Gary D. Duzan - Résumé

Technical Skills

Programming Languages: Python (current), Java (recent), C (recent), C++.

Operating Systems: Linux (current), Windows, Unix (AIX, Solaris, SCO), BSD.

Other: JMS, Spring, Eclipse, XML, XML Schema, CORBA, CORBA Components (CCM), Real Time CORBA, Databases (Sybase, Informix, Oracle).

Leadership Skills

Technical Lead, Lead Systems Integrator, Mentor.

Employment History

Principal Staff Software Engineer
Motorola Home & Network Mobility (Horsham, PA)
December 2005-Present

Member of the DAC development team, which is responsible for supporting and enhancing the DAC-6000 and related products. The DAC-6000 is a server product which manages digital cable network configuration and access control.

Currently working on a custom process manager on a Linux platform with a RESTful-style web interface for control, implemented in Python, with a GWT client.

Projects:

Investigate and prototype future IP-based video products
Enhance and maintain new web-based UI
Enhance and maintain legacy server code
Add system integration feature (project lead)
Support fielded software
Assist other team members with technical issues

Software Developer
BBN Technologies (Cambridge, MA)
July 2001-December 2005

Member of the Quality Objects (QuO) group, investigating technologies for adaptive quality of service (QoS) management using middleware.

Projects:

ARMS -- Demonstrate technologies for dynamic real-time application management in a shipboard environment
JBI/QoS -- Demonstrate the application of QoS management technologies to a publish/subscribe environment
PCES -- Demonstrate the application of QoS management technologies to an image and video transmission application

Member of Technical Staff
GTE/Verizon Laboratories (Waltham, MA)
June 1996-July 2001

Member of the Performance Management group of the Operations Systems Laboratory, which was responsible for building and supporting network performance management software for internal GTE/Verizon and affiliated customers.

Projects:

TIPS Reporting -- customer-oriented network management reports for Service-Level Agreements
TIPS Monitoring -- real-time processing and monitoring of network performance data
TIAS -- real-time network performance collection and correlation

PC/Network Administrator
Delaware State Hospital (New Castle, DE)
August 1991-July 1994

Installed, maintained, and supported all PC hardware and software, data networking wiring and equipment, file/mail servers, and database servers.

Education

MS in Computer Science, 1997
Northeastern University
Overall GPA: 4.0
Subjects: Programming Languages and Compilers (Primary Concentration), Systems Software (Distributed Operating Systems, Databases) (Secondary Concentration).
BS in Computer and Information Sciences, 1991
University of Delaware

Professional Memberships

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
1989-Present
ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS)
1990-Present
ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN)
1996-Present

Publications

Gary Duzan, Joseph Loyall, Richard Schantz, Richard Shapiro, John Zinky. "Building adaptive distributed applications with middleware and aspects". International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development. 2004.