Roy Watson 132
Northshore Drive, Burlington, Vermont 05408 Phone: [Send email to request phone number] 63-3158
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Experience:
I have been contract programming for over 26+ years. My experience is in
multiple programming languages/environments, hardware platforms and operating
systems from mainframe computers to embedded systems. I have developed solutions
for clients in diverse industries including Aerospace, Financial, Health,
Entertainment, Retail, Wholesale, Recreation, GIS, Defense and Homeland Security
to name a few. I have been intimately involved in all phases of many projects,
including conception, design, development and the final rollout and support
A small sampling of my clients include Boeing, Sybase, Charles Schwab, NASA,
Delorme, Thermo Scientific, Dartmouth Medical College, Altec Lansing, Jackson
National Life Insurance, and many, many others. Many of these clients have been
repeat clients over a period of several years.
Below is a sampling of my experience with the technologies listed for each
industry. Many other technologies were utilized in my other projects. The list of
technologies is long and can be provided by request.
Aerospace:
Technologies: C/C++/Assembler/Unix/Embedded
Involved with a team of programmers and engineers to design and development of
instrumentation and control for experi-mental launch vehicles. I was involved in
the coding of on-board systems in Assembly and “C” as well as “C” routines for
ground based data collection and control on UNIX systems
Aviation/Marine:
Technologies: C/C++/Linux/Windows/Embedded/SQL Server:
Developed prototype 3-D moving map display including GPS interface, FAA data
decoding/encoding, geospacial projec-tion and datum transformation software as
well as data compression. I also developed the display software utilizing
em-bedded Linux and OpenGL graphics
Developed Ethernet transceiver modules to facilitate remote sensor connectivity,
sensor redundancy and “plug and play” enumeration of connected sensors
Defense/Homeland Security:
Technologies: C/C++/Linux/Windows/Embedded/XML:
Involved in several nuclear radiation measurement projects. The first was a
portable radiation detection and measurement system. This was an embedded
application written in “C” that detected/measured radiation levels and displayed
them in a format chosen by the user from many options. The device automated many
tasks that, until this device, had to be done manually and were tedious,
time-consuming and error prone. The device is used extensively in nuclear power
facilities as well as many secure government/military labs.
Contracted as the software project manager to develop a ground breaking
radiation detection device to protect ports-of-entry and military installation
entry points. This project was co-funded by the Department of Energy through
Sandia Na-tional Labs/Los Alamos National Labs and the Department of Defense. The
innovation in this device was its ability to not only detects nuclear radiation
in a passing vehicle, but its ability to reliably identify any and all isotopes
involved. It is im-portant to note that such mundane products as Bananas and
Kitty Litter routinely trip radiation monitors causing expensive and time
consuming searches of truck trailers and cargo containers. This is especially
important in that only some isotopes indicate the presence of a threat. The
device was initially tested at the Port Authority of New York. The device was
imme-diately successful in reducing the number of necessary vehicle searches from
over 1000 to less than half a dozen on a typi-cal day. I designed and coded at
least 80% of the embedded application, including the algorithm responsible for
the isotope identification. This was accomplished in C++ on an embedded Linux
platform. I was solely responsible for the internal code that reported both
system health and detection events to the outside world. These routines were
coded in C++ and communicated with the proper authorities via XML over
Ethernet/Internet/ DARP Anet
Financial:
Technologies: Vista/C/C++/WINDOWS/ASP/ADO/VBSCRIPT:
Managed/coded a project to develop a “proof of concept” and working framework
for an on-line securities trading system. I recommended and architected a server
platform based on MS Windows Server, MS Internet Information Server and MS SQL
Server. I coded several ISAPI server extensions in C++ that managed security
quotation and secure transaction proc-essing. The client side software was
developed in MS Visual C++ and MS Visual Basic communicating with the server side
via Winsock calls. The client side consisted of remote applications and ActiveX
custom controls. Active Server Pages (ASP) and ADO was used to provide
server-side VB Scripted dynamic web pages for access to the trading system via
the WWW. I was the primary coder for these components as well
Managed/coded a project to port an existing, established client/server product
to the Windows Vista platform with full Vista compliance. The project consisted
of numerous modules written in C, C++, and C#. It was a hybrid of managed and
unmanaged code. Vista compliance required, among other things, significant
re-architecture of the GUI app, the Server app and constituent windows services.
Insurance:
Technologies: C/C++/Visual Basic/Perl/Windows/Linux/UNIX/AIX:
Coded, documented and supported most aspects of the enterprise Workflow and
Document storage and retrieval systems of a multi-billion dollar life insurance
company. Workflow was a combination of Kofax’s Ascent Capture and FileNet’s
Vis-ual Workflow. The document storage and retrieval system was powered by
FileNet. The system included off-site mirroring for compliance
HealthCare:
Technologies: C/C++/ Windows/ Palm OS/Mac OS:
Developed a mobile application for Diagnostic data collection for Dartmouth
College School of Medicine under a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
The application collected data while physicians/students performed their rounds.
Pe-riodically, the data would be uploaded to the hospitals database to be
utilized in updating patient records, physician respon-sibility reporting and
medical student requirements fulfillment. Data was eventually shared with the
facilities billing sys-tem. The handheld/mobile application was developed in “C”
while the agent responsible for updating the mainframe data-bases was written in
C++
Entertainment:
Technologies: C/C++/ Linux/Palm OS:
Assisted in the development of an embedded Linux based Digital Audio Recorder,
the precursor to today’s TIVO and other DVR systems. The system would allow
“ripping” of the customers existing CD collection and interface to, the then new
crop of, online music vendors for broad spectrums of music choices. I developed
the embedded Linux configuration and coded the appliance application in C++. I
also developed both the hardware and software for a prototype remote control for
this system. The embedded firmware was a hybrid of Assembler and “C”
Retail/Wholesale:
Technologies: C/C++/Visual Basic/Linux/Windows:
Numerous modifications and/or add-ons to enable custom functionality for
client’s back-end accounting systems including A/R, A/P, Payroll, G/L and
inventory management. The languages used for these modifications were dictated by
the exist-ing legacy systems. They included COBOL, Pascal, BASIC as well as
arcane systems developed in FORTRAN
Recreation:
Technologies: C/C++/Visual Basic/Windows/Palm OS/ADO/ASP/SQL Server:
Developed a Palm OS based mobile Golf Scorecard in “C”. The software would log
scoring/statistical data as well as refe-ree in several dozen wagering scenarios.
A C++ based “conduit” would upload all data to the users’ desktop computer where
a Visual Basic application would allow the user to review his performance data in
numerous formats including graphical. Many aspects of a player’s performance were
collected and analyzed.
This project led to a customized version that was developed for Sybase Inc. to
showcase their newly announced SQL Any-where Studio. In this off-shoot, the data
reporting was done wirelessly, in real-time, and was synchronized with Sybase’s
Database Server software. The system was developed as part of Sybase’s
sponsorship of several European PGA events. It was very successfully used to
provide real-time scoring/statistical data to views through web portals and to
the TV net-works. My involvement in the golf industry continued when I was hired
to develop an online Golf Tournament manager for a dot.com startup. The system
allowed members to organize all aspects, from registration to meals and
accommodations, of a golf tournament. Tournaments included corporate junkets,
collegiate/scholastic competitions and local club/league tour-naments as well as
regional or national for-profit tournaments. The system handled everything
including, enrollment, bill-ing, meals selection, room reservations, and
transportation and extra curricular events. Arbitration of all details was
han-dled between event organizers, participants and host facilities. This web
based application was developed entirely in VBScript and JavaScript on Active
Server Pages (ASP) using ADO to communicate with several MS SQL Server
data-bases
GIS:
Technologies: C/C++/MFC/Visual Basic/Windows/Palm OS/SQL Server, My SQL, Perl:
Developed the framework of a mobile device that displays real-time location data
and maps for a leading vendor of digital mapping products.
Involved in the correlation of geographic data from numerous diverse government
agencies that can be used to report real-time positional and situational
information to aviation and maritime consumers. This system required several
distinct soft-ware products to assemble the dissimilar data into a format which
could be easily interwoven into the required output. Various stages in this
transformation were accomplished using Visual C/C++, SQL, and Visual Basic
Education:
Purdue University: 1977- 1979
Major: Physics
Minor: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering.
Work Study Job: Programming of dual CDC6500 mainframe computers controlling a
100m Van de Graaff linear particle accelerator for high-energy physics research
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