http://roderickmann.org/resume/

Roderick Lee Mann

650 576-7170 cell
510 903-1120 fax

Principals only, please.

An experienced C++ Macintosh and Java server-side software engineer with a background in object-oriented design, application frameworks, general user interface development and system API development. Substantial embedded circuit design and development experience.

Team player, works independently, learns quickly and completes work thoroughly. Driven to come through in a crunch.

References Available

Experience

Latency: Zero, President

Dec. 2001 - Present

Belmont, CA

Designed and developed a High-definition component analog video and digital audio selector. 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.

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

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

Wide-ranging C++ shareware and freeware development for Mac OS, from games to utilities.

Apr. 1992 - Present

General computer consulting services for various clients including:

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

KeepMedia, Inc., Sr. Software Engineer

June 2003 - Present

Redwood Shores, CA

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-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.

Shutterfly, Inc., Lead Mac OS Engineer

Aug. 1999 - Nov. 2001

Redwood City, CA

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.

Apple Computer, Inc., Engineer/Scientist II

Apr. 1995 - Aug. 1999

Cupertino, CA

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.

Electronics for Imaging, Inc., Software Engineer

Jun. 1997 - Dec. 1997

San Mateo, CA

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

Visual Concepts Entertainment, Inc., Software Engineer

Sep. 1994 - Feb. 1995

San Rafael, CA

Ported and enhanced Toughman Contest from Sega Genesis to Genesis 32X, published by Electronic Arts. Significant embedded development effort (Hitatchi SH2 and Motorola 68K).

Knowledge Revolution, Inc., Software Engineer

Aug. 1992 - Mar. 1993

San Francisco, CA

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

Articulate Systems, Inc., Software Engineer

Aug. 1989 - Oct. 1990

Berkeley, CA & Cambridge, MA

Worked in a team to develop a voice-recognition system (Voice Navigator II), in C++; developed an application to teach the computer to recognize command words. Product included hardware and software design.

Education

B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
H.S. Diploma, American School of Lima, Lima, Peru.

Skills

Electrical Engineering

Xilinx FPGA development
Atmel AVR development work with GNU C
Microchip PIC development work in PIC assembly.
PC board development of moderate complexity, including high-speed analog (50 MHz) and low-speed digital (20 MHz) design
Real-time, preemptive, multitasking software design
Mechanical engineering in the design of mobile robots and product enclosures
Mechatronics
Embedded digital feedback control systems
Signals & Systems, including Digital Signal Processing

High-level Languages

Highly proficient in C++ and general object-oriented design principles and patterns.
Highly procicient in enterprise Java and the Servlet API.
Experience with SOM for MacOS.
Atmel AVR, Microchip PIC, PowerPC, 680x0, SH2 assembly.
Unix tcsh, csh, ksh. AppleScript.
Fluent Spanish, some Japanese (both spoken and written).

Server & Networking

Proficient in Java server-side development including JSP, Java Servlets and Struts, including J2SE/J2EE, JDBC, EJB, JNDI, JMX, XML, and additional technologies.
Resin, Tomcat, Apache & JBoss servers.
Database programming under MySQL and Oracle.
Advanced Ant development (including custom tasks) & Maven.

Graphics & Simulation

Work in simulation and modeling of physical phenomena.
General computer graphics knowledge, focusing on the use of 2D and 3D APIs
Familiar with the processes of modeling & animation, behavioral and physical simulation; numerous rendering and image processing techniques.

Mac OS

Complete and thorough knowledge of the Mac OS, both OS 9 and OS X, including Graphics (QuickDraw, Quartz, OpenGL, QuickTime), Networking, Devices, Apple Events.
Extensive and varied C++ application development experience.
Driver-level development experience, including USB under Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. Wrote extensions to the USB HID specification for flight simulation.
Mac OS development tools including XCode & CodeWarrior.
Mac OS frameworks, especially PowerPlant.

Other OS

Commercial development experience with Java servlets and Apache/Tomcat and Resin on Linux and Mac OS X.
Developed for BeOS using Application Kit. (Even wrote something similar to the Application Kit for NuKernel).
Familiarity with Unix on a number of platforms: Mac OS X (BSD), MkLinux, AIX, IRIX, Solaris and A/UX.
Preferred development environment is Metrowerks or XCode and Java or C++ and PowerPlant.
Familiar with a number of other tools: IAR embedded IDE; GNU development tools.