Paul Raveling
Paul.Raveling@sierrafoot.org
(916) 933-5826 Home and home office
(916) 849-5826 Cell phone
(650) 506-8393 Office at Oracle Headquarters:
Usually Wednesdays and Thursdays
2737 Carnelian Circle
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

Summary

Highly experienced software developer with background in diverse disciplines:  Operating systems, system level tools, real time systems, user interfaces (both GUI ind other), graphics and imaging, networking, web sites, and RDBMS systems.  Past work includes a record of success as an individual contributor, project leader, and group manager. Now seeking employment near home, to eliminate a 300-mile round trip commute to the Bay Area (working away from home two days per week).

Employment History

Oracle Corporation
1994 to present:  RDBMS product development,  Distributed Database/Gateways

Unify Corporation
1990 to 1994    Product development,  Unify Vision product. Main focus was Unify's 4GL compiler.

USC Information Sciences Institute
1986 to 1990    GUI, graphics, and imaging for  Integrated Interfaces project
 
Independent Consultant
1983 to 1986    Largest jobs:
         FutureNet:  Development and project leadership for an ECAD product
         Garrett AiResearch    Real time avionics software development,
                            Standard Central Air Data Computer and B-1B CADC

FutureData, GenRad/FutureData
1979 to 1983   Product development as lead developer and group manager, 2302 Slave Emulator (in-circuit emulator) product line, Advanced Development System, and other projects

USC Information Sciences Institute
1973 to 1979    Software development for research projects:
         EPOS operating system, real time speech transmission on ARPANET,
         support software, terminal firmware for distributed user interfaces

Ovonic Memories, Vermont Research Corporation
1971 to 1973    VEROS operating system and support software for new technology disk drive products

UCLA Campus Computing Network
1966 to 1971    Tools and system software layered over OS/360

Education
UCLA, 1962 to 1966 with a change in major:  2 years in physics, 2 years in math, and a de facto extracurricular concentration on computing: (This preceded availability of computer sciences as an academic discipline.)

Other

Web sites personally established and maintained:
www.sierrafoot.org:  Personal web site, established and maintained since 2001. Its most visited section is recognized worldwide as a resource on history of the X-15 hypersonic research program.
www.edhca.net:  Web site of the El Dorado Hills Citizens Alliance.
www.edhcity.org:  Previous web site, originally for the El Dorado Hills Incorporation Committee, then for the Yes on Measure P/Yes on Cityhood Ballot Measure Committee. This site was decommissioned after the November, 2005 election.

Elected offices currently held:
President of the Lake Forest Waterford Owners Association (7 years of service in this position)
Founding president of the El Dorado Hills Citizens Alliance, a new civic organization