I worked with Saatchi & Saatchi (TeamOne) for about 1 year and 4 months as a Sr. Developer. During my time at TeamOne the work I did was primarily related to public facing websites for Lexus Motorcars. I had projects that were assigned directly to me where I was the priciple developer as well as various tasks where I often assumed the familiar role with duties including but were not limited to:

• Trouble Shooting - Finding the cause or reason for a bug that no one else could find.
• Problem Solving - Fixing a bug or problem that no one else could fix.
• Discovery - Analyzing current code to determine how much effort may be required to implement new features, changes, fixes.
• Developing new APIs, architectures, or frameworks - Created tools to allow common tasks to be completed or modified faster and more efficiently.
• Testing, Debugging, ensuring crossbrowser conformance - I set up several virtual machines and used something called Fiddler(tm) for development and testing.

Here is a list of some of the projects I worked on while at TeamOne:

• Lexus Enform - This is the first project I worked on for TeamOne. I was the principle frontend Developer on this project. I did all HTML,css, and js.
• Lexus Visualizer - I created a fully programmable version of the Lexus Visualizer. This allows visualization specifications about car models to be configured as data objects. No re-writing webpages, just supplying the data. This includes the support of multiple simultaneous resource naming schemes. Benefits: reusibility, agility.
• Build Your Lexus - I did a lot of work on the Build Your Lexus gallery. For versioning and uploading of changed assets and pages I used something called CPD/TeamSite.
• Lexus Models Pages - I rapidly developed the working prototype for these pages.
• LStudio - I did the data migration needed to move data into Brightcove as TeamOne was going to use brightcove's technology for LStudio. I had to write a lot of code on the back end in Perl to the ultimate end of creating the ftp manifests required by Brightcove. In addition I developed the page level architecture that dynamically uses Brightcove. It presents a javascript interface which allows one to more easily exploit invoked player events.
• Lexus Certified Pre-Owned - Developed this page.
• Lexus.com - Numerous bug fixes to the global header and footer.

Using my skills, countless times, I was often dropped, like a ninja, into various projects where I was able to assess the situation and take precision surgical action to fix the situation.

I helped in the development of the GenusMail Outlook 2010 add-in. The purpose of this very cool add-in is to help you more effectively manage your email messages and contacts. I am not at liberty to discuss the details of the, yet to be released, product due to a non-disclosure agreement. I can discuss what I did on the project.

The add-in was written in C# and interfaced with Outlook 2010 using the Office programming API. It uses the office ribbon for various GUI elements, utilizes messaging templates, creates inbox views, customizes message headers and types, persists data in the registry, very cool stuff.

I did the following in my role as a developer for GenusMail:

• I used Visual Studio 2010
• I Wrote, debugged, and tested the Outlook add-in.
• I worked on the Installer and custom installation routines
• I collaborated with the CEO and other staff to coordinate on features, fixes, and project phases.

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I developed the trailer website for Paramount Studios´ Paranormal Activity 3 movie. The project´s team leader voiced some concerns about the project because of Paramount´s requirements. The Paranormal Activity trailer website was to be realized as what a video camera would record if placed in the girl's bedroom when there is a lot paranormal activity occuring throughout the night.

Paranormal Activity 3's trailer website requirements:

• Should look like video camera footage with paranormal events in the scene.
• Full screen static effect occuring randomly
• Girl's breathing
• Flickering fisthtank light occuring randomly
• Flickering lamps occuring randomly
• Camera time code time distortion during full screen static effect
• Falling paintings on wall occurring randomly
• Child's drawing on wall being drawn occuring randomly
• Ghostly shadows appearing at multiple random locations occuring randomly
• Sound Effects in sync with the visual effects
• Scene must scale with the browser window
• The site MUST work on multiple devices and browsers
• and best of all... It must work on devices that don't support Adobe Flash, see IPAD

The project leader was a bit concerned about doing this without using flash but I wasn't, NOT EVEN A BIT!!! The wheels of progress had already begun to turn in my head. I had a plan.

The first part of my plan involved writing a javascript class that would allow me to accomplish the task of coordinating all of this animation. That was the first step, the critical step, all would be built upon it. In addition to the coding I used the following tools:

• Adobe Photoshop - For editing and creating graphics, sprites, etc
• Adobe After Effects - To extract video frames from specific regions in the source material (for effects)
• HTML5 audio tags for the sound bank
• HTML5 video tags or Flash a video player to play the trailers depending on browser support

This was a fun project to work on and the only snags that impeded progress were the ones where I was instructed to wait for various assets and frames to be produced by the support team and an intermediate company which shall remain nameless but will say that that team was not able to follow specific instructions or use the tools needed to get their jobs done.

In the end I pulled a lot of long hours and created all the necessary assets myself on the weekend to get the job done for the client.

That movie has long since been released but I found another site that still has it up besides my own:

• http://www.paranormalactivity3.co.uk

Solvate was a great company that connected highly skilled independent professionals to clients. Unfortunately Solvate has since ceased operations. I connected to and did work for several clients through them. They are missed by, not just me, but many others.

More about Solvate:

"Based in New York, NY, Solvate is a pioneer in the peer to peer work market. Solvate’s online platform enables companies to find and work hourly with a curated network of the best digital, creative and marketing professionals in the United States. Solvate talent are top quality 1099 compliant contractors operating under a standard work agreement and subject to client ratings. Launched in 2008, Solvate’s talent network consists of over 2,000 of the very best independent professionals who have performed project work for leading brands."

As an agent of Integrant, Inc. in San Diego I contributed to the development of the VOIP suite for FreedomVoice Systems.

The FreedomVoice project, for me, consisted of two major project phases. In phase one I was contracted to build a low-level TSAPI Telephony device driver. This device was made available to the operating system and is accessible to Microsoft Outlook through a wrapper add in which I also wrote. Phase one focused handling the communication between Outlook, the voip phone on the user's desk, and the web service maintained at FreedomVoice. The telephony device driver was coded in C and C++. The Outlook add-in was coded in C#. The work I did during this phase actually occured at an earlier interval (see Integrant, Inc. below also)

The work I did in phase two focused on software installation, faxing over the net, keeping the software components up to date, and delivering updates to the user.

Updater: To keep the components up to date I wrote an application in C that uses the tray interface and starts with the operating system. This application would compare the versions of installed FreedomVoice components on the user's machine with the component version list exposed on FreedomVoice's web service. If the user had an older component or the entire installation, depending on the severity level which was warning or critical, the user would be presented with the option to stream download a new installer or ignore the warning.

Fax over IP: I wrote a wrapper in C++ that receives a list of files to be printed and their destination fax number. The wrapper also reads configuration information from BlackIce printer configuration. The printer driver creates image files and those are pushed to the FreedomVoice faxing service by my wrapper.

Installer: The installer I wrote had to meet several requirements:

• installs licensed BlackIce printer drivers, already configured.
• easy for the user
• click-once technology
• installs files for either x86 or x64 versions of Windows

The installer I wrote met all these requirements like this:

• I analyzed the state of the system after the BlackIce drivers are installed. On the target system I made sure that I persisted this state and created appropriate versions of the configuration entries.
• I made an install bootloader that determines the bitness of Windows and launches the correct MSI. The bootloader has the two MSI installers per machine bitness as binary resources.
• Click once is NOT directly supported for delivery of C or C++ applications but it IS supported for C# applications therefore to use click-once technology for the install I made the x86/x64 hybrid installer an asset of a C# shell project.

It all works rather well.

During this period I was doing a lot of work for various clients. I also spent a little time travelling in Europe.

• www.anecessaryjourneymovie.com (on Regivision)
• www.juxtaweb.com
• www.juxtaweb.com/book
• Patrick O´Connor Design (Regivision)
• www.shergelb.com (old site)
• www.viewfindermasks.com
• www.iprolens.com
• www.regivision.com/pa3_ra/trailer (Paranormal Activity 3 Trailer Website for Paramount Studios)
• Something I wrote just for fun, zoning framework for a shooter type game I was thinking about. It bounty hunts for the next number in the sequence.

As an agent of Integrant, Inc. in San Diego I contributed to the development of the VOIP suite for FreedomVoice Systems.

The FreedomVoice project, for me, consisted of two major project phases. In phase one I was contracted to build a low-level TSAPI Telephony device driver. This device was made available to the operating system and is accessible to Microsoft Outlook through a wrapper add in which I also wrote. Phase one focused handling the communication between Outlook, the voip phone on the user's desk, and the web service maintained at FreedomVoice. The telephony device driver was coded in C and C++.

This was phase one.

The mission of ScanAps was to eliminate the physical paper coupon from the consumer loyalty program and to make receiving these benefits less of a chore. The technology we were developing at ScanAps allowed the consumer to receive digital coupons as well as scanning paper coupons with the personal scanning device. The ScanAps network infrastructure and software took care of the storage, account management for consumer and manufacturer, special offers, and coupon validation.

ScanAps was a small startup and what was great about that was that I was able to wear many hats. Most of the time I was working on creating the code to enable different point of sale machines to communicate with our network and personal coupon scanners. This offered it's own set of special challenges.

POS clients: These machines held a special place in my heart, they had limited resources and the customizations afforded by the provided libraries required a lot of low level negotiation with connected devices. The 4690 POS was, pretty much, a closed ecosystem in that we were only allowed to customize functionality using something called USER EXITS. The USER EXITS were basically a catalog of callbacks the operating system makes. So I had to choose the appropriate USER EXITS and make my code work with this constraint. You could not take too much time returning from an exit or block the system or the POS would crash. I was able to get my work done despite having to deal with the additional hurdles of having to setup the development tools, hunt down information, and locate libraries through IBM's labyrinth.

Other duties I performed are listed on this resume.

Yet another period where I did a lot of Freelancing. During this period where I worked for several clients I also was part of a group which was building a gaming platform using the Unreal Tournament Game engine. I was an Unreal Script coder and you may still find that I am listed as an active member of TeamOrbit.

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I worked for eLogic for about 5 years. My job title was Sr. C++ programmer, however; a more accurate title would have been "Sr. Programmer" as, in addition to, writing various applications and tools in C and C++, I also had to know how to code and test using the languages of the other developers at my company. That means in addition to coding in C and C++, I also used the following for development and testing:

• VB Script
• Active Server Pages
• Visual Basic
• SQL & Stored Procedures
• Java
• C#
• HTML
• Javascript

eLogic was in the business of creating data driven websites. It was my job to create, maintain, and develop new tools for the company. eLogic was using Microsoft's Active server pages for presentation and backend development.

One of the first things I worked on after joining eLogic was something called "The Charter" and I'm sure it had more than sixty thousand lines of C and C++ code, it created many different types of financial charts. I maintained, expanded, and added new interfaces to the Charter.

Another project I completed involved developing a tool that uses the Microsoft Telephony and Speech library (TAPI & SAPI) to create a system that could be used to notify and accept actions remotely in the early hours of the morning. The tool could use text to speech and recognize both tones and spoken words for responses. I created a robust procedural scripting engine that had logical constructs, looping, and timeouts. The scenarios for it's use involved making sure that in the event of emergencies like a server going down, etc, the system could phone the person charged with taking action. There was a machine allocated exclusively to this tool.

Here is a typical interaction:

The website of one of the clients has not returned a ping for the last 15 minutes. The tool is triggered to contact Scott, the network administrator.

Hal Calls Scott: "..ring ring!!..Hello Scott the Economists website has not responded to a request in the last 15 minutes, what should I do?"

Hal: "Please select from the following options:
1. Reboot the webserver.
2. Forward this request to Jerry.
3. Hang up and wait for 15 minutes more."
(The options could be set to repeat n number of times, and a default action could be set as well)
(If you hung up the next person would be called in the list of contacts.)
(Written in C++)

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I was hired at Skyline Tools to work on their imaging library which was written, at it's lowest level, in C++. During my time there the scope of my responsibilities were expanded to include managing other programmers, providing technical support with other developers and clients on how to properly utilize our library, writing some advertising copy, accepting and processing credit card payments, and contributing to technical documentation whose target audience was other developers utilizing our libraries.

Our libraries had wrappers that allowed them to be used in several languages easily. I helped with development and testing of those wrappers. It was also my responsibility to create coding examples for the user's manual. C, C++, Delphi, Visual Basic.

I have to say that I really felt that I made some very significant contributions at Skyline Tools, it was just the right size.

Most of the work I did initially involved working on the TIFF portions of the imaging library. I studied the Tagged image File Format in depth and was able to make improvements which ultimately lead to Skyline Tools TIFF being awarded the prize as the best TIFF library available in the industry. I expanded the number of emdedded formats and compressions that it handles. I wrote several new functions that manipulated the TIFF directory and link structures to allow it to support multiple pages. pageInsert, pageRemove, pageSwap, pageAppend, countPages, SeekToPage, etc.

In addition to and as a the next logical step, the TIFF, being a great container for documents, was given the ability, via my utilizing the twain interface to do so, to scan and append multiple documents as new TIFF pages.

I enjoyed working for this company. There were four of us:

• William Davidheiser - The president/CEO/Lead Programmer
• Phillip Burke - C++ Programmer
• Charlie Szymanski - PR/Management
• Reginald Armond - C++ Programmer

I worked on two versions of their Key Mastermaps.

I worked integrating the points of interest which means the database, design and programming of dialogs to access and place POIs, serializing the entries for the POIs. Developed the installers used to install our products.

We also developed something called "The Mapping Library" which was basically a library for third party developers who wished to easily add mapping functionality to their end products. It was targeted to C, C++, Visual Basic, and I believe Delphi Developers. I wrote the examples that appear in the user's manual. I wrote the two sample applications for the Mapping Library in Visual Basic and Delphi.

We would get a lot of requests for custom map data for developers to use in their products. These were layers of the map for specific regions. I would process some of these requests which involved several steps that I found were candidates for automization. So another thing I did was to automate the entire process for packaging map data requests. One interface and on the back end, copy the data, immediately adjacent regions, compress the package, and build a custom install to the user's folder, ready to burn and mail.

Anescor and later Anescor/Medaphis was in the business of handling the billing and accounts receivable for anesthesiologists. I did enjoy working at this place. The technology wasn't cutting edge but it was solid and perfect for what it was being used for, record keeping and batch processing. The operating system was UNIX and we accessed everything using dummy monochrome terminals or emulated VT52/100 on PCs.

I worked on a lot of things when I was there, so long ago, using a language called BBX (Business BASIC) and a little C to implement special tools; however, the best part of my job at that time was that I was able to enjoy learning this new variation of BASIC and being able to improve the efficiency of many applications. I looked at the source code of several apps and felt a hunger stirring to fix them by making them more efficient. I asked my supervisor, at the time, if I could take the BBX language book I found in his office home as well as printing out a few program listings, he said "really?!" and agreed.

The BBX book, the program listings, and of course my almost maniacal lust to create more efficient code, helped to catapult my level of expertise with that language. I was able to make a lot of changes, some small but highly visible such as adding elegance to the user interfaces, eg. creating non-blocking prompts for input, and other changes more complex such as expanding and making it easier for an operator to generate better reports.

I also wrote a lot of advanced report generating Excel spreadsheet macros for the head book keeper MaryLy Richardson upstairs in the CEO's office.

As a contract employee for Hewlett Packard my responsibilities were to develop and maintain several applications for American Airlines. The first project I did involved developing AAPIS, or the American Airlines Passenger Information System. AAPIS was interesting to me as it allowed me to use technical skills in multiple areas. The purpose of AAPIS was to streamline the process of ensuring that the passenger is in possession of all required travel documents given their point of departure, arrival, and all transits in between:

• The UI executed in Internet Explorer was developed using Javascript, HTML, and CSS. The user interacts with the UI and Javascript interacts with IATA using an ActiveX which exchanges data over SOAP.
• The ActiveX which lies between the UI and the International Air Transport Association, also resides on the terminal user's machine, is written in C++.NET.

The remaining 5 or so applications I wrote in C++.

As a full time employee of Integnology my responsibilities were to ensure that the Verizon corporation's enterprise legacy code was put through extensive test procedures and code redundancies minimized when feasible. Most of the work took place under various versions of Unix.

Working for regivision.com is always engaging and requires multiple skills and diciplines across domains. In addition to creating the pebblewatchface.com website, I also work on updates and improvements to contracted software projects.

Working for Accuray was a great experience! There were some things I did there which made me immensely proud. At Accuray I felt that I was finally at the intersection of Software Engineering, Hardware, and the medical profession. The melding of all three to help to push the needle forward towards the elimination of a blight on humanity. I will always remember the joy I felt when completing tasks for the greater good when working for Accuray, and my biggest regret is that the management could not figure out how to best recognize and utilize the talent pool for everyone they invested in to bring forward and support innovation during the time I was with them. So much valuable productivity was squandered.

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