Tony Nelson's Resume

Resume

George A. Nelson
Massachusetts
tonynelson@georgeanelson.com

Profile

Freelance contract computer programmer.

9 months Linux server backend maintenance, updating, and enhancement, for the US School of Commercial Music. Xen slice CentOS 4.5 main and CentOS 5 backup servers, local Qemu test server. Sendmail, Apache Httpd, PHP, Apache Tomcat, MySQL, IPTables custom rules to protect FTP and SSH. Backups via Rsync + shell scripting for scheduled live and incremental backups to the backup server, and monthly archive backups to local DVD. Python milter for spam reduction, Python and MySQL email forum. Two years Linux experience, Fedora Core 3 through 6.

2 years self-study of Microsoft Windows programming; see the main page for some demos. One (old) 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, and light typing, soldering and sewing repairs.

Contracts

US School of Commercial Music (11/06 - date)
Move site to new servers, upgrade OS and services, enhance.

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. Lotus bought Software Arts one week later and shut it down.

Dartmouth College (9/79 - 6/83)
Student Applications Programmer at Kiewit Computer Center Telecommunications.

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

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

Other Macintosh Software

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

Hardware

Designed and built 1802-based microcomputer, with KC-standard 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.