John Labovitz

Current

Programmer & Consultant at John Labovitz Consulting, LLC (Self-employed)

Past

Architect, Senior Software Engineer at Watchguard Technologies, Inc.
GNN Technical Director, Webmaster at O'Reilly & Associates
Programmer at Potomac Scheduling Company

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Information Technology and Services

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John Labovitz’s Summary

With over 25 years in the software and communication industries, I am well versed in the technologies, tools, and platforms. A deep interest in communication technologies has given me wide exposure in the fields of advertising, publishing, photography, web applications, and audio production.

My expertise includes Macintosh and UNIX systems; network design, servers, protocols, and security; fault-tolerant architecture, embedded systems, system daemons and interprocess communication; text processing and data normalization; print/web/RSS/email publishing; user-interface, graphic, and information design; source code management and build tools; and intellectual property issues such as licenses, copyrights, and trademarks.

John Labovitz’s Specialties:

OS X-based desktop and mobile (iPhone/iPod) systems: desktop applications, system services, and plugin bundles. User interface implementation, color management, graphics and typography, networking, XML and HTML generation/parsing, interapplication communication and notifications, internationalization, data persistence, audio processing, help and documentation systems, automatic software updates, installation packages, build systems, debugging, and performance testing.

John Labovitz’s Experience

Programmer & Consultant
John Labovitz Consulting, LLC (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2004 — Present (4 years 10 months)

Provide Macintosh development and consulting services to individuals and organizations. Research and implement workflows that help people be more efficient, productive, and happier. Advise/design, implement/develop, help with purchasing, install, train, and maintain/repair.
Architect, Senior Software Engineer

Watchguard Technologies, Inc.

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

October 1996 — April 2001 (4 years 7 months)

Designed and implemented application-level protocol proxies, including HTTP and SMTP. Implemented spam-blocking and URL-filtering software. Served as architect on next-generation content-filtering technology.
GNN Technical Director, Webmaster

O'Reilly & Associates

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

October 1993 — May 1995 (1 year 8 months)

Managed technical publishing system for Global Network Navigator, the first commercial web-based magazine on the Internet. Design and coded early information-oriented advertising. Automated publishing of NCSA What's New, at that time a popular listing of new sites on the fledgling web. Helped guide transition of GNN to AOL, who purchased the site in 1995.
Programmer

Potomac Scheduling Company

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1984 — 1987 (3 years)