Roderick Lee Mann

Systems-level software development on proprietary embedded OS.

My own consulting business. Once manufactured and sold products. Designed and developed all aspects of the product and store, including the hardware design, firmware, mechanical engineering, packaging, website development, advertising and PR. Please visit the website to see the results.

Web application design using Java: J2SE/J2EE, JSP, Struts, JDBC, EJB, JNDI, JMX, XML, SQL, MySQL, Postgres and additional technologies.

Wide-ranging software development for Mac OS, from games to utilities.

Embedded hardware development, including USB device firmware & host drivers.

General computer consulting services for various clients including:

• KeepMedia, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA, Java Enterprise Consulting Services
• ePocrates, Inc., Foster City, CA, Mac OS Consulting Services
• Knowledge Revolution, Inc., San Francisco, CA, C/C++ Engineering Services
• Diablo Valley College., Pleasant Hill, CA, Networking
• Decor Concepts/Omni, Inc., Arcadia, CA, Color DTP & Animation

Embedded development of primary flight display.

Senior developer and architect of KeepMedia’s customer-facing web pages and client-server text search system.

• Regularly add new functionality and direct JSP authors and other engineers in Struts/Hibernate-based web application development.
• Maintain and enhance in-house OR layer.
• Develop tools for internal use, managing content flow and aspects of data integrity.
• Work directly with operations team to ensure availability of distributed web services.

Mac OS and Java server-side work:

• Led the development of the C++ software client for the Shutterfly digital photo finishing service. Implemented all versions of the Mac OS client (both Browser plugin and stand-alone software).
• Designed and implemented the second-generation UploadServer, a collection of Java Servlets running on Tomcat.
• Help design the original protocol used by Shutterfly for uploading images. Both the old and the new are based on HTTP. The new design maximized throughput by reducing the number of connections required.
• Developed several designs for scalable, high-performance upload server architectures, including both software, hardware and storage.

Significant Mac OS work:

• (All development work was in C++ using CodeWarrior)
• Responsible for various components of AppleShare IP 6.1 & 6.2, including the Facade, EasySetup and Manager.
• Designed and developed new user interface for the AppleShare IP 6.0.x server. Also developed tool to verify and repair PDS and Users & Groups files.
• Developed native Java library to provide AppleTalk networking services for Java Spooler application.
• Worked on Finder 8.0 team. Shipped as part of Mac OS 8.0.
• Converted V-Twin to use SOM, thereby allowing much easier maintenance of V-Twin clients and avoiding the fragile base class problem.
• Did performance analysis and optimization of Finder 8.0, identifying numerous algorithmic improvements.
• Redesigned the thread scheduling and command handling code in Finder 8.0 to make it more efficient and smaller.
• Developed portions of a lightweight, platform-independent application framework, reducing the development time for numerous Mac OS 8 user-experiences (FileSharing, Tutorial Access).
• Co-designed and implemented a code-driven software feature repository, called the Feature Manager, resulting in faster system boot and application launch times.
• Designed and implemented the Trigger Manager, a SOM plugin-based system service for initiating events within the Mac OS.
• Developed the first Setup Assistant, setting the stage for the development of later Assistants.

Developed Java client applications for Mac OS users to manage Fiery print resources.

Ported and enhanced Toughman Contest from Sega Genesis to Genesis 32X, published by Electronic Arts.

Designed and implemented data export code allowing WaveFront to use animation and model data generated by WorkingModel (a 2D physical simulation package).

Worked in a team to develop C a voice-recognition system (Voice Navigator II), later re-written in C++; developed an application to teach the computer to recognize command words.