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David Favor Resume
October 1st, 2003 |
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Project Summary |
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| 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. | ||||
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Industry Summary |
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| 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. | ||||
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Skills Summary |
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| Java (7+ yr.) | XML/XSL (3+ yr.) | Beans/Servlets (2+ yr.) | ||
| AIX (8+ yr.) | Linux (6+ yr.) | UNIX (10+ yr.) | ||
| Perl (8+ yr.) | 'C++' (3+ yr.) | 'C' (10+ yr.) | ||
| HACMP (7+ yr.) | SQL (4+ yr.) | CORBA (3+ yr.) | ||
| Motif (10+ yr.) | SAS/AF (2+ yr.) | Client/Server (12+ yr.) | ||
| HP-UX (2+ yr.) | FreeBSD (2+ yr.) | SunOS/Solaris (6+ yr.) | ||
| Win-NT (3+ yr.) | VMS (5+ yr.) | FORTRAN (10+ yr.) | ||
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Best Fit Positions |
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| My strong suit is long-term strategic planning and relationship building. Some of the roles where I excel include - Technical Evangelist, Skunkworks/Black Ops, ISV Relations, Strategic Alliances, Technical Assistance to Marketing, System Architecture and Interoperability. | ||||
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Personal |
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| Excellent health. No travel restrictions (valid passport). Consulting and public speaking on topics including longevity; peak creative performance; replicated, highly available applications and data; high yield, viral marketing. | ||||
| IBM - Consultant (Austin, Texas), April 1997 to present |
| Clustering consultant to ISVs and end-users. Assistance configuring and porting systems to HACMP/HAES/HAGEO. |
| Software developer for the HA product family in C, C++, Perl and Ksh. |
| CRIT-SIT (Critical Situation) technical team member. Responsible for turning lemons into lemonaide by conducting sensitive negotiations required to preserve and expand IBM presence in challenging situations where customer satisfaction had become compromised. |
| IBM - System Architect (Austin, Texas), October 1996 to March 1997 |
| Architecture for HACMP/AIX/Java version of the OM Click Trader (Commodities and Futures trading system), ported from VMS and C. |
| 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 in C. |
| The Corridor - CEO/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 in C, C++, Java and Perl. |
| 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 in C. |
| 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 in C. |
| 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 in C. |
| 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 in C. |
| 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) in C. |
| 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 in C and FORTRAN. |
| 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 and FORTRAN. |
| 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 in C. |
| 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 FORTRAN. |
| IBM - Developer (Westlake, Texas), September 1989 to November 1989 |
| Design and prototyping of the MS-DOS OfficeVision client in C. |
| CogniSeis - Developer (Houston, Texas), April 1989 to August 1989 |
| Porting and optimization of the DISCO geophysical analysis product from VMS to UNIX in C and FORTRAN. |
| Texas Instruments - Developer (Houston, Texas), November 1988 to March 1989 |
| Design and development of the GeoSys geophysical analysis product in C. |
| 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 in C and FORTRAN. |
| 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 in SPL (C-like) and FORTRAN. |
| MCI Telecommunications - Database Architect (Plano, Texas), January 1986 to March 1987 |
| Enhancement of a real-time control system (NACS) for telecommunications networks in FORTRAN. |
| Celanese Fibers - Database Architect (Narrows, Virginia), April 1985 to December 1985 |
| Enhancement of a real-time control system for the extrusion of synthetic materials in FORTRAN. |
| 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 in C. |
| 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 in SPL (C-like) and FORTRAN. |
| 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 SPL (C-like) and FORTRAN. |
| 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, set-point controllers and strip chart recorders. |