Personal Accomplishments

• Co-founder of Palamida, Inc.
• Primary inventor of Determining a Document Similarity Metric, US Patent 7,565,348
• Primary inventor of AntiVirus Accelerator for Computer Networks, US Patent 6,094,731, World Intellectual Property Organization Patent 00/28420
• Primary inventor of Multi-Tiered Incremental Software Updates, US Patents 6,052,531, 6,651,249, 7,185,332, World Intellectual Property Organization Patent 99/49391
• Participant in the XHTML Forms (XForms) Working Group and the XML Style Language (XSL) Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium.

Employment History

• 2009-present Keas, Inc., Sr Software Engineer
• 2008-2009 KForce Technology Staffing, Web Developer
• 2007-2009 Workforce Logic/Provade, Inc./Randstad Inc., Web Developer
• 2003-2007 Palamida, Inc., Co-founder/Architect/CTO
• 2003 Bay City Capital, Consultant
• 2000-2003 Cacheon Inc., Software Architect
• 1999-2000 Lexica Holdings, LLC, Architect/Team Lead
• 1998-1999 Digital Generation Systems, Sr. Software Engineer
• 1996-1998 Symantec Corporation, Sr. Software Engineer
• 1994-1996 Symantec Corporation, Sr. Quality Engineer/Supervisor
• 1990-1992 Symantec Corporation, Sr. Support Engineer/Supervisor

2009-present Keas, Inc
Sr. Software Engineer

At Keas, my principal responsibilities are the development and maintenance of the user interface for a high profile consumer facing web application. My daily duties include programming in Java, JSP, and Javascript, using libraries, frameworks, and tools such as Spring MVC, JQuery, Maven, Hudson, Subversion, and Eclipse. Secondary responsibilities include the development of XSLT and Javascript technology used to implement Keas' content sharing relationship with Healthwise, whereby we transform their XML content and medical protocols into the format used by our web application.

2008-2009 KForce Technology Staffing
Web developer

On contract with Western Governors University, this project involved the development of a Groovy/Grails/jQuery application used internally for authoring of educational course curricula and subsequent alignment of these to various state, federal, and professional standards organizations. This application was developed by a geographically distributed team, including myself and one other software engineer, one QA engineer, and a project manager using the Scrum development process.

2007-2009 Workforce Logic/Provade, Inc./Randstad Inc.
Web developer

On contract with Oracle Corporation, I developed Web 2.0 features for use in Oracle's Fusion Enterprise Application prototypes for the User Experience group, including tagging, contextual popup windows, and feed subscriptions. Also developed Groovy/Grails/GWT application used to design tests for navigation tasks, perform the tests remotely on the web, and collect and report on results.

2003-2007 Palamida, Inc.
Co-founder/Architect/CTO

Palamida's products and services enable customers to discover and manage the use of third-party code. As founder, I was responsible for the inception, design, and implementation of the core technology used to detect and identify third-party components using exact and fuzzy matching of source code and binary data. Additionally, I was responsible for the design of the infrastructure necessary to collect and process massive amounts of component signature data. Of my many accomplishments at Palamida, two that stand out are:

• Massive multi-pattern search - extending Wu-Manber multi-pattern search to handle massive search datasets. Palamida has collected several terabytes of open source material. Their tools search for occurrences of any of the billions of source code fragments they've collected while scanning customer code. This invention extends multi-pattern search to allow such massive datasets while remaining relatively performant.
• CodeRank - a similarity metric for source code documents. Searches against massive search datasets produces a high volume of fine-grained match results. CodeRank is a post processing technique for scoring document similarity based on coverage, clustering, and uniqueness of individual matches. Analogous to Google's PageRank, this metric turns large numbers of individual source code fragment matches into fewer, high-level source code document similarity scores.

2003 Bay City Capital
Consultant

Bay City Capital was one Cacheon's primary investors. Upon dissolution of the company, I was one of three technologists retained to serve as consultants to further develop and refine the intellectual property and pursue new product opportunities. This effort has resulted in the creation of two spinoff products:

• the Cacheon Compliance Tool is a rules based Java source code analysis tool for enforcing standards and best practices, based upon the technology found in the Cacheon Migrator.
  
• the Cacheon Analyzer is used to determine the extent to which a Java application depends upon a particular platform (JDK, Application Server, Third Party Libraries, etc) and ultimately, an estimate of the effort required to move an application from one platform to another.

2000-2003 Cacheon Inc.
Software Architect

Cacheon specialized in application integration and migration software. While employed there as Software Architect, I was responsible for the design and development of major portions of two products: the Cacheon Migrator and the Cacheon Business Services Console (BSC).

Cacheon Migrator automated much of the work involved in migrating large applications from one J2EE environment to another, across vendor, version, and JVM boundaries. My contribution to this project included the design and development of:

• the Cacheon Semantic Tree object model to represent Java program logic, based upon the Java Language Specification
• an ANTLR tree grammar for transforming source code parse trees into this model
• an XPath implementation for use as a query engine with Cacheon Semantic Trees
• a declarative language for Cacheon's rule-based source code transformation engine
• a JHTML to JSP transformation system including a handcrafted JHTML parser, transformation modules for each JHTML construct, and extension points for customization
• a JSP to JSP transformation system using an open source JSP parser, a JSP object model including symbolic representation of embedded Java code, and declarative rules for transformation.

Business Services Console enabled Business Analysts to compose new applications or services from pre-existing components across disparate platforms using a simple graphical interface. My contribution to this project included the design and development of:

• a general, uniform meta-component model
• specific implementations of this model for various platforms such as JavaBeans, COM, Web Services, EJBs, etc.
• a system to interconnect component service invocations, methods to record these interconnections, and perform datatype conversions as necessary

1999-2000 Lexica Holdings
Architect and Technical Lead

Lexica produced software for the insurance industry, specifically supply chain automation and fulfillment systems. In my role as Architect and Technical Lead of the XML Technology Group, my duties included the design and development of:

• a datatype-aware XML Object Model and an XML Namespace-aware DTD Validating XML Parser.
• an XML Templates Java class library for simple document creation based on XPath expressions.
• an XML Schema Datatypes Java class library including code to parse, validate, derive subtypes, etc.
• an XHTML based language for deploying e-commerce web sites as part of a supply chain automation platform (Lexica Online) for the insurance industry using XML, XSLT, DOM, CSS, JavaScript, and Java Servlets.
• portions of iLingo, a set of XML Schemas for Insurance E-Business, and co-authored a whitepaper describing its intended use and future directions.

1998-1999 Digital Generation Systems
Sr. Software Engineer

Digital Generation coordinates delivery of radio advertisements to radio stations across the country. As Sr. Software Engineer in the Applications group, I participated in the design and implementation of:

• automated order submission system using XML, SAX, DOM, and JDBC on Windows NT and Solaris.
• HTML based order entry system using XML, SAX, DOM, XSLT, JavaScript, CSS, JDBC, and Servlets on Windows NT and Solaris.

1996-1998 Symantec Corporation
Sr. Software Engineer - Norton AntiVirus group

Symantec produces utility software for personal computers. While employed there as Sr. Software Engineer, I designed and implemented:

• the pilot version of the virus definition upgrade infrastructure consisting of XML documents published over various Internet protocols (HTTP, FTP, NNTP, etc.) driving a Java update client. Awarded US Patent 6,052,531 for this work.
• the HTML user interface server embedded in Windows NT and Solaris versions of Norton AntiVirus for Internet Email Gateways, Norton AntiVirus for Firewalls, and Norton AntiVirus for Exchange Server. This dynamic page generation module consisted of an HTTP server and custom application hooks accessible via page template scripting language.
• SMTP proxy for Norton AntiVirus for Internet Email Gateways
• Content Vectoring Protocol (CVP) client for Norton AntiVirus for Firewalls
• Web crawling virus scanner for Symantec AntiVirus Research Center
• the boot sector virus repair engine used in Norton AntiVirus 4.0 and 5.0 line of products. This involved porting x86 Assembly code to a C++ class library and extending support to additional platforms (NTFS, NEC) as well as adding new functionality and maintaining backward compatibility with thousands of existing boot sector virus repair definitions.

1994-1996 Symantec Corporation
Sr. Quality Engineer/Supervisor - Norton AntiVirus Group

• Supervised testing of Norton AntiVirus for Windows 95 and Norton AntiVirus for Windows NT, including initial release, numerous regionalized versions, and several inline releases. Designed and implemented test tools for use by QA Analysts.
• Designed and implemented test tools for the Polymorphic AntiVirus Module used in all Norton AntiVirus 4.0 products. Supervised testing by QA Engineers.
• Designed and implemented test tools for new APIs and program libraries delivered from core AntiVirus engine team.

1990-1992 Peter Norton Computing/Symantec Corporation
Sr. Support Engineer/Supervisor - Peter Norton Group

• Supervised technical support of Norton AntiVirus, Norton Commander, Norton Backup, and Norton Editor.
• Coordinated pcAnywhere support transfer to Symantec upon acquisition
• Handled numerous live data recovery calls to assist customers using Norton products.

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