Tom Chappell

Current

• Staff Software Engineer at Alcatel-Lucent

Past

• Principal Software Engineer at Arcada Software
• Principal Software Engineer at Quest Development
• Co-Founder at TouchStone Software Corporation

• Operations Manager at House Ear Institute

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Education

• California State University-Northridge
• California State University-Northridge
• Georgia Tech

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Industry

Computer Software

Tom Chappell’s Summary

Tom Chappell’s Specialties:

OOD, OOP (16 years), Java (10 years), C++ (6 years), C

Tom Chappell’s Experience

• Staff Software Engineer

  Alcatel-Lucent

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ALA; Computer Software industry)

  1997 — Present (12 years )

  Project Lead for OmniVista 3.1, Framework lead for OmniVista, a Java-based client/server software platform to configure, manage and monitor enterprise networks of thousands of Alcatel data switches.

• Principal Software Engineer

  Arcada Software

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

  1994 — 1996 (2 years )

  Member of 'Citadel' core team, which designed and implemented a cross-platform framework in C++ that was the centerpiece of several Arcada backup products.

• Principal Software Engineer

  Quest Development

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1990 — 1994 (4 years )

  Author: Norton Backup (Norton Utilities for Macintosh 2.0), backup software, sold by Symantec.

• Co-Founder

  TouchStone Software Corporation

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1982 — 1990 (8 years )

  Co-Author: CheckIt, a PC diagnostic software suite.
  
  Author: FastBack for the Macintosh, backup software, sold by Fifth Generation Systems.
  
  Co-Author: PCWorks, a PC-to-Unix communication suite.
  
  Co-Author: MIMIX, a Unix-based CP/M emulator.

• Operations Manager

  House Ear Institute

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

  1980 — 1982 (2 years )

Tom Chappell’s Education

• California State University-Northridge

  MS , Computer Science , 2004 — 2007

  Currently on hiatus at Northridge, waiting for CSUN to get their Master's program in Software Engineering up and running, with an eye towards changing specialties (from Computer Science).

• California State University-Northridge

  BS , Computer Science , 2002 — 2004

• Georgia Tech

  Information and Computer Science 1974 — 1979

Additional Information

Tom Chappell’s Interests:

Software Engineering

Tom Chappell’s Groups:

ACM, IEEE.

•    Xylan Alumni

Tom Chappell’s Honors:

United States Patent #6,785,698, "Instance-Reduction Algorithm for Garbage-Collected Language", 2004.

Cal State Northridge Computer Science Academic Performance Award, given to one outstanding student in each graduating class, 2004.

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