Resume for

David R. Favor

3920 Idalia Drive
Austin, Texas 78749
512-280-5802
david@davidfavor.com
March 13th, 2001

Project Summary

Since 1978, I have served as a System Architect, Technical Marketer, Analyst and Developer on a diverse range of software projects. As a consultant, I gained daily experience in marketing and rate negotiations related to contract projects.

Many projects required cultivating relationships with internal and external customers, gathering requirements, writing proposals, making presentations, cost analysis, human resource allocations and project scheduling.

All projects required varying degrees of project management skills.

Industry Summary

Industries in which I have worked include commercial software development, semiconductor fabrication, oil exploration, airline reservations, global telecommunication control systems, aircraft manufacturing and chemical production.

Technical Summary

AIX (7+ yr.) Linux (6+ yr.) SunOS/Solaris (6+ yr.)
UNIX (10+ yr.) 'C++' (3+ yr.) 'C'/FORTRAN (10+ yr.)
HACMP (5+ yr.) Java (5+ yr.) CORBA (3+ yr.)
SQL (4+ yr.) Perl (5+ yr.)  Servlets/JDBC (2+ yr.)
Motif (5+ yr.) SAS/AF (2+ yr.) Client/Server (12+ yr.)
Win-NT (3+ yr.) HP-UX (2+ yr.) VMS (5+ yr.)

Desired Position

My primary interest is in long-term strategic planning and relationship building. Some of the roles where I excell include - Technical Evangalist, Skunkworks/Black Ops, ISV Relations, Strategic Alliances, Technical Assistance to Marketing, System Architecture and Interoperability.

Personal

Excellent health. No travel restrictions (valid passport). Public speaking and personal consulting on topics including longevity; mood/energy optimization; high yield, viral marketing.

Product Development Summary

IBM/AvailantHACMP/HAGEOHighly Available, Clustering Framework
IBM/OMClick TraderSecurities Exchange System
IBM/TivoliTME/WorksDistributed Computing Framework
IBM/SunHotJavaJava Web Browser
IBMWebExplorerAIX Web Browser
IBMOfficeVisionDistributed Productivity Tools
TandemNonStop UNIXClustering UNIX Kernel
AIX/LinuxgccGNU C/C++/Java/Fortran Compiler
AIX/LinuxHAHighly Available, Clustering Framework
AIX/LinuxHADBHighly Available, Clustering SQL Database
AIX/LinuxHAFSHighly Available, Clustering File-system
AIX/LinuxNetwork RaidHighly Available, Clustering Disks
AIX/LinuxLVMLogical Volume Manager
AIX/LinuxPerlScripting Language
AIX/LinuxPostgreSQLTransactional SQL Database
AIX/LinuxBerkeleyDBTransactional ISAM Database
AIX/LinuxzshEmulation Shell - sh, ksh, bash, csh, tcsh
AIX/LinuxlibtoolShared Library Creation Tool
American AirlinesICAPSSABRE Replacement for Airline Scheduling
OSFMotifGUI Development Framework
OSFDMEDistributed Computing Framework
OSFEASEDistributed Computing Framework
MotorolaEDASSilicon Wafer Yield Analysis
MCINACSGlobal Telecommunications Management
BoeingPMS-3000Manufacturing Process Management
CogniSeisDISCOSeismic Analysis
Texas InstrumentsGeoSysSeismic Analysis
EatonNV8200PSilicon Wafer Ion Implanter
DazelDazelDistributed Printer/Faxing Framework

Project Detail
IBM - Senior Developer/Technical Marketer (Austin, Texas), April 1997 to present
HACMP/HAGEO customer relations. Enhancement of the HACMP/HAGEO product family (high availability, clustering software).
CRIT-SIT (Critical Situation) technical team member. Responsible for sensitive negotiations required to preserve and expand IBM presence in tense situations.
Assisting ISVs and end-user customers porting existing products, legacy systems interfacing and new product development using AIX and HACMP/HAGEO.
IBM - System Architect (Austin, Texas), October 1996 to March 1997
Architecture for HACMP/AIX version of the OM Click Trader (Commodities and Futures trading system), ported from VMS.
IBM - Senior Developer (Austin, Texas), June 1995 to February 1996
Pre-release work on HotJava and Java for AIX. Port of the OS/2 WebExplorer to AIX.
The Corridor - Marketing Director/Senior Architect (Austin, Texas), June 1994 to Sept 2000
Productizing and marketing Open Source CORBA and clustering technologies for ISVs porting products to Linux from IBM HACMP/HAGEO, Sun Cluster, HP Service Guard, NCR LifeKeeper and Digital TruClusters.
Highly available (replicated/load balanced) Web content, database, mail and applications.
Motorola - System Architect (Austin, Texas), June 1993 to May 1995
Development of Motif and SAS/AF based Yield Analysis tools including EDAS, EIS, DEVIS and method libraries to abstract access to GUI services interfacing with large VMS and HPUX Oracle databases (Synergy). These tools provide engineers with ad-hoc data extraction and graphical analysis of wafer fabrication data.
Tandem - Developer (Austin, Texas), April 1993 to May 1993
Enhancement of the UNIX kernel, shells, X-Windows and Motif for the Non-Stop UNIX operating system.
Dazel - System Architect (Austin, Texas), January 1993 to March 1993
Development of the Motif-based Dazel GUI, which controls the MIT Palladium document delivery system, enterprise-wide device access (via DCE) and system management functions.





Project Detail (cont.)
Tivoli Systems - Developer (Austin, Texas), June 1992 to December 1992
Enhancement of an object-oriented application framework that implements a GUI system administration tool (Works) for large networks. Participated in the preliminary design of OSF/DME and an extensible method server that processes shell scripts, executables and dynamically linked libraries.
Eaton Semiconductor - Developer (Austin, Texas), November 1991 to May 1992
Extended and optimized a custom Motif-based widget set used to represent and control a variety of complex electrical, pneumatic and optical components used in semiconductor ion implantation equipment (NV8200P).
Chevron - Developer (Houston, Texas), February 1991 to October 1991
Enhancement and conversion of a character-based user interface tool-kit (TTI) from VMS/FORTRAN to UNIX/C and Motif. Development of a code management system that allows UNIX developers to incrementally develop VMS and MVS projects without learning DCL, JCL or operating system details.
ARCO - Developer (Plano, Texas), September 1990 to January 1991
Enhancement of the OSF/EASE product, an application development environment and API that abstracts operating system services (GUI, database, network) independent of target platform. Collaborated on the implementation of a software environment that supported programming, configuration management and release control for cross-platform development of OSF/EASE.
American Airlines - GUI Architect (DFW, Texas), February 1990 to August 1990
Design and development of the Motif/Oracle/UNIX-based ICAPS product, which supports the daily operations of commercial airlines including profitability analysis, reservations, flight and crew scheduling, planned maintenance and spares deployment.
Hewlett Packard - System Architect (Seattle, Washington), December 1989 to January 1990
Design and development of an on-line document management system (STIP) for Naval shipyards.
IBM - Developer (Westlake, Texas), September 1989 to November 1989
Design and prototyping of the MS-DOS OfficeVision client.
CogniSeis - Developer (Houston, Texas), April 1989 to August 1989
Porting and optimization of the DISCO geophysical analysis product from VMS to UNIX.





Project Detail (cont.)
Texas Instruments - Developer (Houston, Texas), November 1988 to March 1989
Design and development of the GeoSys geophysical analysis product.
Shell - Developer (Houston, Texas), November 1987 to October 1988
Enhancement and optimization of a real-time control system (CAO) that supports the daily operations of oil production facilities. Prototyping of an X-Windows replacement system.
GTE Sprint - Developer (Los Colinas, Texas), April 1987 to October 1988
Enhancement of a real-time control system for telecommunications networks using MPE and VMS.
MCI Telecommunications - Database Architect (Plano, Texas), January 1986 to March 1987
Enhancement of a real-time control system (NACS) for telecommunications networks.
Celanese Fibers - Database Architect (Narrows, Virginia), April 1985 to December 1985
Enhancement of a real-time control system for the extrusion of synthetic materials.
Prestwick Circuits - Developer (Dallas, Texas), October 1984 to March 1985
Production readied a three-axis robot used for the rapid prototyping of printed circuit boards.
Sedco - Developer (Dallas, Texas), June 1983 to September 1984
Enhancement and maintenance of several 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 using HP/RTE and VMS.
Boeing Electronics - Test Engineer (Irving, Texas), June 1980 to 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). Enhancement of the PMS-3000 (Shop Floor, Production Management) product.
Dallas Instruments - Technical Sales (Plano, Texas), July 1978 to May 1980
Marketing, design, prototyping and production associated with a product line of custom analog and digital panel instruments, setpoint controllers and strip chart recorders.