Resume for Kenneth Marx

Kenneth Marx - Software Engineer

email: kmarx2k@yahoo.com

Summary

Analyst/Software Engineer with over 19 years experience in systems design and software development
Extensive experience in Unix system and application software, distributed client/server applications design and implementation, and ORDBS internals
Experience in all phases of the software cycle - Requirements specifications, design, development, and site support
Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Device interface and driver experience
Software: C, C++, Perl, HTML, SQL, Unix (FreeBSD, Solaris, SunOS, BSD, AIX, others), Tcl/Tk, Javascript

Objectives

Interested in applied and/or scientific problem solving, in an open, dynamic North Bay environment.

Professional Experience

Vicor, Inc.,

Richmond, California, July 1997 - July 2004

Vicor builds large and small scale, image and web based, integrated systems for document processing, such as remittance and invoice data. Clients are typically financial institutions, especially some of the major banking concerns. Installed at over 20 production sites - typically multi-site, 24x7 operations.

RIDS - Image-based Wholesale Lockbox

Voice Recognition - Vendor Evaluation and final implementation of multi-threaded voice recognition component for the front-end data capture workstations.

Product search (for FreeBSD support) and evaluation
Kernel performance instrumentation
Integration with existing X-based GUI
Design and implementation of Perl/Tk user voice enrollment application (Screen Shot)
Back end performance and usage statistics gathering and analysis

TimeClock - Design and Implementation of a productivity tracking and reporting system using real-time events and RIDS system data files to allow real-time and downstream graphical reports of personnel activities and productivity (Perl, CGI)

Web-based PunchClock and monitoring screen. Supports kiosk mode (Sample Screen)
Web-based graphical reporting screen showing per user productivity statistics and to-the-minute, color coded activities timelines and aggregate bargraphs (Sample Screen)
Back end statistics gathering

Control Document Printing - Designed and implemented Perl/CGI system for printing barcoded and micr encoded control documents

Generalized and documented special font handling for use in other subsystems (Sample Screen)
Easy to create and integrate new document types, with various dynamic fields
Online configuration of documents and printers
Leveraged this development to provide various hi-volume test decks (e.g., checks, invoices, coupons) for in-house QA and client demonstrations

Imaging

Image Profile and Trimming - C++ objects for image edge detection and cropping. Used in production for cleaning up background borders on images from high-speed image scanners. Processes upwards of 1.2 Million images daily (Sample test data)
Analysis of jpeg compression quality vs. image size (C++, Perl, html) (Sample test data)
MICR fixed pitch font C++ objects for character segmentation during image character recognition (ICR)

VirtualTape - Adjunct to existing tape backup system using remote raid storage: Libraries, production and test utilities for processing sets of Gigabyte files (C++)
Various Perl/Tk GUI Applications - Including tcp/ip communications and interfaced with Barcode and Label Printer devices. Also wrote Perl modules and C++ interfaces for said devices
Device/product evaluation - Device evaluation: Evaluated for production deployment various devices, and device-related software. Barcode readers, headsets, graphics cards (vis-a-vis XFree86), monitors, others
Kernel - Build, profile, debug and test. Worked with FreeBSD core group on sound driver and file system issues

Electronic StoreFront and image eStorage

Designed and implemented front-end data capture GUI in X for back-room image archival system (C++, X)
Designed customer document submittal headers, including barcode control and web-based print requests

Tools and Utilities

List-handling, and X-Windows objects for image recognition systems. The latter include widgets for scrolling text, data entry form traversal, progress bars, and various modal dialogue boxes, all done as C++ objects

Illustra/Informix Software Inc.

Oakland, California. December 1995 - June 1998

Illustra (later bought by Informix and now IBM) was an innovator in commercial true object relational data bases. The main product, the Informix Dynamic Server, allows for user defined data base types, including user defined server side methods on the objects. Other features include data blades, smart blobs, R-Tree (and other access methods), and various programmatic APIs.

Server Software R & D Engineer

Part of multi-team effort to merge Illustra's ORDBS feature set to the Informix Dynamic Server
Major role in the design and implementation of the server side programmatic interface to the extensible feature set for the Informix Dynamic Server. Specialized in execution context management and large object processing
Supported and implemented extensible utilities for the R-TREE extended access method
Helped design and implement continuous data replication (CDR) for extended data types

TRW Financial Systems (TFS)

Berkeley/Oakland, California. October 1983 - December 1995

TFS is an integrator of large, image-based distributed network systems for custom applications in the international and domestic financial market. These systems process upwards of one million documents per day, and cover all phases of processing including high-speed image and data capture, image keying, mainframe interface, printing, and image/data archival.

Systems and Kernel Programmer

Unix disk driver performance enhancements and on-line format/badblock utilities
Implemented dual-seek and slip-sector capabilities for SMD device driver. Provided new on-line maintenance utilities to supplant old company-wide stand-alone versions.

On-site and remote system level Unix kernel support for development and production systems. Duties included troubleshooting, debugging, configuration, performance tuning
Unix system administration experience on large networked systems

Performed as system administrator during development and delivery phases of Giro processing system for Bankenes Betalings Sentral (BBS), Oslo, Norway

Applications Programmer

High Speed Printers: Generic multi-threaded/multi-platform architecture for high-speed image printing applications
Designed and implemented a software architecture for image statement printing at rates of for high volume (up to 5 pages per second) print applications. Printers include: Xerox 4135, IBM 2900, IBM 2916. Platforms: Solaris, OSF/1. Images were optionally decompressed/compressed, scaled, rotated and snipped

Part of two-man team to implement image character recognition (ICR) subsystem for European system
Provided interface layer between application and system level ICR platform. Part of a system that performs targeted and untargeted ICR on upwards of ten documents per second

Designed and implemented data servers as part of Giro processing system for BBS (Oslo, Norway). Currently in production over seven years
Lex/Yacc implementation of language for front-end process control for groups of Unix processes
Image-based DOS applications involving networked image, message and file transfer to/from Unix and PC based control computers
Design, coding and support of multi-client/multi-site image-lockbox systems

Other

Internal and external documentation and design specification

In-depth client contact involving consulting, design, specification, coding, integration and support. Both on-site and in-house

Kenneth Marx - Software Engineer

Summary

Objectives

Professional Experience

Vicor, Inc.,

Richmond, California, July 1997 - July 2004

Illustra/Informix Software Inc.

Oakland, California. December 1995 - June 1998

Server Software R & D Engineer

TRW Financial Systems (TFS)

Berkeley/Oakland, California. October 1983 - December 1995

Systems and Kernel Programmer

Applications Programmer

Other

Education

University of California at Santa Cruz

Bachelor of Arts, Physics

Community

Board of Directors, Volunteers in Asia, Stanford, California (1982-1990)

Volunteer Computer Instruction, James Kenny Recreation Center, Berkeley, California

Interests

Flute, Music, Cooking, Falconry, Japanese Language, Basketball, Bicycling, Coffee Roasting, Nixie Tubes