Professional Background
Senior Software and Systems Engineering Lead with more than 25 years of excellence in
system and component architecture, design, and programming. Strong skills in a broad range of
software technologies, with project application from definition
through implementation. Solid leadership and communication skills.
Operating Systems.
Project experience with the Windows family of operating systems, plus several legacy operating systems.
Programming Languages.
Extensive project experience with C++, C, and C#,
plus additional projects in Java, Visual Basic, and Assembly.
Special Skills.
Windows software, including COM and .NET development. Retail Industry
device standards. Multithreaded system software. Teamwork, leadership,
and mentoring. Verbal and written communications.
Experience and Accomplishments
Industry Standards Committees
1998 - 2010 UnifiedPOS™ Standards Committee
Technical lead for NCR and RCS on industry consortium formed by the major participants in the
OPOS and JavaPOS committees. This committee is a retailer-led umbrella
organization to ensure that a
consistent architecture and device specifications continue within these committees.
Continue to monitor committee's work, but not actively participating.
The UnifiedPOS page may be reached from
 here,
and the MCS UnifiedPOS page is here.
1996 - 2010 JavaPOS™ Standards Committee
Technical lead for NCR (from the initial JavaPOS technical meeting) and RCS on industry consortium
formed by Sun/Javasoft, NCR, IBM, JCPenneys, Home Depot, Sears, and others to define
Point-Of-Sale peripheral interfaces for the Java language. Wrote the committee's
architectural documentation and frequently led the meeting discussion, driving a 1Q'98
initial release. Lead committee presenter at major industry trade shows.
The JavaPOS home page is
here,
and the MCS JavaPOS page is here.
1995 - 2010 OLE for Retail POS (OPOS™) Standards Committee
Technical lead for NCR (from the initial OPOS technical meeting) and RCS on this industry
consortium that defined the retail industry's de-facto standard for accessing
Point-Of-Sale peripherals from Microsoft Win32™ applications, using ActiveX / OLE
Controls. The other original companies are Microsoft, Epson, and Fujitsu/ICL. Personally
wrote the committee's documentation (releases 1.0 - 1.3).
The Microsoft Retail Industry home page is here,
and the MCS OPOS page is here.
Technical Contributions
2010 - ... NCR Specialty POS (formerly Advanced Store Development)
Contribute to NCR SpecialtyPOS Professional Services projects, plus occasional work on R&D projects.
2008 - 2010 NCR Advanced Store Development
Continue work with (former RCS, now NCR) developers on NCR Advanced Store
R&D projects, plus occasional Professional Services projects.
1998 - 2008 RCS Platform and Application Development
Work with teams of developers to:
- Contribute to internal projects expanding RCS' core technology infrastructure.
Includes integration of OPOS support into RCS' SDK, plus graphical and
communications library support.
- Develop and customize a point-of-service application for a major RCS customer.
1997 - 1998 NCR Advanced Development
Investigate various terminal and system architectures, for incorporation into NCR's
strategic offerings.
1995 - 1996 NCR OLE for Retail POS (OPOS)
Designed and developed NCR's OPOS Printer software, including support for four retail
printers plus Cash Drawer and MICR. Included three OLE Controls plus an OLE automation
server. Written in Microsoft Visual C++, encompassing 60 modules totaling more than 20,000
lines of code, with 70+ classes and up to 14 threads.
1991 - 1994 NCR 7450 Point-Of-Sale Terminal
Designed and implemented several significant modules for the 7450, a PC-compatible
retail terminal.
Represented the NCR-Atlanta facility as Technical Program Manager of the 7450 / Sixth
Generation Retail System in Japan. Established a positive working relationship with my
counterparts in Tokyo and Oiso, Japan. Resolved several "show-stopper" issues
through negotiation plus software design and development, including the delivery of
multi-tasking support and the Kanji character set. Participated in the successful, on-time
installation and initial store opening.
1988 - 1990 Retail OS/2 Investigation and Development
Directed an advanced development prototype team of 7 engineers from 3 different
organizations, including the NCR facility in Oiso, Japan. Successfully demonstrated the
feasibility of a sophisticated retail application using the OS/2 operating system.
Developed the software platform architecture for the Retail OS/2 product on the 7052
Retail Terminal. Led and/or participated in the team of up to 12 software engineers.
1985 - 1988 7052 Point-Of-Sale Terminal
Formulated much of the software platform architecture for the 7052 Retail Terminal. The
7052 was the first PC-compatible retail terminal, and became the highest volume POS
terminal in NCR history. Designed and programmed several major modules, including the
application-to-device driver interfaces for access to all retail peripherals (TAPS) and a
graphical, window-based CRT management subsystem (VCO). Led teams of up to 6 software
engineers.
Pre 1984 A Long Time Ago...
Too long ago to be relevant. Home-grown multi-tasking kernels. 8-bit
microprocessors. CP/M (on huge 5MB Winchester disks :)
Personal Background
(Short for privacy reasons, not significance)
Married, happily, once, for life (by choice and commitment).
Father to three children, each very different yet wonderful.
Grandfather to four grandchildren.
Last updated:
2015-02-08
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