PLP Consulting
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
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David M. Gross
DESIRED POSITION
I am looking only for contract / 1099 jobs. I prefer to telecommute, but I will also consider on-site work in San Luis Obispo or short-term contracts elsewhere.
REVIEWS
“Thanks to the fantastic Marble Diagram artwork and explanations by David Gross, RxJava is the most beautifully documented API out there.”
“The docs on this are amazing and all him. That’s a big part of the project success, usability, and adoption.”
“Thanks again for an incredible save today. You were exactly what we needed, right when we needed it. I’m so impressed at your ability to diagnose the problem (in 3 minutes, no less), and x it in 2 hours. It was a big help on a very important day.”
“It will take a while to read this. But I just wanted to say how happy it’s making me so far! I’m really glad we found you… You are shockingly, insanely thorough. And I love that.”
“Dave has been a key contributor to the technical publications e orts… He has been a leader on a multitude of projects and has always been an advocate for process and quality.”
“Wow! This is amazingly comprehensive and great. It’s truly shaping up to be a complete reference book.”
“The best-documented internal project I have ever seen.” SKILL-SET SUMMARY
Technical Writing / Editing
FrameMaker, Adobe, UML, PDF, OpenO ce, javadoc, markdown, MkDocs, Con uence, indexing
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20+ years of professional experience
Web Programming
Skilled in HTML/CSS, PHP, JavaScript, microformats, and syndication format variants
I write robust, standards-compliant, multi-browser compatible, accessible, and easily-maintained pages
Software Engineering & Design
UML, C, C++, the Net ix API, RxJava and Reactive Extensions
(ReactiveX), object-oriented development
5 years of professional experience
Project Management
Managed a team of technical writers, wrote performance reviews, provided mentoring and guidance
Organized working groups to improve policies
Volunteer Work
I help to lead an in-custody meditation program with Restorative Partners.
I lead a weekly Food Bank harvest with GleanSLO.
I am a site supervisor with the Shower the People mobile shower trailer, serving homeless people.
I help to produce free, quality ebooks with the Standard Ebooks project.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PLP Consulting (4/03–present)
San Luis Obispo, California
Completed several contracts in the technical writing and web programming elds
Wrote Net ix’s Technical Documentation Best Practices in-house guide Also authored one, and edited and published six, non-technical books
Wrote the original documentation for the open source projects ReactiveX (RxJava), Neti, and Fenzo; also did signi cant work on Mantis and Hystrix.
Wind River (10/98–4/03)
Alameda, California
Project Manager, technical publications team
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Wrote the WindNet Remote Access Framework Programmer’s Guide, the WindNet PPP Programmer’s Guide, & the VxWorks Network Protocol Toolkit Programmer’s Guide, among others
Used FrameMaker, Adobe PDF tools, ClearCase, Vantive, UML, ISO-9001 process, CMM
Xing Technology Corporation (8/95–9/97)
San Luis Obispo, California
Software engineer
Worked on the Streamworks team, designing and writing software to stream live and on-demand MPEG audio/video
Proposed, designed, and created a CGI-based tool for analyzing the components of MPEG les
Code was primarily written in C++ on Unix and in VC++/MFC on Windows NT platforms
Information Presentation Technologies (12/93–10/94) San Luis Obispo, California
Software engineer
Wrote software related to image storage, thumbnailing, and interpretation
Code was primarily written in C on Unix platforms
Alexandria, Incorporated (4/93–9/93)
Los Osos, California
Software engineer
Wrote home video games for the Sega Genesis
Taught an in-house seminar on the use of neural networks in non- player characters
Code was primarily written in C on Windows platforms for use on the Sega Genesis
EDUCATION
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Bachelor of Science Degree: Computer Science, March 1993 Resume: David M. Gross https://sniggle.net/dave/resume.html 3 of 3 1/4/21, 10:44 PM