Member of Technical Staff at Avere Systems
Greater Pittsburgh Area
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- Member of Technical Staff at Avere Systems
- Board Member at Mechling - Shakley Veterans Center
- Co-conspirator at Pittsburgh Geeks
- Past
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- Member of Technical Staff at Network Appliance
- Senior Development Engineer at TimeSys Corporation
- Senior Development Engineer at CoManage
- Principal Software Engineer at Lycos
- Software Engineer at WiseWire
- Software Engineer at Clinical Tools
- Software Developer at Great Lakes Behavioral Research Institute
- Lieutenant Junior Grade at United States Navy
- Education
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- Western Pennsylvania Theological Institute
- University of Pittsburgh
- Carnegie Mellon University
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Sam Robb’s Summary
Lead developer for applications that have targeted a variety of industries. I'm a code monkey by choice - I enjoy technology, software development, and all that is involved with the technical end of that business. If need be, I can handle traditional management tasks, but I would much rather spend time hashing out technical details on a whiteboard. My primary areas of experience include:
* Making technical evaluations and recommendations
* Gathering technical, customer and marketing requirements
* Transforming requirements into an engineering design and development plan
* Managing build and source control infrastructure
Application domains at previous positions include embedded systems development tools, porting C/C++/Java applications to various operating systems, telecom network provisioning and discovery, and custom software for internet services.
Sam Robb’s Specialties:
Linux, Windows, Cygwin, Eclipse (SWT, JFace, JDT, PDE, CDT), C/C++ (gcc, MSVC), Java (1.3/1.4), Win32 API, MFC, ATL, COM/DCOM, OCI, NSAPI, ISAPI, STL, NFS, DCE RPC
Sam Robb’s Experience
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Member of Technical Staff
Avere Systems
(Computer Software industry)
September 2008 — Present (11 months)
Software development team member.
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Board Member
Mechling - Shakley Veterans Center
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Member of the management board for the Mechling - Shakley Veterans Center in Cowansville, PA.
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Co-conspirator
Pittsburgh Geeks
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
June 1998 — Present (11 years 2 months)
Founder and Co-conspirator of the Pittsburgh Geeks, hosts of Geek Night (http://www.pghgeeks.org), an informal bi-monthly gathering of technology professionals in the Pittsburgh area.
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Member of Technical Staff
Network Appliance
(Public Company; NTAP; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 2 months)
Software development team member, working on upgrades and enhancements to the software component of Network Appliance's products. Helped design and implement aspects of Network Appliance's distributed, scalable file system product (GX).
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Senior Development Engineer
TimeSys Corporation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2001 — August 2006 (5 years 3 months)
Responsible for evaluating and recommending alternate technology platforms for the TimeSys Tools group. Helped design and implement TimeStorm 2.x and 3.x, written in Java and based on the open-source Eclipse IDE; core elements of the C/C++ automated build system we developed were contributed back to the Eclipse project. As technical lead for Tools team development, helped coordinate development of multiple Eclipse-based tools projects, enabling individual tools to work together within the same IDE. Responsible for ensuring that Eclipse-based tools were integrated with other TimeSys products. Responsible for research and recommendations regarding critical enabling technologies for component build, component packaging, product installation and licensing.
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Senior Development Engineer
CoManage
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1999 — June 2001 (2 years 6 months)
Worked extensively with ATL, COM, SQL Server, and SNMP.ISM 2.0 Senior Development Engineer. Designed and implemented general network support architecture, including 3rd party access APIs. Responsible for initial implementation of ISM 2.0 trace facility. Worked with other leads to establish coding standards and development guidelines.ISM 1.0 Senior Development Engineer. Designed and implemented modular network discovery framework for ISM 1.0. Established requirements for, designed, and implemented ISM 1.0 system trace facility.
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Principal Software Engineer
Lycos
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1998 — January 1999 (7 months)
Responsible for investigating new technologies for use by Lycos Directory team, including COM/DCOM, STL, Microsoft Active Scripting, and XML-based data interchange formats. Ported several internal libraries from MFC to STL for cross-platform use. Helped design internationalization/localization guidelines for Directory team and developed Unicode-enabled versions of internal libraries and applications. Worked with other senior developers to recommend a cross-platform source control system for use by all Lycos subsidiaries. Modified internal build system to use third-party tools for generating source code documentation.
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Software Engineer
WiseWire
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 1996 — July 1998 (2 years)
Responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining thread-safe core software libraries used to implement the WWW-based WiseWire information filtering service. Acted as version control/release manager for over two dozen internal libraries and applications. Created internal build system based on Microsoft Visual SourceSafe used by development and QA. Assisted in developing a scalable architecture for the WiseWire service based on distributed Oracle database and multiple Netscape web servers. Technical liaison for WiseWire integration with Lycos and other corporations subscribing to the WiseWire service.
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Software Engineer
Clinical Tools
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1995 — March 1996 (9 months)
Monitored and maintained office Windows NT/95 network, including Netscape HTTP server, mail server, and supporting software under Windows NT 3.51. HTML coding and standards development, CGI scripting in C\C++ under Windows NT. Analyzed and established baseline technical and programming requirements for mental health education software, and developed tools to assist in the production of educational CD-ROMs.
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Software Developer
Great Lakes Behavioral Research Institute
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 1994 — July 1995 (8 months)
Part of a small team developing accounting software for non-profit organizations in Microsoft FoxPro. Responsibilities included programming, requirements review, implementation planning, and maintenance of the project's data dictionary. Developed several tools and utilities used to integrate third-party products within the FoxPro environment.
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Lieutenant Junior Grade
United States Navy
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)
May 1991 — September 1994 (3 years 5 months)
Junior management positions; responsibilities included personnel management, maintenance scheduling, planning equipment repairs and developing operating plans under the supervision of the ship's Captain. Responsible for coordinating and carrying out the decommissioning of the ship's Operations department.
Sam Robb’s Education
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Western Pennsylvania Theological Institute
BS , Biblical Studies , 2003 — 2008
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University of Pittsburgh
Continuing post-baccalaureate education January 1995 — May 1995
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Carnegie Mellon University
BS , Metallurgical Engineering , August 1987 — May 1991
- Activities and Societies:
- Navy ROTC
Additional Information
Sam Robb’s Websites:
Sam Robb’s Interests:
Christian theology, adoption, science fiction, fantasy, Open Source Software
Sam Robb’s Groups:
Pittsburgh Geeks
New Pittsburgh Collaborative (Pittsburgh Geeks non-voting representative)
Mechling - Shakley Veterans Center
Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling contributor
Cygwin package maintainer (sunrpc, nfs-server, e2fsprogs, e2fsimage, mkcramfs, mkfs.jffs2)
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Carnegie Mellon Alumni -
On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs -
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CoManage Alumni -
Carnegie Mellon Startups
Sam Robb’s Honors:
Invited to present at the 2004 Ottawa Linux Symposium on the topic of "Creating Cross-Compile Friendly Software"
Selected by WQED and Pittsburgh Magazine as on of Pittsburgh's "40 Under 40" in 2000.
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