

Co-founder/Consulting Software Engineer
User Interface Development Lead

• Designed and implemented a custom lightweight (windowless) control system in C# and Windows Forms that served as the foundation of the Onfolio user interface.
• Designed and implemented numerous custom lightweight and heavyweight controls used in the development of the Onfolio user interface. Examples include:
  • Workspace control that provides a multi-pane workspace with horizontal and vertical splitters.
  • Tab control that provides for adaptive layout and display of tab images and text based on the size of the control.
  • Toolbar control that includes the ability to display bitmap buttons, labels, separators, drop-down menus as well as windows controls.
  • Bitmap button control that provides several layout options.
• Designed and implemented a custom command system including centralized command management.
• Designed and implemented the Onfolio Collection Explorer control. Collection Explorer is the primary interface of the Onfolio product and is how users interact with and manage their captured content.
• Designed and implemented the Onfolio product activation system, including the activation key scheme, all product activation user-interface components, the Onfolio License Manager, and the reference implementation of the Onfolio Activation server.

2001-2002
ChoiceStream, Inc.
Cambridge, MA

Consulting Software Engineer

• Responsible for the development of large portions of the MyBestBets website. This site was developed as a showplace for the ChoiceStream personalization system and supplied television and movie recommendations to registered users. This project included extensive use of Java, JSP, JDBC, XML, XSLT, HTLM and JavaScript.
• Designed, developed, tested and deployed an enterprise-class email generation and delivery system that sent nightly and weekly television and movie recommendations to registered users. This project was written as a multi-threaded server application in Java and made use of XML, XSLT, HTML, MIME and SMTP.

2000-2001
nearFX Corporation
North Andover, MA

Co-founder/President

• Founded nearFX Corporation, a software start-up company, with Paul DiCristina.
• Developed a prototype of a new personal productivity software application for the Microsoft .NET platform in C# and Windows Forms.
• Unable to raise Venture Capital in the wake of the dot com failures. Closed company in September 2001.

1998-2000
Glassbook, Inc.
Waltham, MA

Co-founder/Chief Technology Officer

• Joined company when it was pre-funded as consultant to develop a prototype e-book system. Became CTO when company received first round of financing.
• Responsible for the overall architecture of the Glassbook Reader and contributed to the architecture of the Glassbook Content Server.
• Designed and developed most of the Glassbook Reader, an e-book reading system for Microsoft Windows. This work was done in Java/AWT and later in C++/MFC.
• Glassbook was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2000.

1997-1998
Groove Networks
Beverly, MA

Co-founder/Consulting Software Engineer

• First full-time employee of Ray Ozzie's new company, Rhythmix Corporation.
• Responsible for the design, development and testing of high-performance spin-lock, semaphore, read-write semaphore and event synchronization objects in C++.
• Designed and developed an XML parser written as a COM object in C++.
• Designed and developed a custom P2P application-layer protocol implemented on top of WinSock in C++.
• Left Groove Networks in 1998 to begin my own software consulting business.

1996-1997
SilverStream Software
Burlington, MA

Co-founder/Consulting Software Engineer

• Joined SilverStream Software as the third employee.
• Designed and implemented TView, one of the principal user interface components in the SilverStream product. TView was an extremely flexible tabular information-viewing component written entirely in Java and AWT.
• Designed and built the complete mail sub-system used to mail-enable the SilverStream product. Developed a set of Java classes for building, parsing, and containing MIME/RFC822 mail messages, as well as an SMTP client for submitting mail messages and a POP3 client for retrieving mail messages.
• Designed and implemented the initial version of the SilverStream Form component in Java.

1991-1996
Iris Associates
Westford, MA

Consulting Software Engineer

• Joined Iris Associates as the 12th employee. Played a key role in the development of Lotus Notes Release 3 and Release 4.
• Lead engineer on the View sub-program for Release 3 and Release 4.
• Completely re-wrote the View sub-program (80K lines of C++). The re-write moved View from structured C to Object Oriented C++, allowing it to be extended in significant ways in Release 3 and Release 4.
• One of two engineers responsible for the Lotus Notes Mail Router.
• Enhanced and maintained the Mailer sub-system (Mailer is the client-side of the Lotus Notes email system).
• Founding member of the VIM (Vendor Independent Messaging) Technical Committee. Played a key role in the design of the VIM API Specification. Implemented VIM in Release 3.
• Designed and implemented an SMTP Receiver that was integrated into the Mail Router sub-system, allowing Lotus Notes to act as a SMPT receiver.
• Designed and implemented a POP3 Client that was integrated into the Lotus Notes Client.
• Designed and implemented an RFC822/MIME parser and content containment subsystem.
• Designed and implemented an NNTP Usenet News gateway. A group at Iris later turned this work into an Notes Server add-in product offering.

1986-1991
Lotus Development Corporation
Cambridge, MA

Senior Software Engineer

• Re-designed and re-implemented the Woodchuck Server, the proprietary e-mail system used at Lotus prior to Lotus Notes. Developed a completely custom, commercial e-mail system based on the VAX/VMS Mail system that was the corporate e-mail system at Lotus for a number of years before Lotus Notes became the standard. This work was done in C
• Founding member of the Lotus Notes API Development Group.
• Developed Lotus Notes API programs that were critical to the deployment and popularization of Lotus Notes within the company. This work primarily involved linking Lotus Notes to legacy-systems within the company.

1982-1986
Digital Equipment Corporation
Maynard, MA

Senior Programmer

• Member of the Internal Software Services (ISS) group at Digital. ISS was a consulting organization within Digital which did work on a contract basis for other groups in the company.
• Designed and built a kiosk program to demonstrate the graphics capabilities of the VT240 terminal. This program was written in FORTRAN and used a DECTalk to voice a sales pitch on the capabilities of the VT240. This product was used at trade shows.
• Enhanced and maintained numerous MIS systems on DEC-10, DEC-20, PDP-11 and VAX/VMS systems in Cobol-68, FORTRAN, Pascal, VAX Basic, Basic+ and VAX/VMS Assembler. Projects included work on MRP, AP, AR and GL systems.