Todd Perlmutter

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry

June 1999 – July 2007 (8 years 2 months)

Projects:
• Core GUI designer for the signaling product (internal product used as the core for both the DEX and NXT systems), including GUI elements that allow for a user to create signaling messages (SIP, H.323, MGCP, etc.) for transmission via a signaling server.
• Instituted several major architectural design changes using essential COM and TinyXML to achieve a more stable and stronger save/load and copy/paste architecture in the signaling product.
• Designed and implemented the GUI for the Hammer Call Analyzer (HCA, a telephony oriented protocol analyzer) as well as worked on several non-GUI components.
• Reworked several core internal elements of HCA making it a viable product -- including tweaking for overall system performance.
• Core contributing designer to the Hammer NXT (a carrier class TDM/IP test platform), and developed a strategy for leveraging previous designs from earlier products in order to provide an environment that customers were already familiar with.
• Core contributing designer of the Hammer LB (a high volume call generator) product line, including helping to design the concepts of Call Profiling traffic patterns used to test telephony systems under load.
• Designed a scheme for the Hammer LB to be capable of controlling and integrating with a PacketSphere NetEm (a Network Emulator and Impairment generator).
• Designed regular and overnight build strategy for CITG group.

Management:
• Handled the project management phase of several releases of the Hammer LB and NXT products, from writing design documents using MRDs (Marketing Research Documents) to RTM (Release To Manufacturing).
• Responsible for interviewing applicants for several engineering related positions, with a vote toward the final hiring decision.

Tools Used:
• C/C++, Win32, MFC, XML, MSXML, TinyXML, COM, DCOM, essential COM, OCX, Tcl/Tk, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT4, SmartBits Protocol Emulator, Crystal Reports, SourceSafe, PerForce, Purify, Quantify

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ALOG; Medical Devices industry

December 1998 – June 1999 (7 months)

Projects:
• Implemented a communications protocol simulator for the AN9700 Tomoscan System (AN9700).
• Redesigned, updated, and implemented new portions of the Back End Test Interface (BETI) for live communications protocol testing with AN9700 alpha and beta systems.
• Helped implement proper automatic shutdown sequencing for the Windows NT portion of the AN9700.
• Implemented a Windows NT Service for initializing the SKY Computers embedded chipsets (SKY paks) used in the AN9700.
• Designed and implemented proof of concept image display software under Windows NT for possible use in future Analogic CAT Scan systems.
• Designed and implemented AN9700 Image Data Analysis software that can run both standalone and as an embedded portion of the AN9700 Service Interface.
• Installation software for AN9700 Software using InstallShield Professional.

Tools Used:
• C/C++, Win32, MFC, Windows NT4, Sun Solaris, SCCS, ClearCase, X/Motif, and Hummingbird Exceed

Public Company; 201-500 employees; TXT; Computer Software industry

May 1994 – November 1998 (4 years 7 months)

Projects:
• Designed and implemented many features of ELT/3500 (Electronic Light Table) and the Infinity code base including, but not limited to: colormap editing and pseudo-coloring, toolbar management and customization, and image processing algorithms.
• Helped maintain and control the ELT/3500 build and release environment.
• Researched the potential use of MS Windows to UNIX cross platform development toolkits (MainSoft MainWin, Bristol Wind/U) and determined that their use, while possible was not feasible due to poor graphical output performance.
• Redesigned the ELT/4000 macro engine to increase performance up to ten times faster, and converted the proprietary macro shell to a Tcl/Tk shell for increased programmability.
• Added an interface for GSD/OBS (Graphical Situation Display/Order of Battle Symbology) to both ELT/4000 and ELT/7000 (a high-end multi-platform UNIX product).
• Designed and implemented the configuration portion of an in-house UNIX-based installation program, this includes configuration for hardware and software components.
• Handled control and management of the ELT/4000 build environment using an in-house customized version of BBNTools.
• Worked as sole developer on desktopPresents, which is a UNIX presentation package similar to MS PowerPoint.
• Performed miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements to other projects such as Slate, desktopChatter, and ELT/6000.
• Configured SAMBA server under UNIX (OSF) to help facilitate MS Windows and UNIX file sharing.
• Helped install a PPP server (Shiva LanRover) for dial in access by Paragon employees.
• Various firewall maintenance tasks including configuring an Apache web server, a Netscape web proxy, and a SOCKS5 proxy.

Management:
• Technical lead and project manager for ELT/4000 (multi-platform UNIX application).

Tools Used:
• C/C++, X/Motif, Tcl/Tk, SunOS, Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, Ultrix, OSF, Emacs, Microsoft Project, ClearCase, Attaché, RCS, BBN Tools, and SourceSafe.

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; EK; Printing industry

July 1991 – May 1994 (2 years 11 months)

Projects:
• Designed and implemented the GUI for the Stamp Inspection System (SIS), the Ektron Printing Inspection System (PIN), the Ektron Sheet Inspection System (ESIS), and the Ektron Currency Inspection System (CIS).
• Designed the host side of the CIS, including using serial lines to communicate to the Real Time Processor (RTP) side of the CIS, UNIX Interprocess Communication (IPC), and data collection, storage, and display.
• Programmed DataCube image processing boards for use with a Videk Megaplus Camera and a Dalsa TDI Camera.
• Used ClearCase to develop a scheme for testing and releasing the PIN and ESIS software.

Tools Used:
• XView/Xlib, C, SunOS/Unix, IPX/IPC, Emacs, ClearCase, and SCCS.

Awards:
• Award of excellence from customer Dittler Brothers Inc.