Education

• B.A. Philosophy, Stanford University 1983
• M.S. Computer Science, Stanford University 1984

Employment

• Rocket Software November 2007-January 2026
  Senior Software Engineer. First, primary responsibility for build systems and installation issues for the Knowledge Based Management group, using Apache Ant and Installshield/InstallAnywhere. Java, Javascript, shell scripting, and C programming for bugfixing and development of miscellaneous features, including JNI and SSL. Then transferred to a group working on modernizing the IBM mainframe experience, and picked up a few IBM mainframe skills, plus use of tools such as Jenkins and Artifactory.
• Gensym Corp. November 1999-November 2007
  Senior Software Engineer."Jack of all trades": primary responsibility for building/packaging all of our products, and for maintenance of a java based client for G2, Gensym's expert system shell. Working as a member of a team, have worked on a number of subsystems of G2: operating system interfaces including file and network I/O, Lisp/C translation system, "bridge" products which interface G2 with other systems such as databases. Miscellaneous Unix system administration.
• Harlequin, Inc. February 1993-October 1999
  Software Engineer. Primary responsibility for Lisp/SQL and Dylan/SQL interfaces using the C API of databases such as Oracle and ODBC. Worked on Lisp interface to the ObjectStore OODB under Unix. Ported ILU and Itasca to Lispworks. Technical advisor to Lucid team. Presenter at LUV conferences. Installation and administration of various commercial database systems for testing purposes. Member of a team implementing a CORBA/C++ transactional object system under Windows/NT: implemented multiple reader single writer locking scheme; handled Orbix integration issues. Later ported said entire system to OmniOrb almost singlehandedly. Began implementing low-level Dylan debugger support under Linux. Miscellaneous Unix system administration including Usenet News.
• Symbolics, Inc. June 1992-January 1993
  Senior Member of the Technical Staff. Performed quality assurance of and bug fixing for Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM). Wrote and ran performance tests for Minima, a real-time Lisp-based operating system. Member of team responsible for maintenance and enhancement of the CLIM-based Minima debugger. Developed low-level "life support" utilities for Open Genera. Miscellaneous Unix system administration.
• Lucid, Inc. May 1987-June 1992
  Senior Scientist. Maintained and enhanced the editor, window toolkit, pathname module, I/O system, foreign function interface, and other internals of Lucid Common Lisp. Ported Lisp implementation to several platforms. X-Windows and CLX contact person. Miscellaneous Unix system administration.
• Alberta Research Council April 1987
  Instructor. One-week seminar in advanced Lisp Machine programming for the Alberta Research Council in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Intended to pass on "wizard" style knowledge.
• Schlumberger Computer Aided Systems Laboratories April 1984-May 1987
  Programmer. FAIM-1 project. Maintained and enhanced the Helios simulation system on Symbolics Lisp Machines. Behavioral simulation of hardware subcomponents of the FAIM-1. Some high-level design of hardware components, operating system and language-support software. Miscellaneous Lisp Machine systems programming.
• Hewlett-Packard Laboratories June 1980-April 1984
  Member of the Technical Staff. Systems administrator on DEC-20's. Responsible for software installation and maintenance, backups, user accounts, etc.
• Stanford University 1979-1981
  Student consultant at student computing center (LOTS).
  Course assistant for introductory programming courses.

Programming Languages/Systems

Recent: Java, Javascript, C, Python, shell scripting on Unix and Windows
Older: Java JNI, Common Lisp, Dylan, C++, SQL

Recent: Unix, Windows, TCP/IP, Emacs, git, Apache Ant, SSH, HTTPS, OpenSSL, Jenkins, Artifactory, IBM MVS ISPF/SDSF (including some SMP/E)
Older: InstallAnywhere/InstallShield, Oracle, X, CORBA, ODBC

References

Provided upon request.