Lee Carver

leeca@pnambic.com

Summary

Wide ranging background in distributed systems, web applications, communications, software tools, and programming languages.
Helping teams to remodularize their software applications to improve scalability.

Engineering Skills

Experience

Pnambic Computing, Owner/President (2015-Present)

Freelance consultant working with teams to remodularize their software applications for improved scalability.
Development of DepAn, a direct manipulation tool for visualization, analysis, and refactoring of dependencies in large applications.

ServiceNow, Principal Software Engineer (2010-2015)

Restructured monolithic application into componentized modules.
Delivered common engineering toolset to expanding (300+) development team.
Extended database connection pool for multiple pool, better multi-thread support.
Improved text search subsystem. Maintained query parsing, added Unicode support, revised indexing structures.
Revised query-result handling for improved robustness and scaling.
Revised import process, standardizing the handling of coalesced record types.
Developed in-browser “list edit” feature, supporting spreadsheet-like database updates.
Developed social media posting application, with groups, replies, and following capabilities.

Google, Senior Software Engineer (2004-2010)

Enhancements and deployment of internal sales-support application.
Design and development with team of an internationalizable shopping cart totaler.
Deployment and maintenance of customized iGoogle gadget container.
Design and development with team on Google Local Business Ads.
Componentized major application, separating a Java hairball into 60+ components and 40+ shared libraries.
Design and development with team on alert system for account management.

Pnambic Computing, Owner/President (1995-2004)

Research into software engineering issues for compositional program construction. Used aspect-oriented techniques to implement a real-world application with Hyper/J.
Developed web sites for a small business and a university department.
Consulted with a packaged software developer to manage the software development process in a large (30) software development team.

Managed Ventures, Contractor (2003)

Responsible for all inter-processor communications between a NetBeans based front-end and the Oracle data warehouse.
Implemented query and grouping mechanisms for flexible scalable data presentations.

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Intern (2000)

Research intern with the Software by Composition group. Developed bracket-from extensions to Hyper/J™ Java composition tool.

Microsoft Corporation, SDE/Workgroup Applications (1992-1995)

Developer on Exchange™. Responsible for server store, including FastTransfer, the client-server batch transfer protocol for mail messages. Ported Exchange Server from x86 to Alpha and MIPS architectures.
Responsible for programmability in forms routing package. Integrated Object Basic with the development environment and designed Object Basic extensions for forms routing.

Microsoft Corporation, Lead SDE/Systems Tools (1990-1992)

Led the SCM version control project. Designed and implemented key version management algorithms and improved database performance three-fold in later stages.
Initiated the SWAT bug tracking project. The design provided flexible data capture and state handling, with user customizable windows.
Standardized internal distribution of Microsoft products and development tools.

Boeing Aerospace, Software Engineer (1987-1990)

Led the development of a portable object-oriented CASE system. The team developed versions for both VAX/VMS and UNIX engineering workstations.
Designed a user interface tool kit to support multiple environments. The team implemented versions to support both the X windowing system and a command line environment.

Simpact Corporation, Software Engineer, 1985-1987

Designed and implemented an interprocessor communications package for a real-time remote monitoring system. The package supported synchronization of telemetry data, diskless boot, remote terminal access, database download, and error-recovery capabilities.

Software Products, International, Programmer (1983-1985)

Created a programming language with embedded SQL operations for a relational database.
Developed a serial communications package for a PC.

Science Applications, Incorporated, Software Engineer (1980-1983)

Constructed the parser for an Ada compiler.
Developed a serial communications package.
Implemented an electronic mail system for a PDP-11.
Developed data processing and simulation programs for commercial research groups.

University of California, San Diego, Assistant Programmer (1978-1980)

Developed data processing and simulation programs for university and government research groups.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science

June 2002 University of California, San Diego

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science

June 1981 University of California, San Diego

Related Activities

Contributor to the DepAn open-source project (on GitHub).

Certified ScrumMaster®, ScrumAlliance (329832)

Excellence Award, Team T.E.E.T.H, 2015 Co-making the Future – China-US Young Maker Competition, Chengdu, China, http://2015.chinaus-maker.org/