Quality Assurance Computer Science

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Haddonfield, NJ *****

U.S.A.

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Skill Summary

Programming:

Expert in C++, C, Perl, SQL (Oracle PL/SQL and MySQL), Scheme;

Python, C++ STL, Common Lisp;

detailed academic knowledge of Java, C#;

ongoing study of Groovy/Grails;

OOD/OOP, multithreading, transaction processing, distributed computing

Software engineering/management:

Project leadership, software architecture, software design process

(leading design and code reviews), teaching and mentoring

WWW Techs:

HTML, XML, XSL, DTD, CSS, HTTP, CGI, SOAP

Platforms:

User/programmer/administrator of Unix workstations (HPUX, BSD,

Solaris, Linux) since 1985, MS Windows since 1997. Sole administrator

of own server platforms (Linux) supporting popular web site since

1998. OS and software installation/upgrades

Adaptability:

Broad knowledge of programming language principles allowing for quick

assimiliation of new PL platforms

Selected Experience

Rowan University

Enterprise Information Systems Glassboro, NJ

Systems Analyst

Fall 2004-present

Duties include the care and maintanence of the

production operation of the University's campus-wide information

system (Ellucian Banner). Bug detection and customization of the

system as provided by the vendor.

Analysis, design and implementation of adjunct

processes to complement the baseline product.

Implementations consist of web-driven applications

or scripts writen in PL/SQL, Perl or Python against an Oracle back-end.

Soliciting Requirements from clients (other university offices) with

dramatically varied understanding of information technology in

general and databases and computer-mediated workflow processes in

particular.

Tasks have spanned nearly all the functions supported by Banner:

Student Admissions, Student Records and Registration, Student Housing,

Finance (Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable),

Position Control (HR) and Payroll.

Specific responsibilities and highlighted projects include:

Organizing (and mostly presenting) ongoing series of in-house

training sessions on software tools, development and deployment

process standards, and programming guidelines

Overseeing (as committee chair) the requirements elicitation

and analysis for significant adjunct development/baseline

modification projects

Designed and developed alternative Web-driven platform for the

modular deployment of adjunct processes and report generators

Developing and maintaining adjunct processes to generate

printed timesheets for all university employees

Analyzing requirements and developing architecture for the

collection of skill-focused assessments of students by faculty

Developing and maintaining a suite of financial reports

to allow university offices to monitor their funding accounts

Developing and maintaining an interactive system to allow

instructors and

administrators control over the regular export of registration

to the third-party Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Developing and maintaining processes to generate data feeds

between Banner and adjunct database-based systems used by

Housing (Odyssey HMS), Instructional Technology (WebCT,

BBLearn, Canvas) and Admissions (Hobsons, AMCAS, Intelliworks)

Modification of online Admissions application system to allow

for deep-linking to specific application types, and to allow

for applicants from third-party admission

application systems to make application processing

payments on demand

Movie Review Query Engine www.mrqe.com

Creator, Sole Proprietor

Fall 1993-2006

Publisher, Chief Architect

2006-present

Conceived, created and maintained the Movie Review Query Engine

(MRQE), hosting the first and one of the largest and most current

directories of online film reviews (800K+ reviews of 100K+ titles).

From inception until 2006, was responsible for development and

maintenance of all aspects of the web site (HTTP, HTML, database

access, etc.), including a Perl library for automatically

extracting current information from targeted review sources. Brought

on partner in 2006 to oversee business development while retaining

back-end system architecture, data integration and editorial

responsibilities. Since 2007, user front-end has been a

Ruby-on-Rails implementation developed and maintained by contractors.

Selected projects:

Commercial version of MRQE's online data harvesting

system adapted for video game reviews (contract for

RottenTomatoes.com)

Alternative XML delivery format for new front-ends and third-party

live syndication

Leveraging article collation data to offer affiliates dynamic,

movie-specific content delivery (currently used by Variety,

Entertainment Weekly, and Fandango, among others) on their

(indexed) web pages

Rowan University

Department of Computer Science Glassboro, NJ

Instructor (Adjunct)

Fall 2004

Instructor

Fall 2001-Spring 2002

Duties included preparing and giving lectures, writing and grading

assignments and exams, department committee work.

Classes taught:

Principles of Software Engineering;

Introduction to Programming Languages;

Computer Organization;

Computers & Society.

Taught Computers & Society again as an adjunct faculty member Fall 2004.

Clairvoyance (CLARITECH) Corporation Pittsburgh, PA

Principal Systems Architect

October 2000-Spring 2001

Senior Systems Designer

April 1997-September 2000

As a Senior Systems Designer, responsible for design, implementation,

maintenance and promotion of various components of the CLARIT

Toolkit, a large (>400K lines) C++ library supporting text processing and

retrieval. As Lead on various projects, interacted extensively with

documentation and quality assurance teams as necessary.

Participated in design and code reviews, mentored interns, previewed

résumés of job applicants, interviewed applicants.

As Principal Systems Architect, took on additional managerial

responsibilities, and oversight of general integration of system

components. Oversaw development of a

set of Java APIs to various CLARIT capabilities (Jan 2001);

identified need and led effort to integrate XML into various regions

of the Toolkit, organized "Summer School" classes to promote XML

literacy within the company (Summer 2000).

Projects included:

Message Character Compression

[Project lead. Team of 3 programmers and 1 linguist. 3 months.]

Led team that designed and implemented toolkit capability for

compressing text messages by removing extraneous characters.

Interacted with HCI team members on development of graphical

application exhibiting the capability.

Foreign Source Architecture and XML Integration:

[Project lead. Team of 2-3 programmers. 8 months.]

Tasked with designing and implementing a framework for the

acceptance of arbitrary source file formats as inputs for

processing by the CLARIT toolkit.

Added support for HTML and arbitrary XML (with supplied XSL) as

CLARIT input sources.

Concept Clustering:

[Project Lead. Team of 1-2 programmers and 1.5

linguists. 18 months in two phases.]

Worked on performance (both runtime- and quality-) improvements

to CLARIT Concept Clustering, a proprietary capability for

automatically discovering sets of related terms in a text

database.

Error Reporting:

[Team of 2-3 programmers. 6 months.]

Implemented localized goal stack and error reporting mechanism

for deployment across the CLARIT toolkit.

Patent

M. L. Horowitz, M. J. McInerny, S. M. Clamen. System for modifying a

database using a transaction log. US Patent # 5,953,728, issued

September 14, 1999.

Selected Publications

S. M. Clamen. Schema evolution and integration. Distributed

and Parallel Databases: An International Journal, 2(1):101-126,

January 1994.

E. Reingold, N. Dershowitz, and S. Clamen. Calendrical calculations

II: Three historical calendars. Software - Practice and

Experience, 23(4):383-404, Apr 1993. Also available as

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Tech Report

no. UIUCDCS-R-92-1743.

J. Wing, M. Herlihy, S. Clamen, D. Detlefs, K. Kietske, R. Lerner,

and S. Yuen Ling. The Avalon Language. In J. L. Eppinger, L. B.

Mummert, and A. Z. Specctor, editors, Camelot and Avalon: A

Distributed Transaction Facility, The Morgan Kauffman Series in

Data Management Systems. Morgan Kauffman Publishers, Inc., San

Mateo, California, February 1991.

S. M. Clamen, L. D. Leibengood, S. M. Nettles, and J. M. Wing.

Reliable distributed computing with Avalon/Common Lisp. In

Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer

Languages, New Orleans, LA, March 1990. Institute of

Electrical Engineers Computer Society.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA

Fall 1986-Spring 1996

M.S. in Computer Science, December 1989

Candidate for Ph.D. in Computer Science (ABD)

1990-1996:

Dissertation Work:

Managing Type Evolution in the Presence of Persistent Instances

(incomplete)

Basic Idea:

One of the characteristics of a database system is that the persistent

data is more valuable and longer-lived than the applications that

access it. Over the lifetime of a database, its access patterns may

change, necessitating a change to the database schema that preserves

the actual data stored therein. This task is particularly troublesome

in the new generation of database programming languages, where

complex type specifications are supported.

Contemporary database programming systems do not adequately cope with

type evolution and database consistency. In the context of

an object-oriented database system, a general and extensible

framework for the management of type evolution and its effects is

described, with two notable features: 1) compatibility for old

applications, and 2) the ability to install arbitrary changes upon the

schema and database. Explicit programmer authority, when necessary,

over the adaptation of existing instances to conform to the evolved

schema allows for the installation of arbitrary evolutions, and more

control over the efficiency of the compatibility support.

Advisor: Dr. James H. Morris 1986-1989: Member of the Avalon Project.

Advisor: Dr. Maurice Herlihy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA

Fall 1982-Fall 1986

S.B. in Computer Science and Engineering, June 1986

Additional Notes

Canadian Citizen (can work in US under NAFTA/Systems Analyst).

Native English speaker. Functional French with

reading and writing skills.

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