
Senior Software Engineer at Unify
Sacramento, California Area

Senior Software Engineer at Unify
Sacramento, California Area
I am a real estate broker, writer, and software developer, and enjoy applying all those skills simultaneously to help me lead and feed a great team of Real estate agents.
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(Real Estate industry)
Currently holds this position
(Public Company; UFYC; Computer Software industry)
2008 — Present (1 year)
At Unify I am part of a team maintaining a 4GL development tool written in C and C++ that Unify acquired when they purchased Gupta Software. My primary focus is on the so-called "router" layer, which is actually a database API and a set of drivers targeting SQLBase, Oracle via native OCI, ODBC, OLEDB, native sybase, native Informix, and others.
My current off hours and weekend projects are several early-stage web applications written in Ruby on Rails, so needless to say I'm getting steeped in Prototype and Scriptaculous as well. Did I say fat clients stunk? I never said that. Well, OK, maybe I did, but when I was saying it so was everyone else, now we've all had a sea change.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Real Estate industry)
February 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 6 months)
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Real Estate industry)
June 2002 — February 2004 (1 year 9 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1997 — June 2002 (5 years)
Projects included:
Vision Service Plan
* Architected VSP's new Member Portal application.
* Introduced JSP (Java Server Pages) into an existing Java project, training developers.
* Implemented JUnit automated unit tests, automated installs, improved builds, and other "best practices" as needed.
Dade Behring Microscan
* Created a Delphi communication layer to send instrument data to a Pharmacy patient tracking system.
fusionOne
* Wrote a custom connector in Visual C++ based on the client's API between their synch engine and an Oracle database maintained by a third party (the client's customer).
Camden Software
* Wrote a prototype of a Java User Interface for an existing character based (Synergy DBL) application.
Synergex International
* Wrote an ActiveX container DLL and APIs for adding ActiveX support to a legacy business programming language (DBL), in MFC.
* Wrote a set of printing classes providing print job persistence and print preview (Visual C++).
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1996 — July 1997 (1 year 1 month)
Software developer developing programming tools for the Synergy Programming Language (formerly DBL).
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1994 — August 1996 (2 years 3 months)
Delivered a variety of features for FedEx Ship (in Visual C++ 4.0), including classes for on-line registration, code and tools to facilitate modem detection on all Windows environments, a Universal Thunk subsystem for accessing 16-bit Windows Communications APIs from WIN32, and a variety of MFC UI features including custom controls, OLE drag and drop, and auto-lookup (in STL). On Apple's QuickTime for Windows, designed and implemented the self-extracting installation system written entirely in Visual C++ (MFC), consisting of an extensible installation program and a command line utility for binding the self-extracting files into the executable. Also assisted in the port of QuickTime for Windows, a mixed C and assembly product, to WIN32.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BORL; Computer Software industry)
1993 — 1994 (1 year)
Provided support for designing, coding, and debugging of Windows applications using OWL II, OWL I, and "legacy" Windows API techniques as a Senior Engineer on the Windows / C++ advisor line. Also participated in the development of samples and tools for the Obex Enabling Kit and the Borland Database Engine.
MA , History and Philosophy of Science , 1983 — 1985
BA , History , 1980 — 1982
Elite Properties Broker of the Year, 2006
REMAX Executive club, 2005
REMAX 100% Club, 2004