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Personal Profile and Resume of Arnold B. Widdowson (Arnie)

Sept 20, 2009

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Resume in .doc form.

My career goals for the next few years:

I want to lead the development of state-of-the-art web-based applications that are media rich. This of

course means Flex, Flash and ActionScript at the client and Java at the server. The convergence of

television and the web has been much slower than expected. I am certain that the potential of the web

will grow with this convergence. The web offers hyper non-linear access to information and

entertainment allowing consumer control. Breakthroughs in search and navigation; rich content

authoring tools; and the development of real, practical agents will meld with the seamless linear content

of television. I see the importance and potential of this convergence and my goal is to be a part of that

realization.

Career Objectives:

• To develop, program and deliver advanced interactive web based content and tools

• To evaluate and assess emerging web technologies

• Objectives elaborated at http://www.ajlogo.com/arnie/profile.html

Areas of Expertise:

Flex 3 and AIR (Apollo) 8 months

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Flex 2 and Flash CS3 2 yr

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Flash and ActionScript - 4 years www.ajlogo.com/

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After Effects 7 3 months

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Pinnacle Studio 2 years

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Sony Vegas 1 year

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Graphics 2D and 3D - 13 years

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Java 1.5 w/Swing, Java 2D - 8 years www.ajlogo.com/ajlogo/version3beta

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Perl/CGI programming - 11 years

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Unix with administration, shell programming, kernel, X11 - 18 years, Linux 9 years

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HTML, SSI, JavaScript, client side validation - 10 years

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Security including authentication, server scripts, chroot file systems - 9 years

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Iplanet 4, Netscape Enterprise, Apache webserver administration - 8 years

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CSS and XML - 5 years

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Photoshop - 6 years

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Illustrator - 3 years

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Secondary skills

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• Papervision3D,Away3D and Sandy (Flash 3D)

• Vista,XP,Win2000,ME,98,95,3.1,Dos

Work Experience:

• 3/2009 to 9/2009: R&D work on whiteboards

• Developed forward looking whiteboard at www.colabry.com . This project merges

windowing and GUI elements on a shared whiteboard. With this existence proof, more

collaborative applications based on a shared whiteboard can be imagined.

• 9/2008 to 3/2009: R&D Consultant to Lutron

• Architect of new Flex3 framework for LCD touch screen applications. Re-architected

AS2 Flash code to AS3 AIR.

• 5/2008 to 9/2008: R&D Consultant to FedEx

• Architect of new Flex3 framework for web applications. Created work environment

which uses a custom MDI (Multiple Document Interface) windowing system. Windows

can be nested in addition to traditional cascading and tiling.

• 3/2008 to 5/2008: R&D Consultant to KTV media

• Development of the Pepsi Youniverse site. Created an AIR prototype with RSS reader

and the WebKit HTML engine, the customized video player and the wallpaper sections.

• 9/2007 to 2/2008: R&D Consultant to Eyemaginations

• Development and deployment of the 3D Eye Home product. Created a complex piece

which integrates animation, video, ads as well as a product gallery which used

categorized/compound slider

• 4/2007 to 8/2007: IT Consultant to MapQuest

• Development and deployment of the MapQuest ActionScript 3 Flex/Flash API toolkit.

Developed complex section of API, the Point-Of-Interest Sprite system using radial

leader lines. Developed extened ASdoc scripts to hyperlink API docs with code samples

as well as API internals.

• 8/2001 to 12/29/2006: IT Specialist, IBM Global Services Web Services/Weblab organization.

• The overall responsibility has been the end to end support of content delivery for public

lucent.com. I bridge both the Web Services (development) and the Weblab (operations)

groups, and often lead the tight coupling and teamwork that occurs between the groups.

I have delivered numerous developments in both infrastructure and in micro-site

applications as well as maintaining publishing operations.

• CGI site development projects

• The MiLife developers program a monolithic CGI program with complex

functionality. A separate and protected CGI script handles administration tasks.

• The Business Partner Locator provides database searches based on name,

location and other parameters. A separate administration tool provides browsing

and editing of the database.

• The Contact Us site and How To Buy sites are the central, focal point for

requests, comments, complaints and other communications. This feeds both the

executive office feedback organization .

• Responsible for SEI level 3 Measurements & Analysis.

• Automated staging, validation and publishing process

• Prestaging process: The prestaging process Perl script (with cron) prepares

content to be staged for publishing.

• Staging process: The staging process Perl script (with cron) does a secure

network copy of new content and performs HTML validation, in preparation for

publishing.

• Infrastructure projects

• LDAP project was a development of transparent wrappers enabling a

conventional registration site interface to LDAP.

• The public lucent.com hardware platform was migrated, without service

interruption, to SUN computers.

• 3/1996 to 8/2001: Member of the Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies Weblab organization.

• Technical Lead for the Service Provider Network business unit's web content on

www.lucent.com. SPN is the largest business unit of Lucent.

• Manage all extranet sites. The nine extranets sites constitute the most complex

applications residing on www.lucent.com. Responsibilities include installing and

administrating of CGI scripts, webserver authentication and file system access

control. The CGI scripts typically require site customization and they receive a

rigorous security review. Additional crons/CGIs for extranets with special server,

mailback or registration requirements are developed.

• Technical Lead and Customer Care for the Microelectronics business unit on

www.lucent.com. Microelectronics is the second largest business unit of Lucent.

• Develop special event sites requiring custom security, authentication or

registration. A conference site was developed containing four programs. The first

created CGI based forms from a CGI. It had required, required excluded and

conditionally required fields. It collected and encrypted registration data,

including credit cards. The second script created registration confirmation email.

A third program provided the administration access for transmission of the

encrypted registration data. The fourth program reformatted and loaded the data

into an Excel spreadsheet.

• Content creation for intranet sites. Designed and developed the first e-commerce

employee phone store. Created and maintained Lucent remote access site. Created

graphics for International Travel group site. Created prototypes of an internal Intra-Mart

site.

Education:

• Graduate of Pennsylvania State University, B.S.E.E.

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