Jade Software Corporation Ltd. / Christchurch, New Zealand
Delivery Manager New Zealand : 8/2008 - 9/2009

• Managed numerous project teams.

• Introduced Scrum (agile development) as certified Scrum-master.

• Member of the project board (ala Prince2) for Methodware's Enterprise Risk Assessor (Web2, SOA, Microsoft .NET).

• Java architect in a part-time consulting role for Arc Innovations (owned by Meridian Energy) on the Advanced Metering Infrastructure programme (Spring, ESB, Tomcat, IBM MQ). David taught Java, conducted design / code reviews, did some OO design, and helped coordinate the efforts of multiple Scrum teams.

Sabbatical - World Tour / International Holidays

• David's blog (www.Leberknight.com/worldtour) chronicles "the scenic route" he took to emigrate from the USA to New Zealand, along with political and cultural observations.

SFI Client: Xilinx, Inc. / Longmont, Colorado
Consultant : 11/2006 - 2/2007

• Successfully introduced VMware virtualization technology to Xilinx's Computer Farm Services group (network and system administration with Solaris).

Latis Networks, Inc. (StillSecure) / Superior, Colorado
Director of Product Engineering : 5/2006 - 11/2006

• Led the engineering and project management for the Cobia Unified Network Platform, a modular Web2 application designed to integrate open-source network and security services (router, firewall, DNS, DHCP, with more modules planned). David brainstormed requirements with project stakeholders, recruited team members, designed the system architecture, and coded the core infrastructure. This was a technologically rich project (Java EE 5, Hibernate, JBoss, JSF, Linux, Ajax, VMware, PostgresSQL, Eclipse, SVN, Apache Ant, Python).

SFI Client: National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR / UCAR) / Boulder, Colorado
Consultant : 2/1997 - 7/2003

• Recipient of NCAR / UCAR's Outstanding Accomplishment Award for Scientific & Technical Advancement - for the very successful 4DWX project:

• (2001 - 2003) Software Development Engineering Lead for the Four Dimensional Weather Engineering Group (4DWX); we built a comprehensive suite of state-of-the-art tools for meteorologists. David was responsible for the redesign of this large and important system, to make it both scalable and modular. This included turning a data-service API into a bona-fide data server on its own hardware node, refactoring several applications to incorporate new design patterns (eXtreme Programming), and giving high-profile client presentations. Lots of mentoring! David also reused his own Custom Query Tool (Java Swing) to make it easy to interrogate the MySQL database.

• (1998) Primary consultant for an enterprise-wide business process re-engineering effort, creating UML analysis models that were used to identify operational inefficiencies.

• (1997 - 2001) Designed, developed and delivered courses in Object-Oriented Design & Java.

• (1997) Invited lecturer on Commercial Middleware for a Workshop on IT Strategy.

University of Colorado (CU) / Boulder, Colorado
Department of Computer Science - Faculty - Lecturer : 1999 - 2002

• Course author for CSCI 4448: Object-Oriented Programming & Design.

• Topics include: OO analysis & design, UML modeling, design patterns, Java & C++, databases, XML, distributed architectures, EJB3, and (agile) project management.

• Click HERE to view the Course Materials as PDF files. Why buy a textbook?

• Click HERE to see how students rated the course (green is good :-).

• Guest lectures for ECEN 5053: Software Engineering of Distributed Systems.

• Here's a fun example: create your own Fractal Art.

SFI Client: Interactive Gaming & Wagering N. V. / Willemstad, Curacao, N. A.
Consultant : 1999 - 2000

• Designed Java applets (as well as the corresponding server-side infrastructure) that played casino games for real money (Java, SQL Server, Windows NT). David implemented the direct-manipulation graphical user interfaces in Java 1.02 for browser compatibility.

SFI Client: Level (3) Communications, Inc. / Broomfield, Colorado
Consultant : 1998 - 1999

• Developed a 'universal inventory database' (Java, CORBA, Oracle, Vitria, UNIX).

SFI Client: Avitek Inc. (acquired by BEA Systems) / Boulder, Colorado
Consultant : 1998

• Development of middleware for a 3-tier call-center application (Java, WebLogic, TOPLink, Oracle).

SFI Client: Janus International Holding Company / Denver, Colorado
Consultant : 1998

• Responsible for training & mentoring Janus' staff in Object Technology & Project Management by teaching classes & working on several projects (Java, C++).

SFI Client: Lucent Technologies (Microelectronics Group) / Boulder, Colorado
Consultant : 1997 - 1998

• Redesigned & implemented the manual router for Lucent's Field Programmable Gate Array CAD editor (C++, UNIX).

SFI Client: DirecTouch, Inc. / Broomfield, Colorado
Consultant : 1997

• Analyzed and designed the start-up company's product (Java, Gemstone/J).

• Planned staffing & scheduling with the company's CEO.

Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) / Louisville, Colorado
Consultant : 1997

• Implemented the user interface for a marketing tool (C++, XVT, Windows, Macintosh).

University of Colorado (CU) / Boulder, Colorado
Division of Continuing Education - Instructor : 1997 - 1998

• Instructor for the Intermediate & Advanced C++ Programming courses.

• Instructor for the Object-Oriented Design Patterns course.

Bolder Heuristics, Inc. ( BHI ) / Boulder, Colorado
Senior Engineer : 1993 - 1996

• Worked on various projects, described below.

• Helped design internal software engineering processes.

BHI Client: Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) : 1996

• Architecture consultant for a large strategic software project.

• Taught classes in object-orientation & relational-database design.

BHI Client: Health Decisions LLC. (7 x 24 hr. Health Care Call Center) : 1995 - 1996

• Responsible for all aspects of database development, including: determining the business requirements, system architecture, designing the object-oriented software, object & data modeling, implementation, documentation, deployment, database administration (as the DBA), performance tuning, & writing SQL stored procedures (SYBASE, Windows NT).

• Managed the Data Layer and Data Load sub-projects (Visual C++).

• Taught nurses how to query the data warehouse with SQL.

BHI Client: USWest (Knowledge-Base Group) : 1994 - 1995

• Played a major role in a business process re-engineering effort.

• Responsible for the interface between the Knowledge-Base & Corporate Database Groups, including C++ mentoring & the supervision of two other contractors (C++, Prolog, UNIX).

BHI Client: MIS, Inc. (Financial Portfolio Management Software Company) : 1994

• As Data Layer Team Lead, designed a framework including Bob, the crucial component that managed object lifecycles and controlled transactions (C++, Windows). This was David's first project implemented with rigorous unit testing.

BHI Client: Itron, Inc. (Utility Metering Technology Company) : 1993 - 1994

• Designed and implemented an application framework (C++, XVT, UNIX).

NeoCAD, Inc. (now Xilinx) / Boulder, Colorado
Consultant : 1992

• Used fuzzy logic for optimization of the Field Programmable Gate Array CAD partitioner (C++, UNIX).

Carnegie Mellon University (CLARIT project) / Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Software Engineer (part time, as CMU graduate student) : 1990 - 1992

• Wrote Lisp for doing linguistic analysis of text to determine the concepts expressed within.

Japan Marketing Data Systems, Inc. / Tokyo, Japan
Consultant : 1990

• Wrote C utilities to convert between various Japanese multi-byte character formats.

Daisy/Cadnetix, Inc. / Boulder, Colorado
Software Engineer : 1987 - 1989

• Developed the printed circuit board CAD router (C, Pascal, UNIX, microcode).

Gould Electronix, Inc. / Cleveland, Ohio
Engineering Co-op (as Cornell undergraduate) : Summers of 1985, 1986

• Various small projects (FORTRAN, UNIX, Mentor Graphics CAE circuit simulations).

Fabri-Centers of America, Inc. / Cleveland, Ohio
Consultant (as Cornell freshman during holidays) : December 1983, Summer 1984

• David began his career by designing and implementing a system to automate a warehouse shipping and receiving office (a successful solo effort in DBASE II and DOS on an IBM PC).

EDUCATION:

M.S. in Computational Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : May 1992

• Artificial Intelligence & Linguistics, applied to machine understanding of natural languages (Lisp & Prolog).

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University"With Distinction"
Ithaca, New York : May 1987

• Graduate-level work in computer hardware architectures and semiconductor (quantum) physics.

The Mercersburg Academy (High School "Cum Laude" and "High Honors"

• Began programming in TRS-80 BASIC in 1980.

• Won prizes in Mathematics and Spanish.

SYBASE - David sat 3 five-day courses in database administration in 1994.

NATURAL LANGUAGES:

• English - Native.

• Portuguese - Fluent (Brazilian wife plus extensive travel, with translation experience).

• Spanish - Fluent (extensive studies plus extensive travel).

• French - Conversational (some classes plus some travel).

• Japanese - Basics (studies and travel but a long time ago).

WORLD TRAVEL:

Alaska, Argentina, Austria, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hawaii, Holland, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Lesotho, Macao, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico, Mozambique, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yukon, Zanzibar.