Richard Walker

Past

Consultant at ABIS Technologies
Senior Software Engineer at Xippix Inc.
Software Engineer at Island Graphics

Software Engineer at Computer Curriculum Corporation
Software Programmer at Childware Corp.

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Education

City College of San Francisco
Portslade Community College

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Richard Walker’s Summary

Software Consultant, ABIS Technologies, GWT & Ajax
Software Engineering, co-inventor of ImagePump, Xippix Inc.
Software Products, IslandDraw, IslandWrite, for Island Graphics
Software Products, SunPaint, SunDraw, for Island Graphics (OEM for Sun)
Software Engineering, VPL Research, for Jaron Lanier
Software Engineering, for Robert Smith, V.P. of Computer Curriculum Corp.
Software Programmer, Fortune Systems, CDEX Corp., Childware Corp.

- Adult education -- short classes or seminars in C++ (Bjarne), multi-processing and multi-threading (Sun), GWT (Google).

- Lifelong studies in Piano Performance, Interpretation, Music Theory, Composition
- Over a decade with Robert Sheldon, SF Conservatory (student of Egon Petri)
- 2 Years at City College of SF, majoring in Music, Madeline Mueller, Dept. head
- Studies at the CCSF Electronic Music Lab for Gerry Mueller
- 1 Year at Portslade Community College, Sussex, England - first class in computer science.
- 4 Years traveling and living in Spain; bilingual English/Spanish
- Taught English as a second language for 1 year in Spain
- 2 Months, accelerated French at the Alliance Française in Paris

Richard Walker’s Specialties:

- Eclipse, MyEclipse, GWT, ExtGwt, GwtExt, GwtDesigner
- C++, Java, MT and MP programming, image processing, Web Apps, Desktop Apps, Server engines, reliability, performance analysis, cache sloshing, built-in diagnostics.

- Composer, Sound Designer for an independent film by Robert Elvin
- Improvisation and "live improvised composition, no editing"
- Piano Recitals, Concerts, various venues
- Sheet Music

Richard Walker’s Experience

Consultant

ABIS Technologies

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 7 months)

Helped ABIS revamp an asset management product with an existing user base.

I used Google Web Toolkit as the key to "ajaxification" and higher responsiveness, while being faithful to a complex and professional UI design. I also used the Ext-Gwt library.
Senior Software Engineer

Xippix Inc.

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

1994 — 2001 (7 years )

Makers of ImagePump
Software Engineer

Island Graphics

(Computer Software industry)

1987 — 1994 (7 years )
Software Engineer

Computer Curriculum Corporation

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

1986 — 1987 (1 year )
Software Programmer

Childware Corp.

(Computer Software industry)

1983 — 1985 (2 years )

Development for two of Electronic Arts' educational games on Atari 1040ST and Commodore 64. Primitive development environment in Forth and 6502, supplemented by use of Electronic Arts' Logic Analyzer when necessary. Jaron Lanier consulted. D-bug was released and apparently lives on at http://www.c64.com/games/no-frame.php?searchfor_special=d&main=1

Richard Walker’s Education

City College of San Francisco

Music, English, general 1981 — 1983

Attended classes in music history, contemporary music, composition and theory.

Activities and Societies:

Music Dept. - staff accompanist, rehearsal pianist and performer for Bernstein's "Candide"
Electronic Music Lab - programmed S100-bus Z80 in Forth, synthesizer control, interactive compositions.
Portslade Community College

O level prep. 1977 — 1978

Note from school on departure, I was well on my way to passing my "O" levels.

Activities and Societies:

Computer science (BASIC language) Music theory and performance (recorder consort) Mathematics - algebra, simultaneous equations, matrices, function graphing