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- From: egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Edward G. Nilges)
- Subject: Experienced compiler & tools developer seeks West Coast position
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.225611.6760@Princeton.EDU>
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- Keywords: Compilers, tools
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 22:56:11 GMT
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- Edward G. Nilges Telephone: (203) 757-5077
- 222 Bradley #4-11A
- Waterbury CT 06708
-
- A professional programmer/analyst with project management, compiler
- development and consulting experience seeks challenging new assignments
- as a designer and developer of compilers and software tools.
-
- EDUCATION
-
- BA, 1973, Roosevelt University: GPA was 3.5/4.0: major, philosophy and
- mathematics. Course work towards MSCS degree, 1977-1979, DePaul University:
- GPA was 3.9/4.0. Student, Princeton University, 1987-1988: GPA was 3.4/4.0.
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- TECHNICAL SUMMARY
-
- Languages: C, C++, REXX, BAL, Cobol, PL/I, Pascal, FORTRAN,
- 808x/68xxx assembler, HyperTalk, Visual Basic...
- Hardware: IBM PC, Macintosh, Sun workstations, VAXen, IBM mainframes
- (through 309x)...
- Systems: OS/2, Windows, unix, Macintosh Finder, VM/CMS, TSO, MVS...
- Internals: VM/CMS CP modifications, compiler development...
- Applications: Information center tools, naval architecture, payroll,
- general MIS, real estate appraisal, CASE, education
- applications, multimedia instructional software,
- computer graphics...
- Management: Project and line management experience...
-
- EXPERIENCE
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- Oct 1992-Now Consultant, Zeitech, Stamford CT.
-
- * Took a leadership role in project at major vendor to develop a
- business rule compiler. Developed the tokenizer, made presentations to
- management, advised team on object code generation and language parsing
- strategies as the senior compiler engineer on this project. Quoted
- from letter written by client's line manager: "Ed came on board and
- up to speed extremely fast. He provided leadership and acted as a
- mentor to junior employees."
- _______________________________________________________________________
- March 1987-Oct 1992 Programmer, Information Center consultant,
- Princeton University.
-
- * Part of a CIT team which made Princeton #1 in computing services
- quality, according to a study by the Council on Financing Higher Education.
-
- * Developed the REXXYACC parser generator and the REXXPARS parser for
- REXX.
-
- * Developed the multimedia CIT publicity and documentation strategy.
-
- * Characterized by my supervisor in August 1987 as "a natural mentor."
- Designed and delivered, using multimedia instructional technology, classes
- in C, advanced REXX and HyperTalk.
-
- * Advised senior faculty and visiting scholars including Jonathan
- Schell (author, The Fate of the Earth) on new tools for instruction and
- research.
- _______________________________________________________________________
- Sept 1986-Now Consultant and principal, Edward Nilges Software Factory.
-
- * Developed the lexical analyzer for a REXX compiler.
-
- * Consultant to the development of the OBSP (OnBoard Stability Program)
- for the Glosten Associates, Seattle. Working closely and harmoniously with
- the Ocean Engineer, Mr. Dave Gray, developed the graphics toolkit and overall
- approach for this successful product, which is now monitoring hydrostatic
- stability for several West Coast ocean-going research vessels, including the
- Alpha Helix of the University of Washington.
-
- * Worked on the LAURA embedded data base system for real-estate
- appraisal.
-
- * Designed and delivered the class in C for Experienced IBM Mainframe
- Programmers at TransUnion, Chicago IL. Received uniformly high student
- ratings and the effort was characterized by the president of the
- subcontracting firm as "excellent."
-
- * Member, Change Control team.
- _______________________________________________________________________
- Feb 1986-Sept 1986 Research programmer/analyst, Ranier Bank, Seattle.
-
- * Worked on development of a business rules compiler.
-
- * Developed the MiniScript text formatting language and processor,
- using FORTRAN under TSO.
- _______________________________________________________________________
- Nov 1981-Feb 1986 Member of the Scientific Staff, Bell Northern
- Research, Mountain View, CA.
-
- * SL-1 (Pascal-like) compiler support and development
-
- * Compiler and tools programmer on the successful effort to develop
- the SL-1 "Omega" switch; developed the firmware assembler using an innovative
- approach that created it from the firmware programmer's reference manual;
- developed the SL-1 compiler, writing much new code and reusing old code;
- developed source analysis tools using YACC and unix.
-
- * Pioneering REXX programmer; developed a large library of programming
- widgets in REXX including TOOLAN, a program to analyze a REXX program, and
- identify what tools it uses.
- _______________________________________________________________________
- May 1979-Nov 1981 Lead consultant, SEI Information Technology,
- Chicago IL; a large accounting firm characterized SEI as "the best group
- of technical preople in the country."
-
- * Developed the switch simulator and billing subsystem for Wescom
- Switching, now Rockwell Wescom, in highly portable Cobol and installed it
- at a beta test site.
-
- * Developed the Message Unit Detail system at Illinois Bell for
- business network marketing; pioneered the use of computer graphics to
- spotlight call pattern concentrations for customized line engineering.
-
- * Developed software tools for the first commercial mobile telephony
- system, EMX, at Motorola Common Carrier.
-
- * Member, SEI Technology Council.
- _______________________________________________________________________
- Nov 71-May 79 MIS programmer/analyst and consultant in the
- Chicago region: details on request.
- _______________________________________________________________________
- PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
-
- Addressed the 1991 Conference on Computers and Writing at New York Institute of
- Technology: title of talk was "Dijkstra to Derrida, towards a Critical Theory
- for Computer Science." Addressed the 1991 International Conference on
- Symbolic and Logical Computing on "The Joy of (Parsing) REXX." Recent
- papers published include "Why Johnny Can't Get A's in C Programming",
- Computerworld.
-
- Member, Association for Computing Machinery.
-
- Listing, Who's Who in the East, 25th ed.
-
- Completed the 1992 Outward Bound Challenge School, Sierra Nevadas, an
- extra-intensive wilderness-based leadership training school. Completed
- the 1991 Ross Lake Outward Bound School. Completed the 1983 London and
- Chicago Marathons.
-