Engineer Software

Jon Tyson

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San Francisco, CA 94110

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Work Experience

(2000 - 2001), San Francisco and Berlin:

Chief Engineer and Architect

I joined this startup before its first official day of business. I assembled

and led an 11-person engineering team to the successful creation of the first

release of our product, a server-based platform for the delivery of multi-user,

collaborative graphical applications to any client with a TCP/IP stack.

Working with the executive team, I defined the product, hired our engineering

team, and created the right environment for the execution of our aggressive

schedule. I designed the architecture of this complex application server as

well as coded significant portions of its core. The engine is extensible

through the addition of custom plug-ins written internally as well as by our

customers and partners, so the quality of our interfaces and documentation was

an important component of the project.

I mentored newly hired employees of all skill levels. I helped my team excel

by transferring the knowledge required to get their jobs done as well as the

responsibility required to give them a sense of ownership. I also helped to

establish the development processes of our organization including a nightly

build system, automated test harness, bug tracking software, source code

control, and both internal and external documentation. The product was

simultaneously developed on all major Unix platforms (32/64-bit) as well

as Windows NT/2000.

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(1999 - Present), San Francisco:

President and Founder

I am responsible for all aspects of running this business, including product

design, implementation, QA, marketing, sales, public relations, accounting,

and technical support. I assembled a 6-person team to build the product and

corporate image. I led the development and QA effort and successfully

delivered a highly-praised product (Cadence Magazine, May 2000,

5 out of 5 rating).

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(1995 - 1999), Alameda:

Lead Engineer / Senior Software Engineer

I led the 5-person team that built AutoCAD 2000's 3D graphics pipeline. This

was a daunting task, involving the successful integration of a 20-year code

base with a modern graphics engine along with the creation of an API suitable

for use by autodesk's best-selling vertical applications and 3rd-party

developers.

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For AutoCAD Release 14, I was a lead engineer on the project to replace

AutoCAD's aging 2D graphics pipeline. Somewhere from 2 million licensed

to 20 million unlicensed users still exercise my code in their daily work.

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Skills

System and API design; excellent written and oral communication skills;

ability to mentor both novice and expert engineers; many years of learning,

using, making mistakes with, and designing for multithreaded programming,

networking, graphics, and databases; performance tuning; server-based computing;

multi-platform development; fast acquisition of new skills and technologies.

Tools

:

C++, Perl, Java, JavaScript, SQL, OpenGL, sockets, XML, SOAP, XSL, XSLT, PHP,

Apache, msdev, cvd, gdb, dbx, ddd, cvs, sourcesafe, bugzilla, doxygen

Platforms

: Win32, Linux, Irix, Solaris, OSF1, cygwin

Education

(1987 - 1991), Amherst, MA

B.A. degree,

summa cum laude

Mathematics major with a concentration in music

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