<p>Chris Thomas, Software Engineer 3650 Crestline Way, Soquel, CA 95073 831.475.8590 [email protected] </p><p>Objective: To secure a contract position as a Senior Software Engineer, utilizing any of my Windows, C/C++, InstallShield, and TCP/IP development experience.</p><p>Professional Highly motivated Software Engineer with 7 years professional experience Summary: specializing in Windows software development, Winsock Layered Service Providers, and InstallShield programming.</p><p>Experience: June 2002- Contract Software Engineer, FamilyClick.com LLC, Virginia Beach, VA Present Design and implementation of Windows Internet filtering software.</p><p>. Winsock-2 Layered Service Provider. . MFC based GUI and system tray application. . Multi-threaded Windows service, IPC, and WinInet based client authentication protocol. . InstallShield programming and packaging.</p><p>2001 – Senior Applications Engineer, iReady Corp., Santa Clara, CA June 2002 Responsible for architecting and implementing software applications for Windows iSCSI products. </p><p>. Development on a Windows iSCSI target device driver. . Wrote Windows and Web based applications to demonstrate hardware capabilities. . Implemented and maintained corporate intranet web-site using Apache/PHP/MySQL.</p><p>1998 - 2001 Senior Software Engineer, Deterministic Networks, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA Co-architected network policy management products and technologies. Designed and implemented components within those products. Consulted with independent software vendors to create custom products and solutions.</p><p>. Designed and patented (US 6148336) a Winsock-2 Layered Service Provider with plug-in architecture and COM based API that was packaged as an SDK for policy management. . Created and patented (US 6141686) a plug-in for network traffic classification using C++ and COM to export application traffic data. . Wrote a network discovery agent and API implementation using C++, Winsock, ICMP and SNMP. . Designed, released, and supported a Windows Network Address Translation (NAT) firewall product that consisted of porting Linux kernel code to a Windows device driver, service, and a C++/MFC application . Implemented, released, and supported a C++/MFC application for visually displaying network traffic and statistics, packaged with InstallShield. . Enhanced and maintained a network policy management and reporting application using Visual Basic, COM, SQL, and Microsoft Access. . Implemented a Solaris streams network traffic classification driver for a Unix version of the policy management SDK. . Created and maintained installation packages with InstallShield.</p><p>1995 - 1998 Software Engineer, NetManage Inc., Scotts Valley, CA (Formerly Syzygy Communication, Inc.) Developed a network policy management architecture that included technologies such as ATM, IPv5, and other Quality of Service protocols.</p><p>. Designed and implemented a Winsock-2 Layered Service Provider with a plug-in architecture written in C++. Plug-ins included an HTTP content filter, protocol and address redirector, and a URL monitor. . Wrote a URL filtering application using MFC and C++. . Implemented Internet protocol version 5 (ST-II) as a Windows virtual device driver and Winsock-2 service provider. . Performance tuned an NFS device driver for Windows. . Enhanced and maintained a Network configuration application using C++ and MFC.</p><p>Key Skills: Languages, Systems, and Application Programming Interfaces . C++ . SNMP . Microsoft IIS . C . Win32 . Apache . Visual C++ . Winsock . TCP/IP . Visual Basic . COM . Unix . ASP . SQL . Linux . iSCSI . HTML . Streams Drivers . Perl . MFC . Windows Drivers . PHP . MySQL . InstallShield</p><p>Professional Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) Member Associations: Contributing to standardization of iSCSI management APIs.</p><p>Winsock-2 Forum, contributing member Assisted with Winsock-2 Service Provider Interface specification and implemented one of the industry’s first service providers.</p><p>Education: Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering with Highest Honors University of California, Santa Cruz, CA June 1995. </p><p>Associate of Science in Engineering with Honors Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA June 1993</p>