CURTIS M. SMITH

Professional History

Software Systems Engineering Development

• Created protocol-transforming internet communication modules used for the conveyance of strategic traffic across networks with diverse impediments.

• Developed Protocol Analysis Module (PAM) software to analyze network traffic to detect and mitigate intrusions, exploits of vulnerabilities, viruses, audits, and other notable events.
• Wrote and maintained high-quality multiple parsers of network traffic and file contents in a real-time environment intolerant of errors or excessive latency.
• Collaboratively developed in rapid-release agile environment for releases multiple times per month, as new information related to security vulnerabilities was acquired or researched.
• Responded to malware trends with implementation of anticipatory protection of future attack vectors.
• Worked in environment with thorough unit testing, testing for regression of functionality, and testing compliance with requirements for maximal exercise of each line of source code.
• Created Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and other Application Programming Interfaces at the modular level, REST interface, and protocol streams for status, logs, testing, configuration.
• Dealt with external parties for product quality and effectiveness testing.
• Implemented client software for cloud-based machine learning and image processing,
• Presented practical guidance to software developers regarding the creation of secure environments: sound code, validating interfaces, and trustworthy authentication.

• Development of Curiax Arraigner, which hosts bond hearings and judicial arraign­ments via multimedia video-conferencing with case-management and document-workflow processing for the exchange of docu­ments before, during, and following up after proceedings.
• Framework design and creation of the core software for Ongoer, a general-purpose, versatile device-control system, featuring dynamic device reconfigurability, programmability for novel devices and custom interfaces, self-consistency checking, and remote user, diagnostic, and administrative access. Used in audio/video, video-conferencing, meeting rooms, security, asset-management, and other various applications.
• Developed programmable packetizer for easy recognition and processing of data according to divers device and communication protocols.

• Ground-up design and development of Omega line of video-conferencing systems including device control of codecs, camera servos, video routers, audio processors, infrared receivers and controllers. Support for remote diagnostics via web browsers, SNMP, and other interfaces. Architecture: main controller with distributed device nodes.
• Implemented the Great Kernel, which runs at a layer between the Windows 2000/XP or Linux operating system and application code, to provide implicit multithreading (allows definition of code to run when particular events occur), automated program-module synchronization, deadlock preclusion, and easy-to-maintain 100% hierarchical code-invocation structure.
• Implemented OnGuard, a master monitor for multiple control systems providing web-browser-based access, configuration, reports, notifications, and remote control and debugging of devices.
• Implemented local device network with each device having microprocessor and central controlling PC.
• Co-inventor of patented design for mouse control of camera positioning.
• Devices programmed include video codecs, inverse multiplexers, ISDN terminal adaptors, camera servo motors, audio units, and video-routing switchers. Wrote test code for and assisted in debugging of hardware developed in-house.
• Technical liaison for joint development projects with national and international firms.
• Database design and implementation for configuration, operation, and reporting databases.
• Provided numerous diagnostic and maintenance capabilities via TCP/IP access. Developed web-integration mechanisms.
• Code developed in straightforward and fully ordered design, mathematically precluding several classes of classic software bugs. Architecture and implementation provide a readily clear understanding to fellow programmers and documentation writers.

• Development of Express Messenger and Voicemate voice mail and voice response systems on PC hardware using VRTX real-time kernel.
• Wrote device drivers for disk, telephone interface boards, serial communications.
• Developed interface for computer-telephone information exchange.
• Created 80386 kernel to provide memory paging and debugging for virtual 8086 tasks.
• Provided full remote operational capabilities via dial-up modem link.
• Created OS/2-based network messaging and database router. NetBIOS used to connect with host voice mail systems. Used embedded SQL for access to OS/2 Database Manager.
• Integrated with central offices (using SMDI) and various PBXs (SL/1, Hitachi, Intecom, etc.) for acceptance of call identification and control of message-waiting lights.
• Developed third-party components for IBM's CallPath DirectTalk/2.

• Led computer engineering laboratories for undergraduates learning to program Intel 8085 and 8086 microprocessors.

• Wrote BASIC programs for cardiology and other medical applications.
• Wrote Wang terminal emulator for use on PC.

• Made copies; fixed broken photocopiers and ditto machines;
• Made deliveries to and from other campus departments;
• Responded to information requests from prospective students;
• Processed drop/add course-change requests; and
• Extracted information from 3270 computer terminals to make accounting reports.

Academic History

Patents

Programming Environments

Languages: Expert in C++, C, W++, Intel assembly language; working knowledge of Java, Julia, Visual Basic, C#, PHP, Perl, Python, Basic; exposure to Fortran, O'Caml, PL/I, Rust, R, COBOL, Pascal, APL, Vax Macro and other assembly languages.

Development Environments: IBM Rational Application Developer and Rational Team Concert (Eclipse) / WebSphere, Git, Atom, Microsoft Visual Studio.

Operating Systems: currently using Windows, Linux (Arch, Gentoo, RedHat, Ubuntu); historical experience in DOS, OS/2, VMS, VRTX, BSD, and various mainframe operating systems.

Databases: DB2, SQL Server, MariaDB (MySQL), Oracle, Access (Jet).

Human Tongues

Although I am only fluent in English, I am very intrigued by other languages. I have learnt at least a couple of words in the following tongues (in order of fluency): English, Pig Latin, Spanish, German, French, Latin, Dutch, Flemish, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Cantonese Chinese, Tagalog, Cherokee, Afrikaans, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Arabic, and Hindi.

Additional Rôles

• Amateur radio operator KD4CCM
• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and IEEE Communications Society
• Square dance caller at basic, mainstream, and plus levels (BMI/ASCAP licensed through Callerlab)
• Forester

Awards and Honours

• Winner of the 1976 Georgia 4-H Grits-Eating Contest (representing DeKalb County)
• Winner of the "World's Best Cook" award determined by my mother.
• Special Recognition for "an accomplishment unparalleled in the history of computer science."

Notices

© 2001-2022 Curtis Madison Smith. Duplication or redistribution by headhunters or other intelligence-gathering agents is strictly prohibited.

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