Todd Knarr
4525 Felton Street #G
San Diego, CA, 92116-4468
E-mail: tknarr@silverglass.org
Work phone: 858-546-0040 #344
Personal phone: 619-813-6641
Note: Initial contact via e-mail is preferred.

Objective

Seeking a full-time permanent position in software development in the San Diego, California area. Prefer a challenging environment with significant responsibility. Offer extensive experience in transaction processing, database design and implementation, client/server and multi-tier systems and hardware interfacing. Desire to expand further into Internet and Web technologies, including Java and XML.

Experience

Responsible for a specialized web-server and supporting software for recording web-analytics data in real-time. Primarily responsible for a complete re-write to turn it into a more modular framework to allow for future expansion and for higher performance (baseline capacity in excess of 1.5K requests/second per server). Also required to perform analysis and customized data collection to troubleshoot customer problems. Work involved TCP/IP networking in general, advanced HTTP, HTML and Javascript, and advanced heavily multithreaded Solaris Unix and Linux development.

Developed point-of-sale software for convenience stores and truck stops. This software included not only conventional point-of-sale functions, but hardware interfaces to fuel pumps, card reader and door lock control hardware, credit-card authorization processes and interfaces to the various credit-card authorization companies over a network, and back office financial reports, auditing and other programs. The computer systems in use included Unix servers and DOS and Windows based PCs.

Various assignments included:

• Porting the Rogue Wave C++ class libraries to our Unix systems.
• Developing DOS and Windows based voice-synthesis software, as existing solutions were not adequate.
• Developing an automatic shower-stall access control system integrated with the point-of-sale system.
• Rewriting the fuel pump and card reader control software to be more flexible.
• Developing an interface to a vehicle-mounted RF smart-tag system to replace credit cards.
• Developing an automated fuel inventory monitoring and management system.

The development environment included Visual C++ as well as Unix C/C++ compilers, and SCCS and PVCS version control systems. Our software used the Informix relational database, working primarily using embedded SQL in the programs with some stored procedures and database applications developed using Informix's GUI tools.

Skills

• Ability to learn almost anything, as quickly as needed
• Software design: large systems, UML
• C/C++ programming, 7+ years
• Software version control
• Database design, 5 years
• Standard C++ library / Standard template library
• Rogue Wave object-oriented libraries
• Multi-threaded programming ( signals, threads )
• Unix TCP/IP network programming
• Secure Sockets Layer programming
• Unix scripting ( shell, Perl, sed, awk )
• Hardware interfacing and low-level I/O under Unix
• HTML, CSS
• Javascript
• Java
• Visual C++
• COM, DirectX and related programming
• CORBA programming
• Windows Sockets programming
• Unix system and network administration
• Network firewall design and setup
• X-windows programming, various widget sets
• Python programming
• PHP web scripting
• XML

Salary requirements

Open to negotiation depending on the nature of the job.

Employers

WebSideStory Inc.
     Engineering department
     Manager: Jim Van Baalen
10182 Telesis Ct. San Diego, CA, 92121
Phone: 858-546-0040

Flying J Inc.
     POS Development department
     Supervisors: Morgan Toomer, Rick Foy
50 W 990 S
Brigham City, UT, 84302
Phone: 435-734-6400

Professional references

Troy Azmoon
     EMC Corporation
     Senior Quality Assurance Manager
     Phone: 760-845-8560
     E-mail: azmoon_troy@emc.com

Jim Van Baalen
     WebSideStory Inc.
     VP Engineering
     Phone: 858-546-0040
     E-mail: vansax@websidestory.com

Morgan Toomer
     Flying J Inc.
     POS Development Manager
     Phone: 801-734-6400
     E-mail: morgan.toomer@flyingj.com