Reformed(?) Hacker

Lynn Monson’s Resume

Lynn Monson
http://www.lmonson.com/
lmpub01@gmail.com

Professional Summary

I love working with computers and using them to solve difficult problems. I’ve been fortunate to work on a very broad spectrum of applications at all phases of development, leaving me with a trail of successes and a deep well of experience and training as a software and architecture generalist. I have significant experience with OOP, software design, Internet architectures and protocols, XML, distributed applications, and requirements gathering. I am looking for opportunities to help clients with the design and implementation of their own software projects.

Experience

6/2003 – Present Lead Architect, UnifiedSystem, LDS church

Responsible for the architecture of a new effort which integrates and replaces numerous enterprise systems. This responsibility includes N-tier architecture, 3rd party API exchanges, capacity planning, messaging, fault tolerance, failover, security, and business process design among other duties. The resulting system will support millions of clients, worldwide, through an interactive web application and rich-client applications that communicate with a multi-terabyte central database in real time. The system being built involves J2EE, Oracle, C#, C++, JMS, JBoss, XML, XSLT, SOAP, Axis, Lucene, AOP, Spring, machine learning, domain driven designs, data synchronization, data warehousing, distributed tracing and queuing, and grid machines.

2002 – Present Independent Consultant

I consult, ad-hoc, with a variety of companies on wide ranging topics. Recent work has included P2P systems, image compression, automated data extraction, and requirements analysis.

2002 – 2003 Architect, New Product, NextPage, Inc.

I served as the architect for the development of a new product at NextPage, Inc. The product involves P2P document tracking to facilitate collaboration and document retention. My duties included data replication, core object model design, software architecture, data security, data access layers, development practices (XP), and native platform integration. We employed Java, JXTA, JCE, J2EE, COM integration, JNI, Swing and SWT. Upon my departure, I was hired as a consultant to continue work on the project.

1999 – 2002 Architect, Distinguished Engineer, Whizbang! Labs, Inc.
(company shutdown)

I served as one of two lab architects. I was responsible for overall code design and implementation for projects throughout the lab. These projects included a commercial website, XML database for the entire world wide web, ETL, a core SDK, decision trees, SVM, boosting, HMMs, web crawler, HTML normalization and normalization to XHTML, HTTP proxy, MSOffice integration, XPath implementation, XML transclusion, XML database storage, Xerces XML parser, high performance DOM implementation, Server applications, RMI, SOAP, JavaScript, DHTML, among many others. These projects were used to scour the internet, building XML databases of all web content, from which structured data was extracted. We serviced a broad range of customers including the sale of a website to monster.com.

1988 – 1999 Architect, Senior Engineer Novell Inc.

I was responsible for the implementation, shipping, and design of several efforts at Novell. While there I ran the Groupwise client and SDK teams, ran the Internet architecture team for the Groupwise product line, worked on contextual design efforts, designed and implemented COM APIs, oversaw work on WebDAV and XSLT specifications, implemented an information retrieval system, worked on 3rd party integrations, supported large customers on-site, wrote extensive client and server-side code, wrote low-level networking code, and worked on existing and new product lines.

1982 – 1988 Software Engineer, Freelance, Allen Communications, Wicat

I have developed and shipped a wide spectrum of applications including BASIC interpreter, games, real-time equipment control, aircraft maintenance panel simulator, accounting packages, macro assembler.

Education and Honors

Brigham Young University – Bachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude
Minored in mathematics
Published in several magazines
Holds several patents
Distinguished engineer (Whizbang), and Engineer of the Year (Novell)
Apache committer (Xerces XML parser)