Clif Flynt Professional Information

Clif Flynt
9300 Fleming Road
Dexter, MI 48130
(734) 426-1066
clif@noucorp.com

EXPERTISE

High-Level	Tcl/Tk, Scheme, Perl, Awk, Yacc/Lex, Autoconf, X-Windows, GPSS, Sunview
Mid-Level	C, C++, Java, Fortran, Apl, Basic, LISP, Pascal, Objective C
Assemblers	680x0, 80n86, 2901, Z80, PDP-11, PDP-8, IBM-1130, Prime, IBM-360
Operating Systems	Unix, Linux, MS-DOS, MS-Windows, RMX-86, XENIX, RT-11, RSX-11M, SunOS/Solaris, VxWorks
Systems	Sun, Apollo, IBM PC/AT, IBM RT DEC PDP & Vax, Intel 310, Prime, Perkin Elmer

EXPERIENCE

12/99 - Present -- President/CTO

Noumena Corporation, Dexter, MI

Thoughtful Solutions

Designed & Implemented a multi-form database front end with sanity checking.
Delivered Tcl and HTML/CGI training sessions in the US and India.
Generated designs for conversion of large scale legacy projects to distributed web applications.

10/97 - 12/99 -- Principal

Flynt Consulting Services, Dexter, MI

Provider of timely software solutions

Participated as team member in design and implementation of a multi-feed, internet-based data collection and processing system.
Developed client/server voltage control subsystem for 7x24 test facility.
Developed Tcl/Tk based inventory control database package
Performed IP firewall/network administration
Configured Linux based firewall system
Designed and developed automated E-Mail robot
Created Tcl extension based on private library for regression testing.
Developed Client/Server application for mixed Unix/MS-Windows network.
Maintained 7x24 hardware test facility.

5/96 - 10/97 -- Sr. Research Engineer

First Virtual Holdings, Inc, San Diego, CA - Ann Arbor Office

Internet Commerce

Developed automated testing package for regression testing software.
Upgraded SafeTcl interpreter from Tcl 7.3 to Tcl 7.6.
Participated in design and prototyping of new commerce models.

7/93 - 5/96 -- Sr. Engineer

Applied Intelligent Systems, Ann Arbor, MI

Machine Vision using a SIMD parallel computer

Responsible for designing and implementing automated testing suite for computers manufactured by AISI.
Responsible for migrating that test package to an outside manufacturing site.
Responsible for maintaining and enhancing four machine vision projects with 2 major customers.
Implemented a source code control system, database for bug tracking, and automated testing for controlling these projects.
Designed and implemented automated test package for software development.
Responsible for designing and maintaining software diagnostics.
Designed and implemented a package for backing up disks that aren't NFS mounted across the network from a central machine.

1/92 - 7/93 -- Member Tech Staff

Computational Biosciences, Ann Arbor, MI

X-Windows/Unix based DNA Sequence Analysis package

Designed and implemented distributed processing subroutine package.
Designed and implemented interprocess communications using pipes and shared memory for use with and without X Windows.
Designed and implemented interprocess communications using sockets for use with X Windows.
Designed and implemented a distributed make for compiling code on multiple machines on a network. This reduced a 2 hour compile to 20 minutes.
Designed and implemented GUI widgets under X-View.
Designed, implemented and maintained a source code control environment based on RCS that
- Automatically validated code before allowing a user to check in code
- Automatically generated makefiles & dependencies
- Automatically included new code in libraries
- Automatically generated new executables

1/90 - 1/92 -- Vice President / Engineering Mgr

Veracity, Inc., Walled Lake, MI

MS-DOS based display package for large images.

Designed and implemented major portions of the device independent graphics, human interface, and file access portions of the package.
Responsible for design and maintenance of infrastructure necessary to coordinate four people working in a distributed environment, including evaluation and purchase of software and hardware tools.
Responsible for coordinating programmer effort, assigning tasks, and adhering to schedule.
Responsible for finding and hiring new personnel.

5/88 - 1/90 -- Senior Programmer/Manager

Cimage Corp., Ann Arbor, MI

Port Cad/Cam graphics package from MS-DOS to Unix/X platforms (Apollo, Sun, and IBM RT)

Acted as Team Leader on the IBM RT port, coordinating efforts of 6-12 programmers at various times.
Ported large sections of graphics code from IBM/PC graphics to X-Windows.
Developed a malloc library that would check for memory errors.

3/86 - 5/88 -- Consultant

Resource 1, Lansing, MI

Contract programmer. Completed two one year contracts at customer site.

"x" to pseudocode translator using lex and yacc under Unix.
Designed and implemented prototype for source code control and revision update system. This system automatically updated client sites and received confirmation via phone network. Automatically updated database upon confirmation of successful installation.
Evaluated diagnostics requirements, established bug report procedures.
Prepared requirements documents, time/personnel estimates, critical path analysis, and completion schedules.
Participated as team member developing a Point of Sale controller for intelligent remote sales terminals. Contributed to both design and implementation of this system.
Direct responsibility for design and implementation report generation and data editor. These routines featured formatted screens and context sensitive help, and could be used without training, or manual.
Designed and implemented multilayer B tree for part of database.

8/81 - 3/86 -- Systems Engineer

Bioimage Corp., Ann Arbor, MI

68000/Unix based system for analyzing 2-dimensional electrophoresis gels

Driver for Parallel DMA board under UNIX operating system.
Modified driver for Eikonix scanning array camera.
Wrote device drivers for DMA graphics systems.
Device independent support library for graphics display systems under UNIX.
Programs for curve fitting to multiple gaussian curves using Newtonian, Least Squares and Simplex algorithms.
Floating Point Math package for MC 68000 UNIX computer
Disk support subroutines for non-DEC directory drive on 11/23
Terminal emulation program with file download capability.
Major responsibility for evaluating and choosing equipment to use for image analysis system. (computer, camera, graphics display system).
Full responsibility for assembly, testing, and installation of system.
Performed sales demonstrations at customer sites.
Performed customer training.
Responsible for managing field service program. Instituted database record keeping, supervised staff, set schedules.

8/81 - 1/97 -- Contract Programmer

Independent Consulting

Small projects for different clients

Performed IP network administration
Configured Linux based firewall system
Designed and developed automated E-Mail robot
Performed Usenet news administration
Designed and developed database and conferencing package
Designed and developed database package including screen editor, sort/merge, report generation and backup for industrial hearing testing system.
Designed and developed screen control subroutine package to extend RM Cobol.
Designed and developed hardware/software package for taking an image from a video camera and printing it on a line printer on 8088 based IBM PC/Dos 1.0.
Designed and developed program to log into Compuserve, get current quotes on selected stocks, and merge the new data to previous data base.
Designed and developed subroutine package to support TU-58 in non-DEC directory environment.
Designed and developed Small Business Accounting and Payroll packages.
Designed and developed automated upload/download routine for text formatting system.

4/81 - 8/81 -- Contract Programmer

Software Services Corp., Ann Arbor, MI

Package to convert from screen graphics to hardcopy slides

Implemented package to accept image data in vector format and translate it to run length encoded pixel format
Designed and implemented program to operate a Celco camera.

8/79 - 3/81 -- Programmer

Applied Dynamics Int., Ann Arbor, MI

Software support for hardware development engineering

Diagnostics for debugging microwave communications interface.
Device driver for DMA interface to Perkin Elmer 8/32
Debugged and improved sort/merge utility on 11/34
Rewrote hardware manual for AD10 array processor
Developed subroutine library for DMA access between PDP 11 and AD10 array processor

6/78 - 8/79 -- Technician

Gelman Scientific Inc., Ann Arbor, MI

Quality Control support for testing and manufacturing

Programming PDP 11/03 (RT-11) for lab database and statistics
Debugging Plotter driver (Fortran and MACRO)
Programming PDP 11/03 to operate a device to determine pore size distribution in membranes

6/75 - 1/77 -- Research Technician

SUNY Research Foundation, Syracuse, NY

Isolation and identification of natural products released from insects, and plants.

Performed vapor pressure analysis of Disparlure.
Purified compounds via Gas Chromotagraphy.
Identified compounds with Mass Spectrography, NMR, IR and UV.

PUBLICATIONS

"Real-World Program Design in CS2 - The Roles of a Large-Scale, Multi-Group Class Project" SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol 32, No 1, March 2000 (Coauthored with Dr. Samuel Rebelsky, Grinnell College)
"Tclsh Spot", bi-monthly column, :login; magazine.
Tcl/Tk For Real Programmers Academic Press Professional, 1998
"Survey of Tcl/Tk Development Tools", Tcl/Tk Workshop Proceedings, USENIX 1998
"Coding Techniques for Reducing Code Maintenance", Tcl/Tk Workshop Proceedings, USENIX 1997
Technical Reviewer: Tcl/Tk Programmer's Reference by Chris Nelson, McGraw-Hill, 2000
Technical Reviewer: Interactive Web Applications in Tcl/Tk by Michael Doyle, Harcourt-Brace 1997
Technical Reviewer: Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk by Brent Welch, Prentice-Hall 1995

EDUCATION

B.S. 1975, State University of New York at Syracuse.
Over 20 hours of non-matriculated coursework at graduate and undergraduate level in math, electronics and computer science.

Clif Flynt 9300 Fleming Road Dexter, MI 48130 (734) 426-1066 clif@noucorp.com