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/*============================ Kent Stork kwstork@yahoo.com ============================*/ Objective: Software Engineer, Systems Engineer, Systems Architect for challenging c, c++, Linux, Windows, Ajax applications Summary Expert Developer of mission critical software in c & c++ for industrial, commercial, and government systems. Extensive experience in programming for online media, distributed enterprise applications, data base design, and Graphical User Interface. Professional Experience Contracting Systems Engineer 2001-present Los Angeles & Sacramento CA Toner Corporation, Sacramento: Developed Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) programs to parse, analyze, and report Caltrans freeway sensor statistics. Solutions were implemented in c++, expat XML under Linux • Systems Architect of the USAF LASTE diagnostic subsystem. Author of the IEEE 12207 Software Architecture and Software Design description deliverables. Contributing developer of several open source projects for Linux, Windows XP, and Firefox platforms using c, c++, JavaScript, java. Intermediate to expert level experience with X11, gtk, Win32 API, DHTML, AJAX, & command line development; re-factoring and reuse of open source LGPL libraries. Viacom VH1 and Actual Reality Productions: Post production support engineer for the shows “Rock the House”, “Freshman Diaries”, “The Residents”, and “Situation: Comedy.” • Technical consultant for streaming media warehousing using Avid Media Composer OMF and AAF media formats. Solutions were implemented in c and Carbon under Macintosh OSX. Pacific Investments I&M LLC: Assisted Pacific Investments in the redevelopment of historical downtown Los Angeles. Designed solutions to assure code compliance; provided AutoCAD presentations to city planners and negotiated with planners to move projects forward. Sr. Software Engineer 1996-01 Alldata division of AutoZone, Elk Grove CA Alldata is the largest publisher of Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals worldwide. Engineering lead of Multimedia Support & Indexing teams. Designed, developed applications for Solaris & Windows using c, c++, CORBA, X11, gtk, Motif, Windows API, MFC, Java, SQL. Heavy graphics, tree and graph processing under extreme data stress. • Systems Architect and Lead Developer of systems to convert several hundred thousand scanned pages of line art into vector format. Proprietary image analysis and editing programs reduced the manual input cost to 10 minutes per diagram. Benefits included greatly improved diagram legibility, automatic diagram indexing, and a halving of the diagram storage requirement. • Designed and developed the “AllData On Line” client server WWW image presentation components. Sr. Systems Engineer 1988-95 Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Kailua HI Engineering Support Services contractor for the Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC) Hawaii. Technical leader in the development of several large scale distributed applications. Implementations were in ANSI c and c++ on Sun, Apollo UNIX, Macintosh, and MS DOS platforms. • Principle Developer of the image processing and pattern recognition components of an autonomous robot • Developer of proprietary feature extraction, pattern classification, and DSP algorithms for embedded deployment • System Architect of the USMC Computer Aided Embarkation Management System • System Administrator of the Honolulu International Airport security system. Systems Engineer 1984-88 Photo Research Div. Kollmorgen Corp., Los Angeles CA Developed software to detect circuit board flaws based on an optical image of the board. Solutions involved image registration, template matching, ad-hoc analysis, morphological processing of the circuit image. Software was implemented in micro-code, assembly, and c. Designed and built digital electronic circuits to support and optimize processing. Principle Interests: Pattern recognition, statistics and data mining • Graphical User Interface design and physical user interface design: Ergonomics on and off the screen. • Feature extraction, intelligent interfaces and supervised decision making systems. Skills: c c++ JavaScript SQL assembly java perl XML html CSS DHTML •Pltfrms Microsoft Windows XP Linux Solaris JVM Firefox Ajax Cygwin mySQL Apache Tomcat •Cmponents BSD Sockets TCP/IP CORBA COM .dll .so CGI SOAP •API X11 gtk Win32 MFC swing XUL •IDE Developer Studio DevStudio Eclipse NetBeans Vi Vim Intellisense Grep Gcc gdb CVS SCCS Bash csh. • UML Design Patterns. Servlets JSP. DSP Image Processing Pattern Recognition Neural Networks ANS AI Statistics Algorithms Algorithm Development R&D Research and Development Project Manager Project Management. Education: Bachelor of Science Cum Laude in Physics. California State University Northridge, 1984. Graduate studies in computational Pattern Matching and Optics. |