Paul Tomblin

132 Windemere Rd.

Rochester, NY 14610

(585) 748-2689 ptomblin+resume@xcski.com Expert at turning problem statements into Object Oriented designs that are flexible, powerful and implementable. Familiar with UML, Use Cases, User Stories. Experienced with Java, C++ and C on a variety of Unix/Linux platforms. Have used other languages as required. Have designed and implemented GUIs in a multitude of languages and platforms. Have designed and implemented back end services and business logic engines. Author of dynamic web sites. Experienced administrator for shared and dedicated Web servers on a Linux platform. Will work fervently to produce a product that is useful, usable, stable and extensible, and that is delivered on time. Have embraced and championed new technologies. Works well both alone and in team settings. Comfortable making decisions or following the decisions of others. Java J2EE/EJB/JSP C++/C Perl Java Swing Google Web Toolkit jQuery ViewKit/Motif/Xt SQL JDBC DBI Hibernate Nutch/Solr/Lucene <oXygen/> C1Search on contract to Envisage Systems. Rochester, NY December 2009 to Present Adding new functionality to web application using proprietary framework running on WebSphere. Writing Database Access Objects. Java, XML, XSLT, Javascript/JQuery, Oracle Self Employed on contract to LucidityWorks LLC. Rochester, NY July 2009 to December 2009 Adding new functionality, Java Server Pages and Actions to web application. Porting a decision support engine from a proprietary search engine to Apache-licensed technologies including Nutch and Solr. Java, Nutch, Solr, JSP, OpenSymphony WebWork and Xwork Adecco Technical on contract to Paychex Inc. Webster, NY November 2008 to May 2009 Maintenance on the "Core Advanced" payroll system. Writing JUnit unit tests. Java, Oracle, JDBC, EJB, Hibernate, JUnit, JBoss ZeroChaos and Adecco Technical on contract to Eastman Kodak Rochester, NY April 2002 to October 2008 Designing and developing a "Theatre Management System" for delivery and management of digital content for movie theaters. Responsible for the database design and the accessor class library. Collaborated in the design and development of the Theatre Management System main user interface, as well as a separate projection system user interface. Made extensive use of Model/View/Controller and Observer/Observable design patterns. Jointly developed APIs, then each team member developed one side (producer or consumer) of the APIs. Developed algorithms for scheduling and automatic assembly of pre-show components with feature content. Provided suggestions and feedback on SMPTE draft specifications. Prototyped a client/server version of the TMS UI using Google Web Toolkit. Developed a system for doing remote unattended OS upgrades of theater complexes. 6,812,994 - Streamlined methods and systems for scheduling and handling digital cinema content in a multi-theatre environment 7,034,916 - Scheduling between digital projection and film projection corresponding to a predetermined condition 7,236,227 - System for management of both pre-show and feature presentation content within a theatre Java/Swing, RMI, PostgreSQL, JDBC, Linux, Perl, DBI, shell scripting, RPM, FindBugs, ClearCase, <oXygen>, PowerArchitect SunGard Trading Systems Pittsford, NY August 2000 to April 2002 Developer on a system responsible for over 70% of all trades on NASDAQ. Programming using extensive multi-threading, use of mutex locks and other concurrent programming techniques to prevent race conditions and meet "soft real-time" performance guarantees. Led team to design a language interpreter that would allow users to develop their own automatic trading rules systems. Developed translators to enable user to trade stocks on ECNs (Electronic Communication Networks) such as Island and REDIQuote. C++, Solaris, Motif, Sybase, CVS, Purify Global Crossing Ltd/Frontier Information Technologies. Rochester, NY August 1999 to July 2000 Developer on the "Design Assign/Inventory Management System" (DA/IMS). Wrote JSP pages, Sybase stored procedures and CORBA components. Wrote a Perl CGI for monitoring system health and status. Java, JSP, Sybase, Solaris, Linux, Perl, CORBA Blue Lobster Software Rochester, NY March 1998 to August 1999 Designed and built a Secure Socket Forwarder Java application to make secure connections to insecure applications/applets. Used Observer/Observable pattern through Remote Method Invocation (RMI) between server and UI clients. Did some support programming for Stingray product. Java, AWT, RMI, SSL, Linux, Solaris, Windows NT Computer Task Group on contract to Eastman Kodak Rochester, NY March 1995 to March 1998 Designed and built components of the Cineon Digital Film post production product. Was responsible for the design and implementation of the user interface of the Clip Editor. C++, ViewKit, Motif/Xt, OpenGL, Irix, Purify, RationalRose Resource Support Associates on contract to Ohio Edison Electric Akron, OH September 1994 to March 1995 Database design, analysis, programming on a large Automated Mapping and Facilities Management (AM/FM) project using GeoVision's VISION* product. C, GeoVision Macro Language, SQL, Oracle, AIX Gandalf Canada, Ltd. Kanata, Ontario October 1993 to September 1994 Leading a team to design, build and support an automated platform to test LAN/WAN hardware and firmware. Created a test script compiler, GUI and distributed network of computers driving custom hardware and software to test Gandalf products. C, Pro*C, Oracle, XView, Solaris, Linux Tomblin Computer Consulting Ottawa, Ontario February 1993 to September 1993 Independent contractor doing custom programming work for various customers. C, Pro*C, Oracle, HP-UX, Solaris GeoVision Systems Inc. Ottawa, Ontario October 1987 to January 1993 Had many roles in the company, including heading the bug fix team and doing on-site development work at customer sites in Canada, the US, England and Spain. C++, C, Oracle, X11, Xt, Motif, SunOS, Ultrix, VMS Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communications Toronto, Ontario 4 Co-Op work terms in 1982-1984
full time from June 1985 to September 1987 Engineering and software development on the Highway Design System 050. FORTRAN-H, PLI, MVS/SP, SPF, JCL/JES3 University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario 1980 to 1985 Civil Engineering Other Courses C programming and Unix C++ Programming and Advanced C++ Programming Computational Geometry Rational Rose/UML Training Volunteer work Developer and maintainer of a web site to correlate aeronautical data from multiple sources and generate databases for Palm Pilot flight planning and navigation applications. Co-Admin for aeronautical data types on Freebase, an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge". Usenet News Administrator, 1992 to present. Web site creator and maintainer, 1997 to present. Web site creator and co-maintainer, 2006 to present. Memberships Member of the Linux User Group of Rochester, 1996 to present. Member of the Ottawa/Carleton Unix Users Group, 1992 to 1996. Other significant contributions Guest speaker and panelist, December 1994.