James Chappell

Current

Senior Software Engineer at Object Computing Inc

Past

Consultant at Solution Consultants
Consultant at CS Solutions, Inc.
Consultant at SyllogisTeks

Consultant at Daugherty Systems
Senior Programmer/Analyst at Concepts ETI
Programmer/Analyst at Ship Analytics
Graduate Assistant at John Carroll University

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Education

John Carroll University
John Carroll University

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Industry

Computer Software

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James Chappell’s Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Object Computing Inc

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

April 2004 — Present (5 years 8 months)

* Currently developing software used in monitoring waste water quality. This software is written in Visual C++ and C# and includes interfacing with equipment in the field (via TCP/IP and modem connections) and includes code for accessing Oracle and SQL Server databases.

* Developed a system using OpenDDS and X Windows to demonstrate the feasibility of using inexpensive hardware running Linux to implement an Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS).

* Migrated a large system from IONA ORBIX 3.0.1 to ACE TAO 1.3a.

* Support the OpenDDS implementation, in C++, of the OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS).
Consultant

Solution Consultants

(Computer Software industry)

September 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 7 months)

* Developed software in C/C++. This software runs on Sun workstations using Oracle and Tuxedo.

* Managed software change control (using PVCS and custom scripts written in ksh and Perl).
Consultant

CS Solutions, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

June 2002 — September 2002 (4 months)

(sort term project) Modified parallel virtual machine (PVM) software used to do computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculations in order to make the PVM software work in a truly heterogeneous environment.

This work consisted of rewriting Unix shell scripts in Perl with the goal of being able to configure both Unix workstations and Windows PC's as nodes in a parallel virtual machine.
Consultant

SyllogisTeks

(Computer Software industry)

June 1996 — December 2001 (5 years 7 months)

* Participated in the design and implementation of an automatic software change control system. This system consists of a GUI client written in Microsoft Visual C++ running on Windows NT, non GUI programs written in Microsoft Visual C++ running on Windows NT servers,and UNIX shell scripts running on a workstation running HP-UX. All these components connect to a common Oracle database.

* Developed software for extracting news articles from wire services

* Developed software enhancements for a work force management system
Consultant

Daugherty Systems

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

September 1993 — May 1996 (2 years 9 months)

* Provided C++ expertise to a client in St. Louis - this work includes participation in the development of a user interface for a telecommunications application (using the Zinc Application Frameworks under UNIX)

* Developed scientific analysis software used in bio-medical diagnostic equipment
Senior Programmer/Analyst

Concepts ETI

(Privately Held; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

June 1992 — August 1993 (1 year 3 months)

Developed MS Windows based graphical user interface (using Microsoft C 7.00 and the XVT Portability Toolkit) for a program used to design compressors - this program consists of New MS Windows code and old FORTRAN code and will be used as a model for migrating other programs to Windows
Programmer/Analyst

Ship Analytics

(Maritime industry)

1988 — 1992 (4 years )

* Designed and coded software used in complex, state of the art shiphandling simulators sold to commercial and military customers

* Designed a feedback system utilizing X Windows to analyze simulator research data and to be used by instructors to evaluate student performance
* Improved hydrodynamic modeling software

* Designed new utilities and updated existing utilities used to build databases for the simulator's visual, radar, and environmental subsystems

* Provided configuration management for new releases of software

* Provided on site technical support for shiphandling simulators purchased by the Korea Maritime Training and Research Institute in Pusan, Korea and the Indian Navy in Cochin, India
Graduate Assistant

John Carroll University

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

June 1985 — August 1987 (2 years 3 months)

* Conducted research on macromolecules
* Applications Programmer, Fluids Research Group
* System Administrator for Physics Department computers running UNIX
* Instructor, Introductory Physics Laboratory

James Chappell’s Education

John Carroll University

MS , Physics , 1985 — 1987

Thesis: "Hydrodynamic Interactions and Diffusion of Bovine Serum Albumin"

Activities and Societies:

Sigma Pi Sigma
John Carroll University

BS , Physics , 1981 — 1985

Activities and Societies:

Band, Phi Theta Mu