Brad Appleton
Software Tools/Process Architect
E-mail: brad@bradapp.net
WWW: http://www.bradapp.net

Summary
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Fifteen years of software development expertise with emphasis in the following areas:
* Configuration management tools and process implementation 
* Software engineering tools/applications development 
* Software process definition, improvement and automation
* Best-practices for software development (including "agile" development) and design 
* Object-oriented design methods and programming languages

Highlights of Technical Leadership & Expertise
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* Lead consultant to corporate-wide (cross-sector) engineering development environment for change and configuration management, application integration, and metrics/reporting
* Process lead for sector and systems release management, and CM development
* Software development product/project manager for team producing on-time releases for the past 2 years using iterative development, automated testing, and weekly customer meetings
* Initiated and led Java and Perl "brown bag" sessions within the department to foster the growth of co-workers programming and design skills and to serve as a mentor to others.
* Design patterns section editor for the C++ report, January 2000 - March 2001
* Program/Review Committee for Software Patterns Conferences in Illinois and Europe
* Co-author of the book Software Configuration Management Patterns: Practical Teamwork, Effective Integration (Addison-Wesley Professional, November 2002)
* Technical advisor for CM topic content at STQE's StickyMinds.com site.
* Recipient, 2002 Rational ClearCase Community Superstar
* Founding member of Chicago Agile Developers and Chicago Patterns groups, and member ACM, IEEE Computer Society, and Chicago Software Process Improvement Network (C-SPIN)

Skills
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Programming:
* Perl, Java, C++, C, Smalltalk, Python, Unix shell (ksh, csh, sh) 
Platforms:
* Unix (Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, Linux), Windows NT, Windows 2000
Applications:
* ClearCase, ClearQuest, DDTS, SCCS, RCS, CVS, Perforce, Oracle, DOORs, ROSE, TMS, TeamPlay, FrameMaker, MS-Office
Design and Development:
* UML, Design Patterns, RUP, eXtreme Programming, SEI CMM, TL9000

Experience
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1998-Present:
* Principal Staff Software Engineer, Motorola GTSS, Arlington Heights, IL
1995-1998:
* Senior Software Engineer, Motorola IESS, Northbrook, IL
1990-1995:
* Senior Software Engineer, Harris Computer Systems, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1989:
* Software Engineer, Seidl Computer Engineering, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI
1988-1989:
* Systems Analyst, Michigan Peer Review Organization, Livonia, MI
1987-1988:
* Programmer, Schlumberger Technologies CAD/CAM, Plymouth, MI

Education
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1995-2000:	National Technological University       Fort Collins, CO
* M.S. in Software Engineering with Highest Distinction

1994:		Florida Atlantic University	Boca Raton, FL 
* Graduate coursework in Software Engineering. 

1983-1988:	The University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, MI 
* B.S. in Computer Science & Mathematics with Honors (double major) 

Experience Summary
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1998-Present: Principal Staff Software Engineer,
Motorola GTSS, Arlington Heights, IL
* Lead consultant to corporate-wide (cross-sector) engineering development environment for change and configuration management, application integration, and metrics/reporting
* Process lead for sector and systems release management, and CM development
* CM system product/project manager for a small team producing on-time releases for the past 2 years using iterative development, automated testing, and weekly customer meetings for feature and change planning
* SCM process/tool consultant for several business critical "improvement" projects to address issues with build reproducibility, build-time reduction, and integration/build planning
* Technical lead for development of a CM system for sector-wide use of ClearCase/ClearQuest and common metrics/reporting
* Developed, maintained, and supported a complete CCT/ClearCase-based SCM environment for several hundred users.
* Local community leader in introducing "agile" development practices and other software development best-practices
 
1995-1998: Senior Software Engineer,
Motorola IESS, Northbrook, IL
* Defined and implemented departmental policies and procedures for software configuration management and software metrics collection & reporting using ClearCase and DDTS.
* Implemented software development tools to automate unit testing, and to reverse-engineer design pseudo-code from C source code.
* Performed critical ClearCase and DDTS systems administration and received an award for effectiveness and responsiveness for critical disaster recovery of corrupted data
* Developed a suite of Perl scripts for ClearCase/DDTS to implement merging, build/release management, and automated processes for capturing inspection data, change/defect reports, and requirements traceability
* Performed systems integration, testing, and release engineering for the ADVANCE system - a 100K line C/C++ embedded real-time application for automotive route planning & navigation
* Performed unit testing and maintenance on the route-planning subsystem for ADVANCE
* Evaluated and compared object-oriented software development methods and established C++ coding standards for use by the department
* Member of a team devoted to achieving SEI CMM level 3 within the department
* Received two quality awards for software process improvement within first three months

1990-1995: Senior Software Engineer,
Harris Computer Systems, Fort Lauderdale, FL
* Designed and implemented (as part of a team) a multi-process, multi-language, graphical symbolic debugger using C++, Motif, and the AT&T C++ task library
* Enhanced and maintained and supported our CM system (75K+ lines of C/C++) for several dozen projects and several hundred users
* Configured and administered defect tracking repositories (using GNATS) for multiple projects
* Member of a team to document and improve our organization's software development process and achieve ISO 9000 certification
* Drafted department-wide templates for software architecture and design specifications
* Documented and automated software release engineering procedures for the department
* Enhanced and maintained a 100K line C application which assists in the design, testing, and analysis of software written in Ada
* Developed reusable open-source frameworks for parsing C++ command-line arguments

1989: Software Engineer
Seidl Computer Engineering, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI
(bought-out in September,1989 by Pansophic Systems, Inc.)
* Ported the entire company product-line of C software development tools to OS/2
* Enhanced, maintained and provided technical support for all software development products
* Designed, documented, and automated the creation of the standard directory structure hierarchy used by all projects
* Composed end-user and in-house documentation to assist in the use, maintenance, and evolution of company products (both present and future)

1988-1989: Systems Analyst
Michigan Peer Review Organization, Livonia, MI
* Created and maintained large Oracle database systems under Xenix/386 to store medical reviews for all Medicare and Medicaid claims in the state of Michigan
* Programmed C database applications (with embedded SQL statements) to provide retrospective analyses of medical reviews
* Created, maintained, and documented the department's local repository of software development tools and libraries 

1987-1988: Programmer
Schlumberger Technologies, CAD/CAM Division, Plymouth, MI
* Designed and documented software utilities using C, lex, awk, Unix shell scripts, Pascal, PL/I, and VMS DCL command procedures
* Developed the data filter for a software data bus to enable data interchange between CAD applications via an application-neutral data format and translator

Publications and Presentations
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* Agile Configuration Management Environments; CM Crossroads Newsletter, April 2003 (Vol. 2 No. 4). Also in proceedings of 2003 Midwest Software Engineering Conference; Chicago, IL, June 2003
* Software Configuration Management Patterns: Practical Teamwork, Effective Integration; with Stephen P. Berczuk, Addison-Wesley Professional (Software Patterns Series), November 2002
* Agile Software Configuration Management, with Stephen P. Berczuk; appendix appearing in the book Configuration Management Principles and Practice; by Anne Haas; Addison-Wesley, December 2002
* ClearCase Branching and Labeling Best Practices for Parallel Development; 2000 Rational User's Conference; Philadelphia, PA, August 2000 
* Getting Ready to Work: Workspace Patterns for Software Development; with StephenSoftware Configuration Management Patterns: Practical Teamwork, Effective Integration; with Stephen P. Berczuk, Addison-Wesley Professional (Software Patterns Series P. Berczuk and Ralph Cabrera; 7th Annual Conference on Pattern Languages of Program Design; Allerton Park, IL, August 2000 
* Software Reconstruction: Patterns for Reproducing Software Builds; with Ralph Cabrera and Stephen P. Berczuk; 6th Annual Conference on Pattern Languages of Program Design; Allerton Park, IL, August 1999 
* Streamed Lines: Branching Patterns for Parallel Software Development; with Stephen P. Berczuk and Ralph Cabrera; 5th Annual Conference on Pattern Languages of Program Design; Allerton Park, IL, September 1998 
* Patterns for Conducting Software Process Improvement; 4th Annual Conference on Pattern Languages of Program Design; Allerton Park, IL, September 1997 
* ClearView: Associating Attributes and Notes with a ClearCase View; 1996 ClearCase International User's Group Conference; Lexington, MA, September 1996
* eXtreme Summary; Book review of Extreme Programming Explained, January 2000 (online review)
* Java Patterns for Distributed Programming; Presentation & Southern Methodist University Report, May 1999 
* Pizza Inversion - a Pattern for Efficient Resource Consumption; C++ Report Vol. 11 No. 4, March 1999
* Patterns in a Nutshell; Presentation; created February 1998 
* Patterns and Software: Essential Concepts and Terminology; Object Currents Magazine, Vol. 3 No. 5, May 1997 
* The Law of Demeter for Propagation Patterns; Northeastern University Technical Report, December 1995 
* AVL trees: a Tutorial and C++ Implementation; Presentation; excerpts have appeared in Object Currents Magazine and Dr. Dobbs Journal; created 1989, last updated 1999