Christopher A. Reed

Career Objective

I strive to develop innovative, original solutions to problems, focusing on user interface and ease of use. My goal is to apply myself to challenging situations while continuing to learn and expand my experience. The ultimate goal for me is to have a positive effect on the user experience of computer software in whatever market I focus on.

SigmaTel, Inc.

Senior Macintosh Developer (contract)

Austin, TX (Sep 2003-)

• Ported firmware update and media formatting software for USB MP3 players written in C++ from Win32 to Mac OS X.
• Added and redesigned significant sections of the company's Mac application and USB device control frameworks.
• Wrote Mac OS X IOKit driver for communicating with USB MP3 players.
• Debugged low-level interaction between host and firmware over USB. Also kernel-resident driver debugging.

Please Note: Neither I nor SigmaTel provide support for end-users of devices containing SigmaTel's SoC components. Please contact the manufacturer of your device.

BroadJump, Inc.

Senior Macintosh Developer

Austin, TX (May 2001-Jan 2003)

• Worked with a medium sized cross-platform team (~15 developers) developing the Macintosh version of a quarter-million line cross-platform broadband installation and configuration application with millions of users.
• Ported a large Macintosh PowerPlant broadband installer application to Carbon and Mac OS X.
• Designed and developed the common network configuration and bridge library for Mac OS 8/9 and Mac OS X. This library formed the basis of all of the company's Mac networking code. The OS X side was written entirely using Cocoa and distributed objects.

Hall-Kinion, Inc.

Contractor

Austin, TX (Oct 2000-Mar 2001)

• Acted as engineering manager and lead developer for a Macintosh DVD product containing encrypted games that are unlocked over the Internet. Managed interaction between an offsite contract developer, the interface designers, and quality assurance to produce the final product.
• Created a custom archiving and decompression plug-in for Apple's installer tool. This and additional custom GUI installer plug-ins were written in C++ using CodeWarrior.
• Wrote a distributed, server-less, brute-force cracking tool in C++ designed to test the strength of the company's encryption technology.
• Developed Objective-C runtime for Mac OS 9, written in C and PowerPC assembly, that uses the Objective-C compiler in Metrowerks CodeWarrior.
• Designed and wrote an HTML page layout library that uses a custom generic layout engine. This library includes a hand-coded HTML parser.
• Rewrote Windows educational testing software in Objective-C Mac OS 9. Using the ObjC runtime described above, I wrote my own Cocoa framework for Mac OS 9 to enable future porting of the software to Cocoa on OS X with minimal effort.

Ecommercesoft, Inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Austin, TX (Dec 1999-Oct 2000)

• Project manager and lead developer for a very large WebObjects (using Mac OS X Objective-C Cocoa libraries) application. Responsible for all aspects of product development, including planning requirements, core development, and daily coordination of bug fixes.
• Performed database administration required for development of MetroShop, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and FrontBase.

Synthesys Technologies, Inc.

Software Engineer

Austin, TX (Feb 1999-Dec 1999)

• Designed and implemented the company's automated build system in Python. This system uses a client-server architecture to perform builds on a multiple platforms and configurations, including Solaris, NT, and AIX. All configuration and build metrics are stored using a MySQL database.
• Responsible for writing comprehensive regression tests (Jython) for new CORBA interfaces to the company's core product, a high-end distributed medical record research database.

Purity Software, Inc.

Senior Software Developer

Austin, TX (Oct 1995-Dec 1998)

• Co-founded the company around a product I wrote called WebSiphon that is a real-time byte code compiled scripting language embedded in HTML. The application was written in C/C++ using CodeWarrior.
• Developed a fast flat-file database server that shipped with the company's other products. Also C/C++ using CodeWarrior.
• Mentored and oversaw entry-level developers while directing the design of the products they worked on.

Bottom Line Distribution, Inc.

Software Developer

Austin, TX (Feb 1995-Feb 1996)

• Designed and wrote one of the first shopping cart based online web ordering systems with a live connection to a legacy database backend.
• Created one of the first scripting languages embedded in a website's HTML (similar to PHP).