Past title: Senior Software Engineer

MetaFluent, LLC, September 2008-August 2012.
Senior Software Architect

• Contribute to development and support of MetaFluent Entitlements Direct, MetaFluent for RMDS, MetaFluent JMS SDK suite, and MetaFluent Add-In for Excel
• Consulting work for STAC, including development, documentation, testing, and packaging of STAC-M2 and STAC-N test harnesses and future STAC-E1 and STAC-T1 packages.
  

Reuters Information Technologies, Oak Brook, Illinois, June 1997-September 2008.
Senior Technical Specialist
Responsibilities involved all aspects of product development:

• Help engage internal and external customers to gather and prioritize requirements
• Provide architectural and design direction for all Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) APIs.
• Serve as the lead technical specialist for Java and C++ Editions of Reuters Foundation API (RFA), a thread-safe, low-latency, cross-platform framework for requesting and publishing financial market data over point-to-point and multicast networks.
• Mentor and assist junior staff in local and off-shore development centers throughout the development process.
• Develop and debug the more complex parts of the product.
• Write and review the documentation.
• Work with the QA team throughout testing
• Prepare, review, and present technical sessions to promote new products to customers.
• Answer support questions and fix problems that cannot be solved by the support channel.  Provide direct support to customers through the online forums.

Past titles: Development Technical Specialist, Senior Programmer Analyst, Programmer Analyst, and Senior Programmer
Past responsibilities and accomplishments:

• One of the designers of the Open Message Model (U.S. Patent No. 8234391 Application No. 11/533,484) and the next-generation Reuters Wire Format.
• Trained staff in Oak Brook and the Bangkok off-shore development centers.
• Served as the lead developer for SFC Java and SFC C++ Developer Kits; Migrated these APIs to several new market data infrastructures while maintaining API compatibility; Significantly improved the performance of parsing and caching; Used Perl and JavaScript to create client-side search engine for reference manual.
• Developed, tested and maintained JDist server used for Internet distribution of market data.
• Worked on Euro, Millennium compliance, and CMM Level 2 programs.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 1995-May 1997.
Graduate Research Assistant, NCSA/Caterpillar's Business Model Team

• Contributed to the Financial Model, a framework for business applications.
• Wrote Master's Thesis:  Strategic Planning Support for a Financial Model Framework .
• Participated in Ralph Johnson's Patterns Reading Group.
• Developed dynamic, database-driven user interface for the Tractor Information System.
• Used Visualworks Smalltalk and GemStone object-oriented database.

Motorola Computer Group, Urbana, Illinois, January 1994-August 1994.

Engineering Intern in SCSI Development Team

• Tested the ports of VERITAS software to m88K SVR4 platform; Ported VERITAS Visual Administrator to m88K X Windows platform.
• Collected a portable C Library for and embedded  Tcl library into tSCSI test program;  Made it portable between m68K, m88K, and PowerPC platforms.

Illinois Department of Transportation, Springfield, Illinois, June 1993-August 1993.
Summer Intern in Engineering Systems

• Developed on-screen menu interface for CAD user commands; Integrated metric system functionality.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign August 1995-May 1997 Cumulative GPA: 3.93/4.00

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Highest Honors University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign August 1991-May 1995 Cumulative GPA: 3.93/4.00

ACADEMIC HONORS

• University Honors - "Bronze Tablet" - top 3% of engineering college class.
• C.W. Gear Award (1995) - outstanding senior computer science student going to graduate school.
• John R. Pasta Award (1994) - academic achievement by a junior student in computer science/engineering.
• Daniel L. Slotnick Award (1993) - outstanding undergraduate computer science student.
• National Merit Scholar

PUBLICATION

"Architectural Patterns for Enabling Application Security", by Joseph Yoder and Jeff Barcalow

• Accepted by 1997 Pattern Languages of Programs conference (PLoP '97).
• Revised version included in Pattern Languages of Programming Design 4 (1999).

ACTIVITIES

• Wheaton Jaycees - webmaster 1998-2009, haunted house construction foreman/co-chairman 2003-2009, 4th of July parade staging coordinator 2002-2009,  PR Director.
• Playing golf
• Watching Illini basketball and Cardinal baseball