Software Engineer Developer

Robert Vernon Phillips - Information/Software Engineer, Developer (15+

years AT&T Experience)

**** ******* ******* **, *****,FL; Phone 813-***-****; email:

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**** - ***9: "Cloud Computing" Platform for Law Practice IT, Gainesville,

FL

Developed, installed, and hosted Apache2 with Ruby-on-Rails and

Python/Django websites, databases, and applications on host Linux systems.

Installed and administered from the ground up, including analysis,

selection, installation, configuration of network architecture, hardware

configuration, Linux Operating System, Apache 2 web server, Phusion

Passenger, mod_wsgi, Drupal/PHP webserver, relational databases including

MYSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, applications, languages Ruby, Python, web

frameworks Ruby on Rails, Django 1.1, development of application code,

automated backups, login administration.

Developed applications based on interactions with colleagues in a law firm

environment to enter and track billable hours by multiple law firm

attorneys and associates and to manage legal tasks. Employed Linux SSH-

based backups to a Linode backup server. Developed Django templates driven

by back end relational databases and SQL queries. Managed legal information

via html and xml processing and hosted it on web sites.

During roughly this same period I earned my J.D. At the University of

Florida Levin College of Law.

2001 - 2006: (AT&T/Lucent Spinoff) Avaya Communications, Holmdel and

Lincroft, NJ

Software Engineer, Lead Developer: Schedule management and lead software

development (UNIX, C, C++, source code control) for internet phone dialing

features. Scheduled project goals and coordinated simultaneous workflows in

the context of formal (ISO 9001) quality management policies. Engineered

and built Drupal/PHP, Perl, UNIX Shell web applications to coordinate

project schedules, to provide forums of communications, and to collect

employee progress reports. Two-time recipient of the Avaya Labs Cup Award,

bestowed upon the software development team voted to have contributed most

to Avaya's success in the fiscal quarter. Invented a dialing algorithm for

which Avaya submitted U.S. patent applications #10231597, #11403529. Co-

inventor on U.S. Pat. application #11107659. Employee.

1995 - 2000: (AT&T Spinoff) Lucent Technologies - Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ

Software Engineer, Consultant: Engineered and developed (INFORMIX SQL, 4GL,

ESQL, ACE, UNIX shell, C, C++, INFORMIX-TCL, Windows, Visual C++, Visual

Basic) major components of a Lucent software package that was distributed

to several communications companies nationwide. Provided Lucent with a

license to use my independently developed database testing tool.

Contractor.

1990 - 1995: AT&T, AT&T Business Communications Services, East Brunswick,

NJ

Software Engineer. Consultant: Lead developer of AT&T Credit and

Collections Systems, and sole developer of three key software processes in

the system. Heavy use of INFORMIX 4GL, ESQL, ACE, Windows, Unix, C, C++

Development.

Architected, designed and developed proprietary state of the art database

validation system. Designed and developed a sophisticated noise-tolerant

fuzzy logic customer address search and matching system used by AT&T

Billing and Collections. (Under my corporation, International Software

Systems, Inc, At my office in Matawan, NJ, I worked a contract with AT&T

North Carolina circa 1990-1991, then I joined AT&T BCS as a contract

programmer until July 1995).

1984 - 1988: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ - Contract Software Engineer; C,

Awk, Shell. 1982 - 1984: Founded Video Exersystems, Inc to develop and

market my patent #4,512,567; 1980 - 1982: MTS at AT&T Bell Labs,

Piscataway, NJ - Human Factors/Usability Engineer and Software Developer as

an employee.

B.A. Experimental Psych., New College, Florida; Ph. D. Cognitive

Psychology, U of Maryland; J.D. University of Florida College of Law;

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