Software Developer

********@*******.***

Oran J. Bodner

Career Summary

Over 25 years hands-on coding experience, including 8 years writing QA

automation at Microsoft. Most of the above in C-based languages (C/C++/C#)

under both UNIX and Windows OS. Exp. includes VB, XML, SQL, winforms,

webforms.

Typical of my work is the quality and speed at which I do things, and the

original ways I find to do things better - see the Extra sections below.

Experience

04/2007 - present Consulting, web sites + applications from home (VB,

C# .Net, SQL).

Numerous consultations, applications and websites during

this period, including the first and only European phone

directory http://ieurope.biz and my unique, just-released

database app http://mydatabase.biz .

Please see http://bodners.net/ojbcv.htm for more details.

Also somewhat of a prototype specialist, turning ideas into

functional websites in a matter of weeks.

03/95 - 03/2003 Microsoft, Haifa Israel

Software Development Engineer

. Developed software for automated tests in C++ and VB for

various projects (Firewall, Embedded NT, Message Queuing)

Extra: Various inventions and proposals, including automatically

converting a library definition file (API prototypes) into

a GUI app for

testing, and a proposal for local Internet services based

on user location.

01/91 - 03/95 Intel, Haifa Israel - Software Developer

. Worked on software simulators for Intel processors

. Developed software tools in Perl, C and shell-scripts

Extra: I proposed and developed the xtrace tool, which shows

signal

values in a tabular form.

10/89 - 12/90 Daisy/DAZIX, Herzeliya, Israel- Software Developer

. Developed graphic CAD tools in Pascal and C

. Performed quality-assurance testing on SUN/Unix

workstations

05/86 - 09/89 Netafim, Hatzerim, Israel- Software Developer

. Managed software project involving screen-editor,

interpreter and communications protocol targeted for IBM

PC.

10/81 - 07/85 AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA

. Worked on UNIX graphics terminal project (Blit/DMD):

network protocols, terminal emulator, graphics applications

. Office-automation project: Developed e-mail, calendar,

personal directory, UI (like Microsoft Outlook today).

. Developed and enhanced UNIX commands (ls, ps, tput, etc.)

Extra: While in the commands group I proposed and implemented

the

tput command, as well as several new options for ls and

ps.

In the terminal project I proposed a method for capturing

and replaying user keystrokes and mouse movements (this is

currently the main testing method used by companies like

Mercury).

Education

82. MS. Computer Science, Thesis: Graphic Databases

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

80. B.Sc. Mathematics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Personal

Citizenships: USA, Israel

Hobbies: Kayaking, swimming, writing

Societies: Mensa

Cover Letter

I have a Bachelor's degree in Math, and later I did my Masters degree in

computer science at Brown (on database interfaces).

That was back in the early 80's.

I've been around long enough to be familiar with legacy programming

languages like Pascal and Fortran,

yet still up-to-date and working currently with C# threads, .NET and web

programming.

And what I don't know I learn readily.

Vast experience in C-based languages (25 years), on both UNIX and Windows,

including some 15 in C, over 10 in C++ and (most recently) 3-4 in C#.

In the past 4 years I've worked as an independent consultant and developed

and put various websites on the Internet (see

http://bodners.net/ojbcv.htm), many of them using SQL, others using XML

files.

Have become something of a 'rapid-prototype' specialist, turning ideas into

working websites in a matter of days.

Test development experience includes 8 years at Microsoft as an SDET,

working on Visual Studio using C++ and VB, as well as shell scripts.

(familiar with all Microsoft tools: VS, Source-safe, etc.).

I'm a stickler for quality and catching bugs - can't even read a book

without discovering syntactic and semantic errors

(even wrote once to Dan Brown's editor regarding a bug in The Da Vinci

Code, which he acknowledged and promised to correct in the next edition

Also worked for 4 years at Bell Labs developing UNIX, and several years at

Intel as software support for chip design and CAD.

US citizen, currently abroad.

After some absence I am moving back to the US this summer (Don't worry, we

won't need relocation assistance

Oran

p.s. Please contact me by return email to ********@*******.***

I can phone-interview from here, and next month I will be in the US for

onsite interviews

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