Scott's place

Contacting me:

• By email:scotts@frobnotz.com

Info about me:

From 1995 to 1997, Jeff Powell and I founded and ran Castellan Communications,
a WWW services business. We closed down the business at the end of 1997 because we couldn't find a way to run the biz, have a day job, and have a life all at the same time.

• Wrote a simple HTTP deamon in Perl to reside in our instrumentions enabling distribution and review of results over an intranet. As part of this project, wrote software to render results in PDF format. (Abbott)
• Created internal website for project documentation, including tool documentation, release notes for builds, and and a pictorial build tree. (Abbott)
• Implemented automated build procedure for a large multi-platform project (LynxOS, Solaris, pSOS+). A configuration file drives the build process, indicating which baseline is to be used, which changes are approved to be added to the build, and any notes or special instructions to be included in the release notes. Change information is extracted in our software configuration management system, and a description of the build and its components are stored in the SCM system. (Abbott)
• Evaluted software configuration management tools, chose one appropriate for our group (PERFORCE), installed the tool, wrote and performed initial training, and wrote a group of shell scripts to integrate the SCM tools functions into our development process. (Abbott)
• Evaluated new OS and tools releases, reported bugs and tested fixes from vendors, developed installation and porting procedures, ported GNU and DOS-based tools to LynxOS, SunOS, and Solaris. (Abbott)
• Adapted single-platform makefiles and directory structure to support system development from either LynxOS or SunOS for LynxOS native, SunOS native, SunOS/LynxOS cross, and SunOS/pSOS+ cross applications. (Abbott)
• Designed a multiprocessor object communications scheme for a PC-controlled hematology analyzer. Implemented the design using C++ on LynxOS (a real-time UNIX), incorporating multiple threads and LynxOS real-time features to maxirnize efficiency. Supervised two contractors for six months as a part of this effort. (Abbott)
• Designed and implemented a device driver for a proprietary ISA bus communications card. Implementation was in C, and supported a subset of LAP-B. Supervised one contractor for three months as a part of this effort. (Abbott)
• Developed a multi-threaded implementation of a proprietary communications protocol tuned to run eight systems simultaneously using less than 9% of a 386 the CPU. (Spectra-Physics)
• Ported in-house data analysis package from DOS to OS/2, and developed interface allowing it to be driven by new OS/2 applications. (Spectra-Physics)

• Evaluated computational needs of software development group, researched available systems, purchased, installed, and configured servers for use. (Abbott)
• Participated as part of a four member team in the design of the software for an automated blood analyzer (hematology). Design was created using the Booch object-oriented design methodology. My focus areas were PC/analyzer communications, data acquisition, communications with an external host. (Abbott)
• Participated in design, development, and delivery of two chromatography workstation products, including overall system architecture and low-level design and development of the communications modules. (Spectra-Physics)

1995-1997  Founder               Castellan Communications, Los Gatos, CA
1992-1999  Senior Software Eng.  Abbott Diagnostics Division, Santa Clara, CA
1989-1992  Software Eng. 3       Spectra-Physics Analytical, Fremont, CA
1987-1989  Software Eng. 2       Spectra-Physics Analytical, Fremont, CA
1980-1986  Elec. Design Eng.     Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX
May/Aug 1979  Junior Eng. (GS-4) Naval Air Development Center, Warminster, PA

BS with honors: Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1980
Continuing Education:  990 Pascal, Software Engineering I,
                       Digital Signal Processing,
                       Programming in C, OS/2 Architecture,
                       OS/2 Applications Programming,
                       Object-oriented Programming Using C++,
                       LynxOS Realtime Programming,
                       LynxOS Device Driver Programming,
                       Object-oriented Design Using the Booch Methodology,
                       Object-oriented Analysis Using the Object Modeling
                       Technique

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