18 Sunridge Road, Windham, NH 03087 • Cell: (603) 785-7165
A hands-on position, Managing or Leading a Software Development, Architecture, or
Quality Assurance team, utilizing over 30 years' experience in software
architecture, design, implementation, test, deployment and management.
Voice over IP • Embedded Systems • Real-Time Systems • Java Technologies • Network Management Systems • Optical Networking • SNMP • Robotics • XML Technologies • J2EE • Web Services • Object-Oriented Design & Analysis
Technical Director / Consulting Engineer / Principal Engineer, Engineering Integration & Test:
Cedar Point Communications, Inc., Derry, NH. (Apr 2005 – Present)
- Daily hands-on management and operation of a high-bandwidth test facility,
capable of simulating 250K cable telephone subscribers, for each of 36
development/test chassis. Each chassis connected to eight Gigabit optical
networks with redundancy; to development and management networks. The goal being
to perform daily smoke, load, and regression testing of SAFARI carrier-class
Voice over IP (Media Switching System), and SafariView (Element Management
System).
- Proactively isolated performance issues and provided timely support of
development and test teams, working closely with software and hardware
developers, on both embedded systems and EMS.
- Responsible for all budgeting, planning, and operations of this complex,
dynamically expanding and changing lab facility.
- Managed the teams responsible for daily smoke, load, and regression testing,
and for all lab operations, and for all (non-IT) developer and tester
troubleshooting and support.
- Received several President's Awards by achieving technical goals for
international product markets, remote development facilities, and integrating new
technologies in record breaking time.
- Integrated Facial Biometric Devices for an Access-Control System. Developed
plug-in modules supporting distributed facial biometric devices. Supported use
cases for subject enrollment, standalone identification, and verification in
conjunction with card readers.
- Developed multi-threaded application, device drivers, and Java SWT/JFace GUI
interfaces, with a persistent store managed with Hibernate.
- Cross-platform access control system supported Windows and Linux, and was
database-independent, supporting SQL Server, Sybase, Oracle, MySQL, embedded
databases, and more.
- Developed embedded software for a Digital Repeater (Bi-Directional Amplifier)
for in-building wireless solutions. Developed SNMP MIB and agent; event
reporting protocol; inter-process communication, command line interpreter;
low-level hardware interfaces for SPI, I2C, PCMCIA, USB, A/D, digital I/O.
- Introduced software engineering practices; source code control; software
defect management; software life cycle management; mentored team members.
- Developed a framework for integrating new applications with the Cognos
ReportNet Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) product. The solution comprised
Servlets, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, DHTML and the ReportNet Java SDK, for improved
data exploration and integration with Cognos Connection, Report Studio and Query
Studio.
Principal Software Engineer: Brightline Technology, Incorporated, Rye, NH. (Apr 2003 – Mar 2004)
- Architect for an enterprise-quality Java application server for IBM/Lotus
Domino customers.
- The "Brightline Application Server - Enterprise Edition" allows customers to
host existing J2EE applications in a Domino environment, scale Domino-based web
applications through J2EE technologies, add Notes and Domino functionality to
J2EE applications, add J2EE functionality to Notes and Domino applications, and
use the Domino security model in J2EE applications.
- The server technology includes an extensible software backbone that provides
all standard J2EE services to Domino, administration and deployment tools for
managing J2EE servers and applications from either a Notes Admin client or web
browser, and a fully transactional, enterprise-ready data store to complement
NSF (Notes Storage Facility).
- Developed software for the Lightchip
RAM-20-200-PSM/PSD Rack Mountable Intelligent 200 GHz DWDM Mux/Demux. The
monitoring and control features include optical power detection,
traffic-direction LEDs, visual alarms, and craft interface that provides access
to the unit's identification data. The product is a bi-directional dense
wavelength division multiplexor (DWDM) with power loss detection on the primary
fiber that can trigger alarm LEDs and relays. Integrated power taps allow
monitoring of incoming and outgoing signals in the primary fiber.
Software Director, Optical Wavelength Management Group, Network Management Systems:
Digital Lightwave,
Incorporated , North Chelmsford, MA. (Oct 1999 – Apr 2003)
Manager, Software Quality & Infrastructure, Systems Engineering Group: Lightchip, Incorporated, Salem, NH. (Oct 1999 – Apr 2003)
- Management: Hired and managed a team of six Quality Assurance Software
Engineers, SNMP and TL1 software developers and Technical Writers. Coordinated
efforts with Executive, Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing, Operations, Accounting,
Human Resources, Optical Engineering and Systems Engineering teams.
- Engineering Infrastructure: Responsible for all software engineering hardware
and software tool selection, purchasing, maintenance and support; development
network configuration; obtaining engineering prototype hardware from the
Optical, Systems and Manufacturing teams; communicating these needs to the
company.
- Software Quality Assurance: Responsible for defining SQA needs, implementing a
lab environment for testing multiple products, platforms and releases using a
collection of highly configurable optical instruments, GPIB instruments and
network interfaces. The SQA Lab was a showcase and was considered an essential
stop when showing customers our product and engineering capabilities.
- Release Engineering: Responsible for all source code control, release
engineering, builds and DCOs.
Principal Software Engineer: Lightchip, Incorporated, Salem, NH. (Oct 1999 – Apr 2003)
- Software architect for the Optical Wavelength Manager (OWM), utilizing
StrongARM processors running VxWorks. The OWM monitors power, wavelength and
signal-to-noise ratio for multiple channels on dense wavelength division
multiplexed networks with programmable alarm thresholds and data logging.
Configuration is done remotely or locally through a command line interface
(telnet and RS232), SNMP, TL1 and/or Java based graphical user interface.
- Developed the Board Support Package for two StrongARM processor boards, using
logic analyzers to debug assembler and "C" source code. Worked with
technologists at Intel and Wind River to resolve problems encountered with early
releases of silicon.
- Designed a comprehensive SNMPv1/v2c MIB for the OWM, including device traps,
advanced row creation features, and integration with OEM customers' existing
enterprise MIB trees. This MIB was advertised as "the world's first Optical
MIB".
- Developed a Java GUI for the OWM; a patent application was filed for the GUI.
- Evaluated and selected real-time operating systems, prototype hardware systems
and software development tools for bleeding-edge target (Intel StrongARM
processor) hardware.
Principal Software Engineer, Alcatel Internetworking, Voice Over IP:
Alcatel Internetworking , Salem, NH. (Aug 1998 – Sep 1999)
- Principal architect for a Voice over IP Gateway for the Enterprise market. The
VoIP Gateway supported digital (T1/E1) and analog interfaces. A typical
configuration would connect to one or more PBXs to the PSTN and to an enterprise
network. Capabilities included fax relay, modem, voice and data.
- Integrated software components for the VoIP blade into existing Alcatel
switches.
- Developed VoIP configuration interfaces for signaling, coding, network,
dialing plan and hardware.
- Selected and purchased software development tools, telephony products and test
equipment.
- Performed system and network administration for a Sun 450 Enterprise Server in
the Salem, NH office. Installed and configured development tools and coordinated
the build process with teams in Calabasas, CA.
- Coordinated development between teams in the U.S. and Alcatel headquarters in
Colombes, France, building an IP-based PBX and other packetized voice products.
- Advised Network Management development team on Java design topics.
Principal Software Engineer / Software Systems Architect:
NBX Corporation , Andover, MA. (May 1997 – Jul 1998)
- Designed the system software architecture for an Ethernet based telephone
system (NBX 100) with high performance telephony, messaging, and computer
integration via a single infrastructure. The NBX system provided a voice and
data management platform merging packetized audio with an Ethernet LAN.
- Designed object-oriented architectures for Call Processing, Voice Mail,
Automated Attendant, TAPI Service Provider, Web-based System Administration, and
system services layers.
- Selected software tools and components for product development and deployment,
including embedded real-time operating systems and object-oriented software
development tools.
- Designed reliable messaging protocols for system controller and DSP-based
telephony devices.
- Pioneered development from ObjecTime models to Windows NT (Microsoft Visual
C++) simulation environment and Tornado/VxWorks (Cygnus GNU C++) target
environment.
- Developed a Java-based telephone simulator that interfaced with the NBX100, to
support development prior to availability of telephone set hardware.
- Developed intranet and Internet applications and infrastructure including a
"Back-End Server for Intranet Applications" that enabled access to Oracle
enterprise databases from web-oriented technologies. The server was implemented
in object-oriented Tcl ([incr Tcl]) with Oracle SQL*Net client libraries and
handled high-volume database transactions through pooled TCP/IP socket-based
connections. The CGI client interfaces were implemented using Java, JavaScript,
Perl5, Tcl, C, C++ and Korn Shell.
- Developed a secure Internet infrastructure for Electronic Commerce and
Electronic Data Interchange systems utilizing technologies including routers,
firewalls, demilitarized zones, Secure Socket Layer (SSL),
authentication/certificates, Netscape Enterprise Server, VeriSign certificates,
Checkpoint/Firewall-1 and Sun Netra Internet Servers. Built a message routing
system based on asynchronous Remote Procedure Calls (RPC). Built CGI
applications in Java, Perl5, Tcl, C, and C++.
- Developed software for Optical Character Recognition, Imaging Systems and
Handwriting Recognition Systems.
- Provided trouble-shooting for system and network security, configuration and
administration groups.
Consultant: Quaker Farms Research, Southbury, CT. (Jun 1995 – Dec 1995)
- Projects: Telephone Key System.
- Developed embedded system software.
- System and network security, configuration and administration; Internet, DNS
& PPP configuration.
- Ported GDC network management applications from HP OpenView/SunOS to HP
OpenView/HP-UX and IBM NetView for AIX. This required knowledge of BSD &
SVR4 UNIX variants, multi-platform software development environments, SNMP, C++,
X11 window managers, and system & network administration.
- Developed a tool for importing cross-product databases that enabled legacy
systems to be managed by GDC's Megaview Network Management System.
- Created an extensible scripting language interface that enabled integration of
third party network management protocols into GDC's Integrated Network
Management Systems. This interface eliminated the need for Engineering to
rebuild and redistribute system binaries to accommodate new protocols and
reduced the frequency of software update releases.
- Developed a peer-to-peer network alarm-reporting interface for the INMS.
Consultant: Data Switch Corporation , Shelton, CT. (Apr 1990 – May 1994)
- Developed Element Management & Control Systems.
- Ported a real-time control system from PL/M to C for the SunOS Sun386I and
SPARC platforms.
- Developed VT100 and IBM 3164 terminal emulators for SunView and the X11 Window
System.
- Developed a Network Terminal Server interface for BSD sockets to network
switches, user terminals and GUIs.
- Developed redundancy and fail-over systems for large and complex wide area
networks.
- Developed graphical user interfaces for drag & drop port configuration
and management.
- Project: Servo Controller for a 12-Axis Robotics System; this was a "hard"
real-time system.
- Designed the software architecture for the robotics system, a network of INMOS
Transputers, with parallel processing and coordination for a 12-axis servo
controller.
- Implemented network layer stack for distributing files and messages between
Transputer nodes.
- Developed low level programming, command & data upload/download
interface between host programming system and real-time robotics system.
Developed GUI on host to access low level interface to control and monitor
robotics system.
Consultant: JANUS Systems, Incorporated, New York, NY. (Feb 1990 – Apr 1990)
- Project: Total Integrated Graphics and Retrieval (TIGER) system for Ameritech
Publishing, Inc. (now SBC Communications)
- Integrated Network Management System: Architecture design team. Developed an
AT&T Accumaster Protocol compatible alarm-reporting interface for the
INMS.
- NetView Alarm Reporting Interface: Developed and integrated an IBM SNA alarm
reporting interface into a multiplexor control system. The interface passed
multiplexor alarms to a NetView/PC management station, which passed alarms to a
mainframe NetView system.
- Projects: Robotic Fine Positioning Device. Communications System for
Distributed Robotics. Digital Signal Processor Interface for Robotics.
- Developed all embedded software for these devices.
- Project: Point-Of-Sale System for Auto Parts Dealers.
- Migrated from NCR UNIX to SCO XENIX.
Consultant:
Pitney Bowes, Norwalk, CT. (Oct 1986 – Jan 1987)
- Project: Manifest Mailing System.
- Developed a prototype system for recharging postage meters using EFT and DES
hardware.
- Project: General Purpose Automation Controller & Programming System.
- Developed download & debug for embedded system. Scheduler/Dispatcher
for real-time system. Messaging for real-time & UNIX programming
systems.
- Project: Network Protocol Analyzer.
- Developed an event programming language for the embedded real-time system.
- Project: Point-Of-Sale System for Auto Parts Dealers.
Senior Software Engineer, Dictaphone Systems & Products Division:
Dictaphone Corporation, Norwalk, CT. (Mar 1982 – Apr 1984)
- Projects: Digital Voice Operating System. Dictation Control and Management
System.
Vice President, Consulting Services / Systems Programmer: InfoSoft Systems, Incorporated, Westport, CT. (Jul 1978 – Mar 1982)
Consultant: Control Process, Incorporated, Plantsville, CT. (Jul 1978 – Mar 1982)
- Projects: Embedded process control systems.
Consultant: Learning Unlimited, New Canaan, CT & Research Triangle Park, NC. (Jul 1978 – Mar 1982)
- Project: Prescription-based Learning System.
Consultant: Sales Maids of America division of GELCO, Southport, CT. (Jul 1978 – Mar 1982)
- Projects: Payroll System. Point-Of-Sale Data Collection System.
Consultant: PR Data Systems, Wilton, CT. (Jul 1978 – Mar 1982)
- Projects: Press Release Distribution System. Mailing List Maintenance System.
Consultant: Mnemonics Incorporated, Norwalk, CT. (Jul 1978 – Mar 1982)
- Project: Market Tabulation System.
USENIX Association •
SAGE (System Administrators Guild)
Alcatel: SwitchExpert •
Motorola: PowerPC 860 •
Telogy Networks: Golden Gateway Software •
Telenetworks: ISDN •
Wind River Systems: VxWorks &
Tornado •
ObjecTime: Integration & Performance Tuning •
USENIX: System & Network Security •
ObjectWorld: Managing Object-Oriented Development Projects
Cornell Society of Engineers "Ingenuity
in Science and Mathematics Award," 1976.
Programming Languages:
Java, C, C++, Perl, Tcl/Tk, Expect,
JavaScript/ECMAScript, Gnu bison, Gnu flex, yacc & lex, assembly languages.
Professional Certification:
Sun
Certified Java Developer (SCJD), Sun
Certified Java Programmer (SCJP).
Operating Systems:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux, Sun Solaris, Enea OSE, FreeBSD, IBM AIX, HP HP-UX, Wind River VxWorks, Microsoft Windows.
Database Engines:
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Hypersonic SQL, Oracle, IBM Informix, IBM DB2.
Microprocessors:
Intel
StrongARM, Intel x86, Freescale MPC8548, Freescale MPC7410, Freescale MPC860, Freescale MC680X0, Sun SPARC, Zilog
80180.
Network Management:
SNMP MIB design & agent
development, SNMP verification, HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli
NetView.
Network Routing:
Cisco IOS, Juniper JunOS, Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) (802.3ad), Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD).
Network Protocols:
Voice over IP (VoIP), Media Gateway Control Protocol
(MGCP), Network-Based Call Signaling (NCS), Session Initiation Protocol
(SIP), Signaling System #7 (SS7), Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP), TCP/IP, UDP/IP, Socket
Programming, Point-to-Point Protocol
(PPP), ISDN Q.921/LAPD, ISDN Q.931/Call Control, High-level Data Link Control (HDLC), IEEE 802.2
Logical Link Control (LLC), IEEE 802.3
CSMA/CD (Ethernet), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) &
OpenSSL, Secure Shell (SSH) & OpenSSH, Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol (SMTP), Internet Message Access
Protocol (IMAP), Simple Network Time
Protocol (SNTP), X11 Window System, Domain Name System (DNS), Network Information Service
(NIS), Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (LDAPv3), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
(DHCP).
Java Technologies:
Apache Ant, Eclipse, Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT/JFace), Hibernate, XDoclet, Apache Log4j, Java Management Extensions
(JMX), Java Service Wrapper
(JSW).
Java Web Services:
JBoss, Apache Tomcat, Java Servlets, Java Server Pages (JSP), Java Server Pages Standard Tag
Library (JSTL), Java API for XML Processing (JAXP).
Web Services & Content:
HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Java Applets, HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Web Services Description Language
(WSDL), Simple Object Access Protocol
(SOAP), Apache Axis, Apache HTTPD, Apache Struts, JavaServer Faces (JSF).
Web Performance & QA:
JUnit, HttpUnit, Apache JMeter, Apache Cactus, ECPerf, JUnitEE, TagUnit, Apache Watchdog.
XML Technologies:
Document Object Model (DOM), Simple API for XML (SAX), Extensible Markup Language (XML), Extensible HyperText
Markup Language (XHTML), XML Schema, XML Path Language (XPath), XML Pointer language (XPointer), XML Linking Language (XLink), Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), XSL Transformations (XSLT), XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO), Apache Xalan XSLT processor, Apache Xerces parser, Saxon XSLT processor.
Java 2 Standard Edition:
Java Naming and Directory Interface
(JNDI), Java Database Connectivity
(JDBC), Java Authentication &
Authorization Service (JAAS), Java Cryptography Extension
(JCE), Java Foundation Classes
(JFC/Swing), Java IDL, Java Remote Method Invocation
(RMI), JavaBeans
Activation Framework (JAF), JavaBeans Component API, Abstract Window Toolkit
(AWT).
Java 2 Enterprise Edition:
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), J2EE Connector Architecture
(JCA), Java Message Service (JMS), Java RMI over IIOP
(RMI-IIOP), Java Transaction API (JTA), Java Transaction Service (JTS), JavaMail, OMG Object Transaction Service (OTS).
Object-Oriented Tools:
IBM Rational Rose RealTime, Real-time
Object-Oriented Modeling (ROOM).
Release Engineering:
IBM Rational
ClearCase, Concurrent Versions System (CVS), Microsoft Visual
SourceSafe.
Defect Tracking:
IBM Rational
ClearQuest, Bugzilla, Jira Issue Management, Jive Forums.
Other Tools:
Adobe
FrameMaker, DejaGnu, ZeroG InstallAnywhere, IBM Lotus Domino & Notes, Cognos ReportNet.
Other Languages:
PostScript, PL/M, FORTRAN, COBOL, PL/1, Pascal, LISP, BASIC.
Resume of Kevin L. Short, dated 16 Mar 2008, generated using XML & XSLT.
