Earl W. Hood

Various consulting services, including product development, web application development, technical and electronic publication, content management, and open source software.

Clients

PBM Associates, Inc: 3/2008 - current

Really Strategies, Inc: 7/2009 - 2/2012

Hewlett-Packard: 1/2006 - 9/2008

Hewlett-Packard: 1/2003 - 4/2003

• Architect of key components of Goodmail Systems' secure stamping system for email:
  • Format of stamps within email.
  • Stamping process.
  • Stamp validation process.
  • Overall security model.
• Bootstrapped the company's initial development system
• Developed initial set of cryptographic- and stamp-related libraries utilizing OpenSSL.

Provided guidance and effort in the porting of research, academic-oriented work into commercial, production quality work · Designed and developed C++ API for a Question & Answering product that uses natural language processing · Developed and maintain C/C++ utility library for use within LCC products · Established source code management respository using CVS and a collection of Perl scripts I developed to automate source code management tasks · Developed (GNU) makefiles for managing the compilation of projects for multiple programming languages: C/C++, Java, Perl.

• Co-architect of a collaborative wireless classroom learning system utilizing Java, Perl, Apache, Tomcat, and XML, under Solaris, Linux, and Win32.
• Design, develop, and maintain core Java application library, which includes:
  • Proprietary message system supporting asynchronous and sychronous message delivery that can adapt to multiple application network protocols (e.g. HTTP). Messaging based on a point-to-point queuing model with message delivery relay support.
  • Servlet-based framework for web application development.
  • General utilities like caches, application property resource management, thread pooling, and jar file merging. Created non-synchronized versions of some JDK classes for improved runtime performance.
• Software project administration:
  • CVS repository management.
  • Cross-language software build management using GNU make.
  • Automated nightly build and release processes developed in Perl.
  • Tools to auto-generate template source code from technical specifications.
• Miscellaneous tasks: technical consultation to colleagues, system administration, QA rollover procedures.

• Web application development for Excite@Home broadband content service:
  • Designer and developer of a server-side application framework in Java:
    • Page layout management.
    • Reusable page components.
    • Encapsulation and management of various server-side data repositories.
    • Debugging modes.
    • Utility classes.
  • Development and maintenance of core server application library built on top of the Java Servlet API:
    • HTML component library to help support a consistent look across applications and web browsers by hiding the rendering differences of browsers and to promote better reusability of visual components:
      • Font and color settings.
      • Font and color inheritence.
      • Markup minimization to reduce page size.
      • Automatic generation of CSS styles and/or FONT elements.
    • Java-based web server (based on Tomcat 2.1).
    • Co-branding support.
    • Custom page dispatching.
    • Logging.
  • Developed various modules for the broadband news application, including: news photo viewer, full news story display, online games listing, top movie/music/tv listings, and lottery.

• Developed a multi-windowed web-based editor for the creation and editing of cover pages for @Home's news and sport channels:
  • Client-side interface implemented in JavaScript and HTML.
  • Service-side implemented in Perl, invoked via standard CGI or Apache::Registry module running under Apache's mod_perl.

Taught evening courses related to Internet and WWW technologies.

• X/Motif development for Quadritek's main product QIP, an IP management software product for large corporate TCP/IP networks:
  • Design and implement hierarchical and table views with the help of Microline's widget library.
  • Create custom event handlers and action routines to extend widget behavior.
  • Design and implement HTML-based help system.
  • Icon/image management.
  • Application X resource management.
  • Reusable widget component development to reduce redundant code.
  • Troubleshoot X/Motif technical problems.

• Designed and implemented QIPxpress: a web/Perl application for managing and configuring Quadritek/Lucent's DHCP and DDNS/DNS servers with optional LDAP support. Application designed to run under WinNT and Unix systems with a variety of HTTP servers (Apache, Netscape, and IIS).

• Administrator and co-developer for large on-line community project:
  • Project component development using C, C++ and Perl programming languages; CGI; Netscape API (NSAPI); Sybase Open Client; NetGravity API; SybPerl.
  • Developed source code and configuration management software for the entire project using SCCS and Perl.
  • Netscape Suitespot server administration.
  • Sapphire/Web project administration.
  • Software packaging, distribution, and installation.
  • Designed and authored technical documentation.
  • Unix (Solaris) administration.
  • Sub-project integration.
  • Technical consulting for colleagues.

• Developed a pipelined-based conversion process in Perl for migrating the Physicians' Desk Reference SGML source from an in-house legacy main-frame typesetting system to newer Xyvision XPP-based system.

• Document analysis and design · Document conversion and processing · Technical consulting on SGML, WWW, and other related technologies · Perl course development and instruction · Sun Sparc Solaris 2.5 system administration, including: third party software installation/compilation; peripheral installation (memory, disk-drives, etc); user account management; and sendmail configuration

Technical SGML consulting on projects · Course development and training for SGML and SGML software · Software development using the following tools: Perl, C and C++ programming languagues; DynaText SIT; X/Motif; SCCS · Unix consulting for colleagues · Unix system administration on Solaris 2.4 and 2.5 systems, including: NIS+ administration; sendmail configuration; software compilation and installation; and X environment configuration.

• Co-designer and developer of an electronic SGML document viewer:
  • Designed and implemented C++ wrapper library around Xt Intrinsics and X/Motif libraries.
  • Co-designed and implemented C++ wrapper library to DynaText v2.x Full System Integrator's Toolkit (SIT) from Inso Corporation for SGML document rendering and searching.
  • Developed code to provide additional functionality not supported by the SIT.

• SGML, WWW, and Unix consulting for colleagues · Research WWW technologies · Document filter development in Perl for FrameMaker, HTML, and SGML documents · SGML DTD analysis using Perl · Graphics processing and format conversion · Web server administration · Unix administration on HP-UX 9.x workstations and C240 computer.

Assist campus research faculty to visualize scientific data with the aid of the Application Visualization System (AVS) and other graphic related software · AVS module development, emphasizing image/volume processing on DEC and Sun workstations and a C240 supercomputer · System administrative tasks on the C240: software compilation and installation, and system accounting.

Interned with the visualization group responsible for the port and development of the Application Visualization System (AVS) on Convex C-series computers · Image and volume processing module development · Exposed to the development cycle of a commercial software product.

Helped students with lab assignments for a computer graphics course · Assisted instructor in the grading of lab assignments.