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Edwin W. Meyer
CONSULTING SOFTWARE ENGINEER
1701 N. Sayre Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707
(617) 395-7600
EMail: edwin@alum.mit.edu
Web: http://www.edwinmeyer.com

Current specialty: Ruby on Rails design and implementation


· Web Development: Ruby on Rails; Java J2EE (Servlets, JSP, EJB and JDBC); JavaScript; Apache & Tomcat web servers.
· Operating Systems: Windows XP/Server 2003/2000, Linux, Solaris.
· Databases: Oracle SQL, MySQL.
· Other Technologies: Visual C++, Eclipse, JBuilder, Perforce, Siteminder, LDAP, HTML, XML, XSLT, Digital Certificates, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).



EXPERIENCE
PictoLink.com (Cambridge, MA) 2006 to present

·  Design and implementation of a three stage graphic link technology with applications to web advertising.   Technologies: Ruby on Rails, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL.

Digimarc Corporation (Burlington, MA) 2004 to 2005

·  Developed a web-based three tier inventory management system as part of a small team. Primary design and implementation responsibility for the reports subsystem. Provided onsite customer support, managed software deployments, and trained successor support staff.   Technologies: Java J2EE, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, JDBC, XML, Visual C++, Apache/Tomcat, Windows Server 2003, Oracle, Eclipse, Perforce.

Stolat Investors (Watertown, MA) 2001 to 2003

·  Designed and implemented a web server-based stock value analysis tool for an investment management firm. Technologies: Java J2EE, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, JDBC, Apache/Tomcat, Windows 2000 / Red Hat Linux 8.0, MySQL, JBuilder.

Lucent Technologies (Cambridge, MA) 2000 to 2001

·  Elicited requirements, designed and developed a Java EJB to access an Oracle database for an online analytical processing (OLAP) application.

·  Analyzed business logic of an existing two tier customer service application written in Visual C++ on top of a SQL server.

National Grange Mutual Insurance Co. (Keene, NH) 2000

·  Reviewed the design and implementation of a multi-tier COM/DCOM- based customer service application written in C++ and J++ and reported findings to the chief architect.

GTE Internetworking (Cambridge, MA.) 1999

·  Web administrator for a Solaris-based corporate portal involving content management, user access, and PKI issues.

·  Administered Stronghold, Apache, and Netscape Enterprise (iPlanet) web servers, Netscape Directory Server (LDAP), and Siteminder.

·  Researched undocumented features and created an administrator's handbook.

Netegrity, Inc. (Waltham, MA.) 1999
Principal consultant employed in the consulting group of the developer of the Siteminder network access control software.

·  Designed and implemented a Visual C++ Siteminder-internal authentication scheme running under Windows NT involving LDAP access.

Edwin Meyer Software Engineering (Cambridge, MA) 1997 to 1998

·  Object-oriented C++ development in of a demonstration program for a software invention in the field of grammatical inference.

Polaroid Corp. (Bedford, MA) 1995 to 1997

·  Performed analysis, design and implementation of several drivers license production systems written in C++.

·  Appointed lead programmer for one license system project. This system was delivered on time in spite of a tight schedule and met customer expectations.

Fidelity Investments (Boston, MA) 1994
Putnam Investments (Boston, MA) 1994
Millipore Corp. (Boston, MA) 1993-94
Synetics Corp. (Wakefield, MA) 1993-94

· Lotus Notes application design and development. Developed Windows and OS/2 Lotus Notes API applications in C for interfacing Notes applications with external environments.


Lotus Development Corp. 1989 to 1992

·  Sales Engineer - Munich, Germany. Designed and conducted 3-day classes in Lotus Notes in German and provided support for value added resellers and direct customers.

·  Principal Software Engineer - Cambridge, MA. Designed a schema for a cross-product object-based API and implemented it in C for a database product running under OS/2.

Micro Workshop of Cambridge 1977 to 1989
Partner and Principal in a microcomputer consulting business.

·  Designed a Unix-based distributed system for real-time data acquisition and analysis.

·  Presented courses, authored books and reviewed microcomputer hardware and software products.

Teledyne Geotech (Alexandria, VA) 1974 to 1977
Senior Systems Analyst for distributed systems design.

·  Principal system architect for two real-time distributed operating system proposals to the U.S. government. Designed and implemented a system for real-time seismic data acquisition from the (Internet predecessor) ARPANET.

M.I.T. Project MAC (Cambridge, MA) 1967 to 1974
Staff Member on the MULTICS time-sharing system development project.

·  Highlights: ARPANET protocol development; MULTICS ARPANET software interface; system internals; several language porting projects.

EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
B.S. Electrical Eng. 1967. National Merit Scholar.
Harvard University. Graduate extension school coursework in expert systems, C++, object-oriented programming, and discrete mathematics. 1989-1991.

PUBLICATIONS
Wordstar for the IBM PC (principal author), Brady division of Prentice-Hall, 1984.
Easy as 1, 2, 3 (principal author), Hayden Books, 1984.
Mastering 1-2-3 Macros and Databases, Micro Workshop, 1986.
(Internet) Network Working Group Request For Comments: RFC 46, RFC 49, RFC 59, RFC 79, RFC 82, RFC 98 (co-author), RFC 129 (co-author), RFC 492.

OTHER
U.S. Citizen.
Recognized as an ARPANET Pioneer during the ARPANET 25th anniversary celebration sponsored by Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.
Languages: competent in German; studied Russian


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