Bruce Schaefer

 

20816 Damson Road

Lynnwood, WA 98036

425 248 7060

bschaefer@pobox.com

 

SUMMARY

Whether it was developing a mass properties function for a leading UNIX based Cad/Cam product, performing all levels of technical support for a z/OS based disaster recovery product, being the R&D Manager and Senior Architect for the leading z/OS RACF Security company, or re-architecting a z/OS XML application, I have always learned and performed what was necessary to get a project completed. With 27 years of experience in Software Development, I have been involved in all aspects of Software Development from gathering customer requirements to delivering the final product as well as supporting the customers using the product.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Languages: C, C++, BAL (Assembler), REXX, Pascal, Visual Basic, SQL, Pascal, Fortran, Smalltalk

Database: Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access

Platforms: z/OS, OS/390, UNIX, AIX, SUN, HP

Other Technologies: XML, XERCES, ISPF, DTL, SCLM, XDC, VSAM, BSAM, LE, XPLINK, SMP/E, DDE, OLE, MAPI, SMTP, TCP/IP, FTP, RACF, IPCS, DFSMS, JES2, JCL

EXPERIENCE

Senior Software Developer  2006-2008

TeraCloud Corporation

(Storage management software)

http://www.teracloud.com

 

·      Developed the z/OS TSF product. Architected the ISPF interface using DTL and REXX.

·      Re-architected the TSF z/OS Agent for performance and maintainability. Reduced the code base by over 50% by using OOA and OOD. Coded in C++ and assembler.

Senior Architect and Interim R&D Manager  1999-2005

Vanguard Integrity Professionals

(RACF software security solutions)

www.go2vanguard.com

 

·      Architected and Developed the QuickGen feature of the Vanguard products. This includes the QuickGen Tag Language which provided the ability to generate custom formatted reports.

·      Architected and Developed Email API used by all Vanguard products.

·      Architected and managed project to use SCLM for Source control and configuration management. Developed a tool to automatically generate SMP/E PTFs using the information within SCLM.

·      Senior Architect for the Administrator, Advisor and Analyzer products.

Technical Support  1994-1999

Amdahl

(Sunrise product formerly owned by Sentryl Software, Panorama Software, Legent)

 

·      Performed Level 1 through Level 3 Technical Support for Sunrise, a disaster recovery product. Product was written in BAL (assembler) on OS/390.

·      Installed and customized Vantive (business system). This entailed using MS/SQL, VB scripts, DDE, OLE, MAPI

Senior Technical Specialist  1981-1993

Dassault Systemes of America

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CADAM

 

·      Architected and developed many areas Professional CADAM on Unix Platforms and of CADAM on MVS. These areas include: Client-Server architecture between MVS and UNIX, CAD/CAM model API, CAD/CAM Plotter interfaces, Mass properties application.

EDUCATION

California State University, Northridge (1981)

B.S., Computer Science