Software Engineer Management

Fritz Anderson

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Chicago, Illinois 60615-6632

Email (preferred): ******@***.***

Telephone: 773-***-****

773-***-**** (evenings)

Goal

A position that makes the best use of my knowledge, training, and experience in object

technologies, especially iOS and Mac OS X.

Skills

Excellent

Operating/Development Environments: MacOS (through 10.7) [11yr]; iOS (through iOS 5.0,

plus prereleases) [3yr].

Programming Languages: C Family (C [25yr], Objective-C [15yr]). Ruby [5 yr].

Middleware: Rails [3 yr].

Tools: Apple Xcode [10yr, wrote three books]. Git [2yr]. Subversion [4yr].

Technologies: Cocoa [13 yr]; Graphical Human Interface [25+ yr].

Proficient

Operating Environments: Red Hat Linux (RHEL) [4 yr].

Programming Languages: C++ [10yr], Java [4+yr].

Tools: EMACS [5yr]. Gnu Make/GCC [4yr].

Exposure

Operating Environments: MS-Windows (through XP), VAX/VMS.

Programming Languages: Perl [2yr]; Python [3yr]. FORTH; FORTRAN II; EMACS LISP/Scheme.

Tools: CVS [2yr]. Gnu Flex+Bison (lex/yacc) [3yr].Employment History

2003 - presentThe University of Chicago

Information Technology Services

Scholarly Technology

Chicago, Illinois

Senior iOS/Macintosh Developer

iOS and Mac programmer for a large university IT department. Captured requirements for,

designed, and implemented iOS and Macintosh applications to support teaching,

administration, and research. Designed and implemented web applications for mail-system

management, firewall management, and personal-security alerting. Taught a college-level

course on iOS development. Supervised student labor.

Projects included rendering and annotation of large styled-text documents on iPad and an

integrated system for recording and editing student language exercises on the iPad,

including an authoring environment with a real-time validation inspector.

1995-2002Parallel Software

Naperville, Illinois

Senior Consultant

Senior software engineer and consultant. Applications design and coding for Mac OS X, 9,

and 8. Driver programming for Mac OS 8/9; kernel programming for Mac OS X.

Responsible for requirements capture, design, and implementation of applications,

components, and system software for clients in manufacturing, OEM and consumer

electronics, and publishing.

1992-1995NewMedia, Inc.

Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio

(working in Indianapolis, Indiana).

Senior software engineer and consultant

Responsible for applications and component design and programming for Mac OS 7 for

manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and the military.

Projects included an SGML-based hypertext and full-text-search browser, including images,

tables, and media, supplied on 10 CD-ROM disks, for the US Air Force. (1993)

1987-1990Scientific Software Products / DOME Software, Inc.

Indianapolis, Indiana

Senior software engineer and human-interface specialist on an R&D project to develop a

distributed object-oriented database management system (OODBMS) for use in the

pharmaceutical industry.

1982-1987

Independent contractor and consultant in microcomputing applications for education and

medical instrumentation. Clients included Indiana State School Music Association and

Microsonics, Inc.

Projects included digitizer-tablet-based medical-imaging measurement applications for

cardiography and obstetrics. These were event loop-driven interactive systems with

pointing devices driving a graphical user interface.

Publications and Training

Publications

Xcode 4 Unleashed, Sams, 2012, 550 pages

Xcode 3 Unleashed, Sams, 2008, 560 pages

Step into Xcode: Mac OS X Development, Addison-Wesley, 2005, 460 pages

Conversational guides to Apple s Xcode integrated development environment, from beginning

to advanced techniques. Widely critically-acclaimed, the first two editions went through 2

printings (10,000 copies each).

Chapter Codeless Language Modules for the BBEdit User Manual, Bare Bones Software,

2012.

Magazine articles in Macintosh Products Guide, Mac User, and MacTech magazines (1984-

2004) on Mac development environments and network programming.

Training

Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2002, 2007-2012.

Employer training in project management and collaboration.

Other

Graduate of the Second City Conservatory Program, 1999

Amateur radio license WT9T (Amateur Extra), ex-KE9SC.

Hack recognized at First MacHack hack contest, 1987.

Included in acknowledgements of The Dylan Book, 1995.

Served on organizing committee for MacHack in late 1980s and early 1990s. See Doug

Houseman, Late Night with MacHack.

Admitted to the bar of Indiana 1980-1983, retired in good standing.

Private pilot, single-engine-land, 1974-76.

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