Earl W. Hood

<http://www.earlhood.com/>

Summary

Creative and versatile individual with recognized experience in web and Internet technologies. Experienced in distributed application design and development in Java, Perl, and C; Unix system administration; and GUI development. Created a variety of free software applications used by hundreds of users throughout the world. Proven ability to learn quickly and become an expert in a variety of technologies. Skilled at producing quality work with limited resources.

Skills

Programming/Computer Languages:: C (ANSI, K&R), C++, DSSSL, Java, JavaScript, Perl (4 & 5), Python, Omnimark, some SQL, UML, XSLT

Computer Protocols:: DHCP, DNS, FTP, HTTP, LDAP, MIME, POP3, SMTP

Document Languages:: Extensible Markup Language (XML), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), Frame Maker Interchange Format (MIF), some nroff/troff

Programming Libraries:: DOM, Java Servlet API, JavaBeans, Javamail, JDK 1.2 and later, JFC/Swing, JSP 1.1, Log4j, Microline Widget Library, Motif 1.2.x, NetGravity API Netscape API, SAX, Sybase Open Client library, OpenSSL, C++ STL, X Lib, Xt Intrinsics

Operating Systems:: ConvexOS, Dynix, HP-UX, Linux (RedHat), Solaris, SunOS 4.1.x, Ultrix, Win32.

Software:: Apache, CVS, Doxygen, DynaText, FrameMaker, IIS, Linux iptables, (GNU) make, NetGravity, Netscape 2.x Suitespot servers, Rational Rose, Sapphire/Web, sendmail, TogetherSoft ControlCenter, Tomcat, Visual SourceSafe, XDesigner, XEP, Xerces-J,

Projects

Create and maintain a variety of free Perl applications, including MHonArc: one of the top free web-based mail archivers recognized in several publications. See <http://www.earlhood.com/earlsperls.html> for more information.

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.

Co-architect of a collaborative wireless classroom learning system. Responsibilities include:
- Design, develop, and maintain core Java application library. Library 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's broadband content service. Tasks include:
- Designer and developer of a server-side application framework in Java. Framework includes:
  - 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 ontop of the Java Servlet API. Library includes:
  - 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. Rendering aspects encapsulated:
    - 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.
- Data feed processing in Perl.

Developed a multi-windowed web-based editor for the creation and editing of cover pages for @Home's news and sport channels. JavaScript and HTML is used on the client-side. Perl is used on the server-side, which can be invoked via standard CGI or the Apache::Registry module running under Apache's mod_perl.

X/Motif development on Quadritek's main product QIP: IP management software with a RDBMS backend for large corporate TCP/IP networks. Tasks include:
- 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.
- Developed reusable widget components 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 is 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:
- CGI, Netscape API (NSAPI), Sybase Open Client, NetGravity API, and Perl with SybPerl modules.
- Source code and configuration management for entire project by developing a Perl front-end to SCCS.
- 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.

Co-developed an electronic SGML document viewer:
- Designed and implemented C++ wrapper library around the Xt Intrinsics and Motif libraries for GUI development.
- 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 functionality not supported by the SIT.

Developed an SGML DTD Open Source Perl library and associated tools to assist in the analysis and documentation of SGML DTDs: <http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/perlSGML>.

Job History

Senior Consultant

Independent Contractor: Ongoing

Consulting services relating to email, SGML/XML, free software, and software development.

Consultant/Engineer

Hewlett-Packard: 1/2006 - current

Provide strategic recommendations in improving and managing XML-based authoring and publishing environment · Enhance and maintain Docbook-based XSLT transforms for PDF and HTML publications · Re-designed and re-implemented conversion process from older FrameMaker+SGML-based documents to Docbook-based XML documents, improving the conversion process time by over 4,000 percent.

Senior Architect

Goodmail Systems, Inc: 11/2003 - 8/2004

Authored key technical specification describing secure stamps for Internet mail · Bootstrapped the company's initial development system · Developed initial set of cryptographic- and stamp-related libraries utilizing OpenSSL.

Consultant

Hewlett-Packard: 1/2003 - 4/2003

Produced a 150+ page developer's guide documenting HP's custom Adobe FrameMaker+SGML 6.0 authoring environment: EDD analysis, localization procedures, custom third-party plugins analysis, including compilation and installation · Provided strategy recommendations for upgrading to FrameMaker 7.0 and the transition from SGML- to XML-based authoring · Provided advise on graphics authoring and conversion.

Software Engineer

Language Computer Corporation: 1/2002 - 2/2002

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.

Web Applications Architect

Texas Instruments: 11/2000 - 12/2001

Software design and development using the following tools: Java, Perl, Apache, Tomcat, and XML, under Solaris, Linux, and Win32 · Co-architect of a collaborative wireless classroom learning system.

Senior Software Engineer

Excite@Home: 02/1999 - 11/2000

Web application development using Java, Perl and JavaScript programming languages · Designer and developer of a server-side application framework · Developed various modules for the broadband news application · Apache (with mod_perl), administration and configuration · Provide assistance in system administration tasks · Provide technical support for Perl.

Instructor

Computer College Silicon Valley: 01/2000 - 04/2000

Taught evening courses related to Internet and WWW technologies.

Software Engineer

Lucent Technologies/Quadritek: 12/1997 - 01/1999

Web application development using Perl · X/Motif development · LDAP client application development · Web server (Apache, Netscape, IIS) administration and configuration · LDAP server (Netscape, UMich) administration and configuration · Provide assistance in system administration tasks · Provide technical support for Perl, web-related technologies, and X/Motif.

Senior Information Analyst

Reed Technology and Information Services Inc.: 10/1996 - 12/1997

Document analysis and design · Document conversion and processing · Technical consulting on SGML, WWW, and other related technologies · Software development using the following tools: Perl, C, and C++ programming languages; Netscape API for Enterprise server; Sapphire/Web; Sybase Open Client library; NetGravity API · Source code and configuration management · Perl course development and instruction · Sun Sparc Solaris 2.5 system administration, including: third party software installation/compilation; installing peripherals (memory, disk-drives, etc); user account management; and sendmail configuration

Applications Engineer

Isogen International Corp: 4/1996 - 10/1996

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.

Software Engineer

Hewlett-Packard/Convex: 8/1993 - 4/1996

Involved in the entire development process of a software product; from the requirements and design phases to implementation and distribution · C, C++, and X/Motif development · 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.

Visualization Assistant

Office of Academic Computing, UC Irvine: 6/1991 - 6/1993

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.

Software Engineer (intern)

Convex Computer Corp: 6/1992 - 8/1992

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.

Teaching Assistant

Dept of Information & Computer Science, UC Irvine: 9/1991 - 12/1991, 9/1992 - 12/1992

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

Education

College:: B.S. in Information & Computer Science from the University of California in Irvine.
Training:: C++ · Eliot Kimber's HyTime course · Introduction to Rational Rose/C++ Using UML · Java · Java Swing and XML Programming · Microsoft Access · NetGravity · Object-Oriented Analysis & Design with C++ · Omnimark Programming I & II · Practical Formatting Using DSSSL · Project Management · Sapphire/Web · TogetherSoft Java Workshop · X/Motif

Recognitions

My work has been included and/or recognized in several publications and referenced by several web sites. The following is a list of some of the publications and web sites:

BYTE Magazine
HTML & CGI Unleashed, Sams.net Publishing
The HTML Sourcebook, John Wiley & Sons Inc
Magellan
Managing Internet Information Services, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmer, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
NetGuide Live
PARSEME.1st, Prentice-Hall, Inc
Perl 5 for Dummies®, IDG Books Worldwide, Inc
Perl Conference 3.0 (Speaker), Open Source Conference
The Perl Journal
SGML CD, Prentice-Hall, Inc
SGML for Dummies®, IDG Books Worldwide, Inc
The SGML/XML Web Page
Special Edition Using SGML, Que Corporation
Yahoo

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