Jon Reid

Current

Software Contractor at Data Robotics

Past

Computer Scientist (Testing Tools) at Adobe Systems
Senior Software Engineer (iWork) at Apple
Software Engineer (Contractor) at Adobe Systems

Computer Scientist (Adobe Dialog Manager) at Adobe Systems
Software Engineer (ClarisWorks-J) at Claris

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Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Purdue University

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Industry

Computer Software

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Jon Reid’s Summary

20 years of professional programming experience, with over 10 years in Silicon Valley. Excellent inter-personal skills.

Jon Reid’s Specialties:

Modern C++, Objective-C, test-driven development (TDD), API design, cross-platform code, plug-in components, internationalization

Jon Reid’s Experience

Software Contractor

Data Robotics

(Privately Held; Computer Hardware industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)

Doing development of Drobo Dashboard host application: Cocoa on Mac, and .NET (Managed C++) on Windows.
Computer Scientist (Testing Tools)

Adobe Systems

(Public Company; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

February 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 11 months)

Wrote tool to measure perceptual differences between two images. Shoehorned standard Python unit testing into a pre-existing sytem not designed to do unit testing. Wrote C++ testing harness to support API-level component testing, and set up smoke tests to be run on every submission. Taught test coding principles and promoted unit testing.
Senior Software Engineer (iWork)

Apple

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)

August 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 6 months)

Test-driven development of new code and changes to existing code in Pages and iWeb. Personally wrote over 80% of the tests executed on every automated build of Pages.
Software Engineer (Contractor)

Adobe Systems

(Public Company; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

April 2005 — July 2005 (4 months)

Domain-specific testing harness designed to be used by both developers and testers. Used STL, Boost, and Adobe Source Libraries. Contributed new iterator types to Adobe Source Libraries.
Computer Scientist (Adobe Dialog Manager)

Adobe Systems

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

March 1998 — November 2003 (5 years 9 months)

Adobe Dialog Manager (ADM) was a plug-in component providing a cross-platform user interface API. Developed a new architecture supporting a new UI infrastructure while maintaining backwards compatibility. Demonstrated that GUI unit testing is possible in the new architecture.
Software Engineer (ClarisWorks-J)

Claris

(Computer Software industry)

April 1996 — February 1998 (1 year 11 months)

ClarisWorks-J was a version of ClarisWorks with features specific to the Japanese market.

Jon Reid’s Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

M.S. , Computer Science , 1991 — 1993

Thesis titled "Internationalizing Emacs".
Purdue University

B.S. , Computer Science , 1980 — 1984

Activities and Societies:

PMO University Choir, Repertory Dance Company, Society for Creative Anachronism, Fowler Courts