ALICE J. CORBIN

ali.corbin@gmail.com
https://github.com/alijc

SKILLS AND EXPERTISE

• Senior software developer for Linux, UNIX, VxWorks and other real-time OSes

• Fifteen years experience in writing and maintaining real-time embedded kernels

• Experience writing and maintaining both kernel-space and user-space drivers for Linux.

• Graphical User Interface design and implementation, using X-Windows, Motif, TK, Swing, GTK, XUL

• Software development in assembly, C and C++ for PC's, workstations and embedded systems

• JAVA development

• Scripting experience in bash, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP and Javascript

• Use of object-oriented methods for over ten years

• Multi-tasking / multi-threaded issues with inter-processor communication

• Writing portable code for a variety of platforms

• Mozilla development (XFCE, XUL, XPCOM)

EDUCATION

B.A. Russian Literature and Language with high honors, Phi Beta Kappa

Michigan State University and Leningrad State University

EXPERIENCE

2005 – present

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

CDK Global/ADP Dealer Services, Portland, OR

• Maintain and enhance the base layer of the DMS – the central computer for a car dealership.

• Port the existing code base to newer distributions, and from a 32 to 64bit architecture.

• Implement an upgrade to preserve the upper levels of the code base while updating the OS layer over multiple levels of Redhat linux releases

• Mostly systems development in C, Perl and Bash, with additional GUI development, in ncurses, PHP, JavaScript and AngularJS

1996 - 2005

SR. SOFTWARE DEVELOPER / Consulting Engineer

Axian, Inc., Beaverton, OR

• Modified the linux kernel to deal with new hardware.

• Wrote and ported kernel and X drivers.

• Modified the GNU compiler and assembler for new processors.

• Wrote code for a high-definition TV set-top box.

• Worked on retail kiosks, based on Mozilla and Linux.

• Developed a memory repair system.

• Ported a large system of C code from SunOS to Solaris, forcing it into the ANSI standard, and fixing potential bugs discovered by the GNU compiler.

• Developed curricula for a Linux Systems Programming course for topics including semaphores, sockets, system calls, processes and signals and pipes, and for a Linux Device Drivers course on character and block drivers.

• Evaluated a UNIX operating system to find Y2K problems (specifically, OSF with enhancements for performance and parallel processing). This required both testing and code inspection.

• Maintained a multi-process, multi-threaded NT system used for monitoring the health state of a parallel computing system. The NT system interfaces with hundreds of 386 processors running VxWorks which in turn monitor the 9,200 Pentium processors in the Intel TeraFLOPS system at Sandia Labs.

• Developed prototypes (in Perl/Tk, Tcl/Tk, C, and combinations thereof) to demonstrate possible choices for a GUI.

• Developed C++ classes to deal with language localization and with security issues.

• Ported LynxOS and GNU C++ code to VxWorks on a PowerPC.

1981 – 1996

EMBEDDED SOFTWARE ANALYST, Flight Test Engineering

Boeing Commercial Airplane Company, Seattle, WA

• Led a development team for a graphics application that collected data on a VxWorks platform and displayed it on a UNIX workstation, using X-Windows and Motif.

• Designed, developed, tested and supported through full software life-cycle a real-time multi-tasking/multi-threaded operating system software for a network of computers running Linux, VxWorks, and HP-UX.

• Developed various Perl scripts to aid software development.

• Served as mentor to colleagues to improve the use of tools, methodologies and programming techniques.