Resume

Ron's resume is here, in PDF format.

Work Experience

Most recent

10/2007 - 3/2009	ClassifEye, Ltd. (Jerusalem, Israel)
	Manager, Customer Integration
	Drive multi-platform client-server product development from R&D through customer integration and deployment. Work with overseas customers to determine their needs, produce specifications and deliver them. Hire, train and mentor technical staff. Java, J2ME. Symbian C++, Nokia Series 60 platforms. SQL. JSON. XML. XML-RPC.
4/2006 - 7/2007	Motorola Corporation, (formerly Good Technologies) (Bellevue WA)
	Principal Staff Software Engineer
	Working with the same development group as at Good and Sproqit, on similar projects (Good was purchased by Motorola in Jan 2007). Windows Mobile 5, Linux, PalmOS. Install/uninstall, cross-platform development issues. Design for mobile device applications.
1/2005 - 3/2006	Sproqit Technologies (Bellevue WA)
	Sr. Software Developer
	Client code developer for devices running WinCE, Palm and Linux operating systems. Reorganized the code base and build system so an SDK could be released to OEMs without exposing proprietary information. Wrote port of low-level code to a Linux-based device, including design and coding of a small database for the embedded device. Cross-platform build tools using ssh and make. Mostly C and C++ (gcc, VC, MetroWerks)
4/2002 - 12/2004	Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA)
	Lead Software Development Engineer in Test
	Led the team responsible for testing PTS (Page and Table Services) and LS (Line Services), which are core text layout components used by RichEdit, the Office suite of products as well as Vista. Coordinated testing effort for both products. Created new testing platforms and tools, upgraded and updated existing tools. Worked extensively with the developers, uncovering and remediation of both severe and non-critical defects as well as security issues in the products. C++ and C, SQL, VBA, Python, perl etc.
7/2001 - 1/2002	GoAhead Software (Bellevue, WA)
	Software Developer III
	High availability software design and implementation in C++ and C. Used for monitoring telco equipment and ensuring the health of the system. Helped implement Linux and Windows framework for easy integration of the software by GoAhead’s clients. gcc, VC++.

Life as a contractor

From 9/1993 - 7/2001, was one of three founding partners of "Moss Bay Engineering", which was a software services contracting firm. The majority of our work was done for Microsoft Corporation.

Projects on which I worked included:

• Linux and Windows modules for high-availability software system. Design and implementation of perl-based accessors for OEM APIs. gcc, VC++.
• Secure instant communication program. Design and implementation of new UI. Added features to client and server portions. Researched Linux components. Delphi, gcc.
• MS NetDocs. Implementation of POP and SMTP protocols; SQL to MAPI translation layer. Lightweight system DLLs. VC++, MFC, COM, etc.
• MS Outlook, multiple versions over three years. I18N, mainly for FE locales. BiDi and multibyte programming. Date and time parsing and formatting. VC++, MFC, COM, etc.
• MS Direct-X SDK, initial version. Device drivers for high-speed video access, multi-player networked sample games. MASM, VC++.
• MS Windows NT internals, fixed and enhanced USER and GDI modules. C, MASM.
• Design and implementation of a compressing MSDOS disk-driver for a hand-held device. Use PCMCIA RAM card as compressed hard disk. TASM, Borland C.
• Slide-show style screen-saver for Win16 using custom image compressor and user supplied photographs. Borland C++.

Other or prior experience

12/2004 - present	Reva - a small, cross-platform Forth
	Principal developer and project lead
	A personal project which grew out of my search for small and fast development environments. Programmers and enthusiasts from around the world contribute to this rapidly developing product. FASM, Forth
9/1997 - present	VIM Development team (Internet)
	Contributing programmer
	Ongoing contributor to the "vim" project - a "charity-ware", multi-platform programmer's editor. Work with developers across the globe on various parts of it: Windows port, GUI portions, I18N and UTF-8 work, many bug fixes and enhancements. Visual C, Borland C, gcc.
9/2000 - 12/2006	Congregation Beis Menachem (Bellevue, WA)
	Past president, Principal developer
	Developed and supported custom-designed membership database for non-profit organization. C++, Win32Forth, SQLite.