| Thomas J Smith |
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| My objective is a senior role in technical management, chief scientist, technology consultant, or senior system architect. To provide technical leadership to business and research activities in distributed Systems Architectures, Middleware, Client/Server, and operating systems software and associated technologies. I am particularly interested in Internet and Java Technologies, including agent-based collaborative and cooperative e-business, educational, and interactive systems. A recent interest is the integration of Internet applications with hand-held (e.g., Palm) devices. I am a highly motivated Computer Scientist with many years of experience in software research, design, development, and management. My qualifications include successful roles ranging from Research Scientist to Senior Software Engineer to Development Manager to Group Manager. I am a “hands on” technical manager who enjoys assembling teams of software engineers to address software design, development, and deployment. I communicate well, giving numerous presentations at conferences, customer meetings, and briefings. I also enjoy teaching Computer Science at the University level. |
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2001 – Present Self Employed Software & Internet Technologies Consultant Designed and developed an Adverse Event database and reporting system for a pharmaceutical company. management system. System required elements of multiple Internet technologies including XML, XSL, XSLT, Formatted Objects (FOP), Java Servlets, JavaScript, XHTML, Apache Web server, Tomcat servlet engine, and Cocoon, a document management core system from Apache. I personally designed, programmed and integrated all of these components into the final system. 1999 - 2001 SAIC Manager and Chief Architect of a group performing the design and implementation of web-based education and collaboration software as part of the HUBS (Hospitals, Universities, Businesses and Schools) Information Technology initiative. I have budgetary responsibilities and direct the activities of 5 Software Engineers. This project was sponsored by a $5M grant from the U.S. Department of Education. I directed the design of the infrastructure and middleware to support development of an Internet Portal (http://www.hubscentral.org) supporting teacher-centric Internet applications, Professional Development opportunities through web-accessible databases of educational materials, distance learning opportunities, and web-supported parent-teacher communication and collaboration capabilities. The portal is implemented as a 3-tier application consisting of Web browser, Java servlet middleware and database server. The first tier uses a Web browser to allow optimum access to the system from any classroom or personal PC. HTML forms are used for user-input and the results of the database query are returned as dynamically created HTML pages. Using HTML for user-input and displaying the data lowers the requirement of the client's browser version. The Portal does not impose the requirement of a Java-enabled browser with the latest JDK patch. The second tier is implemented with a Web server (Apache on an NT system) running Java servlets. Java servlets access the database through JDBC technology, dynamically create an HTML page with the results, and return the page to the user’s Web browser. The third tier is the back-end database server. The Portal currently uses a Sybase RDBMS although the middleware is designed to be independent of any particular database system. The Java servlets can access information in any database provided that a JDBC driver exists. I was responsible for the introduction of PDA (Palm devices) technologies and software into the HUBS K12 classrooms. I designed and led the development of an Internet-based educational system integrating web-based and commercial technologies with hand-held (e.g., Palm) devices. Teachers use the Palm devices to make student assessments using commercially available software. Assessment information is “hot-synched” with the classroom PC and reports created. Our HUBS software retrieves the reports and formats them into HTML for parental access through the Portal. 1994 - 1999
Lockheed Martin/Loral
Senior Software Engineer Lead technologist for the
State of Senior Software Engineer Lead technologist for CADETT program, an ARPA program to research, develop, and implement educational and training scenarios for delivery across the Internet. My focus was the development of a Web based Virtual Reality environment to support education and training applications. My major focus was research on VRML, virtual humans, and development of multi-user 3D environments; and their delivery and control across the Internet. Consultant, Software Analysis; Manager, User Interface Technology Led
the analysis and evaluation of a major commercial banking system written
in LINC/Cobol. Analysis included recovery of design and architecture
of a forms-based system consisting of over 70M lines of Cobol. Resulted in a series of recommendations that
improved performance of the system on the order of 40%. Following this effort, I was assigned as manager
of a group of 10 programmers implementing the user interface for the
system in 1988 - 1994 Unisys Defense Systems Manager, Software Technology Managed a group of 2 managers and approximately 25 staff in performance of several US Government and internal R&D programs. Oversaw budget of over $5M and produced software systems on time and under budget. Major program was STARS, a program to produce a software development environment for future U.S. Department of Defense projects. 1984 - 1988 MCC Sperry/Unisys Liaison to Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation. Liaison and technology transfer between MCC (Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp.) and Sperry/Unisys software development groups. Introduced new software development technologies to Sperry gave presentations/demos to educate Sperry personnel in new technologies. Established receptor groups to receive and promote new technologies within the company. Member of Technical Staff engaged in research and development of software engineering environments. 1973 - 1984
Sperry Univac
Manager, Interactive Software Products Managed a group of 3 Supervisors and approximately 30 staff in the design, development, and support of end-user software products for the Sperry Univac 1100 computer series. Products included APL, Fortran and Cobol compilers. Managed schedules and deliveries and customer relations. 1971 - 1973
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Member Technical Staff Architect and lead designer of a data management system for use by the various Bell Telephone operating companies. 1967 - 1973
Bellcomm, Inc.
Member Technical Staff Performed various programming and support tasks in support of the NASA Apollo program. Lead programmer for maintenance and new features for the Sperry Univac 1100 Operating System.
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