David M. Rector

Post Office Box 6571, Incline Village, Nevada 89450, 775-772-9186,

blog.rectorsquid.com

Preface

After 18 years working in the biotech industry using mainly C++ on Windows and Linux, I have now spent nearly 8 years working on mobile business apps writing in Swift, Java, and C# on iOS, Android, and Windows. I am able to easily switch platforms, Mac to PC, and languages on a daily basis.

Areas of Knowledge

C++, C#, C, Swift
Windows, WinRT and UWP, MFC, Win32
Java, Javascript, HTML, HTML5 Canvas, CSS, PHP
Android, iOS
High Speed Search Algorithms (Dynamic and Heuristic), Software Source Code Optimization
Group Leadership, Project Management, and Product Design
Audio and Video Multimedia, User Interface Design, Firmware and Hardware Integration
Simulation of Mechanical Systems

Experience

Senior Software Developer

Westlake Software, Inc., Calabasas California

February 2012 to Present

Improve and maintain a business app for iOS, Android, and Windows UWP.
Improve and maintain a business app
Maintain and enhance the server side of the client-server system using Java in the Tomcat environment on Linux and Windows.
Created a web-based Google Maps demonstration application for displaying GPS tracking data.

Senior Software Engineer

Active Motif Corporation, Carlsbad California

April 1997 to October 2015

Originally for TimeLogic Corporation, Incline Village Nevada, until bought by Active Motif in 2003

Continually maintain and enhance a hardware/software bybrid search product for the biotechnology industry.
Create the design, software architecture and implementation strategies for new product features and software enhancements.
Create software optimizations and enhancements to improve software search algorithms.
Developed a Windows device driver for hardware communications with the custom accelerator hardware.
Designed inter-process communications mechanisms for job load sharing across multiple computers.
Participated in project management of Windows NT development and Unix port of the product.
Managed other developers on various engineering projects.

Software Engineering Consultant

Financial Psychology Corporation, Incline Village Nevada

1996 to 1997

Completed a rewrite of the company’s commercial software package for Windows 98 in C++, including creating a new user interface and adding database management and printing support.

Vice President of Software Development and Co-Founder

Lyrix Corporation, Incline Village Nevada

1995 to 1997

Successfully implemented a SCSI disk driver, proprietary file system, database management system, and radio communications subsystem, for the proprietary hardware system.
Implemented multitasking communication features to allow for simultaneous radio transmissions.

Software Engineer

General Parametrics Corporation, Berkeley California

1993 to 1995

Created an order and time based editing system for graphic, animation, and audio-video streams.
Designed and implemented VISCA compatible digital video player software.

Senior Software Engineer and Cofounder

Impact, Chatsworth California

1990 to 1993

Successfully created a non-linear video editor software package with advanced audio editing support.
Built a software interface to proprietary video compression hardware for recording and playback of digital video.

Software Engineer

Pleasant Hawaiian Holidays, Westlake Village California

1988 to 1991

Personal Projects

Linkage Mechanism Designer and Simulator

2000 to Present

Sole developer of the Linkage program, CAD software that lets users design mechanisms and simulate them instantly during the design process. It is a rapid prototyping tool with features too numerous to list here. See www.linkagesimulator.com for more information

Other

Various personal software projects are documented at blog.rectorsquid.com/programming-projects/
Personal artistic projects are documented at blog.rectorsquid.com/art-projects/