Software Engineer Manager C++ Windows Developer

Roger M. Wilcox

*******@**.******.***********: California, south bay area (Silicon Valley)Can commute as far north as Palo Alto; no relocation

Software application developer who has been writing software since 1979 and MS

Windows software in particular since 1986.

An innovative, meticulous software engineer who specializes in the Win32 API

(Windows 95/98/ME, and NT/2000/XP), MFC and ATL/WTL under Visual C++,

COM/OLE/ActiveX, and multithreading; who has developed with the Windows CE

toolkit and wxWindows/wxWidgets; who occasionally works with the Windows

multimedia interface, C#, Java, and JavaScript; and who has ported Macintosh

software to Windows in the distant past.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Velocity 11 / Agilent Automation Solutions – November 2006 to

present

Software Engineer: On Windows XP and Vista, developed and maintained

a complex dynamic scheduling application for robotic drug-discovery systems

under Visual C++ 8.0 and 9.0 on Visual Studio .Net 2005 and

2008. Also used the .NET Forms library in C# to build an editor which

allowed end users to create their own dialog-like forms that interacted

with the scheduler using JavaScript.

Microsoft (Mountain View offices) – July 2006 to September 2006

Contractor: On Windows XP, maintained a multi-process ATL-based

IE toolbar utility under Visual C++ 8.0 on Visual Studio

.Net 2005 which parsed HTML in a user-configurable manner.

Sony – June 2005 to June 2006

Contractor: On Windows 2000 and XP, used WTL and a proprietary

JavaScript-like language under Visual C++ 7.1 on Visual Studio

.Net 2003 and 2005 to develop a skinnable multimedia player designed to

interface with proprietary portable audio devices and a proprietary virtual

storefront.

AOL Mountain View/Netscape – May 2002 to May 2005

Contractor: On Windows 2000 and XP, used wxWindows [an

object-oriented application framework similar to the Microsoft Foundation

Class (MFC) libraries, but more portable; currently called wxWidgets] and

GDI+ under Visual C++ 6.0 and 7.1 to enhance and maintain

multithreaded software that sent HTML-based e-mail, displayed mail on

Mozilla's XPCOM-based browser, and acted as a Simple MAPI server; this

product shipped as AOL Communicator and at one point was being used by tens

of thousands of users. Also developed a complex product that used

DirectShow and MCI.

FreeHand Systems, Inc. – July 2001 to May 2002

Senior Software Engineer: On Windows 2000 and Linux, used

wxWindows under Visual C++ 6.0 and gnu C++ to develop and

maintain the software for a complex music viewer which ran on both a PC and

a dedicated tablet device.

Socket Communications, Inc. – March 2001 to July 2001

Contractor: On Windows 2000 and Windows CE 2.11 and 3.0,

used the Microsoft Foundation Class libraries (MFC) and the Win32 API under

Visual C++ 6.0 and embedded Visual C++ 3.0 to port

a proprietary user interface for Bluetooth (a network protocol for

short-range wireless networking) to the

Handheld PC Pro/2000. Also modifed a 3rd party's

OBEX (Object Exchange) networking package so that it would use Socket

Communications' proprietary Bluetooth protocol implementation.

Geocast Network Systems, Inc. – February 2000 to February 2001

Software Engineer: On Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and

Windows ME, used the Active Template Library (ATL, an object-oriented

framework for COM development) under Visual C++ 6.0 to develop and maintain

ActiveX Controls that communicated with proprietary hardware. I used

ATL and the Microsoft Foundation Class libraries to develop and maintain

the container applications that displayed those ActiveX Controls, but the

ActiveX Controls were designed to be flexible enough to function in an MS

Internet Explorer webpage as well.

UpperCase, Inc. – February 1999 to January 2000

Contractor: On Windows NT and Windows CE 2.11, used the Microsoft

Foundation Class libraries under Visual C++ 5.0 and 6.0 to develop and maintain

the entire user-interface of a unique hand-held Windows CE device. The

data manipulated by the user interface were classes in an object-oriented

persistent database.

Broadcast Management Plus – April 1998 to February 1999

Contractor: On Windows NT, Windows 95, and Windows 98, used the

Microsoft Foundation Class libraries under Visual C++ 5.0 and 6.0 to develop

and maintain a large ActiveX container application which provided

multiple-spreadsheet-oriented sales management capabilities to TV stations.

WYSE Technology – February 1997 to March 1998

Contractor: On Citrix Winframe (Windows NT with multiuser features

added), used the Microsoft Foundation Class libraries under Visual C++ 4.2 and

5.0 to develop a Windows-terminal configuration and administration tool.

Also ported a WinSock-using MFC app to a non-MFC non-Intel Network Computer

(WinTerm thin client) which required new serial-interface programming.

NetFRAME Systems Inc. – September 1996 to February 1997

Contractor: On Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95, used the Microsoft

Foundation Class libraries under Visual C++ 4.2 to design and develop a

multithreaded split-window server-recovery tool which used the new Windows

95-style "Win32 common controls" and popup context menus. The tool uses

TAPI to communicate with specialized hardware inside a downed server.

Cloudrunner, Inc. – January 1995 to June 1997

Part-time contractor: Developed a compact, powerful,

easy-to-maintain hypertext/graphic authoring environment portable between

the Mac OS, Windows 3.1, and Win32, which used c-tree™ as a database

back-end. Used this to port the Macintosh version of Origami - The

Secret Life of Paper (a high-quality multimedia title) to

Windows. Published by Casady & Greene.

Siemens/Rolm, Inc. – September 1995 to September 1996

Contractor: Using the Microsoft Foundation Class libraries version 2.5

under Visual C++, and the Raima data manager, developed modeless dialog forms

with spreadsheet controls which generated commands for telephone switch

configuration.

Cisco Systems, Inc. – December 1994 to September 1995

Contractor: Using the Microsoft Foundation Class libraries (version 2.5)

under Visual C++, developed tabbed dialogs with spreadsheet controls which

generated commands for network router configuration.

NEC Systems Laboratory, Inc. – June to December 1994

Contractor: Using the Microsoft Foundation Class libraries (versions 2.0

and 2.5) under Visual C++, designed and developed a time-line based multimedia

authoring tool similar to Adobe Premiere. Ours was the only piece of the

package to be ready on time.

Computer Curriculum Corporation – March 1993 to May 1994

Applications Programmer II: Designed and developed complex visual

components, QuickTime interface, and decision engine in a proprietary

cross-platform (Mac and Windows) C++ class library for those users with some of

the toughest user interface requirements of all: young math students.

Time constraints and attention to detail were crucial.

Dynamix, Incorporated – February 1992 to March 1993

Software Engineer: Developed and assisted in the design of a

c-tree™ based resource manager, C++ framework, and class library for

visual application creation in an otherwise primitive environment.

This was a complete final-product hypermedia authoring engine that cut

product shell development time down to 1/3 of what was previously required.

Teradata Corporation – July 1989 to February 1992

Member of the Technical Staff: Rapid-prototyped, designed,

developed, and tested software for a massively parallel relational database

machine marketed to Fortune 100 companies.

SKILLS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Independent software projects

Master's Thesis: MS Windows C++ application

which simulates two similar microarchitectures. Required designing the

architectures from scratch, building a micro assembler, microprogramming, and

benchmarking.

Hexagonal Minesweeper: hexagonal version of

the Windows Minesweeper game, moderately successful as shareware.

The Internet Stellar Database:

http://www.stellar-database.com, a web server I still run out of my own home. Required writing CGI

programs that use ODBC SQL to retrieve data from a local MS Access database.

Programming languages

C++, C, Java, C#, Smalltalk-80, Ada, Modula-2, Prolog,

yacc, Forth, 80x86 assembly, 680x0 assembly, VAX assembly, Z-80 assembly,

IBM-370 Assembler, makefiles, BASIC, JavaScript, VBScript, Lisp, FORTRAN,

Pascal, PL/I, Simscript, Simula, COBOL, Embedded SQL, dBASE.

Operating systems and GUI environments

Microsoft Windows 2.1-3.11 and 95/98/ME, Windows NT

3.1-4.0 and 2000/XP, Windows CE 2.11-3.0, OS/2 1.1-3.0, the Macintosh OS,

several variants of Unix (with NFS) including Linux, SunView, the X window

system, MS-DOS, VAX/VMS, VM/CMS, MVS/XA, NOS.

Development environments

Microsoft Visual C++ 1.0-7.1, Borland C++ 1.0-5.0, MFC

1.0-6.0, OLE 2 under MFC 4.x, COM under ATL, Windows 2.1-3.11 API, Win32 API

(Win32s, Windows 95/98/ME, and NT/2000), wxWindows, WinSock; I've also had occasion

to program in WinG, Windows multimedia (including AVI), Quicktime for Windows 2.0

and 2.1, Raima Database Manager, Windows DDE, ObjectWindows 1.0-2.0, the Mac

Toolbox, MPW (with SADE and SourceBug), Xlib, Xt (the X window system toolkit),

InterViews, QuickTime for Macintosh, CASE tools, raw MS-DOS, Unix kernel and

shells, VMS DCL, VM/CMS, MVS/XA TSO and JCL.

Honors and Awards

On CSUN team that won 4th place, ACM regional

scholastic programming contest, 1990, ahead of UCLA and Caltech. My

contributions to the team's effort were decisive.

EDUCATION

University of California at Santa Cruz Extension

Course in OLE programming under MFC, January 1996.

California State University at Northridge

M.S. Computer Science, December 1991

Student member of the ACM and Computer Science Association.

Courses included: Object-oriented programming, simulation languages,

programming window-based software (concentrated on the X window system),

operating systems design, current issues in computer architecture, software

engineering, artificial intelligence, expert systems, combinatorics.

University of California at Los Angeles

B.A. Music Composition, Cum Laude, June 1987

Courses included: Chemistry, physics, differential equations, MIDI

synthesizers, and a host of music theory material.

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