Summary: Builder of innovative interactive software systems that please users and solve problems in new ways. Coaches and develops skills of others. Continually improves technical skills to increase invention.

Skills: C/C++, Java, Perl, Scheme/JScheme, Lisp, Python/Jython, Ruby, Javascript, Objective-C, Smalltalk/Squeak, TeX. § Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL. § XML, Web/CGI. § GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, WinXP.

Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA	8/06 - current
Computer Science Instructor

SFA, Inc., Virginia Beach, VA	1/04 - 2/06
Senior Software Engineer

• Helped client understand legacy military logistics application code and business rules so that the project could be completely rewritten solely in Java and Oracle.

BAE Systems, Rockville, MD	5/02 - 12/03
Systems Analyst V

• Continuing support and development of web-based military logistics system originially prototyped at BBN.
• Reworked architecture to comply with latest DoD security requirements.

BBN Technologies, Distributed Systems & Logistics, Verizon, Cambridge, MA	10/95 - 5/02
Senior Systems Engineer (Band 2L)

• Developed web-based military logistics system that saved U.S. Government $12.7 million and reduced processing time from 3-4 months to 5-10 minutes, using C, Perl, Java, C++, JScheme and Oracle.
• Adapted DARPA Cougaar intelligent agents to simulate fine-grained Bulk Fuels logistics problems.
• Helped launch successful advertising technology spinoff, Unicast Communications.

Marble Associates, Inc., Waltham, MA	12/91 - 9/95
Senior Associate

• Developed globally distributed Wall Street emerging markets trading system.
• Wrote ParcPlace and Digitalk Smalltalk applications for two Fortune 100 clients.
• Converted financial aid mainframe system to client/server technology and Sybase.
• Made database-building compiler enhancements to speed understanding of large software projects.
• Developed API for DecisionBuilder^TM, a Bayesian analysis tool with superior graphics and algorithms.
• Made kernel module enhancements for Teleconnect^TM SLIP connectivity software.

Camex / DuPont Printing & Publishing, Boston, MA	11/87 - 12/91
Senior Programmer

• Source code "owner" of Sun-based flagship Breeze product, a display ad graphics workstation used to assemble pages for large metropolitan newspapers. Supervised work of 15 developers.
• Internationalized the Breeze product, which held 75% foreign market share.

Envoy Systems Corp., Waltham, MA	12/86 - 11/87
Programmer

• Developed pioneering salesforce automation applications for Fortune 500 clients, distributing sales and inventory information from Oracle databases on corporate minicomputers to the first laptops.

Independent Software Developer and Contractor, Cambridge, MA

1/86 - 12/86

• WX Ltd., Jericho, VT. Wrote satellite weather data acquisition and analysis applications on IBM PC-ATs running DOS and Xenix.
• Garland Corp., Brockton, MA. Provided external code review. AT&T 3B2, Vax.
• Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, MA. Put Swedish language database on IBM PC-AT.
• Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA. Administrative work on IBM PCs.

Intentional Educations, Watertown, MA	6/82 - 1/86
Systems Manager and Programmer

• Coordinated technical efforts of educational software company. Maintained a CompuStar network, Macintosh and Apple II computers, wrote C interfaces to Varityper, supported courseware developers.

Nicholson Yacht Charters, Antigua, West Indies and Cambridge, MA	1978 - 1984
Software Developer

• Created accounting and scheduling applications for a yacht charter business, on the Sol 20, North Star Horizon, and IBM PCs. Volunteer pilot on search and rescue flights. Assisted French consul with translations and organized activities.

Harvard Extension School, Cambridge, MA	1987 - 1989; 2004-current
Graduate courses in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Computer Graphics, Electronic Publishing, German.

Northeastern University, Boston, MA	1986
Graduate course in Unix Systems Programming.

Harvard College '83, A.B.,, Cambridge, MA	9/79 - 8/85
Concentration: Economics. Extensive coursework in Slavic Languages and Literatures. Varsity Letter, Men's Heavyweight Crew.

Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT	1975 - 1978
President Computer & Chess Clubs. Began programming in 1975. Russian prize. Crew Captain.

PittJUG Code Camp, Pittsburgh, PA	10/06
Speaker. Using JScheme and OpenMap in a Civil Air Patrol Lost Aircraft Search

LL3 and LL4 Lightweight Languages Workshops at MIT, Cambridge, MA	9/03-11/04
Member, Program Committee.

PyCon DC 2003, Washington, DC	3/03
Speaker. Lessons Learned in Converting a Large C Program into Manageable Python Modules

JavaOne 2002, San Francisco, CA	3/02
Speaker. ICIS: Redeploying a Military Logistics System to the Web.

Free Software Conference, Moscow, Russia	4/93
American Co-Chair

Arndt & Arndt, Rockville, MD	5/87 - 6/87
Russian-English Interpreter

• Exhibited American furniture and answered questions about life in America to half of 250,000 visitors to United States pavilion at Stroyindustriya-87 trade show, Moscow, USSR.

Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT	Summers 1977, 1978, 1980
Planetarium Lecturer

• Member ACM, IEEE, Usenix/Sage.
• Treasurer of the Free Software Foundation, 1998-current. Co-founder 1992 GNU Objective-C project.
• Member Civil Air Patrol, AOPA, Instrument-rated private pilot.
• Member Cambridge Boat Club, Central PA Rowing Assoc, USRowing. Coxswain on 1989 & 1994 U.S. Rowing Teams. Trained with U.S. National Team 1988-95. Board of Directors, CRASH-B Sprints World Indoor Rowing Championships, 1984-current. Regatta Committee Head-of-the-Charles^TM, 1993-95. Began rowing in 1974.
• Volunteer adult leader, Cub Scouts, Williamsport, PA, 2003-current.
• Volunteer rowing coach, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA, 1999-2004.
• Volunteer rowing coach, Boston inner city youth program (Mandela Town Hall Health Spot), 1996.
• Volunteer tutor, Trinity After-School program, Williamsport, PA, 1999-2000.
• Volunteer reader, Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic volunteer 1989-99.
• Fluent in Russian and French, some German.

Updated: 16 October 2006 gsk