Robert Michael O'Brien				650/218-6262
P.O. Box 700	 				vbdev@obob.com
Mountain View, CA 94042-0700			http://obob.com/bob/resume

Summary:

+ More than 25 years of professional software development experience.
+ Experienced with a wide variety of development languages and tools.
+ Have held a number of team leadership and technical lead roles.
+ Recognized authority in the VB development community.
+ Experience working in secure facilities.

Experience:
Independent Software Developer (10/88 to present, on and off)
   + Visual Basic prototyping and development.
   + Develop specifications, prototype VB applications, and design VB/Office/C
      production software from prototypes, storyboards, and/or specs. 
   + e-mail and related internet messaging programming - NNTP, SMTP, POP3
   + Windows, Macintosh and DOS based productivity and entertainment software.
   + Programming in Visual Basic, C, Delphi, Perl, Java, and other languages 
       and tools such as Microsoft Office.

Barracuda Networks
research consultant (4/08 - 5/10)
  + Research into and application of mail stream whitelisting for email verification
  + General SMTP consultation

Habeas, Inc.
Senior Delivery Consultant / Senior Compliance Consultant  (4/07 - 1/08)
Customer service, technical support.
  + Procedures, policies, and measures to reduce email spam from the senders' side
  + helping senders of bulk-but-wanted email reach their willing customers.

Strategic Office Systems (contractor, 9/04 to 2/05) now known as Daegis.
  + Electronic Discovery – collection, indexing, and presentation of computer files.
  + Principally responsible for improvement and maintenance of Image Viewing tool 
     (VB 6.0 ActiveX control) used in website-based browsing of document images.

Semi-Retired/Investor/Sabbatical (6/02 to 9/04, 2/05 to 3/07)
  + Private Investing
  + Internet protocol research, measure/countermeasure planning
  + Developed RMOP email verification protocol
  + Developed prototype RMOP client software

Software Pursuits, Inc.
Software Developer (1/02 to 5/02)  
   + Software life-cycle development. SureSync product line.

Magenic Technologies, Inc.
Senior Consultant (11/00 to 3/01)  
   + Software life-cycle design and development, on a consulting basis
     for Magenic's clients.

3Fusion, Inc.
Senior Member of Technical Staff (2/00 to 9/00)  
   + Software life-cycle design and development.
   + Interaction design.
   + Team leadership.
   + XML, Java, JavaScript, VB, VBScript, Active Server Pages.

DeAnza College
Instructor (Spring 2000 quarter, 1/00 to 3/00)
   + Taught CIS-58, intermediate Visual Basic.

 The Indus Group, Inc.
Systems Analyst (1/96 to 3/96) 
   + Visual Basic development including applications, development tools,
     OLE Automation Servers, and Add-Ins.
   + Graphical User Interface design.
   + Helped set up specifications, procedures, and educational plans for
     a group of developers.

I-Cubed Design, Inc. (formerly Transact Software)
Software Craftsman (2/95 to 10/95)
   + Visual Basic applications development. 
   + User Interface specialist. 
   + Team member; variety of large-scale development projects: factory
     automation, time management and reporting, sales proposal and quote tools.
   + Established debugging methods for certain common VB/networking issues.

Sequoia Data Corporation
Consultant (9/94 to 11/94)
   + Design and development of image-processing software from a one-page
     specification and a mock-up.  
   + Utilized Visual Basic exclusively, incorporating Access RDBMS elements,
     several third-party language extensions, and custom workstation displays.

Newspager Corporation of America
(11/93 to 6/94)
   + Applications software design and development in VB. 
   + Proprietary serial interfaces. 
   + User interface design for unique paging features. 
   + Assembled a family of related applications.

CAD Solutions Incorporated, Software Development Division
(6/92 to 1/93)
   + Responsible for enhancement and maintenance of the ECAM family of PCB
     layout CAM software for the MS-DOS platform. 
   + Design, implement, and test feature additions, enhancements, and bug fixes
     across all features of the product line, from user interface to detailed
     mathematical functions. 
   + Programming in C. 
   + Coordinated changes with the UNIX team working on a parallel product family. 
   + Also assisted the Windows (3.1) development team.

Lockheed Missiles & Space Company
Data Systems Engineer, Senior (11/89 to 6/92)
   + Tasks included systems design & development; project planning; technical
     support; training. 
   + Fields included image processing; satellite communications;
     orbit management; automated testing. 
   + Programming in C, Pascal, Basic, and application-specific languages on PC,
     Macintosh, and HP platforms.

Other Experience:
General Dynamics, Fort Worth Division; Engineer (8/82 to 4/89)
Electronic Data Systems (EDS); Programmer (1982)
State of California, various departments; Programmer (1976-1981)

Education:
B.S., Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento, 5/81.
A.A., Data Processing, American River College, Carmichael, CA, 1/77. 

Awards & Publications:
Microsoft "Most Valued Professional", Visual Basic, awarded each year 2000-2006.
Software Development magazine, monthly columnist (Visual Basic) 3/99 to 11/99.


References
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