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Overview
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- Objectives:
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To earn an appropriate (that's a euphemism for
"high"
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salary with an ownership stake in a successful company, while doing
what I love to do and am good at and while spending ample time with
my family and my outside interests.
- Strengths:
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A technical personnel and project manager who
can and will involve himself in the architecture, design, coding,
and testing of software products and solutions.
- Preferences:
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To work in an entrepeneurial
environment, where contribution is obvious, apparent, meaningful,
significant, and well-rewarded.
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Skills
Summary
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- Extremely strong software architect, designer, and coder.
- Successful and well-respected manager of development personnel
and projects.
- Strong leadership qualities.
- Current emphasis on integration of non-Internet applications to
the Internet, and on new Internet application development.
- Over four years current experience in financial applications
(banking, e-commerce).
- Skilled in TCP/IP protocols and socket communication.
- Ten years experience in telecommunications software development.
- Designer of award-winning Websites.
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Technical
Proficiency
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Programming languages:
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- Primary use of C++, C, Python, JavaScript, and ksh
- Microsoft Active Server Page (ASP) scripting (VBScript)
- Fluent in almost every other programming language, including
everything from Java to APL
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Markup languages:
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- Expert in HTML (including CGI coding)
- XML
- Some use of SGML
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Database systems:
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- Oracle, Informix, and other SQL, ESQL/C
- Microsoft Access
- Familiar with Sybase
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Operating systems:
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- UNIX (AIX, HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, Linux)
- Mcrosoft Operating Systems (MS-DOS, Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000)
- VOS (Stratus and IBM System/88)
- VAX/VMS and other dinosaur systems
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Other applications:
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- Web servers (IIS, Apache, PWS)
- Many source, document, and graphics editors
- Source control systems (Source Safe, CMVC, Continuus, RCS
and CVS, SCCS)
- Integrated development environments (Visual Studio, Interdev,
many others)
- Debuggers and software quality tools (Purify, Quantify,
PureCoverage, Insight, InUse)
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Employment
Experience
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Sapéreon,
101 Inverness Drive East, Suite 120
Englewood, CO 80112
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- Employed June, 1997 through present.
- Sole founding employee of the company in June of 1997.
- History of Employment:
- Development Lead (Managing Architect).
Singly responsible for all aspects of management of the
development division of the company, including:
- staffing,
- developer direction,
- software project architecture and design,
- profit management,
- project estimation and acceptance,
- product enhancement,
- sales and marketing opportunities,
- customer relations.
As discussed below, had formed the entire
development staff for the company until staff expansion (which
led to a loss of what had been strong profitability for the
development arm of the company), then
served as technical leader of the development group, but resisted
the move into management duties. Finally relented, however,
and took over management.
Was surprised to find not only interest and passion
for project and personnel management tasks, but strengths and
capabilities to perform them well. Extremely quickly took the
development team from consistently unprofitable to consistently
profitable, while keeping
the team thriving, expanding, and very high in morale and
cameraderie.
- Sole Architect/Developer, Technical Leader.
Single-handedly designed and implemented the company's Internet
account access (home banking) product, used continually in
production since March of 1998, on which the success of the
company has been built.
Responsible for all design and architecture of this
product.
Created Websites for diverse clientele. Customer relationship
and presentation duties (also served as the company's initial
sales and marketing arm as well).
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Evolving Systems, Inc.,
9777 Mt. Pyramid Ct.
Englewood, CO 80112
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- Employed May, 1988 through June 18, 1997.
- One of the original ten employees of the company.
- Last title: Senior Programmer (Programmer III).
- Regularly promoted throughout employment.
- Received annual corporate award for excellence, 1995
(the first year in which awards were given).
- History of Employment:
- Developer Representative, Practices and Standards Group,
March, 1996 - June, 1997.
Singly represented the 300 ESI programmers on the
interdisciplinary
team charged with creation, maintenance, and evaluation of
corporate standards, processes, and practices. Developed
software project lifecycle, standards for project
requirements, design, coding, testing, and so on.
Ensured environmental and procedural concerns are
met and gathers input for standardization decisions to
be made by the practices and standards group. Researched
SEI guidelines, ISO and other standards, and applied them
appropriately and consistently throughout the company.
Much responsibility for the design and implementation
of internal and external corporate Website and Web pages
of the group. Among other accomplishments,
established the development and build environment
for the ESI base infrastructure software development group,
and a corporate standard performance modeling technique and
tool.
- Lead Programmer, Transaction
Manager (AIN),
August, 1995 - March, 1996.
Performed maintenance on and added major enhancements to
the key process in an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN)
telephony provisioning system. This process was initially
created at an earlier date
[see below] and had been
integrated into the AIN provisioning project. Added
major new transaction functionality, designed and led
implementation of new interprocess interfaces, and
rescoped the code to better fit the project, resulting
in a considerable speed increase and a 60% decrease in
code size.
- Software Architect, VDI Projects,
June, 1995 - August, 1995.
Responsible for initial requirement collection and system
design for projects bid to customers by the Voice Data
Integration group. Systems ranged from electronic
television viewer vote collection and on-screen overlay
to kernel-level device driver work. Worked with account
consultants and met with customers to determine needs.
Prepared and presented time, cost, equipment estimates
in response.
- Business Unit Configuration and Resource
Manager,
April, 1994 - June, 1995.
Creation of configuration, build, and release management
solution for telephony billing software business group.
Responsible for software architecture design,
code organization and integration, modularization
and internationalization issues, and coding and development
procedure standards. Developed model now used for
corporate internal infrastructure coding.
- Lead Programmer, Transaction
Manager (PACS),
November, 1992 - April, 1994.
Responsible for the design and creation of the key process
in a telephony provisioning system. The transaction
manager process is tasked with determining the provisioning
actions to be taken, and the proper sequence of these
actions, to enable completion of an order for
multi-featured telephony services. It is also
responsible for scheduling, running, and monitoring
slave programs which execute these actions and with
maintaining and updating the status of each order.
Created the brainwork of the application, involving the
access and organization for all system data, in the form
of a number of project-wide software libraries.
Designed and implemented a description language used
by transaction manager coders to describe sets of
provisioning actions and the decisions which lead to
their creation. Additionally, responsible for
the design of application's database server process,
and in a management capacity for the team which coded
that part of the application.
- Lead Programmer (Aspen),
January, 1992 - November, 1992.
Primary responsibility for design and implementation of
a home and business alarm monitoring system for a major
provider of these services. Software supported the
reception of various types of alarms reported to a
call center by a number of different alarm equipment
systems and protocols. Employees at the call center
are notified of alarm location and type so that the
appropriate action can be taken in response. Responsible
for overall system design, all database functionality,
and the legacy code interaction methodology. Implemented
two of the three alarm report receiver processes, and
much of the user interface. Provided
on-site client support through product acceptance testing.
- Lead Programmer, Session Programs
(Client/Server),
February, 1991 - January, 1992.
Trained and led a team of developers responsible for
the creation of processes which automatically interface
with legacy systems on mainframe and mini-computers in
support of a telephony circuit design and trouble ticket
system. The so-called "session programs" act as human
beings in remotely operating the user interfaces of
decades-old legacy systems, for which no electronic
communication method had been foreseen or designed.
- Lead Programmer, Inventory Rename
Project,
November, 1990 - February, 1991.
Responsible for design and coding of an application to
relabel circuiting inventory of a major telephone company.
Provided on-site installation and integration, as well
as support during initial application runs. Project
proved the new legacy system interface technology
discussed above, leading to new business for the company.
- Programmer, Internal Projects,
June - November, 1990.
Participated in design, coding, and documentation of
various internal and client projects, including a worktime
reporting and scheduling system, an integrated project
management application, and a CD-ROM device driver
package.
- Technical Writer/Programmer, AT&T Operator
Information System Project (COMPIS),
May, 1988 - June, 1990.
Wrote documentation (user manuals, programmer's manuals,
and other documents) for a multi-platform
telephone operator information system which
replaced paperwork at each AT&T operator station with a
ready database of rating, call routing, emergency number,
and other information. Later participated in enhancement
and maintenance coding efforts. Responsible for
enhancements to operator "broadcast" program
which delivered (both in-office and nation-wide) outage
and other immediately necessary information to all
operator stations. Also participated in the addition of
support for call billing and crediting information
provision, reporting, and updating.
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University of Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming 82071
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- Employed during degree work by various departments of
the University.
- History of Employment:
- User Consultant,
Computer Science
Department.
Supported faculty, staff, and students in the use of
University computer facilities at the various
laboratories and printing and plotting centers.
- Tutor, Graduate School and Athletics
Department.
Assisted blind and sighted computer science class
students in their studies.
- Programmer, Mechanical Engineering
Department.
Wrote a plotting package for engineering students and
faculty to use in analyzing tensile strength and other
qualities of composite materials under study or
development.
- Laboratory Assistant ("User Confuser"),
Computer Science Department.
Assisted University students in their use of the computer
timesharing laboratories and with their programming
assignments.
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Freelance Work
A long, long time ago
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- Designed, implemented, and installed accounting
software for small businesses.
- Created mailing list database and mail addressing
system for a county Political Party.
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Publications
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Application Extensibility
in Python
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- Presented at the Fourth Python Conference, held at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratories, June, 1996.
- Appeared in the Proceedings of that conference.
- Abstract: Introduces new methods by which the Python
programming language can be used to create applications which
can be easily extended and maintained.
Examples of the new coding techniques are provided in the form
of an automated message and command response application.
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Microprose Diplomacy Reference Manual
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- Solicited by Hasbro Interactive to contribute to the reference
manual shipped with the computer version of Diplomacy.
- Authored Chapters 3 and 15.
- Proofread and corrected other chapters before publication.
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Professional
Memberships
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Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM)
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- Member of the Special Interest Group for Programming Languages
(SIGPLAN)
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Python Software Activity
(PSA)
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- Member of multiple Special Interest Groups
- Contributor to the
Python
core distribution, providing bug fixes and the
implementation of shared libraries and threads for a
specific platform.
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Educational
Background
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Bachelor of Science (Computer Science), 1988
University of Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming 82071
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- Honors Program graduate
- Double-minor in mathematics and English
- Tuition paid by scholarships and honors stipends
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Master's Program (Computer Science)
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523
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- Incomplete post-graduate work, pursued during employment
- Initial emphasis on database systems
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Personal
Information
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Manus is pronounced MAWN-us, and means "Hand" in Latin.
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- Born March 19, 1964
- Married January 18, 1991 to Angela McDaniel.
- Father of two:
- a daughter, Kayla Kristeen (born February 15, 1992), and
- a son, McManus Jameson (born April 1, 1993).
- A legend (not my words) in the Diplomacy
gameplay hobby; winner of the 1996 Don Miller Award for
Meritorious Service to the Diplomacy Hobby, member of 1998
World Championship Team, founder/leader of the
Association of
Rocky Mountain Area Diplomacy Adversaries (ARMADA), director
of an annual championship tournament (host to the North American
Championships in 2001 and the World Championships in 2003),
and founder and keeper of The
Diplomatic Pouch, the Internet home page for the hobby.
- Has the unique hobby of visiting the gravesite of each deceased
U.S. President, and maintains
a surprisingly
popular Website (featured on the Discovery Channel
and C-SPAN, and in publications like The New York Times
Magazine) chronicling this strange pastime.
- Something of an Internet cult figure, even to the point of
having my own fan club (no, it wasn't my idea).
- Coined the words "emoticon" (smileys like :-) which
are used in e-mail) and "Weblish" (to publish via the
Internet). [Honest!]
- Reads biographies and history, and legal, political, and
espionage novels for recreation.
- Non-smoker.
- Can speak Spanish to myself in the shower and maybe really,
really slowly to someone else who speaks Spanish.
- References available on request.
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