Earl W. Hood

Lead architect and developer of NSIV, an Interactive Electronic Technical Publication (IETP) viewer for NAVAIR supporting S1000D and other military document specifications.

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

Clients

EPS Corporation
PBM Associates, Inc:

RSI Content Solutions:

Hewlett-Packard:

Hewlett-Packard:

• 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.

• 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