Richard T.Carling

rich@carling.net

685 Finchingfield Lane
Webster NY 14580

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

Highlights

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Able to manage and maintain a highly motivated team of developers
  • Experienced developer of multi-tier application systems
  • Accomplished in the design and development of database centric applications
  • Skilled designer of Graphical User Interfaces
  • Hands on expertise in Java, JSP's, Servlets, Applets, JAI, CORBA, RDMS, ODMS, JDBC, SQL, XML, XSL
  • Awarded four patents from the US Patent Office

Experience

Eastman Kodak Company - Digital Printing Solutions - Senior Systems 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 - Senior Systems 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
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.

Skills

Programming Languages
  • JAVA
  • C++
  • C
  • SQL
Web
  • Java Server Pages
  • Java Servlets
  • JAI
  • XML
  • XSLT
  • HTML
  • Java Script
  • Intranet Web Site Design
Data Formats
  • XML
  • XSLT
  • HTML
Design Methods
  • Method for Object Oriented Software Engineering
  • Design Patterns
  • Microsoft Solutions Framework
Platforms
  • UNIX
  • Windows XP, Vista
  • Snow
Databases
  • ORACLE
  • Sybase
  • MS Access

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science cum Laude from Michigan State University
  • Phi Kappa Phi Scholastic Society
  • Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honorary Society
Graduate courses in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology part-time

    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 1988 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