Gilbert Healton

Gilbert Healton

Consulting Software Engineer at Numara Software

Greater New York City Area

Current
Past
  • software engineer at lumeta
  • Consulting at GH Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
  • Consultant at Los Angeles Times
  • Sr. Linux Software Engineer at Ariel Corp
  • Sr. Software Engineer at Tyco Telecommunications, Ltd.
  • Sr. Software Engineer Consultant at AT&T Labs
  • Staff Software Engineer III at Information International Inc
  • software engineer at tal-star

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Education
  • California State University-Fullerton
  • Fullerton College
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Gilbert Healton’s Summary

Software development in various UNIX environments since 1988. C , Perl, shell scripts with all their friends, C++, socket programming, and more. Unlike most programmers I actually write to write documentation and design plans. If I stand back and squint, I have spent a lot of time working on programs that move data in odd ways around within computers of between computers. System programming is another area I seem to keep coming back to.

Have wide ranging interests so I don't consider myself stuck in any one industry.

Been in the business a long time and like to see my software working well, doing its job. Worked as a regular employee most of the time, but have done both W2 and 1099 consulting.

Have a job for me? Visit my resume.healton.net web site!

Gilbert Healton’s Specialties:

UNIX, especially OO perl, C, and shell scripts with all their friends. HTML; Designing and documenting software applications; full software life-cycles; mentoring.

Gilbert Healton’s Experience

  • Consulting Software Engineer

    Numara Software

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    September 2008 — Present (11 months)

    Consulting through Consultis (http://www.consultis.com/).

    Working for Numara Professional Services to add custom features to perl web applications, with Java Script, that runs in multiple operating systems, including Linux and Microsoft Windows.

    Use of VMware virtual machines, Solaris, Linux, Microsoft Windows NT operating systems.

  • Consulting Software Engineer

    Avaya

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AV; Telecommunications industry)

    January 2008 — July 2008 (7 months)

    Consultant from Case Interactive

    Enhancing a legacy product to have new functionality.

    Accessing Informix database from embedded SQL and perl's DB::Informix module to select and dump data to migrate it to a new system.

    Special middleware daemon to transfer files using FTP protocol between different servers following requirements of

  • Sr. Software Develper

    CheetahMail

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EXPN.L; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    March 2007 — December 2007 (10 months)

    Worked on existing perl application for providing bulk E-mail under Apache mod_perl.

  • software engineer

    vonage

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    2006 — 2007 (1 year)

    Software developer in NMS area that used existing and custom tools to monitor the network.

    Extensive work in OO-Perl and shell scripts. Also wrote much documentation. Some SNMP polling, and other work.

  • software engineer

    lumeta

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    March 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 5 months)

    Developer in multiple areas...

    When Lumeta enhanced their product to become a distributed product it was my job to set up secure communications between the systems while keeping changes to existing code to a minimum.

    After that I inherited the "system install" and upgade processes for manufacturing systems inhouse and upgrading customer systems in the field.

  • Consulting

    GH Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

    July 2000 — March 2004 (3 years 9 months)

    Setting up Linux system as router for wireless ISPs using 802.11(b) networking. Included extra logic to better restrict network access to registered users and restrict bandwidths of users. The maximum bandwidth of each user can be individually set to prevent one user from saturating the channel. Generating graphic charts for web page reports. [Red Hat 7.1, 2.4 Linux kernel, Linux traffic shaper shapecfg, arp, route, kernel modules, TCP/IP network, IPC, Linux administration, Apache administration, SSI, Perl, C, cgi-bin, CGI.pm, JavaScript, requirements capture, development, documentation, burning CDs, delivery]
    Enhancing software previously written for Los Angeles Times. [requirements capture, documentation, AIX, C, ditroff, PostScript, shell scripts]
    Technical writing [Ms Word, HTML].

  • Consultant

    Los Angeles Times

    (Public Company; Publishing industry)

    May 2001 — March 2002 (11 months)

    Enhance and upgrade software delivered from prior consulting work for Times On Demand.

  • Sr. Linux Software Engineer

    Ariel Corp

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    March 2000 — March 2001 (1 year 1 month)

    Company Closed
    Business: RAS (Remote Access Service) products
    Position: Linux Software Engineer (Red Hat).

    Fixed problems in the Linux Kernel causing system crashes under heavy loads. Enhanced kernel's net/core/dev.c to support more network devices [C, make, rpm].
    Fixed bugs in pppd and ipppd processes to reduce zombie processes [C, shell scripts, make, rpm].
    Primary assignment: Linux device driver for the analog modem portion of Ariel's RS4200 product for up to 96 modems, 182 in dual-board, on a single computer over four T1 or E1 lines [C, make, shell scripts, distributed application, queues, kernel modules, defect tracking, requirements capture, software testing].

  • Sr. Software Engineer

    Tyco Telecommunications, Ltd.

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    January 2000 — July 2000 (7 months)

    Formally Tyco Submarine Systems, Tycom Submarine Systems, AT&T Submarine until spun off from AT&T and purchased by Tyco.

    Business: lay and service undersea fiber optic cables
    Position: Sr. Software Engineer in AIX environment.

    Primary job was helping to maintain and enhance "Line Monitoring Equipment" (LME) product in an ISO-9001 environment and heavy networking. The LME is part of a larger networked family of systems purchased by TSSL customers for operating undersea fiber optic cables for major communications companies. The LME involves complex hardware where my knowledge of hardware and software proved very useful. [AIX, C, make, shell scripts, Perl, IPC, SQL, distributed application]

  • Sr. Software Engineer Consultant

    AT&T Labs

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

    July 1996 — January 2000 (3 years 7 months)

    Business: Research and support for AT&T telecommunications

    Position: Sr. Software Engineer in multiple environments.

    Part of a department that provided technical consulting services to internal AT&T customers during times of high work or when the challenge is technically beyond them.

    Was technical lead and point man for the AT&T Labs Y2K office. Overlooked all Y2K operations within AT&T Labs.

    Migrated large billing application from IBM mainframe to more cost effective Sun Solaris operating system.

    Other smaller projects as well.

  • Staff Software Engineer III

    Information International Inc

    (Printing industry)

    1980 — 1992 (12 years)

    Software developer in the pre-press publishing arena. Company sold equipment for scanning, composition, page make up, and typesetting to major publishers around the world. Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Boeing Aircraft, McDonnell Douglas, Dallas Morning News, and t he Phoenix Republic and Arizona Gazette are just some major users of my software.

    Started as an assembler programmer using a clone of the PDP/15 computer. At the end was using Sun systems using an early Solaris, though most of my work was on earlier SunOs systems. Lots of UNIX, C, shell script and network experience here.

  • software engineer

    tal-star

    (Computer Software industry)

    1974 — 1980 (6 years)

    Software developer in pre-press publishing industry. Mostly assembler and Fortran with some C in the final years of the companies' life. Assemblers included GA-1830, Computek-200, and GA SPC-16 assemblers.

    Was responsible for a broad range of products, including writing software for an early text-editing terminal used at newspapers and other publishers for writing articles and stories on. Lots of systems programming on multiple OSs.

    Really seeking connections for Tal-Star coworkers that remember me.

Gilbert Healton’s Education

  • California State University-Fullerton

    1972 — 1974

  • Fullerton College

    Electrical Engineering 1970 — 1972

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