GeofFREY F. Pawlicki

             414 North 12th Street, San Jose CA 95112

                phone 408.938.0527 • CEll 408.375.4875

            www.pawlicki.net • geof at pawlicki.net

 

 

 

SKILLS

 

C/C++, Java/SWING, Object Oriented analysis and design, Generic programming using MFC, Win32, and some XWindows/UNIX.

Networking: MultiService (IP/Layer2 MPLS) router configuration, debug and development using C/OSE; SONET element management: using TL-1, CORBA, VxWorks

RDBMS and Web: Database design and implementation using MFC/Win32/DAO, PHP/MySQL/Linux, PERL/Bugzilla & Perforce; HTML, some XML;

Music: VST plugin development using CCARMA STK; MIDI;

Work experience




April 2007 –                                        Redback Networks, San Jose,CA  

Systems Software  Engineer

n     Design and develop solutions to urgent customer needs, resolving    existing problems, and undertaking new feature development for the    SmartEdge product family

February 2006 – February 2007       Tellabs (f.k.a. Vivace), Santa Clara, CA

Engineer

n     Sustaining engineer for the 8800 series Multi-Service routers. Feature development for enhancement bugs and debugging embedded software from Linecards up to management interfaces using C with the GreenHills compiler and OSE. Some concentration in Statistics and Service Assured Upgrade features; Dedicated Tier 3 technical support for NTT Japan.

 

February 2004 –  January 2006        Braxton Technologies, Pleasanton, CA

Software Engineer

n     High fidelity simulation of electrical, thermal and other space vehicle systems within the framework of a Win32/MFC based satellite ground control suite for the GPS satellite constellation. Secret clearance.

January 2002 – March 2003                                Project Gutenberg, N/A

Database developer & Music coordinator

n     Designed and wrote a MARC21 (Library of Congress) compliant bibliographic data management system using mySQL / PHP / SparcOS

n     Primary responsibility for content (Finale, MusicXML and PDF editions of classical chamber music) and program (publicity, fund raising, volunteer coordination).

March – September 2001 BlueLeaf Networks, f.k.a. Informed Diagnostics                       

Software Engineer

n     Co- designed the Control Point and a coarse-grain, generic IDL for the Management infrastructure of a next-generation, long-haul optical switch using CORBA, the Notification Service, and TL-1. Acquired detailed knowledge of standards from the ITU, Bellcore, TMF, SIF and OMG, for SONET, DWDM, and Digital Wrapper. The data modeling and functional analysis contributed significantly to the software architecture.  

May 1999 – March  2001                     Ciena Corporation, Cupertino, CA

Software Engineer

n     Implemented the Equipment Inventory module and various features of  the single-node manager (EMS), a Java Swing client to a CORBA orb; some maintenance programming in the Equipment module of embedded CORBA layer under vxWorks 5.4, end-to-end on-switch debugging.                                                    

n     Added SONET standards-compliant APS and User Security to the CoreDirector TL-1 command set using the Lumos TL-1 Agent C/C++.

August 1998 – May  1999                     Easyware Software,  San Jose, CA

Junior Software Developer

n     Principal responsibility for design and implementation of IRS Form 1065 Tax Printer to accompany Investment Club Accounting software using the DAO and MFC.

n     Maintenance programming of Club Accounting v.1.3 and 2.0 using an embedded Btrieve/ISAM database and XVT’s cross-platform Development Solution for C.

March 1997 – May  1998                                    San Jose State University

Research Assistant & Laboratory Instructor

May 1995 –February  1997                Santa Clara County District Attorney

Contract Programmer

n     Developed and maintained case tracking databases, queries and reports for a Real Estate Fraud, HS11550 Drug Diversion, PC290 Sexual Offender registration, and Three Strike programs using MS Access.

n     Adapted and maintained a WindowsNT / Paradox 3.5 port of the County’s mainframe case tracking system for the Juvenile Division. 


 

Education

 

August 13, 2001 San Jose State University

Master of Science in Computer Science

n     Graduate Coursework in Communications Networks, Distributed Operating Systems, Graph Theory, Computational Complexity, Database Systems, Lindenmayer Systems

n     Departmental Thesis “Performance and Availability Modeling of Webserver Configurations” using Stochastic Petri Net Package (SPNP). 

December 1987 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor of Music, Composition

Departmental Merit Scholarship, UIUC; Northern Illinois University, University Scholarship

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

"Availability and Performance Oriented Availability Modeling of  Webserver Cache hierarchies " by  Geof Pawlicki and Archana Sathaye, RAMS2004 Jan. 2004

"Performance and Availability Modeling of Webserver Configurations" by  Geof Pawlicki and Archana Sathaye, SCI2003 July 2003

"Laboratory manual" and "Instructor's solution manual" to accompany “Computing Concepts with C++ Essentials”  and  “Computing Concepts with Java Essentials”, co-author with Cay Horstmann.

 

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