Tom Clark

Santa Cruz, CA

 (831) 423-8551

TomClark@Cruzio.com

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

• Sr. Software Designer with more than 15 years experience in many software engineering areas and programming languages.
• Java, J2EE, JDBC, CORBA and server side programming experience.
• Experienced in Object modeling, requirements analysis, database design, network. protocols and software configuration management.
• Two software patents for Queued I/O design.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Java programming of server side functions, including J2EE, JDBC, transactions, threading and logging. Client side programming including JSP, HTML and XML.
• Distributed and parallel computing design including the use of CORBA, distributed processes, multi-CPU systems and network protocols.
• Object modeling using UML and extraction of customer requirements into object models.
• Design Patterns, IDL, HTML & Java Script programming, XML, Java and C++ programming.
• Agile development techniques, software development and configuration management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HEWLETT PACKARD, Cupertino, CA

Sr. Software Designer                                                                                                        2002-2009

Worked on NonStop product line designing and implementing Java applications and enhancing the NonStop SQL product.

• Enhanced SQL runtime statistics for HP's Neoview product (SQL distributed database) by implementing new counters and fixing/testing defects in existing code.
• Designed and implemented parts of the Real Time Information Director product. This infrastructure software provided a database abstraction to define customer 'documents' in Java and to store, retrieve and manipulate them without writing any SQL code. Participated in an XP development environment in this group with good results.
• Designed and prototyped a content delivery application for the HP document library. This publishing application was a multi-threaded Java application that read publishing meta data from a publishing system database, created XML documents from that data, then called on indexing and taxonomy modules to render html index and navigation pages for return to the user for browser access to the library.

COMPAQ COMPUTERS

Sr. Software Designer                                                                                                        1997-2002

Worked in the customer center designing and implementing proof of concept applications and tools for customer proposals.

• Designed and implemented the key component of a real-time ATM system that processed customer ATM transactions for a major South American bank. This process handled ATM transactions and presented bank offers to ATM customers according to certain rules and customer profiles.
• Designed several Java servlets to rapidly test new functions in an airline flight search database application for a major travel search customer. Each servlet provided HTML pages with input forms, setup and test buttons to execute various functions and results from the execution.
• Designed and ran TPCW Java servlets to test Java performance on NonStop CORBA based servers. Shopping cart servlets were deployed on UNIX servers for driving the workload to the supporting CORBA database servers running on the NonStop platform.

TANDEM COMPUTERS

Sr. Software Engineer                                                                                                         1987-1997

Worked on network system code and management applications for Tandem’s distributed parallel processing computers.

• Designed and ran test and sample programs for the CORBA product. Programming was in IDL, Java and C++.
• Designed and prototyped shared memory queuing library (QIO) for network subsystems and applications to modularize and transfer network data efficiently within CPUs. Received two patents for the design that is still in use today for most of HP Nonstop protocol stacks.
• Designed and implemented Network Management application for Tandem's network subsystems.

OTHER SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCE

Software Development Manager, NESTAR SYSTEMS

Section Manager, BRAEGEN CORP 

• Managed software development group responsible for network protocols and server software.

• Managed firmware and diagnostics groups responsible for implementing and testing IBM channel controller and network terminals. Designed and implemented network protocol software for controller-to-terminal communications. Implemented CPU micro code for IBM channel controller.

EDUCATION / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

MBA  - University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA

BSEE - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Many internal Tandem/Compaq/HP classes in Java, SQL, Object Modeling & Patterns, Unix shell programming and administration, network protocols and software development.