Work Experience

The Echo Group

• 1997-2002, Oakland, California.
• Senior software engineer.
• CFML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Visual Basic, SQL, Perl, Java.
• Design and development of web-based applications; prototypes of web application frameworks and components; development of database synchronization tools; y2k-related coding and enhancements; creation and porting of client/server applications.

Freelance Jobs

• 1995-1998, East Bay, California.
• Freelance web developer and consultant.
• HTML, JavaScript, Perl, CGI, Java, Flash.
• Complete buildout of new web sites; creation, design, and development of original online games and puzzles; technology consulting.

QuickATM

• 1993-1997, Berkeley, California.
• Senior software developer, web master, network administrator.
• C/C++, Visual Basic, HTML, Perl, Awk, Access.
• Development and support of public information kiosks and internet stations; creation and maintenance of dynamic web sites; administration of the internal and external network.

Previous Jobs

• 1989-1992, St. Louis, Missouri.
• System administrator, programmer, hardware troubleshooter.
• C, x86 Assembly, Awk, Unix shell scripts, PostScript, LaTeX.
• Administration and support of the campus network; coding of tools for aiding in the same; coding applications to interface with external imaging machinery.

Skills and Proficiencies

Languages

Used in Recent Projects

ColdFusion:

Large scale database-driven internet/intranet applications.
Custom tags, structured exception handling, and IDE extensions.

HTML, JavaScript, and CSS:

Cross-browser (Opera/NS/MSIE) dynamic elements and style sheets.
Client-side validations, browser capability detection, DOM manipulation.

Perl:

CGI, especially with database access.
"Quick hack" tools for lint, statistics, and source code manipulation.
File parsing and hand-rolled development aids.

Visual Basic:

Small to large (110K lines) projects.
ODBC, DAO/ADO, COM/DCOM, custom controls, creation of VB AddIns.
Also MS Office VBA variants (macros and code modules).

Programming Languages

Mastered:

Java, Perl, Visual Basic, C/C++, Delphi.

Mastered (but not used in recent projects):

Pascal, Awk, Assembly (80x86 and 6502).

Familiar with:

Lisp, Fortran, Prolog, Cobol, Ada.

Other Development Languages

Web related:

ColdFusion (CFML), ASP, JSP, CGI, Dynamic HTML, JavaScript.

Unix related:

Shell scripts, Sed, Lex, Yacc.

Other:

XML/XSLT, UML, SQL.

Development Tools

CASE / Modeling:

Visio, Rational Rose, EasyCase, ER Studio.

Database related:

SQL Server, Oracle (9i thru RDb 6), Microsoft Access, Crystal Reports, Actuate.

Graphics / Publishing:

Photoshop, Multimedia Toolbook, Photostyler, FreeHand, PageMaker.

Other tools:

CodeWright, ViM, SoftICE.

Operating Systems

Windows (13 years):

All versions since Win/386.
Administration, registry, DLL debugging, and EXE modifications.

Unix (14 years):

Especially Linux, SunOS/Solaris, SCO, and FreeBSD flavors.
Administration, DNS, NNTP feeds, Sendmail, Qmail, Samba, and various other essentials.

DOS (18 years):

Mostly MS-DOS, with some PC-DOS, Novell, and Caldera.
Including memory management and IRQ debugging.

VMS (2 years):

Some DCL and Eve.

The Echo Group
(October 1997 - October 2002)

Company/Job Description

"The Echo Group produces information management software for behavioral and mental health care providers and centers nationwide, including two thirds of California's county mental health agencies."

I was part of a small rapid application development team that was distributed across several remote offices. Our team's style was to thoroughly document design and analysis, and to keep a heavy focus on the architectural framework, while still maintaining a rapid development cycle (much like Extreme Programming).

Note: my initial employment was as a contractor with the Oakland software division of United Behavioral Health. This division was acquired by Echo in July 1999, at which time I became a full-time employee.

Project Details

• Scheduler subsystem of Echo's flagship web application, ShareCare. Code cleanup and reverse engineering of the previous version. Complete rearchitecting and redesign of an enhanced version, including availability, complex recurrences, and numerous tie-ins to the clinical and fiscal subsystems.
  Over 600K bytes and 20K lines of code (20% comments) manipulating 17 new database tables, with 40 design and implementation documents.
  (ColdFusion 5, IE-specific HTML/JavaScript, CSS, SQL, Perl)
• eBoat. Team-based analysis, design, framework, and coding of a 3-tier web application designed to eventually replace the entire suite of Echo client/server applications. eBoat ran under MSIE4+, Netscape4+, and Opera5.
  (ColdFusion 4.5, cross-browser HTML/JavaScript, CSS, SQL)
• Research of new web technologies and development of prototypes for web application frameworks and components.
  (Java/JSP/J2EE, ASP, Delphi, COM+/DCOM, .NET)
• CASP. Port (VB3 to VB6), enhancement, and y2k fixes for a suite of clinical service planners. Project manager and lead programmer.
  (Visual Basic 6)
• ITS (Batch, UCL, CSynch). Design and development of a suite of synchronization utilities for two health care databases with conflicting metadata. Complete analysis and design documentation, including entity relationship diagrams, for each project.
  (Visual Basic 5/6, Crystal Reports, UML)
• Structured SQL stored procedures and ad-hoc queries to meet claims and finance department reporting requirements.

Education

University of California at Berkeley, 1992-1993.
Graduate work in mathematics.

Washington University at St. Louis, 1988-1992.
Bachelor of Science in physics and mathematics, with honors.
Coursework included nine graduate level computer science courses.
Minor emphases included computer science, linguistics, and french.

Marc Wallace
marc@resume.wallace.net
http://www.wallace.net/marc/resume/