| Manage
development projects from concept to final product.
Profile
- Project Design
Architect / Lead project engineer.
- Software Engineer: design and
development
- Business Analyst: financial,
marketing, engineering
- Organizer: find commonality in
data and code
- Communicator: quickly grasp
the problem and explain the solution
- Self-starter, learn readily
from manuals
- Concept person, abstract
thinker
- Experienced in all facets of
system design and development
- Experienced developing
software designed for the future
Technical
Skills
- Languages: C, C++, Java,
Visual Basic, Pascal, Basic, FORTRAN, BP2COM, and ladder
logic.
- Software Applications:
professional-services invoice generators (client/server),
"expert" document builder, LAN, neural network,
image editor, electronic "magazine" and cartoon
generator, transactional-user base and user interface, pro
forma generator, residential and retail internet (videotex)
field trials, retail internet (videotex) service, virtual
packet communication switch based on X.25, RSTS/E management
upgrade.
- Hardware: IBM-PC compatibles,
AT&T 6300, AT&T 7300, PDP-11, image-capture board,
video display board, touch-screen keyboard, graphics tablet,
DSU, modems, printers, digital audio board, process
controller.
- Operating Systems: Win95, NT,
UNIX, MS-DOS, PC-DOS, CPM, MPM, RSTS/E, RT-11.
Uniquely
Qualified
Cost effective code: analyze to find commonality, and
objectify the process design by abstracting this commonality to
produce elegant code which is flexible and generic because it is
mostly separated from the application specifics. The resulting
code-mass is simple and short, has less bugs, and is easier to
design, build, maintain, and describe.
Professional
Experience
Technologies
Director, Cataldi & Associates, Milwaukee, 1990 - present
Design and implement commercial projects for various clients,
developing a series of Windows-based systems that incorporates
C++, relational databases, embedded SQL, and case development
tools.
- Architectural Management
System. Collects employee time-charges per project and per
phase and automates invoices by individual or by group.
Borland Database Engine allows embedded SQL via alias for
multiple database and platform access transparently. Highly
transportable and modifiable. Base: Microsoft Access, Visual
Basic, and DLL support using C, C++.
- Accounting Management System.
Automates invoices and schedules. Base: C++, Windows,
embedded SQL.
- Substance Abuse Management
System: Manages drug-testing records of employees. Base:
C/C++ and DOS.
- Legal Scheduling System:
Identifies and sets legal deadlines via a rule-based
scheduling system. Base: C++, Windows.
- Classification Analysis
Systems: Classifies by K-Means, Isodata, LMSE, preceptron,
feed forward-back propagate neural net. Base: C, DOS.
- Special Education Form System:
Generates state-required forms. Base: C++, Windows.
- Civil Defense Siren System: (Quatar):
Installation planning and project marketing.
Software
Development Director, Cataldi & Associates, Milwaukee,
1985-90.
As development director: Speeded production of complex documents
by designing and developing Documator, an "expert"
document-building system. Documator builds documents with
assembly-line efficiency, yet inexpensively, by operating
off-the-shelf third-party vendor software and merging the
functions of word processors, spreadsheets, and database
managers. The Documator System is easily modified to provide
various businesses with:
- Established strict programming
formats, procedures, and development reports to permit
learning from historic development statistics and created a
proprietary objective c programming library to decrease
redundancy within the code. Result over three years was
increased efficiency of scheduling, developing, testing,
debugging, and modifying code; development time was reduced
by nearly 50%.
- Designed 'expert' system
switch with objective code design. Runtime
self-configuration provides flexibility to configure easily
to any document type. System builds the documents with
assembly-line efficiency, yet simply and inexpensively.
Easily configures to any document type. Documator is
currently under license to Citibank, NY, where system has
reduced production time of multiple-part banking contracts
by 98% and clerical errors by 99%.
- Developed highly-structured
code and documentation and a detailed development report.
Product now under license by a major bank and reduced
production time of multi-part banking contract by 98% and
reduced clerical errors 99% over previous production
methods.
- Trained and directed technical
staff and production artists. Training covered use of the
proprietary system, and database and knowledge base design.
Engineering
and Technical Director, Telcom Industries, Milwaukee, 1982-85
As Engineering and Technical Director: Designed and developed a
videotex system--an Internet forerunner--that provided an
electronic "magazine" for residential users and a
point-of-sale advertising service. Ran field trials for 18
months in Milwaukee: system demos won Teleprompter a technical
award for it's cable bid and won Telcom a value-added rep
agreement with AT&T. Point-of-sale field trials in Gimbels-Midwest
received multinational press as industry leader and queries from
as far as Paris and Sydney. Designed and developed financial
pro-forma and strategic marketing plans, continually refining
these documents for venture capitalists.
- Designed and developed
preliminary specifications for proprietary virtual packet
switch, providing user-oriented solutions for networking,
processing, and data throughput requirements for internet (videotex)
system. Designed and developed cost-effective
synthetic-video generator that dynamically constructs and
formats information on demand, incorporating high-resolution
imaging/alpha-geometric graphics and presenting them as an
"electronic cartoon magazine". Mapped and directed
installation and operations of hardware and software
components during public trials of both applications.
- Consulted with major
department store to analyze retail-internet user
requirements; Consulting continued for three years and
redirected on-going field trial activity. During this period
imaging technology progressed from alpha mosaic through
alpha-geometric and then on to full color images.
- Designed and developed
financial pro-forma and strategic marketing plans; these
plans were constantly modified over a five year period under
the guidance of the worlds largest venture capitalist.
- Designed and developed
preliminary specification for a proprietary system software
(VANSYS), analyzing and developing user-oriented solutions
for user networking, processing, and data requirements for
public and residential internet (videotex). Provided
communications backbone by combining interactive
virtual-packet switching and store-and-forward message
switching. Designed layering to be compatible with
international standards and protocols established by the
International Standards Organization.
- Designed and developed retail
advertising service: a switch to generate streamed data and
provide point-of-sale with synchronized audio. System
operates passively and interactively through touch-screen
response; it dynamically constructs and formats information
on demand, incorporating high-resolution imaging and
alpha-geometric graphics and presenting them in cartoon
fashion.
- Designed and developed artists
workstation. This mouse controlled screen editor captures
images with thousands of colors from an NTSC source, crops
the image to a package size, translates the image to
best-fit within a dynamically constructed color map, and
loads the image with synchronization coordinates. Animation
routines are sequenced and initialized from a database at
runtime and when activated generate a stream of data output
as an RGB signal.
- Mapped and directed
installation and operations of hardware and software
components during public field trials. Ran point-of-sale
field trial in major department store as holiday
spectacular; received multi-national press as industry
leader and received queries from as far as Paris and Sydney.
Responsible for budgeting and scheduling, and coordinating
thirty specialists from five organizations and two
countries. Hardware specialists adopted my
installation-planning format after first installation slid
together 80% ahead of schedule.
- Trained and supervised
technical staff and production artists. Training covered use
of the proprietary system and various third-party frame
creation and graphics/image editors.
- Ported retail system (c) from
MS-DOS to Unix. Managed six month project to analyze and
identify obstacles to perfect portability, to analyze
throughput capacity of proprietary system running on an ATT
7300 processor under UNIX and to analyze SQL capabilities.
System
Manager, Telcom Industries, Milwaukee, 1978-81
As systems Manager/Application Programmer: installed and managed
computer operations of time-sharing service ( before
CompuServe); designed and developed system to collect usage data
toward evaluating user requirements for retail and residential
internet (videotex) designed and developed software to analyze
objectively statistical usage; designed and managed field trials
for residential services.
- Designed and built computer
room to condition power and air, installed PDP-11 hardware.
Installed and managed RSTS/E operating system. Trained
office personal to use hardware and software. Designed and
installed remote communications link for dial-up narrow-band
and direct-connect wide-band communications. Managed
archival, maintenance, and repair tasks.
- Designed and developed
non-standard RSTS/E management system to provide greater
access security and user-oriented billing and resource
allocation. Redefined the RSTS/E user id number to be a
group name, and added user name identification. Installed
users as message receivers assigned to a group specific
run-time system, prohibiting 'ready' prompt until user was
transferred into proper 'home' directory. Made passwords
complex and collected usage statistics by 'user name'.
Improved security was never breached, while governmental DEC
system security remained a problem for years.
- Designed and developed
transaction-based user-interface to collect usage data.
Developed methods for data analysis to determine user
requirements for residential internet (videotex).
Transaction base contained 20Mb of highly perishable data
and over 500 interactive/multi-user applications. The
perishable data was routinely updated semi-automatically for
standardized formats, debugging, and centralized audit and
error reporting.
- Designed and developed system
to organize usage data to evaluate user requirements for
residential internet (videotex). This system assigned
classifications and ratings for user requested resource to
allow estimates of bandwidth requirements.
- Mapped and directed operations
of hardware and software components during public field
trials. Ran residential field trial for 18 months in
Milwaukee: system won a technical award during the cable
franchise bidding and won a value-added rep agreement with
ATT-IS.
- Trained and supervised
technical staff and production artists.
Formal Education
- Computer Science, graduate
work at UW-Milwaukee, 1992.
- Engineering and Business,
UW-Madison, 1972-1976.
Personal
- Born 1954, single, excellent
health; well traveled
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Interests: information theory,
large scale physics, and early moment physics, philosophy,
international politics, puns, and symmetry, asymmetry, and
virtual-knots (see Cnotta)
Last updated in 1990 or so, I suspect.
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