Jeff Prothero, Developer

    Email: jeff at jeffprothero.com
    Phone: 831 475 2769
    Post:  780 Crystal Ln / Santa Cruz CA 95062
    Html resume: http://jeffprothero.com/resume.html

Skillset 
 
    C: 30 years, Lisp: 10 years, C++: 5 years, Fortran: 5 years,
    Perl: 3 years, Java: 2 years, SQL: 1 year.
    I have written over a million lines of C/C++/Java and
    have a working knowledge of many other languages, e.g.
    microprogramming the Pixar Machine.
 
    Compilers:  10+ years:  Wrote two C compilers from scratch and spent five years 
        rewriting SML/NJ compiler; also extensive work on implementations of LISP, 
        FORTH, Assembly, Smalltalk etc.  
 
    Assembly Code:  5 years.  Over a quarter million lines of assembly code
        for machines ranging from eight-bit microcontrollers to supercomputers. 
 
    Firmware and Embedded Systems: 5 years.  Cisco IOS, also PIC
        microcontroller firmware, Atmel firmware, etc. 
 
    Operating Systems:  Linux 20 years,, Unix 10 years, Cisco IOS 5 years.
        Also Windows, CP/M, DOS, RSX11, SCOPE, TOPS-10, IRIX, HP/UX, NeXT,
        Solaris, AIX, etc. 
 
    Version control systems:  CVS, Git, SourceSafe, ClearCase, darcs. 
 
    OpenGL:  20 years.  I have been using OpenGL since the '80s when
        it was called GL. My complete line of scientific visualization
        packages Skandha1 through Skandha5 are based on  it.

 
    YACC/LEX/etc:  Since the '70s, starting on a PDP-11.  For the
        Loglan parser project, I ported AT&T YACC to CP/M. 
 
    Other Skills:  Excellent writing skills, broad technical
        background ranging from math and physics to electronics and
        aerodynamics.  

Job History 
 
    While still an undergraduate, I was hired by the UW Physics 
    department Visual Techniques Lab to oversee all computer operations 
    plus manage the student neutrino-event scanner team. 
 
    After graduation, working with neuroanatomist John W Sundsten
    of the University of Washington Health Sciences Biological Structures 
    Department, I created the Digital Anatomist project and with it
    the field of computer reconstruction and visualization of human
    anatomy.  I authored a number of peer-reviewed papers on this work. 
 
    It would be tedious to list all my short-term contracting work; 
    I limit myself to post-graduation salaried positions: 
 
    2000-2005 
 
        Developer with Cisco's elite Gigabit Systems 
        Group co-founded by Andy Bechtolsheim. 
 
        My initiatives there included writing their complete internal 
        developer's documentation (when I arrived, it was all word of 
        mouth) and writing their complete daily build system (when I 
        arrived engineers were manually generating up to a dozen different 
        image builds a day for external use). 
 
        I also worked upon their 250Kloc C++ codebase and of course the 
        main Cisco 13Mloc IOS C-language codebase. 
 
        My hiring supervisor there commented, "This guy has written 
        more useful code than anyone I've ever heard of." 


    1997-1998

        Developer with Activerse, a start-up developing an intra-corporation
        cross-platform instant messaging client/server solution in Java.
        My contributions included Java applet coding, Java GUI and networking coding,
        doing the Solaris port of the product, and doing QA liaison and coding. 


    1986-1996
        Creating and building the UW Health Sciences Biological Structure Department
        Digital Anatomist Program.  This included developing from scratch a series of
        half a dozen scientific visualization packages on platforms ranging from S-100
        CP/M to SGI RISC boxes.  My supervisor there, Stanford Artificial Intelligence
        Laboratory PhD (and UW MD) James F Brinkley, calls me "the best programmer I've
        ever met" -- adds that anyone who doesn't hire me is an idiot. :-)

 
    For the last six years I have been concentrating on open 
    source work: 
 
      o  To provide an evolutionary upgrade path from the C/C++/Java 
         language paradigm (whose core design concepts date from circa 1970) 
         I have been morphing the SML/NJ research compiler (Bell Labs, CMU, NYU...)             smlnj.org 
         into Mythryl, a production-oriented compiler engineered for minimum                    mythryl.org 
         retraining cost. (This has absorbed the bulk of my time over this period.) 

      o  I have also been getting involved with computer vision and robotics: 
          * Computer vision and control for Sandy's Fan Club art project                        sandystone.com/fanclub.html 
          * PCB milling gerber-to-gcode converter                                               muq.org/~cynbe/gcoder/ 
          * Demo Linux computer vision app + X widget                                           muq.org/~cynbe/vision-apps/  
          * Categorized collection of computer vision papers                                    muq.org/~cynbe/vtopics.html 
          * Ruminations on same                                    muq.org/~cynbe/what-can-we-learn-from-computer-vision.html 
          * R/C model airplane construction, operation and instrumentation                      sandystone.com/blog/?p=72 
          * Maintainer on OpenCV                                                                en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCV 
          * PIC/Atmel based "squirmy guy" installation piece shown various places. 
          * Unreleased gcode synthesis library. 
 
Education 
 
    BS in Computer Science 1986, University of Washington. 
 
Curriculum Vitae 
 
    I am author of a number of peer-reviewed papers starting with 
 
        "Three-dimensional reconstruction from serial sections IV: 
         The reassembly problem", Computers and Biomedical Research, 
         1986 
 
    -- do a Google Scholar search if interested. 
 
 
 
Availability 
 
    I am currently available for work in the Bay Area. 
    I occasionally accept telecommute work from elsewhere. 
 
 
Affiliations etc. 
 
    HS chess champ, National Merit Scholar, Mensa, 999, ISPE, ACM, IEEE.