languages / operating systems
Java2 1.2 with Swing, Java 1.1 with AWT, JavaScript, C (K&R and ANSI), Objective C, C++, SmallTalk, FORTRAN 77, many assembly languages, UNIX (all Linux, System V, BSD and OSF variants), MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, 95 & NT, Macintosh Systems 6 - 9, Macintosh OS X, Mach (NeXT).
development tools
JBuilder, WebObjects, Next/OpenStep, X Windows X11R5, PHIGS+, DataViews, PV-Wave, Application Visualization System (AVS) and AVS/Express.
hardware
IBM PC and clones (x86 and Pentium); Macintosh; NeXT "black cube"; Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) all models since Iris; Sun Microsystems SPARC series (SunOS and Solaris); Hewlett-Packard 700 series; IBM RISC System 6000 series; Digital Equipment Corp. DECstation 5000 & Alpha.
experience
OrderFusion, Inc., formerly (prior to September 1999)
Dover Pacific Computing, Inc.
(headquartered at 10180 Telesis Court, San Diego, CA 92121),
a producer of client/server and Web-based sell-side business-to-business (B2B)
e-commerce software,
as sales support engineer at the San Diego headquarters served as a corporate resource and "technical guru" for all field pre-sales engineers, answered the tough questions, wrote the tricky demos, responded to RFPs, gave presentations and demonstrations to prospects making HQ visits, and trained all new field sales engineers (SEs), also had responsibility for creating and upgrading all corporate product demos, and for configuring and maintaining all corporate office and trade show demo computers; also served as a stand-by SE during peak times of field sales requirements;
as sales engineer, wrote customized demo programs, gave
product presentations and demonstrations, and provided other pre-sales technical support.
During my 2 and 1/2 years with the company we were named "best of breed" sell-side B2B software by the Gartner and Meta groups, went through two successful rounds of venture capital funding, and achieved five-fold growth in revenue and employees.
(July 1998 to March 2001)
AP Labs
(headquartered at 5871 Oberlin Dr., San Diego, CA 92121),
a manufacturer of ruggedized high-speed data acquisition equipment for
avionics, equipped with visually programmed software front-ends,
as senior software engineer at the San Diego headquarters maintained and ported UNIX/Motif
code to other UNIX flavors as well as re-implementing in Java for Windows NT.
Debugged and ported visualization packages based on PV-Wave and DataViews.
(February 1998 to June 1998)
Apple Computer Inc.'s Enterprise
Software Division (headquartered at One Infinite
Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014), formerly (prior to Feb. 1997)
NeXT Software Inc.
(headquartered at 900 Chesapeake Dr., Redwood City,
CA), a producer of object-oriented software tools for enterprise
client/server and intranet/internet applications, as systems
engineer (pre-sales) in the Irvine sales office
(18301 Von Karman, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92612)
provided technical support for sales teams calling on large
commercial accounts selling WebObjects and OpenStep application
development tools (for Java, Objective C, C++ and C), and operating
systems software, developed by NeXT. Job evaluation and bonus
compensation based on software revenue in the western region of North
America; after joining Apple this region produced strong revenue and
growth during the last 3 quarters of Apple's fiscal '97 (ending in
September 1997), contributing to WebObjects being rated the number one
enterprise intranet tool by IDC.
This ex-NeXT software revenue also contributed to the Apple recovery,
and the doubling of Apple's stock value during the same period.
(November 1996 to November 1997)
Object|FX Corporation
(headquartered at 2515 Wabash Ave., Suite 100, St. Paul,
MN 55114), a producer of object-oriented geospatial visualization
tools for client/server and World Wide Web (WWW), as systems
engineer (pre-sales) in the Irvine sales office
(2030 Main Street, Suite 1300, Irvine, CA 92614)
provided technical support for SmallTalk-based software development
tools for Geographical Information System (GIS) functionality as
application components in network environments connecting desktop
clients to database servers. (April 1996 to November 1996)
Advanced Visual Systems, Inc.
(headquartered at 300 Fifth Ave., Waltham, MA 02154)
, a visualization software producer: as systems
engineer (pre-sales) in the Irvine sales office
(2102 Business Center Court, Suite 130 Irvine, CA 92715)
provided technical support for salespeople of 3D graphics
software development tools (for C and C++) for UNIX and PC deployments.
Duties included UNIX, Mac and Windows system administration, programming
and operating demos, technical presentations and assisting customers
with software design and debugging. Job success was measured by sales
in the southwest US. In 1994 the salesperson I supported made the
biggest sale in company history ($1.8 million) and in 1995 that
salesperson was highest over quota (%110). (August 1992 to April 1996)
Kubota Pacific Computer
Inc. (headquartered at 2630 Walsh Ave., Santa
Clara, CA 95051) a manufacturer of graphics supercomputers:
as senior systems analyst (pre-sales) in the Santa
Monica sales office (120 Broadway, Suite 203, Santa
Monica, CA 90401) ported and tuned prospects' computational
benchmarks in FORTRAN and C for performance on a symmetric
multiprocessor architecture with vector math unit, used prospect data
in scientific visualization demos, wrote graphics demo programs,
prepared and gave technical sales presentations and customer
training sessions, planned and executed trade and road shows,
administered office/road demo systems, and wrote RFQ technical
responses. I was hand-picked for this job out of a field of 6 western
SEs, when Kubota purchased the Stardent hardware line. (January 1992
to August 1992)
Stardent Computer Inc. (headquartered at 85 Wells Ave., Newton, MA 01581), a manufacturer of graphics supercomputers: as senior systems analyst (pre-sales) in the Los Angeles sales office (5757 Century Blvd., Suite 450, Los Angeles, CA 90045) duties identical to Kubota (above); was voted systems analyst of the year for western U.S. two out of three years and sent with spouse to Sales Club. (February 1988 to December 1991)
Rockwell International's Space Station Systems Division
(12214 Lakewood Blvd., Downey, CA 90241), a
manufacturer of manned space vehicles: as consulting
programmer working with a colleague
designed and implemented an interactive key-frame animation package in
C to run on a real- time 3-D graphics system; as staff computer
graphics programmer at the Downey facility designed and implemented software tools in
C and used these tools to produce simulations and videotapes of space
station assembly as well as other space vehicles and mechanisms.
(October 1985 to February 1988)
GTI Corporation's Computer Graphics Division (10060 Willow Creek Rd., San Diego, CA 92131), a manufacturer of real-time 3-D interactive graphics systems: as applications engineer (pre- and post-sales) at the San Diego headquarters worked with customers to resolve graphics software problems, wrote graphics demo programs and gave presentations with them; as software project leader wrote specifications for the user interface to graphics system software, managed software development teams to implement, enhance and maintain internal real-time software of graphics systems; and as documentation manager hired and trained technical writers for hardware and software and established documentation guidelines and version numbering systems. (January 1983 - May 1985)
offices / publications
- August 1998 to date: Chair of the
San Diego Chapter
of ACM/SIGGRAPH (the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics).
- ACM/SIGGRAPH
1995: Special Interest Group (SIG): "AVS In Medicine" (chaired) - ACM/SIGGRAPH 1994: technical sketch: Architecting AVS Express (with Jeff Vroom, AVS Inc.)
- ACM/SIGGRAPH 1994: SIG panel: "The Virtual Actor and the Human Factor" (chaired)
- Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 1994: paper: The Impact of Visual Programming In Medical Research.
- ACM/SIGGRAPH 1993: panel: "Electronic Image and Popular Discourse" (Benjamin Bratton, chair); topic: Hypertext or Game Boy: We Are At a Fork In the Road.
- AVS '93 (International User Group): paper: The Nature of Scientific Visualization.
- Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 1992: paper: The Somascope: A Tool For Guided Self-Healing Using Medical Imaging.
- Federal Computer Conference 1991: panel: "Visualization and Simulation" (Richard Friedhoff, chair); topic: A History of Scientific Visualization.
- ACM/SIGGRAPH 1991: technical coordinator of Tomorrow's Realities Gallery (juried multimedia and virtual reality exhibits) .
- Geological Society of America Abstr. Progr., Cordilleran Section., 23, 56, 1991: paper: Interactive Scientific Visualization in the Geological Sciences: A New Dimension of the Imagination for Geologic Education and Advanced Research by Dr. Eric G. Frost, Lisa A. Heizer, Tammy L. Tatum, William C. Vanek, and Alan B. Scrivener
training
- Enterprise Objects for the Web (WebObjects and SQL databases) by NeXT Software Inc. (1 week)
- Introduction to Web Objects by NeXT Software Inc. (1 week)
- Introduction to SmallTalk by Parc Place, Inc. (1 week)
- C++ Programming in-house training by Clarity Learning Inc. for AVS Inc. (1 week)
- X Windows Programming (2 days) at University of California at Irvine (UCI) Extension
- Linear Systems Analysis (2 hrs/week for 10 weeks) at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Extension
- conferences on Dynamical Systems by
Society of Industrial and Applied
Mathematicians (SIAM):
- May 1990, Orlando, FL (5 days),
- October 1992, Snowbird, UT (3 days)
- Neuroscience for Physicists, Mathematicians and Engineers (UCLA Kineseology 197) audited by permission of Dr. Alan Garfinkel, world expert on cardiac chaos (4 hrs/week for 13 weeks)
education
University of California at Santa Cruz: Majored in Information Sciences. Major courses included: game theory, probability, simulation, control theory, communication theory, and 3-D perspective computer graphics. Electives included: calculus, physics, statistics, economics, linguistics, technical theater (lights and sound), psychology, seminar leading and writing. Taught a course in "Whole Systems," acted in summer theater, edited college newspaper for two years. (Sept. 1971 to June 1975; Jan. - June 1977)
Last update: 29-Sep-2004 by ABS.