Much programming -> entry-level commercial SWE
Robert Maas
Voice: 650-969-2958
Internet electronic-mail: r...@NetMagic.Net
WWW pages: http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo
PROGRAMMED IN THESE LANGUAGES:
- C (on 3 platforms)
- Fortran (on 5 platforms)
- LISP (on 5 platforms)
- assembly/machine language on 7 different CPUs
MAJOR PROGRAMMING PROJECTS:
- Computer-assisted instruction for Calculus
- Laying out text mixed with mathematical formulas for printing or
display
- Information retrieval and indexing, including linked-text frames
- File maintenance and indexing
- LISP syntax&semantics checking
- Translating English-language instructions into executable instructions
for a simulated robot
- Packet-based client/server telecommunications, including handling
interrupts from I/O devices
- Processing and rendering remote-sensing multi-spectral images
- Computing nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation
- Using lattice manipulation to discover approximate numerical relations
between real numbers
- Optimizing diets for nutrition and cost
- Sort/merge of variable-length records in large files
- Manipulating differential polynomials in support of mathematical
research on exponents of differential ideals
- University payroll & early-registration
- Effective algorithm for flashcard drill, by which I was able to learn
appx. 2000 words of foreign language vocabulary (mostly Russian and
French), and by which my children were able to learn to read the 1500
most common words before they started first grade
EDUCATION:
Mathematics major at University of Santa Clara, Bachelor of Science
degree.
ACADEMIC/INTELLECTUAL HONORS, PROFESSIONAL LICENSES, AND PUBLISHED WORKS:
- First place in University of Santa Clara High School Mathematics
contest for three years
- Undergraduate mathematics research project at University of Santa
Clara for five summers
- Among top five (in whole United States) in William Lowell Putnam
undergraduate mathematics competition
- Abstract on differential algebra published
- Passed California civil service exam for Programmer/Analyst I
- Report on nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation published
- Report on English-language programming for robot published
- Passed Mensa exam, achieving top 1% on BOTH tests, whereas achieving
top 2% on EITHER test is sufficient to qualify for Mensa.
- Toplevel meta-index to the Internet (including Usenet and Bitnet)
published electronically and available via HTTP/WWW..
- Passed federal civil service exam for Writing & Public Info
PAID WORK EXPERIENCE
- 1992.Sep (2.5 weeks) -- Contract to create new module to isolate and
parameterize multiple superimposed graphs in bitmap image, in Think C.
(above for Tree Star, Inc.; all below for Stanford University)
- 1984.Aug to 1991.Aug -- NSF contract, developing software to teach
calculus and related problem solving, porting it from Tenex to VM/CMS.
- 1983.Nov to 1984.Jul -- Helping to get PSL (Portable Standard Lisp)
up&running on Tenex after porting from Tops-20.
- 1981.Aug to 1984.Jun -- Develop software for computer to understand
problem-specific subset of English as a command language.
- 1980.Jan to 1980.Sep -- Helping port program that teaches symbolic logic
from SAIL (Algol) to SL (Standard Lisp).
- 1977.Jan to 1979.Dec -- Enhancing software that processed remote-sensing
images, and translating that software from SAIL to MainSAIL.
- 1976.Oct to 1977.Jun -- Writing software to compute nuclear magnetic
resonance relaxation time in large organic molecules.