Richard T.Carling

rich@carling.net

685 Finchingfield Lane
Webster NY 14580

(home) 585-872-4601
(cell) 585-967-0685

www.carling.net

Highlights



Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science cum Laude from Michigan State University

Graduate courses in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology



Experience

Eastman Kodak Company - Digital Printing Solutions - Software Architect
  • Designed and implemented Visual Jam Handling systems for two separate Color Presses. The later design employed a rule based system to determine jam locations based on multiple sensor input. Developed in Java.
  • Architect and developer of an Operator Replaceable Component System that tracks part life and informs the Press Operator when parts are nearing their expected operational life. Used C++, CORBA and Java on the Client side to develop the System. Designed as a data driven rule based system to allow field updates without requiring product updates, Worked with a broad team of peers throughout NexPress to get design and operational input.
  • Helped design and now maintained and enhanced the Service Data Management System that sends Printer status to Kodak using SMTP, FTP, XML and Procedural SQL.
  • Four patents awarded, four patents applications still in process.
Fresher Information Corporation - Software Architect
  • Designed, implemented and deployed a Content Classification System for the automatic classification of content using XML, Java Server Pages and an Object Oriented Database.
  • Architect and developer of a Management Framework System for monitoring the status of remote distributed applications using XML, Java RMI and Java Server Pages.
  • Managed the development team that built the Management Framework System
West Group - Senior Systems Architect
  • Researched, introduced and developed Java Server Pages technology to multiple development groups within Westgroup.
  • Principal developer of a 4-tier application for maintaining Product content information.
  • Architect and developer of a Web Interface that used Java Servlets and CORBA connecting to an Oracle database to create and launch UNIX product creation jobs.
  • Technical developer for a project that renders terabytes of data from XML to Westlaw(c).
  • Technical Consulting Developer for a project that provides on-demand output rendering of content using JSPs and RMI.
SUNY Geneseo - Adjunct Professor Computer Science
  • Taught CS365, Senior level course in the Theory of Database Design, Topics included ER Diagrams, Relational Algebra, SQL (DDL and DML), Functional Dependencies, Normal Forms, Object Databases and provided hands on development with JAVA, JDBC, Servlets and thin client database programming.
  • Taught CS104, Creative Problem Solving with Computers A number of topics and techniques in the area of Creative Problem Solving were covered.
Eastman Kodak - Research Scientist
  • Team lead in the design and development of a document schema model and interactive Multimedia System in C++.
  • Responsibilities included Kodak Corporate Liaison to the X Consortium and Technology Transfer liaison for Object Oriented Database technology.
  • Participated on Kodak Company Quality Review Boards for User Interface Development and Database Technology.
Massachusetts Computer Corporation - Senior Software Developer
  • Developed an X Windows based interactive user interface creation tool and supporting class library. Released this system as part of the X Window Distribution.
  • Project Leader and principal developer for their Laboratory Workbench product, an extensible visual data flow programming system for end users.

Skills

Programming Languages
    JAVA, C++, C, and SQL
Web
    Java Server Pages, Java Servlets, JAI, XML, XSLT, HTML, Java Script, and Intranet Web Site Design
Data Formats
    SGML, XML, XSLT, and HTML
Design Methods
    Method for Object Oriented Software Engineering, Design Patterns, and Microsoft Solutions Framework
Platforms
    UNIX, XP, VISTA, Leopard
Databases
    ORACLE and Sybase


Publications

"Matrix Inversion"Graphics Gems Vol. I edited by Andrew S. Glassner -
(Academic Press, pp. 470-471, 766-769).
"Method Registration: A Technique for Extensible Object Oriented Applications"Imaging and Document Processing Systems Conference -
(SPIE, Los Angeles, Calif. vol. 1074, pp. 12-16)
"Higher Level Layers for the XToolkit"XHIBITION -
Boston
"3D Modeling on the Macintosh"Mac World Technology and Issues Conference -
San Francisco Calif.
"Pickling and Embellishing Widgets"X Window System Second Annual Conference -
Boston
with Lance McKee and Michael Johnston
"An Innovative Data Acquisition User Interface"American Laboratory -
with Nancy Burson and David Kramlich
"Composites"Beech Tree Books -
Morrow Books
with Christopher Herot, David Kramlich and Gretchen Brown
"Programming Visualization: Graphical Support for Software Development"IEEE Computer Proceedings -
with Christopher Herot, David Kramlich and Gretchen Brown
"Spatial Data Management"Proceeding of the SIGGRAPH Annual Conference -
SIGGRAPH

Televised Publications

with Nancy Burson and David Kramlich
"Composites" The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
with Nancy Burson and David Kramlich
"Big Brother"Walter Cronkite's Universe, CBS Television
with Paul Souza
Nova Series "The Television Revolution"NOVA series, WGBH Public Television
Aging animation segment - (early 2D MORPHING)Local News, WGBH Public Television

Awards

with Paul Souza and Gretchen Brown
Five Year Retrospective on the topic of functional GraphicsAmerican Institute of Graphics Arts
with Nancy Burson and David Kramlich
SIGGRAPH Art ShowSIGGRAPH
with Nancy Burson and David Kramlich
"Composite News 2", SIGGRAPH Video ShowSIGGRAPH
with Nancy Burson and David Kramlich
"Composite News",SIGGRAPH Video ShowSIGGRAPH
with Paul Souza
Silver Award (2nd Place): Technical AnimationArt Directors Club of Boston