Charles Wilson

https://linkedin.com/in/charleswilson

charles.wilson@gmail.com

[Charles Wilson résumé PDF]

Principal Software Engineer

I research and develop technology. The OS doesn’t matter (bare metal, embedded, Linux, Macintosh, Windows.) I thrive in chaos and spend most of my time in the places in-between. Between development and marketing, developers and build systems, OS and application, application and user interface, technology and practitioner. Start-ups, mid-sized firms and giant mega-corps are all fair game. I’ve participated in international standards bodies; investigated and researched emerging technologies; expanded development and infrastructure departments. I’ve managed and led six releases of a commercial product (Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Macintosh) and led many development teams.

I gravitate toward opportunities to advance technology in areas that help people get their work done.

Education

• Stanford Cryptography I, Coursera (12/2017)
• CERT Secure Coding in C and C++, CERT Online (3/2016)
• CERT Secure Software Concepts, CERT Online (3/2016)
  
• MS in Electrical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (1994)
  Thesis: Aardvark: A Highly Virus-Resistant Computer Architecture [PDF]
• BS in Computer Science, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (1984)

Professional Experience

Dräger Medical Systems, Andover MA (10/2016 – present) Senior Staff Software Engineer

• Served as subject matter expert to legal department on open source library integration
• Created and presented (multiple times) a 15 hour Python class for software developers
• Created and presented (multiple times) a 15 hour C++14/17 jumpstart class for C developers
• Created and presented (multiple times) a 15 hour C++14/17 advanced class for C++03 developers
• Championed modern secure software development practices
• Championed open source software best practices
• Championed adoption and use of C++14
• Wrote code to support Windows-specific cryptographic operations (C++)
• Designed and led an effort to move a 20 year old Sun SPARCstation-based Unix cluster to a virtualized environment capable of producing binary-identical programs

Dell, Round Rock TX, Portland OR (5/2010 – 5/2016) Principal Software Engineer

[Portland office closed 5/2016]

• Created threat model and remediation recommendations for the Windows version of Fluid Cache
• Coordinated and tracked use of open source libraries
• Designed and implemented the security framework for the Windows version of Fluid Cache
• Provided guidance to local and remote junior developers
• Served as subject matter expert for ongoing Fluid Cache SNMP sub-agent (Linux/Windows)
• Ported Fluid Cache process manager service to Windows (C on Linux/Windows)
• Designed and implemented a methodology to adapt Linux daemons to Windows services
• Designed and implemented a methodology to allow for efficient cross-platform (Linux/Windows) development and ease of exploration of and migration to new tool chains and open source/third-party components
• Designed and implemented a methodology to allow Dell’s Fluid Cache product to segregate privileged operations (C on Linux) [privilege bracketing]
• Designed and implemented a high-resolution log to act as a black box for Fluid Cache (C on Linux)
• Designed and implemented an SNMP sub-agent for Fluid Cache (C on Linux)
• Developed cross-platform (Windows/Linux) software in C++ (with boost and Xerces) that abstracts device protocols (SNMP, ICMP, IPMI, WSMan, SSH, etc.) so that Dell’s device management software can focus on managing devices (C++ on Windows/Linux)
• Led the effort to replace the use of the pre-STL RogueWave in a 500K line C++ code base with C++ standard library and boost (C++ on Windows)
• Designed and implemented an SSH protocol plug-in and associated mapper to discover and inventory linux systems (C++ on Windows)
• Designed and implemented remote execution support to our WSMan protocol plug-in to monitor servers
• Authored a 70-page white paper on using the Jenkins continuous build system
• Authored a white paper on parallel software development using branches and subversion
• Authored a white paper on performing code coverage analysis with Visual Studio 2012
• Led the effort to use modern C++11 in Dell’s Open Manage Essentials product
• Championed software development, source code control and build and security best practices

ESLX / XtremeEDA, Austin TX (3/2007 – 5/2009) Senior Consultant

[Austin office closed 5/2009]

• Designed and implemented CPU simulators (C++ with STL, boost and SystemC on Linux/Windows/MacOS)
• Developed and presented training for C++, SystemC and TLM 2
• Participated in and developed code for the OSCI SystemC language and TLM 2 standards bodies
• Participated in the establishment of coding standards within company

Wireless Computing, Austin TX (5/2002 – 2/2007) Senior Software Engineer (VP of Engineering)

• Designed and implemented software for wireless devices (C/ASM on PIC/TMS)
• Designed and implemented protocols (RF,USB,PS/2,serial)
• Co-designed and developed long-range wireless RF-based hardware (encrypted keyboards, USB and PS/2 receivers, handheld and wireless mice, presentation remotes)

Veriprise Wireless, Austin TX (10/2000 – 3/2001) Research Scientist

[company folded 3/2001]

• Investigated cross-platform C++ development environments (Windows/Linux)
• Investigated VoiceXML development environments for use with wireless devices

Altamira Group, Burbank CA (6/1999 – 9/2000) Chief Software Architect (VP of Technology)

• Designed a distributed image scaling system (C++ on Windows/Linux)
• Designed and implemented the Canto Cumulus STiNG file format plug-in (C++ on MacOS)
• Served as Director of Development over development and IS operations

Metrowerks, Austin TX (9/1995 – 5/1999) Version Control Systems Architect (Product Engineering Manager)

• Designed and implemented Visual SourceSafe for Macintosh (C++ on MacOS)
• Designed the CodeWarrior IDE version control plug-in API
• Coordinated third party CodeWarrior version control plug-in efforts
• Managed six releases of Visual SourceSafe for Macintosh (C++)
• Managed several CodeWarrior IDE (C++) embedded products (m*Core/SH)
• Managed the CodeWarrior ClearCase version control plug-in development

Great Plains Software, Fargo ND (12/1993 – 9/1995) Senior Product Analyst

• Served as Macintosh technical lead
• Designed and implemented Windows 95 UI to Dexterity (database development system)
• Designed and implemented Macintosh AOCE support for Great Plains Dexterity (C on MacOS)
• Ported Great Plains Dexterity to the Power Macintosh (C on MacOS)

The Dreamers Guild, Northridge CA (6/1991 – 9/1992) Project Manager (COO)

• Managed game development projects
• Consulted on UI issues

Tri-Data Systems, Santa Clara CA (4/1989 – 8/1990) User Interface Designer

• Redesigned and implemented the UI of an IBM 3270 terminal emulator Mac3270 (C on MacOS)
• Designed and implemented a keyboard remapping utility for Mac3270 (C on MacOS)
• Developed a multi-programmer code management system (Macintosh/MPW)

Qubix Graphic Systems, San Jose CA (5/1987 – 4/1989) Software Engineer

[company folded 4/1989]

• Designed and implemented the Leonardo Macintosh UI [technical illustration product] (C on MacOS)
• Redesigned the Sun user interface of Leonardo
• Redesigned and implemented a vector font editor to allow for Kanji fonts (C on Unix)
• Designed and implemented a program to convert low resolution raster Kanji fonts to vector format
• Redesigned and implemented the user interface of the internal text editor (C on Unix)

Volt Information Sciences / Autologic, Los Angeles CA (7/1985 – 5/1987) Engineer

• Implemented the graphic editor of the photocomposition product Microcomposer (C/x86/PLM on NGEN)
• Designed and implemented a GICL assembler/disassembler to expedite new typesetter feature testing
• Designed and implemented a process to migrate and catalog font information from legacy hardware
• Designed a network cable to enable dynamic RS-422 termination
• Served as Systems Manager for a government electronic publishing system benchmark (600S)

General Electric, Valley Forge PA (3/1984 – 6/1985) Applications Programmer

• Implemented scientific applications (FORTRAN on IBM 370)
• Redesigned and implemented a PDL analysis program (FORTRAN on Convergent NGEN)
• Collaborated on the Space Systems Division/DSRM portable operating systems IR&D
• Collaborated on the DSRM Communication Protocol Optimization and Conversion Blue Ribbon IR&D

Contract Experience

• Designed a DVD vending kiosk for Videodisgo [2004]
• Designed the UI for a cross-platform configuration utility for AMD (Palm OS/WinCE) [2003]
• Co-designed and implemented the SXSW schedule application (C/PHP/MySQL on Palm OS) [2002-2005]
• Designed and implemented a new RF technology demonstration (C on Palm OS/Windows) [2001-2002]
• Designed and implemented Alpha Phi Omega national web site apo.org (HTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL) [2001]
• Designed and implemented a CodeWarrior CVS plug-in (C++ on Windows/MacOS) [1999-2000]
• Designed and implemented a Hell scanner system Macintosh interface (C on MacOS) [1991-1993]