Charlotte, MI 48813

(517) 541-9483

fritz@acm.org

I have fifteen years of professional information technology experience with an emphasis in architecting intelligent, distributed client-server, object- and agent-oriented systems. I investigate, test, and make recommendations on the adoption and deployment of cutting edge technologies. I set standards in programming, architecture, GUI design, and relational database management. I have worked on projects that required me to perform as project lead, liaison, software engineer and/or architect as needed. I am familiar with the Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rational Rose, and UML. My proficiency in computer languages includes: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic/VBA, CORBA, KQML, HTML, XML, CGI Scripts, Perl, Expect, Tcl/Tk, UNIX shell scripts (Korn, Bash, Bourne, and C Shell), Make, Prolog, Lisp, Lex/Flex, Yacc/Bison, Pascal, Pro*C and SQL. I am familiar with Assembler and Forth. I specialize in UNIX and Windows platforms.

I perform as Principal Investigator, manager, and systems architect and programmer as needed. I have developed a number of proposals, including a DARPA proposal for an adaptive agent-oriented architecture for runtime resource discovery and software component swapping.

I have performed as lead architect and head programmer on the following projects:

• A web claims submission for dentists (Provider Toolkit) for Delta Dental of Michigan. Performing as an Enterprise Architect, I introduced the RUP process to the Provider Toolkit development effort, capturing the use-cases and enhancing them. I also developed a web architecture model based on the Model-View-Controller pattern and carried this through the analysis and design phase using Rational Rose. I set standards for Java development and oversaw the introduction of the Java code generation through Rose scripts. In addition, I did design work on an XML based message brokering system.
• A pesticide registration and tracking system (PRTS) for the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA). This system also includes a separate independent application used by MDA field inspectors to identify pesticide violations and transmit these violations to the central system for processing/issuance. PRTS is an Object Oriented, client-server system where the client is implemented as a Visual Basic (VB) 6.0/VBA client for Windows 32 platforms and the server is either a local Access database (in the case of the field inspectors) or a remote Unix based Oracle 8.0 database. Data is replicated back and forth between the central Oracle database and the remote inspector laptops via FTP, as necessary. In my role as Architect and Lead Programmer, I have:
• evaluated over 20 VB tool kits,
• developed an extensive set of reusable VB objects,
• upgraded the database design and designed the data replication module,
• extended the VB IDE to include a templated code generator,
• developed a very flexible user configuration component using VB's call-by-name interface, and
• developed a template based HTML like macro expansion utility that supports embedded SQL and writes to strings, labels, text/rich text boxes and Microsoft Word (via VBA).
• A client-server constraint based manufacturing schedule system for Whirlpool. See Dec. 1993 to Aug. 1994 below for details. I was called back to Whirlpool to upgrade the scheduling system to include segmented demand. This involved extending the object model and the solver engine/algorithm.

I managed the following projects:

• The development of an Internet application for the Talent Bank Consortium, a project managed by the Michigan Employment Security Agency (MESA) for the US Department of Labor to develop a distributed database system containing over two hundred thousand resumes. It is being integrated with a Job Postings Internet site, which uses search engine technology developed by A. J. Boggs. I managed a team of six technical professionals and oversaw the design of the system architecture, data models, and security models. In addition to my role as project manager for the MESA project, I have been actively involved in its development. This has included extensive Unix scripting (Korn Shell, Expect, and Perl) for starting, stopping, monitoring and installing the InQuery (a Sovereign Hill product) search indices and engine, as well as C and C++ CGI development.
• The development of A. J. Boggs’ search engine C API and the conversion of C++ based CGI programs interfacing to the search engine to Java / Java Servlets.
• The Unifying Widely Distributed Heterogeneous Databases project for the US Department of Defense (DARPA) (completed). For this project, I designed and helped implement Java-based protocol and content managers which involved Internet server architecture definition, database architecture design, parser development, and event manager service design incorporating CORBA and Java RMI.
• The effort to improve searching of distributed databases for the human genome project – Interlinking Widely Distributed Genome Databases for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (completed).
• The development of a Java prototype for the Defense Logistics Information Service (DLIS) to demonstrate a logistics’ database (FLIS) changes Internet notification system (completed). This GUI included search criteria specification, return set formatting and a Java Native Interface (JNI) to a set of C APIs for searching and displaying the contents of the FEDLOG database (an extract of FLIS).

I have also spent significant time doing independent Research & Development and have developed the following using, as appropriate, Symantec Café and Rational Rose for Java and C++:

• A library of Expect scripts for handling remote installations.
• An extensible Expect overlay for telnet sessions allowing automatic login, simple transfer of files, and expansion of keywords.
• A recursive descent object-oriented parser written entirely in Java, it includes modules for shareable input streams, tokenization and parsing. This parser was originally developed for parsing KQML, but also has a Java parsing module. It is easily extensible to other languages.
• An event management system for Java, which allows a centralized hierarchical management of events. This system includes transparent reallocation of event managers (under a central controlling event manager) to allow load balancing. In addition, events can propagate across the Internet through a system of event manager proxies.
• A Java based runtime reloadable class architecture which allows software tasks to be loaded (and reloaded) into a GUI framework. This architecture enforces runtime resource control and is designed to allow third party developers to independently create applications that can be loaded and run in this framework.
• Wrote the most recent version of A. J. Boggs Data Pump, an advanced autonomous FTP-like document delivery system written in Java based on the CIP and Whois++ protocols.
• A Java based simple set of Collection tools similar to collections in Java 1.2, allowing developers to transparently select an interface to a collection and transparently swap underlying implementations either during development or during runtime.
• A backtracking system similar to Prolog is in development using Java.
• A Perl script for mapping and translating partially translated (via c2java) C++ code to Java.

I consulted with Whirlpool to re-engineer their sales quotation system, including integrating legacy systems with a distributed client-server system. I was responsible for the data distribution design and implementation of a relational database. I also developed a macro expansion program under Perl which was used to automatically generate Pro*C import/export programs and PL/SQL reports using Oracle table definitions as input. This macro expansion program greatly increased the reliability of the data transport programs as well as significantly decreasing development time. The data was replicated between an Oracle database on a RS/6000 and SQL Anywhere databases on laptops, which ran a PowerBuilder application. This application interfaced with a VMS mainframe order system to support a department-wide coordination initiative to improve the sales quote and product ordering process. It was developed in Pro*C, Perl, C, PL/SQL and PowerBuilder 5.0 under UNIX and Windows ‘95 environments.

While pursuing my Masters degree, I assisted the University of Michigan in the design and development of a digital library system, providing full Internet and Intranet capabilities. This system included an agent architecture that provided a wide variety of services to users and software agents. I was responsible for the general agent architecture design, developed the prototype user interface. It was developed using a variety of tools, including C++, Java, HTML, Perl, CGI Scripts and CORBA on UNIX workstations. It was deployed on Machintosh, UNIX and Windows platforms. In addition, I designed and oversaw the implementation of the "Remora Project", which is a script processing agent for active monitoring of Web pages. The Remora Agent interpreted scripts written in a subset of Perl, generated events on the basis of changes detected in Web pages (or files) and delivered the processed results to the user either as e-mail or as Remora generated Web pages.

I assisted in the implementation and deployment of a client-server constraint based manufacturing schedule system. I was responsible for the technical architecture and development timelines. This system supported the initiative to dynamically schedule manufacturing resources for just in time production by allowing user specified manufacturing constraints. This system was implemented using C++, Visual C++ (ILOG backtracking constraint satisfaction package) and an Oracle database.

I was involved in the design, development and employment of the GUI Layout Diagrammer (GLD) under the Application Development Workbench (ADW). KnowledgeWare marketed this tool for use by application development teams around the nation. I was responsible for the development and implementation of model management. My responsibilities included the encyclopedia design, which was available in the ADW, and the GUI sub-structure and extension designs. This portion of the application was developed in C and Prolog on an OS/2 PM platform.

I consulted with a manufacturing company as the project leader responsible for the implementation of an expert diagnostic system. I oversaw the system architecture and set the standards of this distributed system. This system was developed with C using the Aion Development System (ADS) and an Oracle database. It was deployed on OS/2 workstations, which were connected over a WAN.

I lead the development of software for a DOS/C 80386 based automated telephone attendant and expert system diagnostic delivery platform. This included development of a text based windowing user interface, multi-tasking multi-user expert system shell (including rule base compiler), networking, and voice tree system.

I lead the development of a Japanese language processor, which was written in Prolog on a UNIX platform. I acted as liaison with the L.A. based Silogic Inc. for the purpose of translating their product (The Knowledge WorkBench) for the Japanese market. I was also involved with the porting of Prolog to several new platforms. I was the first non-Japanese to participate in Sumitomo Electric’s corporate training program in Japan. While in Japan, I developed a graphics package for the UNIX work station using C. This application included optical data acquisitions and a plotting program via remote control, as well as a NASTRAN based hybrid circuit heat transfer modeling program.

University of Michigan: Degree of M.S., Engineering under the Artificial Intelligence program, Awarded December of 1996.

Michigan State University: Degree of B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Awarded: June of 1983 (Minor: Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacturing)