Resume

updated 4/5/03

Stephen Naughton
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33312

SUMMARY

Software Developer with over ten years analysis and design experience, including extensive development in C++ and Microsoft Windows platforms. A motivated self-starter with strong research, analysis, problem solving and design skills and excellent communication skills. Detail-oriented and keep an eye out for the best solution. I’m a team player with a professional, bottom line-oriented attitude; I love my work. Always interested in broadening my horizons, learning new skills.

CORE SKILLS:
     Windows PC platforms 11 years, Windows CE, 1 year; Linux 2 years
     C: 13 years; C++: 8 years; Visual Basic 1 year; VBA 1 year
     Various Assembler languages: 1 year
     MFC/Visual C++ Environment: 6 years
     COM: 1 year, experience in DirectX
     SQL (use of Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, SQL Anywhere, MS Access; writing stored procedures; mostly through ODBC, some admin): 6 years
     Writing and debugging multithreaded apps; synchronization and thread safety
     TCP/IP Sockets, RS-232, Internet applications (HTML, HTTP, auto-emailing),
     Parsing (including use of Lex/Yacc, Flex/Bison, and Antlr/PCCTS)
     Documentation: fully document code; authored user manual and help files
     HTML: 2 years, Javascript: 1 year
     Photoshop, Painter: 1 year

INTEREST AREAS:
.NET programming; embedded programming - I have done reading/practice in these areas and would be interested in any opportunities to get practical experience.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Archonix, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Florida (www.archonix.com)
President/Software Developer/Consultant (this is my S-Corporation)
June 2001 to present

Developed a Video Security Application with DirectShow (DirectX 9). Extended an existing DirectX library. Troubleshot many DirectShow problems.
Created Voice Over IP module using DirectSound.
Authored user manual and online help files.
Diagnosed hardware problems, repaired protocol to handle newfound issues.
Linux system administration, scripting, C programming and troubleshooting.
Developed a web-based email and paging app in Visual C++
Wrote low level code for NT to read and write characters to the parallel port

e2 Communications (now Bluestreak), Plano, Texas (www.bluestreak.com)
Software Engineer
April 2000 to May 2001

Implemented/maintained E-commerce software using Delphi
Database development, some administration using SQL Server; maintained stored procedures
Designed and debugged multithreaded code; created COM components

DB Microware Inc., Plano, Texas (www.dbmicro.com)
System Engineer
May 1997 to March 2000

Developed a service order system for utility companies. Server runs on NT, client supports multiple platforms on handhelds and laptops for field work
Chief C++ programmer
Designed a communications protocol for TCP/IP and RS-232
Designed multithreaded com port processing algorithm.
Migrated set of applications from Win32 to WinCE
Wrote a high level scripting parser using Flex and Bison.
SQL/ODBC with Oracle, SQL Server and Watcom SQL Anywhere.

RIA, formerly CLR/FastTax, Carrollton, Texas (www.riahome.com)
Systems Analyst Lead II
August 1995 to February 1997

Developed applications for Windows 95 and NT using foundation classes.

Development of n-tier components

Supported CLR’s "data container" module using ODBC with Sybase.

Beckett Publications, Dallas, Texas (www.beckett.com)
Senior Software Engineer
January 1994 to July 1995

Developed software in Visual Basic, Clipper, FoxPro

Collaborated with other programmers to migrate to normalized, data-driven database systems.

Ibertech Inc., Fort Worth, Texas (www.ibertech.com)
Software Engineer
June 1993 to December 1993

Built database app for point of sale system in C++ with the Microsoft Windows SDK.

Converted DOS character-based C code to Windows (GUI) C++ code.

Participated in all levels of the design process.

Digital Image Systems Inc., Carrollton, Texas
Software Engineer
May 1992 to May 1993

Key contributor in system design; conferred with management and coworkers.
Application development of imaging software using Microsoft Windows and OS/2 PM.
Researched and wrote statistical algorithms to determine document boundaries within images.

Artificial Linguistics, Dallas, Texas
Software Engineer
March 1990 to April 1992

Developed PowerEdit, an English language writing analyzer which received top honors from PC industry magazines and industry leaders.
Developed applications in C: automated text reduction, indexing, hypertext and search/retrieval.
Helped develop the user manual, tutorials, error messages and grammar correction algorithms.
Progressive responsibilities in interface design, linguistic research, and project supervision.
Functioned as C language, Windows and computer science "guru".

EDUCATION:
     B.S. in Computer Science, with minor in English, Iowa State University, May, 1986.
     Graduate and undergraduate linguistics courses at University of Texas at Arlington 1988
     Community college courses in Electronics, Biology, Chemistry and Art 1989-2000

AFFILIATIONS:
     Association for Computational Linguistics