Contact Information

Email: david@davidfavor.com - Austin, TX - (512) 590-5581

Summary

45+ years software development, using many languages. Starting in 1979 writing Apple II code for local businesses primarily for accounting and inventory management.

20+ years as a Digital Agency owner, untangling gnarly business profit problems. Providing fractional CTO/CMO services. Doing internal technical recruiting. Project management of global teams. Pruning posers before they creep into staffing. Keeping projects on time/budget.

Projects generally trended towards Docuseries, Summit, Membership sites running Wordpress, requiring near 100% uptime of Web and Email services, for large communities of people.

Recent projects are tending more toward A.I. and Blockchain applications, like providing A.I. searches of large, private data sources using Grok’s API interface. Smart contracts wrapping/obfuscating wallet addresses to reduce capital gains tax. Writing oracles analyzing large private data sets, like local housing weather reports from property tax data.

Likely Good Position Matches

  1. CTO/CMO or assisting people in these roles.

  2. Technical Recruiter, separating posers from savants.

  3. Project Manager, managing global teams, keeping projects on time/budget.

  4. Customer support for high value customers/clients.

Experience

David Favor Consulting Agency: Owner: May 2005 - Present

Generally client projects start as a CTO engagement fixing problems of Website performance email delivery.

Then projects evolve into CMO engagements tuning USPs (Unique Selling Proposition), Copywriting, Funnel optimization. Profit boosting focused on increased customer engagement.

IBM: Software Developer: June 1995 - May 2005

HACMP/HAGEO written in C and PERL. Customer support and code fixes. This code targets near 100% uptime of sites for applications like banking, in-flight air traffic control, runway allocation of commercial airport traffic.

OM Click Trader in C. Commodities and Futures trading system running on HACMP for near 100% uptime.

HotJava and Java on AIX in C and Java. Port of the OS/2 WebExplorer to AIX in C.

Motorola: System Architect: June 1993 to May 1995

Development of of various software tools in C, leveraging X11/Motif/SAS, to optimize semiconductor fabrication yields.

Tandem: System Architect: April 1993 - May 1993

Enhancement the Non-Stop UNIX operating system in C. Optimizing UNIX kernel, shells, X-Windows and Motif.

Dazel: System Architect: January 1993 - March 1993

Development of the Motif-based GUI in C, to control an enterprise wide document control system.

Tivoli Systems: Software Developer: June 1992 - December 1992

Enhancement of an GUI based object-oriented application framework in C, similar to Solarwinds.

Eaton Semiconductor: Software Developer: November 1991 - May 1992

Software controlling electrical/pneumatic/optical equipment semiconductor manufacture.

Chevron Oil: Software Developer: February 1991 - October 1991

Conversion of a character-based user interface tool-kit (TTI) from VMS/FORTRAN to UNIX/C and Motif.

ARCO: Software Developer: September 1990 - January 1991

Enhancement of the OSF/EASE product in C, an application development environment and API that abstracting operating system services (GUI, database, network) independent of target platform.

American Airlines: GUI Architect: February 1990 - August 1990

Design and development of the Motif/Oracle/UNIX-based ICAPS product in C, which supports daily operations of commercial airlines including profitability analysis, reservations, flight and crew scheduling, planned maintenance and equipment spares logistics.

Hewlett Packard: System Architect: December 1989 - January 1990

Design and development of an on-line document management system (STIP) for Naval shipyards in FORTRAN.

IBM: Software Developer: September 1989 - November 1989

Design and prototyping of the MS-DOS OfficeVision client in C.

CogniSeis: Software Developer: April 1989 - August 1989

Porting and optimization of the DISCO geophysical analysis product from VMS to UNIX in C and FORTRAN.

Texas Instruments: Software Developer: November 1988 - March 1989

Design and development of the GeoSys geophysical analysis product in C.

Shell Oil: Software Developer: November 1987 - October 1988

Enhancement and optimization of a real-time control system CAO in C, supporting daily operations of oil production facilities.

GTE Sprint: Software Developer: April 1987 - October 1988

Enhancement of a real-time control system for telecommunications networks using HP/MPE and VMS in SPL (C and Assembly like language) and FORTRAN.

MCI Telecommunications: Database Architect: January 1986 - March 1987

Enhancement of a real-time control system (NACS) for telecommunications networks in FORTRAN.

Celanese Fibers: Database Architect: April 1985 - December 1985

Enhancement of a real-time control system for the extrusion of synthetic materials in FORTRAN.

Prestwick Circuits: Software Developer: October 1984 - March 1985

Production readied a three-axis robot used for the rapid prototyping of printed circuit boards in C.

SEDCO Offshore Drilling: Software Developer: June 1983 - September 1984

Maintaining real-time control systems used on offshore oil exploration vessels including ship-wide power management/distribution, dynamic vessel positioning and video monitoring of well-head operations.

Boeing Electronics: Test Engineer: June 1980 - May 1983

Design and development of software and hardware associated with the automatic testing of commercial avionics packages (727, 737, 747, 757 and 767 aircraft).

Dallas Instruments: Technical Sales: July 1978 - May 1980

Marketing, design, prototyping and production associated with a product line of custom analog and digital panel instruments, set-point controllers and strip chart recorders.