Ben Weiss
209 Columbia Drive SE Apt. 5
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106
(505) 259-5683 259-LOVE
Over 21 years professional programming experience; 10 years consulting
| Vague Familliarity: | Win95, WinNT, Win3.1 |
| Familiar: | PalmOS, UNIX, DEC RT-11(sj) & (fb), RSTS/E, RTOS, MS-DOS 2.11, RDOS, RSX-11m & others. |
| Very Familiar: | MacOS 7, 8 & 9, MacOS X & Data General AOS and AOS/VS |
| Vague Familliarity: | Cocoa Foundation & AppKit |
| Familiar: | Resourcerer Templates, Spotlight, FaceSpan, PowerPlant and Core Foundation, Project Builder & Interface Builder Objective C on MacOS X (DP4 & beta). |
| Very Familiar: | CodeWarrior C & C++, 4th Dimension family of products, FileMaker Pro, HyperCard |
Applications programming and User Interface Design of comercial products using Metrowerks C & C++ on Macintosh MacOS 7, 8 & 9. Cocoa in Objective C on MacOS X using PB/IB. PowerPlant, HTML, SQL, AppleEvent Object Model, QuickTime Graphic Importers, Quicktime Media and Frame Grabbers, Shared Libraries for 4th Dimension Extentions, Photoshop Plugins; Code Resources
ImageAXS Pro - A scriptable, recordable, transparently dragable, undoable image, movie and sound desktop database application.
ViaVoice - Continuous speech dictation software.
Another as yet unmentionable speech dictation related product of superior quality.
Image Viewer Package with rotation, zooming and panning
Package for storing, playing and recording sounds and storing them in picture fields
Implementation of proprietary file i/o tasks
Document Control & Task Resolution Management System for Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc.
Veterinary Doctor's Office Management System including integrated Inventory Tracking (using barcode scanning), Invoicing, double-entry accounting, appointment scheduling and interface to medical diagnostic equipment for the La Vega Veterinary Clinic of Waco, Texas
Medical Conference Planning System including Integrated Interactive Calendars & Site Cost Evaluation spreadsheets
Employment Placement Services System with automatic matching of job seekers and suitable employers by criteria; Multiuser turn-key access; automated job closure tracking; automated annual reporting for California State Requirements. Customers include West Valley College in Saratoga & Mission College in Santa Clara
Client Tracking & Job Development System with Extensive Demographic Statistical Tracking & mailmerge functionality for Next Step Center, a Homeless Veterans Service Provider in Palo Alto
Materials & Service Management application for a Construction Contracting company including Job Cost Analysis with integrated spreadsheets
Taxi-cab lease management system for Friendly Cab Company in Oakand
Various Shipping & Receiving & Automated Billing applications including Invoicing, Double-entry Accounting & Medical History tracking
Calendaring; 4d & Hypercard externals in THINK C & MPW Pascal
1/2001 - 10/2001 Print Cafe, Inc.
onsite in Chandler, Arizona
Software Engineering. MacOS 9, CodeWarrior C++, PowerPlant.
9/99 - 12/2000 Dragon Systems, Inc.
Newton, Massachusetts 02460
Engineering Project Management and Lead Developer. Applications programming in Metrowerks C++ and Apple ProjectBuilder. PowerPlant, Carbon, Cocoa.
1555 Palm Bech Lakes Blvd.
West Palm Beach, Florida 33401
Applications programming in Metrowerks C & C++. Wrote IPC mechanism for IBM's ViaVoice speech dictation program for Macintosh. PowerPlant, AppleScript, Apple Event Object Model support.
1301 Marina Village Parkway
Alameda, California 94501
Applications programming in Metrowerks C & C++ for Multimedia SQL Databases. My partner and I have written a MacODBC-SQL and DTF desktop multimedia database application for the Macintosh. It is fully scriptable, recordable, undoable and draggable. Wrote 4th Dimension External Packages in Metrowerks C & C++. Metrowerks PowerPlant, HTML, SQL, AppleScript, QuickTime Graphic Importers, Quicktime Media Grabbers, InternetConfig, SubWoofer
MD 56-128, 3102 North 56th Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85018
Design, programming, installation, support and training of a multisite networked turnkey database for creating security badges and scanning and validating them at entry/exit points at sites throughout Phoenix. Filemaker Pro on Macs and Windows with Norton Desktop Scripts and AppleScript.
Macintosh application programming in Think C and C++ and Pascal and MPW Pascal and Assembler; Macintosh 4th Dimension, AppleScript and HyperCard programming, training and consulting.
124 University Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94301
Wrote & modified code resources in Symantec Think C++ 6.01. Provided presales and postsales technical support for Arrange(TM), an object oriented database program on the Macintosh. Created user templates, performed alpha and beta testing of the application. Wrote developper documentation for TAIL language.
20300 Stevens Creek Blvd, Suite 300, Cupertino, CA
HyperCard Programming, MPW Object Pascal Programming using MacApp 2.x, XCMD's & XFCN's in Pascal & MPW C.
2700 Garcia Ave, Suite 220, Mountain View, CA
On contract to: Apple Computer Company
Software Quality Assurance Division, Cupertino, CA
Performed testing & design input on MacWorkStation and developed test tools in MPW C.
2150 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA 94704
Responsible for development, training, customer support and software maintenance for VMI's Data General Bridge/86 system, an MS-DOS/PC-DOS compatible coprocessor system for DG MV/Eclipse minicomputers. Provided Onsite Consulting, Support, Installations and Presales support for all Data General related products. SYSTEM MANAGER of inhouse MV/4000 AOS/VS system. Programming and debugging in Data General and Microsoft C and Assemblers. Also provided customer support for DEC VAX and microVAX VMS related products and DEC PRO/350/380 P/OS related products.
2400 Garden Road, Monterey, CA 93940
In the Information Network Systems Division as a communications programmer, I assisted in the design and functional and operational specification generation of a meteorological information message center system to perform message switching integrated with satellite image processing and message decoding and automated message generation for the US Navy. Wrote, tested and documented changes to Intelligent Asynchronous Controller (IAC) software for various async protocols. Presented a half day seminar on AOS/VS system programming to 14 programmers and managers. Performed intensive system performance studies between MV/8000-II and MV/10,000 systems.
Also, at Global Weather Dynamics, I was SYSTEM MANAGER of a pair of networked MV/8000-II's used for development. I was also, for a few months, the communications software manager in the operations department. I was responsible for communications functioning of 2 MV/10,000's and 3 S-140's (running Xodiac). I provided oncall support in both Hardware and Software problem troubleshooting.
2350 Alamo S.E., Albuquerque, NM 87106
On contract to: Sandia National Laboratories
Space Systems Division, Albuquerque, NM
Assisted in the software development and documentation for a computer based testing and validation system for TRW's Advanced REDAC II Radiation Detection System spacecraft payload. Performed systems and applications programming and software analysis including realtime assembly language applications and FORTRAN. Environment was Data General Eclipse S-130 Host Processor and S-120 preprocessor for data acquisition with 4040c general interface hardware.
MIS Development Division
990 Grove Street, Evanston, Ill 60201
Responsible for all product development, enhancement and systems engineering support of an online, turnkey interactive system for customizing a medical information system to specific hospitals. Also responsible for conversion of utilities from Data General RDOS FORTRAN to AOS FORTRAN. Wrote 180+ page Programmer's Reference Manual for this system. Performed systems and applications programming in FORTRAN and COBAL on C-330's, C-350's and MV/8,000 systems running AOS.
Polymer Research Department
Rehovot, Israel 76-100
Responsible for systems programming and general system software maintenance. Data communication programming for IBM 4341 system running TSO and Z-80 experiment controllers. Environment was a DEC PDP-11/44 running RSX-11m. FORTRAN 77 and MACRO-11 (Assembler).
Photochemistry Division, Group AP-1
Mail Stop 566, Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545
Interactive Graphics and database application programming; Environment was Data General Eclipse S-230 running AOS in FORTRAN IV & V with Tektronics 4010 & 4014 graphics devices. Summer and vacation employment totalling seven months.
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