August 2008 - President Rhino Research Boulder, CO

• President, primary consultant, and primary instructor for a software consulting and training firm.
• Clients include NASA, IT shops, and large internet companies.
• Authored book Just Enough Software Architecture.

February 2008 - August 2008 Software Architect Kinetium / OpenText Boulder, CO

• For a $750M sales company, redesigned their core business processes, chose ERP components, and designed an enterprise software architecture.
• Worked directly with company president and senior executives.

May 2005 - September 2006 Chief Architect (IDEM project), Architect (ER project) Kinetium / Citigroup New York, NY

• Architect overseeing 4 projects, 30+ developers.
• Created 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.

May 2002 - September 2002 Architect, Instructor, Mentor Kinetium / JPMorgan Chase New York, NY

• Mentored experienced team through their first use of the Component Architecture Method (CAM), a development method focused on precise UML, patterns, and architecture.
• Authored published paper: Why Can't They Create Architecture Models Like Developer X? An Experience Report.

June 2006 - September 2006 Software Developer Kinetium / Citigroup Boulder, CO

• Developed a custom plugin for Rational Software Architect CASE tool to support MAp.

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 Professional Services Consultant Icon Computing / Platinum Technology / CA Austin, TX

• Led client groups to develop precise business process models using Catalysis.
• Advised software project teams on analysis and design strategies.
• Developer on internal Java-based (Swing) CASE tool that supports Catalysis features.

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 6-9 month waterfall development schedule to two-week iterative cycle.
• Heavy use of frameworks, design patterns, and idioms in Smalltalk.

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.

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 / Citigroup New York, New York

• Instructor for five-day MAp architecture course.
• Mentored architects on MAp architecture techniques.

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.

May 2002 - September 2002 Instructor, Mentor Kinetium / JPMorgan Chase New York, New York

• Instructor for five-day CAM architecture course.
• Revised instructional materials and authored new case study.
• Authored CAM reference chapters on usability design.

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 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).