Resume of Arnold B. Widdowson (Arnie) July 14, 2010

22 Chinkapin Drive
Fleetwood, PA 19522

674 Willowgate Street B.
Mountain View CA 94043

ajlogo@gmail.com
Resume in .doc form.

My career goals for the next few years:

I want to lead the development of state-of-the-art web-based applications that are media rich. This of course means Flex, Flash and ActionScript at the client and Java at the server. An emerging technology which I feel is as revolutionary as the web itself, is collaborative media and applications. “Interactive media” really means a person is interacting with a program. When several people are interacting, the results can be stunning. From engaging group presentations, to next generation eLearning, to software, services and product development; web based collaboration will enable productivity gains. With experience from Bell Laboratories, IBM, FedEx, Lutron, and Mapquest, the necessary skill sets have been cultivated. I see the importance and potential of this new technology and my goal is to be a part of its realization.

Career Objectives:

• To conceive and develop advanced interactive and collaborative web based content and tools

• To evaluate and assess emerging web technologies

Areas of Expertise:

• Flex 2 and Flash CS3 3 yr

• Flex 3 and Air 1 2 yr

• Flex 4 and Air 2 .5 yr

• Flash and ActionScript - 5 years www.ajlogo.com/

• Adobe LCCS (Adobe's Collaboration Service was Cocomo and AFCS) 1 year

• Adobe Stratus .5 yr

• Adobe Acrobat Connect 1year

• Graphics 2D and 3D - 14 years

• Java 1.5 w/Swing, Java 2D – 10 years www.ajlogo.com/ajlogo/version3beta

• Perl/CGI programming - 14 years

• Unix with administration, shell programming, kernel, X11  - 18 years, Linux 9 years

• HTML, SSI, JavaScript, client side validation - 10 years

• CSS and XML - 5 years

• Photoshop - 5 years

• Illustrator - 3 years

Work Experience:

• Cisco Systems: R&D Consultant 4/2010 to 7/2010

  • Created a generalized charting component module using the Service Widget Framework and the Adobe Flex visualization library. Created an initial prototype of a visual tool for building Virtual Service Exchange Service Delivery Language programs.

• Colabry.com: Self funded R&D work on advanced collaborative whiteboards 3/2009 to 4/2010

  • Developed forward looking whiteboards at www.colabry.com . I am the first Adobe developer to extend the Collaborative Services API to enable GUI components on a whiteboard. Both the Adobe LCCS and Stratus API's are used including the advanced multicast mode as well as peer to peer (P2P. In addition to the whiteboard, streaming audio and video is integrated.

• Lutron: R&D Consultant : 9/2008 to 3/2009

  • Architect of new Flex3 framework for LCD touch screen applications. This project was an advance development prototype for initial proof of concept. Touch screen navigation and setting control was developed. For maximum color optimization a complex ColorMatrix based tool was created to tune Illustrator assets. I realized serveral models based on concepts from the cognitive and ergonomic lead and the designer.

• FedEx: R&D Consultant: 6/2008 to 9/2008

  • Architect of new Flex3 framework for web applications. Created advanced prototype of proposed user workspace environment based on a custom MDI (Multiple Document Interface) windowing system. Windows can be nested in addition to traditional scaling, cascading and tiling. The Agile software development methodology was employed.

• KTV media R&D Consultant to: 3/2008 to 5/2008:

  • Development of the Pepsi Youniverse site. Created an AIR prototype with RSS reader and the WebKit HTML engine, the customized video player and the wallpaper sections.

• Eyemaginations R&D Consultant: 9/2007 to 2/2008

  • Development and deployment of the 3D Eye Home product. Created a complex piece which integrates animation, video, ads as well as a product gallery which used categorized/compound slider 

• MapQuest IT Consultant : 4/2007 to 8/2007

  • Development and deployment of the MapQuest ActionScript 3 Flex/Flash API toolkit. Developed complex section of API, the Point-Of-Interest Sprite system using radial leader lines. Developed extened ASdoc scripts to hyperlink API docs with code samples as well as API internals. The Agile software development methodology was employed.

• IBM Global Services IT Specialist, 8/2001 to 12/29/2006 Web Services/Weblab organization.

  • The overall responsibility has been the end to end support of content delivery for public lucent.com. I bridge both the Web Services (development) and the Weblab (operations) groups, and often lead the tight coupling and teamwork that occurs between the groups.  I have delivered numerous developments in both infrastructure and in micro-site applications as well as maintaining publishing operations.

  • CGI site development projects

    • The MiLife developers program .

    • The Business Partner Locator 

    • The Contact Us site and How To Buy sites .

    • Responsible for SEI level 3 Measurements & Analysis.

  • Automated staging, validation and publishing process

  • Infrastructure projects

    • LDAP project .             

    • The public lucent.com hardware platform migration.

• Bell Laboratories Member of the Technical Staff: 10/1986 to 8/2001:

  • Technical Lead for the Service Provider Network business unit's web content on www.lucent.com. SPN is the largest business unit of Lucent.

  • Technical Lead and Customer Care for the Microelectronics business unit on www.lucent.com. Microelectronics is the second largest business unit of Lucent.

  • Content creation for intranet sites. Designed and developed the first e-commerce employee phone store. Created and maintained Lucent remote access site. Created graphics for International Travel group site. Created prototypes of an internal Intra-Mart site.

  • GaAs IC design and test development of a family of fully custom 2.5 Gb/s Laser driver circuits. Products include a direct laser driver, a driver for electro-absorption external modulation and a driver for lithium-niobate external modulation. Devices from the latest design have been functional up to 8.9 Gb/s. Design activities included use of AT&T SYSCAD tools Schema for schematic capture and Advice for simulation. Iterative schematic/layout/simulation cycles are performed. Final simulations are run over temperature and process variation space.

  • GaAs FET modeling. Provide simulator ready Hemt fet models for design. Responsibility includes I/V and S parameter data acquisition, analysis and model co-efficient extraction.

  • HP-Unix administration. Support and develop six workstations for use in test development and characterization.

Education:

• Graduate of Pennsylvania State University, B.S.E.E.