Robert A. Mackie

104 Rushingwater Drive
Cary, NC 27513

                                                    (home)    919 469 9160
                                                  (mobile)    919 395 5850
                                                     robert_mackie@mail.com

Professional experience and goals

Most of the software development I have done has been Object-Oriented C++. I have also done commercial work in Java. I am most interested in applying my Java skills in an environment where my embedded systems experience will have value. For example, element management systems, PDA devices and their business application interfaces, real-time, embedded devices developed using Java and C++ via JNI.

Cisco Systems, Inc. (3/13/2000 - Present)

Software Engineer

Pliant Systems, Inc. (7/15/96 - 3/10/2000)

(formerly known as: Broadband Technologies, Inc. )

Group lead for a team responsible for the architectural components of an embedded application - e.g.: messaging, persistence, redundancy, and other cross functional subsystems.
Group lead for recursive design group tasked with maintaining and improving an object-model-to-C++ compiler for use with a Shlaer-Mellor modeling tool. Our work varied from simple performance reworks of the target architecture to writing an optimizing compiler for the "Shlaer-Mellor Action Language" source code developed by the applications team.
The group lead position entailed both administrative and direct technical contributions varying from architecting a compiler, to designing and coding the persistence and redundancy subsystems of an embedded telecom product, to coordinating schedules, eliminating obstacles to progress, and coaching less experienced developers on technical decisions.
During the transition from the first project to the second and as needed, I worked in various miscellaneous roles:

Evaluating and doing an initial port of existing code to a new C++ cross-compiler (Diab Data from Microtech)
Providing assistance in developing a configuration management plan and tools to facilitate it use.
Maintaining in-house tools used in our analysis and design phases.
Developing an alternative tool chain that did not depend on in-house tool maintenance and translators to move our work products from one tool chain into the other.
Developed lightweight Web Server for viewing of material stored in clearcase across the web.
Evaluating Object-Oriented modeling tools.
In the absence of available commercial tools, developed instrumentation and analysis tools to facilitate detecting and correcting memory problems on embedded targets (heap corruption, memory leaks, etc.)

Alcatel Network Systems (5/15/95 - 7/12/96)

Developed service applications for ATM switches. Developed framework for encapsulating Versant database for 'C++' application development across two groups involved in ATM-based Commercial Video Delivery products.
Developed service layer control daemons for soft real-time video delivery across networks, using TCP, UDP, and RPC as well as prorietary protocols.
Used Java to develop GUI user interface applications (providing various slices of an element management solution using a proprietary provisioning protocol) for the AN1000 ATM switch. Also, developed management backend to work with proprietary provisioning protocol for these Java applications.
Assigned to mentor several software engineers making the paradigm shift from 'C' to 'C++', while working on CMIP manager for the AN1000.
Developed network protocol test harnesses in 'Perl', developed database provisioning language and compiler, developed database browser with GUI using Motif widgets.
Developed a cgi application for documenting, formatting and viewing C++ source code stored in Clearcase.

Random Games (5/20/94 - 12/30/94)

Part of a team working on ports of 'C' and 'C++' graphics intense applications from MS Windows to Macintosh.
Presented a short series of seminars on 'C++' for 'C' programmers. (During my employment 90% of my work was 'C', but several clients were requesting 'C++' contracts; part of my job was to service early contracts and pave the way for others.)

Computers 911 (1/1/91 - 1/30/92)

Part-time, self-employed consultant doing business database management, migration between commercial and proprietary database formats, database schema design.
Design and coding of C and 8086 assembly programs to integrate 4GL (KMAN) database programs with custom built embedded environmental systems for manufacturing and research.
I also did office plant installation, getting experience with custom wire construction and installing, configuring and maintaining small LANs.

Other Background

B.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, May 13, 1995.

GPA in major 3.65/4.00, overall GPA 3.00.
Minor in French.
Minor in Russian.
Honored in Russian and French by Phi Sigma Iota, Foreign Language Honor Society.
Honored by Computer Science Department for interdisciplinary participation.

Class room trainer - C++ language, Rumbaugh's Modeling technique, desktop applications such as dBase, MS Word, etc.
Foreign Language instructor - teaching French and English as foreign languages in 100% immersion courses.
Professional windsurfing instructor.
Pedagogical trainer of foreign language instructors.
Nationally certified (certification expired) trainer of sailboard instructors.
Before beginning my career in software development, I held positions as business manager and director for a Berlitz foreign language school outside of Washington, DC with a core office staff of four and 30 - 40 part-time instructors, as a sporting specialty store manager, and as a computer retail store manager. I have also owned and operated a small business.

Tools

Languages, environments and compilers

Languages and IDE's

C++: g++, gdb, Centerline, SparkWorks, Borland C++, Symantec C++, Microsoft Visual C++, Metroworks C++, Diab Data, MRI
Java: Sun JDK's (including the MicroEdition for Palm Pilot), IBM Visual Age for Java, Kaffe.
Smalltalk: Dolphin Smalltalk, Pocket Smalltalk (Palm Pilot)
Various assemblers for x86 and 68k, trivial experience with PPC assembly
Pascal: Turbo pascal and various flavors of Pascal to C converters.
dBase III, KMAN (Knowledge Manager), BridgePoint Modeling and code generation
Perl, tcl, bash, csh, gwbasic, Visual Basic, etc.
Html, hand crafted and in various editors.
Motif and X programming
vi, gvim, emacs, xemacs, Netscape, etc.

Operating Systems

SunOS
Solaris
Linux (various flavors, all x86)
MS Windows
MS DOS
MacOS (pre v.7)
pSOS (on 68k and PPC)
PalmOS (nothing commercial yet)

Configuration Management

Clearcase
CVS - Concurrent Versions System
IBM Visual Age Repository
QVCS (Quma Version Control System)

Design

Rational Rose
Together/J, Together/C++
STP, Software Through Pictures

Business communication

Frame
Interleaf
Microsoft Office
StarOffice

References:

Available on request.