Resume for Dr. George Fairbanks
EDUCATION
TEACHING / MENTORING
Jan 2008 - May 2008
Instructor
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
- Co-instructor of graduate level Architectures of Software Systems course, with David Garlan and Tony Lattanze.
May 2005 - September 2006
Instructor, Mentor
Kinetium
New York, New York
- Contractor working at a (different than 2002) large global financial firm.
- Instructor for five-day MAp architecture course.
- Mentored architects on MAp architecture techniques.
May 2002 - September 2002
Instructor, Mentor
Kinetium
New York, New York
- Contractor working at a large global financial firm.
- Mentored experienced team through their first use of the Component Architecture Method (CAM), a development method focused on precise UML, patterns, and architecture.
- Instructor for five-day CAM architecture course.
- Revised instructional materials and authored new case study.
- Authored CAM reference chapters on usability design.
- Authored published paper: Why Can't They Create Architecture Models Like Developer X? An Experience Report.
May 2004
Instructor
CMU Tepper School of Business Executive Education
Pittsburgh, PA
- As part of a week-long course on software development, I delivered lectures on testing GUIs of websites, design for testability, frameworks and quality, and a large case study on HTTPUnit and Cactus.
- Translated live into Japanese.
December 2003
Instructor
CMU Tepper School of Business Executive Education
Pittsburgh, PA
- As part of a week-long course on software development, I delivered lectures on Modifiability, Testability, and Availability.
- Translated live into Japanese.
September 2003 - December 2003
Teaching Assistant
CMU Institute for Software Research
Pittsburgh, PA
- Assistant for Dr. Priya Narasimhan's graduate Analysis of Software Artifacts course.
- Developed and taught lecture on J2EE and EJB.
September 2002 - December 2002
Teaching Assistant
CMU Institute for Software Research
Pittsburgh, PA
- Assistant for Dr. David Garlan's graduate Software Architecture course.
- Developed and taught lecture on the architecture of the Apache web server and on Java programming.
January 2001 - September 2001
Instructor
Valtech
Dallas, TX
- Taught five-day Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) and J2EE course.
- Taught five-day Object Oriented Analysis and Design course.
- Developed chapters of next EJB course.
September 1998 - February 2000
Instructor
Icon Computing / Platinum Technology / CA
Austin, TX
- Advised software project teams on analysis and design strategies.
- Led client groups to develop precise business process models using Catalysis.
- Taught five-day advanced classes on Component Based Design and OO using UML and Catalysis.
- Taught Java course to top software developers at Platinum technology Developer's Conference. Topics included Java language, API's including Swing and JavaBeans, and J2EE.
- Presented lectures on Catalysis at software conferences in the US and Brazil (translated live into Portuguese).
September 1997 - May 1998
Project Mentor
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO
- Mentored eight groups of four students to develop their senior projects.
- Evaluated as best mentor since program inception (fifteen years).
SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE / DEVELOPMENT
February 2008 -
Software Architect
Kinetium
Boulder, CO
- For a $1B sales company, elicited needs, redesigned their core business processes, chose ERP components, designed enterprise software architecture, and implemented solution.
June 2006 - September 2006
Software Developer
Kinetium
Boulder, CO
- Developed a custom plugin for Rational Software Architect CASE tool to support MAp.
May 2005-September 2006
Chief IDEM Architect, ER Architect
Kinetium
New York, New York
- Contractor working at a large global financial firm.
- Created blackbox and whitebox architecture models for an enterprise-scale identity and entitlement management system.
- Responsible for the architecture for the next generation entitlement review system.
- Authored published paper: Software Architecture at a Large Financial Firm.
September 2003 - December 2006
Software Developer
CMU Institute for Software Research
Pittsburgh, PA
- Designed and implemented a static analysis tool as an extension to the Eclipse Java Integrated Development Environment to support Design Fragments, a new technique to specify and check the patterns of client-framework interaction.
September 2001 - May 2002
Software Developer
CMU Institute for Software Research
Pittsburgh, PA
- Developed data interchange classes for event bus subsystem for the AcmeStudio architecture modeling tool.
January 2000 - April 2001
Founder, President
Groupedia
Boulder, CO
- Founded company to build groupware tools for mailing lists.
- Responsible for design and implementation of a fully dynamic database-backed website, business plan creation, negotiations with venture capitalists, and recruitment of established mailing lists.
- Created a high-availability, reliable, efficient, web-accessible environment for mailing list groups to organize knowledge, share links, and create documents while maintaining content accuracy.
- Production code: Oracle 8.1.6, ArsDigita Community System 3.x & 4.0, AOLServer 3.x, TCL, SQL, PL/SQL, Perl, QMail, Unix shell scripting, Linux
- Prototype code: Java, J2EE, JDBC, EJB, Apache, Linux, PostgreSQL 7.x.
September 1998 - February 2000
Consultant
Icon Computing / Platinum Technology / CA
Austin, TX
- Developer on internal Java-based (Swing) CASE tool that supports Catalysis features.
- Advised software project teams on analysis and design strategies.
- Led client groups to develop precise business process models using Catalysis.
May 1998 - September 1998
Java Developer
Novazen
Boulder, CO
- Developed requirements, architecture, object model, and prototype implementation for J2EE-based web application.
- Developed Java code to communicate with Gemstone/J object database including Java classes running inside the database and RMI interfaces to database.
- Applied principles of XP (Extreme Programming) method including continuous testing.
February 1998 - June 1998
C++ Developer
Heuristec
Boulder, CO
- Developed C++ classes to prep input files for statistical queuing analysis.
May 1997 - September 1997
Technical Lead, C++ Developer
Booz·Allen & Hamilton
McLean, VA
- Subcontractor to a government agency.
- Designed and implemented a propriety interface with a leading PCS wireless telephone switch.
- Developed initial system and successfully deployed it on a live wireless network.
- Technical lead for project and primary technical contact for client.
- Responsible for the training and mentoring of a new employee.
- C++ code initially developed under Linux and later ported to Windows NT 4.0.
June 1995 - December 1996
Senior Systems Designer
Time Warner Communications
Denver, CO
- Lead designer for telephony customer service management applications.
- Successfully moved software from 6-8 month waterfall development schedule to two-week iterative cycle.
- Successfully delivered two versions of the application to customers.
- Heavy use of frameworks, design patterns, and idioms.
- Designed and helped implement domain, business rules, and user interface classes.
- Acting as system engineer, interacted with domain experts and end users to document requirements and create accurate models of business systems.
- Implemented large portions of the system including business rule objects for the ordering system.
- Collaborated with Sybase developers to design stored procedure interfaces.
- Development environment was VisualWorks Smalltalk and Envy configuration manager on Sun workstations running Sun Solaris Unix.
June 1993 - January 1995
Member of Scientific Staff
BNR (Bell Northern Research) / Nortel
Research Triangle Park, NC
- Object oriented software developer on the largest OO project at that date (1500 developers), a rewrite of the call processing software for their flagship DMS-100 central office telephone switch.
- Designed and implemented a component of Call Forwarding allowing forwarding despite differing protocols (e.g. POTS and ISDN).
- Performed object oriented analysis and design for a Screening List Editing feature.
- Developed user interaction framework for call processing features.
- Software was written in Protel-2 (a proprietary OO language); prototyping done in Smalltalk.
September 1991 - May 1992
C++ Developer
University of Virginia Hospital
Charlottesville, VA
- Developed a statistical data analysis and reporting system that interfaced with a driving simulator and produced results for a medical study.