Availability: I'm currently unavailable for either contract work
or permanent positions through Winter 2009. Don't call
me before then :-).
Education: Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, 1989
Experience: * 2004 - present: Chief Architect,
Kayak Software Corp.
A new travel meta-search company.
* 1999 - 2004: Senior Staff Engineer, Chief
Architect, Intuit, Inc.
Small Business Division, Shared Product Components
Division. Responsible for design of small business network
services and e-business infrastructure; drove design
of a common Java platform for building web
applications for all Intuit business units.
* 1998 - 1999: Chief Architect,
Boston Light Software Corp.
Boston Light was acquired by Intuit in August 1999.
* 1997 - 1998: Chief Technical Officer,
Digital Direct Network
Learned more about how not to start a company.
* 1995 - 1997: NetCentric Corporation
Learned a lot about HTTP, SSL encryption, CGI applications,
SQL/Sybase development, telephony integration and how
not to start a company.
* 1990 - 1995: Interleaf, Inc.
Designed and implemented "modern" (har har) OPEN LOOK
UI, Motif UI and development tools for Interleaf 5/6.
Conceived, designed, implemented and named Cyberleaf,
an award-winning web publishing tool capable of
publishing complex, hyperlinked documents in various
formats to HTML.
* 1989 - 1990: Marposs Techno, Inc.
Implemented a real-time, preemptive multi-processing OS for 80x86
computers.
* Summers 1986 - 1988: Digital Equipment Corp.
Developed specialized kernel memory analysis tools.
Implemented test framework and suite for X11 Xlib
API. Developed and performed tests on experimental
network-interconnect VAXclusters.
Software Languages: C; C++; Java; Pascal; LISP; BLISS; FORTRAN;
Experience: Python; Perl; Ruby; various shells; PostScript; various
assemblers including MC6811, MC68000, PDP-11, MIPS,
VAX, Intel 80x86.
Operating Systems: Unix (Sun, HP, DEC, IBM, SCO,
Linux, Andrew); Windows 3.1/NT/95/XP; DOS; VAX/VMS;
TOPS-20; RSTS/E;
Domain Expertise: security and cryptographic technology;
document publishing; digital audio and video;
telephony; travel; SEO and SEM; online advertising