Special section: Seeking employment
in software development, Sacramento area
I am seeking a position in the Sacramento area as a senior software
developer or project leader. I am willing to consider contract work and
related positions, depending on details of circumstances. For the past
11 years I have been commuting weekly to the Bay Area, 300 miles round
trip, to work at Oracle Headquarters and would prefer now to work
closer to home.
My experience has involved 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.
Here is some information on my employment history:
You can find additional information by Googling "Paul Raveling". Some
of the citations that tend to appear in such a Google search include:
- Network Voice Protocol (NVP), the first real time speech protocol
on a packet-switched network (ARPANET). I was responsible for its
control protocol and for the operating system infrastructure supporting
its data transfer protocol. This was the origin of the protocols now
used for streaming audio and streaming video on the Internet.
- Integrated Interfaces, a multimodal user interface research project with AI-automated presentation management.
- The Img Software Set and the X11 Window System color database. If
anyone would like to explore searching for images based similar to a
single image used as a search key, I'd love to explore techniques based
on my 1990 color quantization algorithm, starting with spectral
matching biased toward human visual perception.
- A variety of postings to USENET newsgroups. Some include software
engineering and user interfaces, others include aviation in general and
soaring in particular.
One project that I will write about within the next month or two is
totally missing from the Internet. This is the EPOS operating system,
for which I served as architect and lead developer in a group of four
at the USC Information Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) in 1975. DARPA
later selected EPOS as a standard OS for real time network
research on PDP-11 platforms. In its early days EPOS benchmarked
at 43 times faster than UNIX V6 on the same hardware. Its
greatest architectural potential was in supporting what I would now
tend to refer to as a Process Oriented Programming pardigm.