Robert H. Yang

Senior Software Engineer

• Offsite or partial onsite software development

• Can create, maintain, and follow a schedule of work

• More than a decade of experience in industry as a Software Engineer/Developer, for such clients as Intel, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and Agilent Technologies as well as smaller companies.

• Expertise in the following Microsoft© Technologies :

  • 32-bit Windows API's : NT 4.0, Win'9x, Me, Windows 2000, and XP
  • COM, DCOM, COM+, OLE, ActiveX
  • Visual C++ 6.0, ATL, MFC, Windows Template Library (WTL)
  • Visual Basic 6.0, VBScript, JScript
  • Active Server Pages (ASP), Internet Information Server
  • ODBC, ADO, OLE DB
  • C#, .NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, SOAP Toolkit

• Additional experience with or exposure to the following technologies :

  • NT Security, LSA API, Crypto API, Smart Card SDK (PC/SC)
  • XML, MSXML, SAX, DOM, Xerces, JAXP, XSLT
  • Java, Swing, Java Beans, JDBC, RMI, JNI (See Education and Certifications below)
  • HTML coding, JavaScript
  • Java servlets, Java Server Pages (JSP), Jakarta / Tomcat
  • Enterprise Java Beans (EJB)
  • Borland JBuilder
  • lex / yacc, flex, bison, Visual Parse++
  • Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS), Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ)
  • SQL Server
  • mySQL
  • Oracle 8
  • Configuration control using PVCS, Visual SourceSafe , and SCCS, ClearCase
  • Linux

• Certifications :

  • Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer, May 1999

• Software development philosophy :

  • Understanding of object-oriented programming - not just C++ as a "better C".
  • Prefer iterative development - prototypes and gradual builds - a disbeliever in the waterfall model ("big bang theory") of software development.
  • Eager participant in code reviews / walkthroughs.
  • Willing to follow coding standards.
  • Willing to use other people's software as appropriate (no need to reinvent the wheel).
  • Intellectual integrity: If I don't know something, I'll say so, and then go ask someone who does.

• Education:

  • BSEE 1988 : Carnegie-Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)

  • Graduate-level Computer Science work at Portland State University (Portland, OR), 1995-1997

  • Training in Win32, COM/OLE, and MFC by Developmentor at Oregon Graduate Institute - March-August, 1996.

  • Continuing education at UCSC Extension (Santa Clara, CA) in the following areas:
    • Object-oriented analysis and design (UML and design patterns)
    • Java, Swing, Java Beans, JDBC, RMI, JNI, EJB, Jini, Java Security
    • OLE DB / ADO
    • Database software technology

• My references and resume are also available upon request.

• Located in the heart of Silicon Valley (San Jose, California)

• For more information on how I can accelerate your development schedule, please feel free to email me here.

Last revised by Robert H. Yang on 20-January-2003