SFI Client: Xilinx, Inc. / Longmont, Colorado
Consultant : 11/2006 - 2/2007

• David introduced VMware virtualization technology to Xilinx's Computer Farm Services group (network and system administration with Solaris).

Latis Networks, Inc. (StillSecure) / Superior, Colorado
Director of Product Engineering : 5/2006 - 11/2006

• Project manager for the Cobia Unified Network Platform, a product designed to integrate open-source network / security modules with a web2 user interface (router, firewall, DNS, DHCP, with more modules planned). David brainstormed requirements with stakeholders to define the product, recruited team members, designed the system architecture, planned release schedules, led the development team, and coded core infrastructure. (Java EE 5, Hibernate, JBoss, JSF, Linux, Ajax, VMware, PostgresSQL, Eclipse, SVN, Apache Ant, Python).

SFI Client: National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR / UCAR) / Boulder, Colorado
Consultant : 2/1997 - 7/2003

• (2001 - 2003) Recipient of NCAR / UCAR's Outstanding Accomplishment Award for Scientific & Technical Advancement - for the Four-Dimensional-Weather-Engineering project (4DWX), a comprehensive suite of state-of-the-art tools for meteorologists. As the software engineering lead, David redesigned the system to make it scalable and modular, refactoring a number of applications (Java, eXtreme Programming). Lots of mentoring! David reused his own Custom Query Tool for clients to interrogate the MySQL database. He also gave technical presentations to important non-technical people.

• (1997 - 2001) Designed and delivered several courses in Object-Oriented Design & Java.

• (1998) Primary consultant for an enterprise-wide business-process re-engineering effort, creating UML analysis models that were used to identify operational inefficiencies.

• (1997) Invited lecturer on Commercial Middleware for a Workshop on IT Strategy.

University of Colorado (CU) / Boulder, Colorado
Department of Computer Science - Faculty - Lecturer : 1/1999 - 5/2002

• Course author for CSCI 4448: Object-Oriented Programming & Design. Topics include: OO analysis & design, UML modeling, design patterns, Java & C++, databases, XML, distributed architectures, (Enterprise) Java Beans, and (agile) project management. Click Here to view the lecture notes as PDF files. Why buy a textbook? Here's a fun example: Fractal Art.

• Guest lectures for ECEN 5053: Software Engineering of Distributed Systems.

SFI Client: Interactive Gaming & Wagering N. V. / Willemstad, Curacao, N. A.
Consultant : 4/1999 - 12/2000

• Working from home, David designed applets (and server-side infrastructure) to play casino games for real money. He implemented the direct-manipulation, graphical user interfaces in Java 1.02 for browser compatibility, like the Chaos Applet with spinning wheels, rolling dice, and drag-and-drop chips for betting. He worked from Curacao briefly to advise on deployment issues, and to scuba dive :-)

SFI Client: Level (3) Communications, Inc. / Broomfield, Colorado
Consultant : 12/1998 - 3/1999

• Developed a 'universal inventory database' (Java, CORBA, Oracle, Vitria, UNIX).

SFI Client: Avitek Inc. (acquired by BEA Systems) / Boulder, Colorado
Consultant : 9-10/1998

• Developed middleware for a 3-tier call-center application (Java, WebLogic, TOPLink, Oracle).

SFI Client: Janus International Holding Company / Denver, Colorado
Consultant : 3-11/1998

• Responsible for training & mentoring Janus' staff in object technology & (agile) project management, David taught classes & worked on several projects (Java, C++).

SFI Client: Lucent Technologies (Microelectronics Group) / Boulder, Colorado
Consultant : 10/1997 - 2/1998

• Redesigned & implemented the manual router for Lucent's Field Programmable Gate Array CAD editor (C++, UNIX).

SFI Client: DirecTouch, Inc. / Broomfield, Colorado
Consultant : 5-8/1997

• David analyzed the start-up company's product idea and helped design a solution; he also planned staffing & scheduling with the company's CEO.

Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) / Louisville, Colorado
Consultant : 2-5/1997

• Implemented the user interface for a marketing tool (C++, XVT, Windows and Macintosh).

University of Colorado (CU) / Boulder, Colorado
Division of Continuing Education - Instructor : 2/1997 - 12/1998

• Instructor for the Intermediate & Advanced C++ Programming courses.

• Instructor for the Object-Oriented Design Patterns course.

Bolder Heuristics, Inc. ( BHI ) / Boulder, Colorado
Senior Engineer : 7/1993 - 12/1996

• Worked on various projects, described below as BHI Client.

BHI Client: Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) : 4-12/1996

• Architecture consultant for a large strategic software project.

• Taught classes in object orientation & relational-database design.

BHI Client: Health Decisions LLC. (7 x 24 hr. Health Care Call Center) : 4/1995 - 12/1996

• David was responsible for all aspects of database development, including: determining the business requirements, system architecture, designing the object-oriented software, data modeling, implementation, documentation, deployment, database administration (as the DBA), performance tuning, & writing SQL stored procedures. He sat 3 five-day courses in SYBASE database administration. He also managed the Data Layer and Data Load sub-projects (Visual C++). And he taught nurses how to query the data warehouse with SQL.

BHI Client: USWest (Knowledge Base Group) : 8/1994 - 4/1995

• Played a major role in a business process re-engineering effort.

• Responsible for the interface between the Knowledge Base & Corporate Database Groups, including mentoring & supervising other contractors (C++, Prolog, UNIX).

BHI Client: MIS, Inc. (Financial Portfolio Management Software Company) : 1-8/1994

• As Data Layer Team Lead, David designed a framework including Bob, the crucial component that managed object lifecycles and controlled transactions (C++, Windows). This was his first project implemented with rigorous unit testing.

BHI Client: Itron, Inc. (Utility Metering Technology Company) : 7/1993 - 1/1994

• Designed and implemented an application framework (C++, XVT, UNIX).

NeoCAD, Inc. (now Xilinx) / Boulder, Colorado
Consultant : 6-9/1992

• Used fuzzy logic for optimization of the Field Programmable Gate Array CAD partitioner (C++, UNIX).

Carnegie Mellon University (CLARIT project) / Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Software Engineer (part time, as CMU graduate student) : 10/1990 - 5/1992

• Wrote Lisp for doing linguistic analysis of text to determine the concepts expressed within.

Japan Marketing Data Systems, Inc. / Tokyo, Japan
Consultant : 7-8/1990

• Wrote C utilities to convert between various Japanese multi-byte character formats.

Daisy/Cadnetix, Inc. / Boulder, Colorado
Software Engineer : 8/1987 - 12/1989

• Developed the printed circuit board CAD router (C, Pascal, UNIX, microcode).

Gould Electronix, Inc. / Cleveland, Ohio
Engineering Co-op (as Cornell undergraduate during holidays) : 5-8/1985, 5-8/1986

• Small projects (FORTRAN, UNIX, Mentor Graphics CAE circuit simulations).

Fabri-Centers of America, Inc. / Cleveland, Ohio
Consultant (as Cornell freshman during holidays) : 12/1983, 5-8/1984

• David began his career by designing and implementing a system to automate a warehouse shipping and receiving office (a successful solo effort in DBASE II and DOS on an IBM PC).

NATURAL LANGUAGES

• English - Native.

• Portuguese - Fluent (Brazilian wife plus extensive travel, with translation experience).

• Spanish - Fluent (extensive studies plus extensive travel).

• French - Conversational (some classes plus some travel).

• Japanese - Basics (studies and travel but a long time ago).

WORLD TRAVEL

Alaska, Argentina, Austria, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hawaii, Holland, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Lesotho, Macao, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico, Mozambique, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yukon, Zanzibar.

EDUCATION

M.S. in Computational Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : May 1992

• Artificial Intelligence & Linguistics, applied to machine understanding of natural languages (Lisp & Prolog).

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University "With Distinction"
Ithaca, New York : May 1987

• Graduate-level work in computer hardware architectures and semiconductor (quantum) physics.

The Mercersburg Academy (High School) "Cum Laude" and "High Honors"

• Began programming in TRS-80 BASIC in 1980.

• Won prizes in Mathematics and Spanish.

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