SUMMARY

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SUN MICROSYSTEMS, Burlington, MA 2000-2004 --- Customer Training Instructor

Highest student satisfaction rating for labs in the following classes:

Intermediate/Advanced System Administration for Solaris 9 Operating System

Network Administration for the Solaris 9 Operating System

UNIX Essentials Featuring the Solaris 9 Operating System

Perl Programming with CGI, Shell Scripting, and Java Programming

AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, Andover, MA 1998-2000 --- Information Systems Engineer

Saved time and money by replacing paper documents with electronic documents stored in a large UNIX file system. Documents were indexed in an Oracle database, fetched with CGI scripts using SQL and Perl DBI, and delivered via an Apache web server running on HP-UX.

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY, Andover, MA 1981-1997 --- Software Design Engineer

Product Development

Developed medical products which delivered real time patient monitoring data to central station nursing staff. Real time embedded multi-tasking software was written in C language and assembler language, and cross compiled on HP-UX computers. Hardware platform was based on the MC68000 family of microprocessors. Debugging was done with HP Logic Analyzers. Product and processes met FDA regulations, Good Manufacturing Practices, and ISO 9001. Designed reliable networking protocols for LAN and for wireless telemetry.

Project Leadership

Improved productivity of ten person team by implementing Build Control using the Revision Control System (RCS) and shell scripts. Used rapid prototyping to demonstrate feasibility of Patient Alarm Notification System to deliver patient alarms directly to physicians via pagers. Initiated software design and code reviews to speed projects and reduce defect rates. As part of HP Corporate Engineering, led company wide effort to improve real time software specification and design, to reduce software schedule slip rate to zero, and to use Software Metrics to aid the management of software projects.

Problem Solving

Quickly solved baffling product failures: 1)Why does the product fail after exactly 24 minutes, 2) Why does the worldwide product fail only in California, 3)Why does the product fail after exactly 30 days?

ARTHUR D. LITTLE, INC., Cambridge, MA 1979-1981 --- Senior Staff Member

Designed and implemented embedded real time software for the West Bend Triple Timer.

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY 1966-1979 --- Development Engineer

Project Leader for the HP 5326A/B/C Universal Counter/Timer/Digital Volt Meter.

BARTOL RESEARCH FOUNDATION, Swarthmore, PA 1963-1965 --- Cosmic Ray Physicist

Installed and operated cosmic ray monitoring equipment at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, AND AFFILIATIONS

Professional Engineer, Electronics, Registered in Massachusetts

Sun Certified Network Administrator for the Solaris 9 Operating Environment

Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris 9 Operating Environment

Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform 1.4

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

TECHNICAL/COMPUTER SKILLS

Programming Languages

Java, Perl, C, Fortran, Pascal, Assembler, Bourne Shell, Korn Shell, HTML, bash, make, awk, CGI.pm

Hardware

Sun Sparc 5, Ultra 5, Ultra 10; HP 2000 series; Motorola MC68000 series microprocessors

Software

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access), Revision Control System (RCS), Source Code Control System (SCCS), Merant PVCS, Apache Web Server

Operating Systems

Sun Solaris, HP-UX, RTOS, DOS, JEDOS, UNIX, Linux, Windows 9X,NT,XP

Network

TCP/IP, DNS/BIND, HTTP, Ethernet, DHCP, NTP, RDISC, RIP, telnet, ftp, ssh

PATENTS AND PUBLICATIONS

• United States Patent #5,396,224, "Telemetered Patient Location System and Method", 1995.
• E. Deardorff, T.D.C. Little, J.D. Marshall, D. Venkatesh, and R. Walzer, "Video Scene Decomposition with the Motion Picture Parser", IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology (Digital Video Compression and Processing on Personal Computers: Algorithms and Technologies), San Jose, February 1994, SPIE Vol.2187, pp. 44-55.
• Evan Deardorff, "Better Project Estimates--The Easy Way", Project Management Anthology, Volume 1, Hewlett-Packard Corporate Engineering, 1988
• Evan Deardorff, "Projection of Project Cost and Project Duration at Waltham", Software Productivity Conference Proceedings, Hewlett-Packard Software Engineering Lab, 1986
• J. Evan Deardorff and Charles R. Trimble, "Calibrated Real-Time Signal Averaging", Hewlett-Packard Journal, April 1968

EDUCATION