Neal Sanche

Projects:

• Recently completed a project written entirely in WPF, Xaml, using a Model-View-ViewModel architecture that provides a very easy way to collect forensic video data, across all of the cameras on a site. The MVVM architecture provided a very live, data-driven experience to the user.

• Implemented many integration modules for PureActiv using a dynamic XML protocol developed in house. Changes in the XML are fed to our mapping technology to allow display of dynamic tracks on the map, configuration of monitoring zones, and dynamic updates to the state of animated objects.

• Scene Analyzer client development. Used WPF and Xaml, Expression Blend, to provide a good looking, and user friendly interface to a video analytics edge device. Worked with a team of two other developers to implement many of the features of the application.

• Was solely responsible for the installation and maintenance of the Subversion repository, Hudson continuous integration build server, a Trac repository for providing help for the support team, and a BugTracker database for tracking and completing work on bug reports.

Projects:

• Several Piccolo based graphical applications for remote camera control were my responsability. I have written a Java applet, a .NET Windows Forms application, and a Compact Framework application all with similar functionality using the three versions of Piccolo. Unique camera control features such as point and click, bounding box zooming, and click to control are proving to be very marketable to Pure.
• Worked with the team leader over the course of a month and a half to develop a fully integrated GIS based camera control application that provides unique contextual control capabilities.
• Built a web service, and accompanying applet for zoomable viewing of 2d signal data from a variety of sensors deployed around the world. The sensors monitor the health of piplines, and buildings, producing many sampled data points. This data can be quickly scanned, panned, and zoomed down to the individual sample level, in real-time driven by a database backend.

Projects:

• Completed an application to plot data from Affymetrix GeneChip experiments to help locate active genes in muscles during cell differentiation.
• Using JBoss to complete an e-commerce server for the DNA Sequencing and GeneChip facility within our lab. Extensive code generation directly from SQL schemas was used to rapidly deploy a Struts based J2EE application.
• Developed another database-driven web application using JBoss, Struts, AndroMDA, and MySQL for storage of GeneChip experiments related to Stem Cell research called StemBase. One developer and I designed, implemented, and deployed the application within 2 months of initial requirements. Iterative, model driven development process allowed very fast development cycles and a very modular application. The project has since been rewritten in PHP, but the database schema has survived relatively intact. http://www.stembase.ca

Projects:

• SecureRealms Enterprise: Wrote a service oriented framework for in JVM and remote services. It created the basic design pattern for the Management Console, Policy Builder, Management Agent, and modular components of the Realm Controller.
• s-Peer: Lead developer on a gnutella-like, decentralized, secure Peer to Peer agent with a flexible protocol, encrypted socket communications, and single-port protocol switching functionality. Strong sense of 'Identity' through PKI (Diffie Hellman or RSA) digital signatures and Diffie Hellman key exchange protocol to encrypt all socket links. User interface work was implemented using the Swing library. In doing so, bugs were found and reported back to Sun. Community building features included online chat, file sharing, policy based protection of shared files, and secure, authenticated, one to one chat.
• SecureRealms DS: Prototyped, and iterated on the prototype of a secure document repository utilizing J2EE, Entrust PKI. Features strong authentication using the PKI to control logging into the web application. JSP, Jakarta Struts 1.1B1, Oracle 8i database. Integration with the Realm Controller to allow policy based restriction to files. I became software development director of this project.

Projects:

• Designed and completed work on a new remote monitoring project for Cartel/TASC called siteWRX. A J2EE system using Model Driven Development processes to model the database backend. This is a web application, Tomcat JSP front end, and JBoss back end with similar (though a superset of functionality) to the older USC project mentioned below.
• Universal Access and Remote Monitoring Controller Server (USC). J2EE application written using JBoss 2.4. Use of JComm API, CMP, and JMX to configure and control a bank of modems communicating with remote stations (UARMs) via a simple chat/response protocol. A Swing, application based client is used to perform data entry and control the modem pool. Requirements, design, and implementation completed in four months.
• Designed and implemented an SNMP MIB capable of alerting HP Openview of problems with remote stations via SNMP traps.

Projects:

• Redesigned the entire software building system using the Jakarta ANT build environment.
• Used Rational Rose, and Rational Clearcase.
• Design and implementation of a scheduled data collector for optical networking statistics gathering and presentation.
• Rational Rose data models were used for code generation, providing a consistent foundation on which the hardware and software developers collaborated.

Projects:

• Produced a web based network backup reporting system for the Network Backup initiative. Perl, CGI, HTML, mSQL, Oracle.
• Worked with Voice over IP group to develop a Windows client called 'VoiceBox' for the H.323 stack being evaluated within Nortel as part of the Internet Call Waiting Initiative. Windows 95, C++, MFC, G.711 and an experimental G.723.1 codec evaluation. Award of Merit given for my efforts.
• Research and development on an intranet 'people-finder' in an effort to promote better internal collaboration on similar projects. Used Altavista as a web crawler, and cross referenced found names and key phrases using paraphrasing software from the National Research Council.
• With a team of 2 other developers, rewrote an OS/2 based software package for delivering Pager notifications via modems and TCP/IP in Java. Mentored the other team members in RMI and threading concepts. Fully redundant, highly available, highly scalable architecture for pager notification delivery was developed and delivered in under a year.
• Java Swing experience interfacing with a JNI layer on top of an advanced data delivery system to provide scheduled, multi-site file transfers. Some of this technology still exists as a spin-out company called Signiant. http://www.signiant.com