Resume for Joe Hildebrand

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Summary

Over fifteen years technical experience, including:

Executive management
Technical leadership
Software architecture
Consulting management
Sales engineering
Application, network, and system programming for the Web, Windows, and Unix
Database design
Software development process
Unix and NT system administration
Network security, firewalls, NATs
Business analysis

Goal

A leadership position for a technology company, where my cross-disciplinary skills can change the way they do business.

Languages/Tools
Java C# / MSIL HTML XML/XSL-T	Python Perl C/C++ Delphi	Visual Basic JavaScript VBScript VBA	Ada Lisp tcl/tk Fortran
Operating Systems
Linux Solaris	Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95	Mac OSX	HP-UX VMS
Databases
PostgreSQL MySQL	Oracle Sybase	MS SQL Server Access	Berkeley

Education

5/1992 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, VA)
	B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Cum Laude

Work Experience

7/2001-present Jabber, Inc. (Denver, CO) - Chief Technology Officer
	As part of the executive management team, responsible for the technical direction of a highly-scalable multi-protocol instant messaging software product with various storage back-ends. Supported global sales team with training, collateral, and customer visits. Provided high-level support for the Sales Engineering and Professional Services department, including developing and presenting customer training, architecting customer solutions, and incorporating customer requirements into product direction. Developed prototypes and production code in C, C++, C#, Java, Perl, Python, and Delphi on Linux, Solaris, and Windows. Provided final escalation point for all technical problems in Development, Professional Services, and Support. Directed standards activities with the IETF and JSF. Provided technical liaison for industry analysts and reporters through briefings, whitepapers, and industry conferences.

8/1996-7/2001 Interlink Group (Denver, CO) - Chief Architect
	As part of the senior management team, responsible for keeping a growing consulting company on the forefront of technology. Created, staffed, and managed a national architecture practice. Introduced and enforced software development practices, including configuration management, code inspection, and testing. Developed reusable architectures for Delphi, Visual Basic, Java, and C#. Supported national sales team in role of technical closer. Developed service offerings, including reusable sales collateral. Mapped client business needs onto technology platforms and directions. Mentored architects, developers and administrators in industry best practices. Developed internal line-of-business solutions. Provided final escalation point for all technical problems.

	Jabber.com Provided architecture direction for an instant messaging company. Prototyped web clients and server extensibility approaches using Java, Javascript, C, and C#. Sun Microsystems Architected solution to provide a dynamic forms-based application for field service engineers. A mutable, heuristic approach allows Sun to change its business processes world-wide in real time. Patent Pending. Sustain Technologies Provided architecture guidance for a court case management system written in VB, leveraging XML and XSL/T throughout. Exactis.com Developed architecture and prototyped a massively scalable system for high-volume B2C communications using J2EE and XML. Digital Signature Trust Designed and prototyped an application architecture for providing cryptographically secure e-commerce. Designed Java Servlet/Java Server Pages infrastructure to enable business users to create application content. American Agrisurance Developed architecture for rigorous, repeatable unit testing of object software. Led team to integrate architecture into Visual Basic development environment. Database back-end tracked all test cases and results to create fully traceable test plans. Level (3) Developed Java architectures to support a multi-tier order management system. System Innovations Analyzed multi-tier Visual Basic and Visual C++ program for performance. Developed a multi-phase approach, aligned with business needs, for improving performance. Visual Basic ORCA Led team to implement Interlink's Object-Relational Component Architecture (ORCA) in Visual Basic, including a wizard-based interface to create database access code from database meta-data. TrakMaster Web Designed and developed an N-tier system for web entry of timesheet data. Interfaced with existing SQL Server database using Visual Basic MTS components. ASP/HTML/JavaScript front-end allowed consultants to enter time securely from remote sites. Implemented Microsoft Agent to train users on interface. Montana Power Architected intranet solution for access to mission-critical data. Analyzed legacy systems in preparation for web enablement.	U S West Designed and developed a message-oriented middleware strategy to connect multiple legacy systems. Developed format translations and rules to flexibly support changing requirements. Timet Led team to design, prototype, and implement global network architectures for security, Internet access, IP addressing, NT servers, and e-mail. Configured servers, firewall, and routers. Wrote documentation to describe all configuration details. Managed roll-out of server infrastructure to global sites. U S West Dex Mentored the web development process. Prototyped functionality for shopping cart application. Provided instruction, troubleshooting, and environment configuration. Presto-X Led team to provide a rapid assessment of network architecture and security. Provided recommendations for network and process optimization. Phelps-Dodge Provided performance tuning for network and applications on NT clients connecting to an HP-UX Oracle server. Provided network architecture recommendations for a heavy industrial setting. Configured shared Internet access over a corporate WAN. Space Imaging Designed architectures for web credit card transactions. Provided quality assurance, trouble shooting, and code reviews. Cable Systems Group Developed a three-tier graphical reporting tool for software defect tracking. Developed testing and software configuration management processes for a complex multi-tier system. Leasetec Developed and implemented network security plan. Configured firewall and routers. Designed and implemented e-mail architecure. Implemented Virtual Private Network with trading partner. Corporate Express Created web development standards and practices. Configured firewall and routers according to security plan. FHP Designed and developed software in C++ to integrate interactive voice response software with legacy VMS systems. Reused software to exchange data with supply chain partners. Delphi ORCA Designed Interlink's Object-Relational Component Architecture (ORCA). Led team to develop a Delphi implementation, including a wizard-based interface to create database access code from database meta-data. Coors Brewing Company Designed and developed an intranet site in Netscape LiveWire for tracking environmental emissions.

5/1996-8/1996 American Technical Resources (Denver, CO) - Consultant
	Time-Warner Communications Designed and developed web site in Perl to accept telephone number updates for local number portability.

6/1992-5/1996 Fuentez Systems Concepts, Inc. (Fairfax, VA) - Lead Software Engineer
	ASAS Block II Ported 1.3 million lines of mixed C, C++, and Ada from SunOS to Solaris 2.3. Provided on-site technical expertise to Lockheed-Martin Aerospace. Wrote a World Wide Web (WWW) front-end for the United States Message Format (USMTF) Oracle database, including on-the-fly generation of HTML 3.0 tables. Led team to design and develop Tesla, a database-driven message editor for military text messages. Internet Product Development Developed products to allow WWW access to a client/server configuration management program (CMVC), as well as a mailing list archive. HTTP server administration, HTML authoring, and forms/CGI script development. Interactive Message Generation Developed a Tcl/Tk rapid prototype of a USMTF message editor. Wrote extensions to Tcl to provide access to other system components. Wrote `[incr Tcl]` code for a new paned window widget, which was used as a basis for the `[incr tk]` paned window.	Baseline Convergence Spearheaded effort to consolidate versions of the Message Handler from five disparate platforms. Developed automated system built around CMVC that allows a single code change to propagate to all baseline versions. TOPHUNTER Integration Led team integrating the Message Handler and the CommServer onto SCO OpenServer. CommServer Designed and implemented an RPC-based Distributed Queue Manager (DQM) in C++, using Object-Oriented Design techniques. Produced a management client for the DQM in Tcl/Tk. All code was designed for portability between HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, and SCO ODT. Joint Message Handler Designed and implemented portions of the Joint Message Handler (JMH) including a client/server management program for system processes (X/Motif client connected via a TCP socket) and an X/Motif front-end for JMH data stored in Sybase. Wrote Ada bindings for the custom DrawnList widget as well as an abstraction layer for the Sybase APIs. Development on SunOS in Verdix Ada included an extensive 2167A documentation cycle.

1990-1992 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, VA) - Research Assistant
	COBRA Led the development of a GUI for COBRA, a four degree-of-freedom robotic manipulator used in nuclear power applications. Coded in C using X and Motif under HP-UX. COBRA operators have praised the power and clarity of its user interface.

1988-1991 Babcock and Wilcox Nuclear Services (Lynchburg, VA) - engineering co-op
	COBRA Continued development of COBRA user interface, integrating comments and reactions from future operators. Polished software to maximize operator comfort and efficiency in the high-stress environment of a nuclear power plant service outage.	RSG Sleeving Designed end-of-arm tooling for ROGER, a three degree of freedom robotic manipulator. Revolutionized the marking and identification process for the tubes in nuclear steam generators with the invention of a remotely-operated spray marking tool. Took part in design, documentation, and training for the Recirculating Steam Generator (RSG) Sleeving system. Prepared detailed drawings using CAD systems. Performed rigorous testing of all designs in mock-ups of the target workspaces. Acted as a ROGER Operator and Tooling Engineer for two field deployments, including system maintenance in high-radiation environments.

1988 STX Systems (Hampton, VA) - Summer Intern
	Global Tropospheric Experiment Provided quick-response programming support for the Meteorology component of the NASA ABLE-3A field research team in Alaska. Performed graphical analysis of meteorological data using FORTRAN and GKS on VMS. Produced data for review by scientists in situ.

1987 Center for Excellence in Education (McLean, VA) - Summer Intern
	Devised and maintained a database management system to track donations to the Research Science Institute (RSI), a summer enrichment program established by Admiral Rickover for gifted high school students from the US and abroad.

1986 Grumman-CTEC (McLean, VA) - Summer Intern
	As part of an internship sponsored by RSI, wrote graphics programs in LISP for Natural Language/AI applications on a Symbolics Lisp Processor.

Standards

2004-2005: Co-chair of the WebDAV Working Group at the IETF,
Worked to get the XMPP Working Group at the IETF formed, functional, and concluded successfully
2002-2003: JSF Council Member
Published many JEPs and Internet-Drafts

Open Source Projects

Jabber-Net (http://jabber-net.sourceforge.net/) - architect and lead developer for a C# implementation of Jabber technologies for .Net
NUnit (http://nunit.sourceforge.net/) - contributed code to support automated unit testing of C# code
Exodus (http://exodus.sourceforge.net/) - core developer of a Jabber client in Delphi/Kylix
Marbles (http://marbles.sourceforge.net/) - core developer of Java libraries for Jabber

Publications/Awards

11/2003 - Hildebrand, J.J., "Nine IM Accounts and Counting", ACM Queue, Vol. 1, Number 8, pp 44-50.
02/2001 - Hildebrand, J.J., "Moving Data around the Enterprise," accepted for presentation at the Omni User Annual IT Strategies Conference
11/2000 - Microsoft Developer Days, "BizTalk Architecture Approaches". Teamed with Microsoft to present architecture guidelines for BizTalk 2000 to over 500 people.
12/1993 - Hildebrand, J.J., " Ada Bindings for C Widgets," accepted for presentation and publication at the Motif 93 & COSE International User Conference, Washington, DC.
11/1991 - Tidwell, P.H., Glass, S.W., Hildebrand, J.J., Reinholtz, C.F., and Shooter, S.B., "COBRA - Design and Development of a Manipulator for Nuclear Steam Generator Maintenance," accepted for presentation and publication at the 2nd National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio. Received Procter & Gamble Award of Merit and George Wood Award for Best Paper.

Last modified: November 22, 2004