UC San Diego

Software Engineer

New York, New York, United States

Squarespace

- Working with teams to remodularize their software applications for improved scalability.
-  Development of DepAn, a direct manipulation tool for visualization, analysis, and refactoring of dependencies in large applications.

Pnambic Computing

Owner/President

- Restructured monolithic application into componentized modules.
-  Delivered common engineering toolset to expanding (300+) development team.
-  Extended database connection pool for multiple pool, better multi-thread support.
-  Improved text search subsystem. Maintained query parsing, added Unicode support, revised indexing structures.
-  Revised import process, standardizing the handling of coalesced record types.
-  Developed in-browser “list edit” feature, supporting spreadsheet-like database updates.
-  Developed social media posting application, with groups, replies, and following capabilities.

ServiceNow

Principal Software Engineer

- Enhancements and deployment of internal sales-support application.
-  Design and development with team of an internationalizable shopping cart totaler.
-  Deployment and maintenance of customized iGoogle gadget container.
-  Design and development with team on Google Local Business Ads.
-  Componentized major application, separating a Java hairball into 60+ components and 40+ shared libraries.
-  Design and development with team on alert system for account management.

Google

- Responsible for all inter-processor communications between a NetBeans based front-end and the Oracle data warehouse. 
-  Implemented query and grouping mechanisms for flexible scalable data presentations.

Managed Ventures

Contractor

- Developed bracket-from extensions to Hyper/JTM Java composition tool.

Research Intern

- Developer on Exchange. Responsible for server store, including FastTransfer, the client-server batch transfer protocol for mail messages. Ported Exchange Server from x86 to Alpha and MIPS architectures.
-  Responsible for programmability in forms routing package. Integrated Object Basic with the development environment and designed Object Basic extensions for forms routing.
-  Led the SCM version control project. Designed and implemented key version management algorithms and improved database performance three-fold in later stages.
-  Initiated the SWAT bug tracking project. The design provided flexible data capture and state handling, with user customizable windows.
-  Standardized internal distribution of Microsoft products and development tools.

Microsoft

- Lead engineer on internal Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) toolkit.
-  Led the development of a portable object-oriented CASE system. The team developed versions for both VAX/VMS and UNIX engineering workstations.
-  Designed a user interface tool kit to support multiple environments. The team implemented versions to support both the X windowing system and a command line environment.

Boeing

- Enhanced and revised telemetry system for MCI repeater stations.
-  Designed and implemented an interprocessor communications package for a real-time remote monitoring system. The package supported synchronization of telemetry data, diskless boot, remote terminal access, database download, and error-recovery capabilities

Simpact (San Diego)

- Research into software engineering issues for compositional program construction. Used aspect-oriented techniques to implement a real-world application with Hyper/J.
-  Developed web sites for a small business and a university department.
-  Consulted with a packaged software developer to manage the software development process in a large (30) software development team.

- Created a programming language with embedded SQL operations for a relational database.
-  Developed a serial communications package for a PC.

Software Products, International

Programmer

- Constructed the parser for an Ada compiler.
-  Developed a serial communications package.
-  Implemented an electronic mail system for a PDP-11.
-  Developed data processing and simulation programs for commercial research groups.

SAIC

- Developed data processing and simulation programs for university and government research groups.

Rob Carver