Summary

• 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

• 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

Experience

1998-Present:

Principal Staff Software Engineer Motorola Global Telecom Solutions Sector 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 Automotive and Industrial Electronics Group 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 Corporation 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 , 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

Education

• M.S. in Software Engineering with Highest Distinction
  
  NTU is a pioneering Distance Learning University that develops the curriculum for their M.S. degree programs by picking the best instructors and courses from universities like Cal-Berkeley, Purdue, Georgia Tech, MIT, SMU, Columbia, UIUC, Michigan, and 45 other top Universities.

• Graduate coursework in Software Engineering.

• B.S. in Computer Science & Mathematics with Honors (double major)

Publications and Presentations

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 appendix appearing in the book Configuration Management Principles and Practice, by Anne Haas; Addison-Wesley Professional (Agile Development Series); December 2002

ClearCase Branching and Labeling Best Practices for Parallel Development Rational User's Conference 2000; Philadelphia, PA, August 2000

Getting Ready to Work: Workspace Patterns for Software Development with Stephen 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 1998

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 (appeared in online magazines)

Java Patterns for Distributed Programming Presentation & Southern Methodist University Technical 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