Tony Nelson's Resume

Resume

George A. Nelson
Massachusetts
tonynelson@georgeanelson.com

Profile

3 1/2 years Linux experience, Fedora Core 3 through Fedora 10. 2 years server backend maintenance, updating, and enhancement, for the US School of Commercial Music. CentOS 4.5 and 5, 128 MB Xen slice main and backup servers, and local Qemu test server. Sendmail, Apache Httpd, PHP, Apache Tomcat, MySQL, IPTables firewall (with rules to protect FTP and SSH), Perl, Java. Backups using Rsync with shell scripting for scheduled live and incremental backups to the backup server, and monthly archive backups to local files and DVD. Python milter for spam reduction. MailForum, Python and MySQL email- and web-forum.

2 years self-study of Microsoft Windows programming, see the main page for some demos. One Windows 3.1 DLL for use with Visual Basic (MicroWorlds, Inc).

16 years programming and debugging on the Apple Macintosh in C / C++, Assembler. MacOS only, not MacOSX.

Other skills include infant and child care, cooking, light typing, soldering and sewing repairs.

Contracts

Musicworks 11/06-date
Maintain, upgrade, and administer usschoolfomusic.com servers and custom software in Java. New MailForum, email- and web-based forum software in Python, mod_python, MySQL.

Steve Sisak (6/99 - 4/01)
USB and Firewire Device Drivers for Still and Video cameras, for various OEM customers.

Kiara, Inc. (9/97)
Mac AppleEvent code, to control Finder.

Rich Schwartz (contractor to Lotus Development Corp., Inc.) (3/97)
Mac AppleEvent, file I/O, and AppleSingle code for use in Mac Lotus Notes.

Musicworks, Inc. (contractor to Guitron, Inc.) (12/96 - 11/97)
Chord guitar prototype in C++ and OMS, as a MIDI program on MacOS.

ECI, Inc. (10/92 - 11/96)
Macintosh port of CollegeLink.

Microworlds, Inc. (3/88 - 8/92)
Author of S**4 and MicroWorlds Creator. 16-bit DLL in Borland C++, Visual Basic shell for model presentation (Microsoft Windows 3.1).

Metriplex, Inc. (9/88-11/88)
McPage, to send pages via Alphanumeric Paging Services.

Boston Software Publishing, Inc. (4/87 - 3/88)
Maintained MacPublisher. Designed and prototyped a successor to MacPublisher.

G. O. Graphics, Inc. (7/86 - 10/86)
Assisted with MacNav, a nautical chart display program.

Cognition Technology (2/86 - 5/86)
Debugged MacSmarts, an Expert System shell.

Musicworks, Inc. (5/85-11/99)
Mac port of MusicLand. Maintain and enhance MegaTrak and Virtuoso Pianist in 68K assembler. C++ port of Virtuoso Pianist.

Employment

Software Arts, Inc. (3/85)
Last person hired. Software Arts sold to Lotus one week later.

Student Applications Programmer for Kiewit Computer Center Telecommunications at Dartmouth College, maintained and rewrote the Trouble-Report Submission and Tracking code for over 1000 terminals, in Dartmouth BASIC on the DTSS OS.

Dartmouth College (7/79 - 8/79)
Telecommunications Repair Technician at Kiewit Computer Center.

US Navy (6/73 - 6/79)
Electronics Technician, USS Fort Snelling. 6 years experience with Crypto, VHF and UHF Radio, and RADAR.

Awards

RamStart, an award-winning RAM disk program from the early days of the Macintosh. Tony's Shell. Free PowerPC Assembler for use with Metrowerks Codewarrior. Apple-Shaped Windows. Simple animation programs Lines and Bubbles. Windows WMP Volume Keys and TrayButton.

Hardware

Designed and built 1802-based microcomputer, with KC-standard (for booting, higher-speed after) cassette tape I/O, and DMA and interrupts for the display.

Education

AB in Computer Science from Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, '83. Engineering courses included Systems Dynamics, Solid Mechanics, and Materials Science.