Software Development Experience
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JOANNE S. LUCIANO
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SPECIFIC TO SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT (ADDENDUM)
ORCHARD STREET SOFTWARE/SOFTWARE ENGINEERING & DESIGN – Belmont, MA (1988-2000) President Provide advanced technology business solutions in Boston area with focus on Artificial Intelligence and Commercial Software Product Development. Responsibilities include directing the company, procuring and negotiating contracts, sales, marketing, research, software architecture, software design, software prototyping, software development, software quality engineering, assurance and testing. Clients include:
_ Millennium Pharmacetuicals, Inc. Cambridge, MA Bioinformatics tactical group: Advanced research in sequence analysis and drug design using mathematical and computer science modeling techniques.
_ Lotus Development Corporation Cambridge, MA International Product Development (IPD): research, requirements definition, cost and specification of the quality engineering effort for the internationalization of LotusScript 3.0. Functional, design and test specification development for Lotus Organizer Administration Tool (part-time); Brought in at the end of the project to cover untimely loss of personnel. Performed integrated quality engineering pre-ship specification compliance for several product areas of the HP100LX palm-top computer, and HP100LX Connectivity Pack. Brought in as leader of team for troubled optical disk based project. Developed project completion strategy and procedures for further revisions and new products. The products, DecisionMaster and TradeMaster, accessed fine resolution consumer product purchasing and demographic data stored on optical disks generate on-the-fly market research reports for the consumer goods industry. The object-oriented design was implemented using a proprietary internal object oriented language ParentheC based on Lisp and C.
_ KTAADN, INC., Newton, MA Research and development in the application of neural network theory to the development of autonomous air vehicles.
_ Clearpoint Research Corporation, Hopkinton, MA Research in human and computer vision, image processing, and applications of neural networks to vision problems. Research in novel approaches to neurocomputing architectures.
_ Nestor, Inc., Providence, RI Designed an extension and interface within the Nestor Development System (NDS) enabling NDS users to build neural networks applications using the NDS product without having to know how to program in C.
LUCIANO & HILLER, INC., – Belmont, Massachusetts 1982 - 1988 President Consultancy serving Greater Boston's technology and business systems marketplace in custom software engineering, design and development, including project management and proposal development.
_ Lotus Development Corporation, Cambridge, MA As project leader, developed strategic plan for testing Metro 1.1, a commercial productivity software package. Prepared the budget for product testing, scheduled and allocated resources, and supervised the Quality Assurance team. Sole developer of the Lotus Tools for Metro. Worked extensively with the Metro Kernel and library. Created model accessory for third party developers, redefined the library and kernel interface, and represented development in meetings with other Lotus groups involved in carry the product to market and supporting it. Responsible for the strategy, design and development of an automated regression test for compatibility of the Metro Kernel with the existing accessories. Supervised a design verification engineer. (9/86--7/88)
_ Andrews Associates, Inc., Boston, MA Consultant to the president of this Financial Personnel Placement Agency. CEO and President of Andyne Data Development Corporation, a new business formed under Andrews Associates who's charter was to develop a natural language query system for the placement industry. Responsible for marketing and distribution strategies, schedule and budget considerations, system expansion considerations and consultation on design and architecture of the system. Wrote proposals in Andrews Associates behalf, specified software practice and procedure policies for further development and maintenance, and upgraded their system to a Novell LAN. (2/86--8/86)
_ Brodie Associates, Boston, MA Brodie Associates is a small Artificial Intelligence company specializing in the area of natural language processing. The firm marketed a Lisp based toolkit for building natural language front ends to PC applications. Wrote Lisp software, prototyped a new user interface, created a demonstration disk, evaluated and purchased software and hardware, scheduled projects, met with clients, negotiated contracts, and analyzed marketing and distribution channels. (11/85-- 2/86)
_ The Boston Systems Office, Inc., Waltham, MA Designed and implemented compiler optimization methods for algebraic languages into a target independent optimization pass within the BSO C and Pascal cross compiler product line. Wrote complete functional and detailed design specifications, and carried the implementation process through the middle of the second release, turning the project over to BSO staff. (9/84- -10/85)
_ Sanders Associates, Inc., Nashua, NH Responsible for several device driver design specifications for a Multibus-based (8085) antenna tracking system. This required interdepartmental communication, presentations, and adherence to the requirements of MIL-STD-1679. (4/83 - 12/83)
_ Calcomp, Inc., Nashua, NH Principal member of the team responsible for the architecture, design and implementation of a distributed graphics language for M68000-based graphics workstation. The graphics language is a based on the GKS/PHIGS standard, and distributed between a VAX host and an intelligent graphics terminal. The system written in Pascal, and where appropriate, M68000 Assembler, the user interface in ___ __ FORTRAN on a VAX 11/780. My responsibilities included: system architecture and design; specification of the virtual device interface; coordination of design and coding efforts; technical leadership and direction; presentation of technical material; design review and specification control. Major emphasis was placed on modularity, extensibility, and maintainability of the code. (3/82 - 4/83)
GOULD, INC., MODICON DIVISION, Andover, MA 10/79--2/82 Software Engineer. Initially involved in ``Futures, the research and advanced development group. Participated in the designs for MODWAY, MODVIEW, and the P200. Responsible for the design and implementation of several prototypes illustrating the concept of process control systems using a menu driven graphics programming panel (P200) and a touch sensitive screen. Designed and implemented the graphics, menu processor, and all necessary communications and interface software. Wrote the Software Functional and Detailed Design Specifications for the J346 MODBUS Slave Interface implementing a portion of the software. Later completed the detailed software design specification for the MICRO-84 Controller, implementing a portion of that design.
TE CORPORATION, Boston, MA 6/79--10/79 Staff Consultant. At this small consulting firm I was a staff member working with 5 others developing the Nihongo Word Processor for NEC. This word processor was designed to work with Kanji (Japanese) characters. Contributed to the overall design and wrote the paging, software disk buffer management, and page/editor interface software. This was written in Pascal on Motorola and Future Data development systems.
WANG LABORATORIES, INC., Lowell, MA 1/78--5/79 Systems Programmer. Research and Development Department which was responsible for the Wang Word Processor; worked in the sub-group responsible for the word processing software that runs on the CRT. This included the editing software, the keyboard, screen management routines, system calls, and the user interface. Wrote the auto-hyphenation function, maintained Word Processing software, re-hosted the PL/M cross-compiled Word Processing system to run under the Wang OIS operating system with native Intel compilers, and wrote file conversion routines to allow word processing files to be edited by the OIS text editor and OIS text files to be word processed.
SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY, Cambridge, MA 5/76--5/79 Computer Operator. Part-time while in college. Ran the computing center operations on weekends.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston MA, MA 1/76--1/79 Computer Operator, Terminal Consultant, Teaching Assistant. Part-time while in college. Worked in the academic computer center as a compouter operator. Worked in the computing center terminal room at the help desk. Worked as a teaching assistant for over a dozen computer science courses.
EDUCATION
_ Master of Science Degree in Computer Science 1987 _ Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science (Cum Laude) 1982
