Summary
Technical Skills
Professional
BMC Software
I-CUBE
ONTOS
Boston Technology
Novus
NUCCS
Patents & Publications
Education
Honors
Academic
Antoun Kanawati (TonyK)
Arlington, MA 02474
tk-software@comcast.net 		http://tk-software.home.comcast.net/Resume.html
http://home.comcast.net/~tk-software/Resume.html

Summary Profile

Experienced software developer capable of research, planning, and leadership. Over 10 years of increasing responsibility as technical lead, principal developer, team leader and mentor.

Proven skills in software architecture, design and implementation; applied research; oral and written communications; leadership and mentoring. Past projects in telecommunications, network programming, distributed programming, object database systems, and systems management.

Achievements include high quality products delivered on schedule, patent, peer-reviewed publications, and academic honors.

Technical Skills

  • Formal methods, analysis and modeling; object oriented programming.
  • API and infrastructure design and implementation.
  • Network and distributed programming, multithreading; object databases, relational databases.
  • Implementing and using code generators, documentation tools, code analyzers, and other tools.
  • C/C++, Java, XML, XSL, HTML, Javascript, Perl, SQL, LISP, ksh/sh/bash, Tcl/Tk; revision control; make, ant; lex/yacc; ...

Professional Employment

  • BMC SOFTWARE, INC.; principal software engineer; 1998 -- 2003
    Technical lead: negotiated requirements with stake owners, in cooperation with manager; defined functional and design specifications; defined implementation strategy; planned development in cooperation with manager; supervised technical work; mentored and trained developers; implemented core components and solved key implementation problems.
    • Data Population Server: a metadata-driven framework for emitting measurement and analysis data to a reporting database; implemented in C++, XML, and Perl.
      Provides, for the first time in BEST/1 history, the capability of deploying new solutions into the field between releases (in combination with a metadata driven analytical engine).
    • Enterprise Reporting: general purpose engine for reporting on time-based data. Implemented on top of Actuate, using Actuate Basic, Java, C++, and XML; includes a report specification language, a multithreaded Publishing Server, macro processing language, and external SQL specification/generation language.
      Provides a unified and simple method for specifying report layouts and contents, publishing to HTML and Actuate servers, and access to a wide range of data sources (native RDBMS and ODBC, CSV files, composite data sources, and user defined data sources).
    • Automation: established strategy for improving the automation framework for the BEST/1 suite on Unix, resulting in a significant reduction in code size and complexity, and increased ease of maintenance and enhancement.
    • Network Management: C++ class libraries for SNMP-based network management, and asynchronous execution of algorithms (path discovery, network discovery).
      Provides a powerful set of simple primitives suitable for implementing asynchronous algorithms.
  • I-CUBE, INC.; Systems Engineer; 1997 -- 1998
    Member of Research and Development team. Designed and developed an online testing tool, designed standards and processes for software development, conducted applied research on new technologies.
  • ONTOS, INC.; Consultant/Principal Engineer; 1991 -- 1993, 1994 -- 1997
    Product development, research, software testing, and customer support.
    • Trusted Ontos Prototype: NSA/USAF funded research project to develop a Multilevel Secure Object Database.
      • Defined a formally consistent multilevel secure object model, including aggregates and collections.
      • Designed and implemented the prototype, while retaining compatibility with the commercial single-level ONTOS/DB.
      • Peer-reviewed publications and patent.
    • Automated test suites for ONTOS/DB: object database, concurrency/serialization, transport layer.
    • Critical customer support situations.
  • BOSTON TECHNOLOGY, INC.; Member Of Technical Staff; 1993 -- 1994
    Technical lead for testing of object oriented application generation framework.
    • Designed, documented, and implemented a class library and infrastructure for building test suites against C++ APIs. The class library provides a structured model of test programming, automated summary and detail test reports, extensive interfaces for assertion testing,
    • Primary code reviewer for most of the code to be tested.
  • NOVUS, INC.; Programmer/Analyst, Project Manager; 1990 -- 1991
    Product development, user relations, project management.
    • Managed project schedule, user communications, development, testing, and delivery for prime client.
    • Implemented communication modules for different airline terminal communications protocols (ALC, SLC).
    • Implemented automated reservation applications using above protocols.
  • College of Computer Science, Northeastern University; Research/Teaching Assistant; 1988 -- 1990
    Developed a compiler for a small algorithmic language using denotational semantics to generate (1) the Natural Semantics of programs, (2) a translation to Higher Order Assembly Language (HOAL), and (3) transforming the HOAL result to MC680x0 assembler.

Patents & Publications

  • Multilevel Data Model for the Trusted Ontos Prototype; M. Schafer, T. Kanawati, P. Martel, V. Lyons; IFIP WG 11.3, Rensselaersville, NY, Aug 13-16, 1995.
  • TOP: A practical Trusted ODBMS; M. Schafer, T. Kanawati, P. Martel, V. Lyons; 18th National International Systems Security Conference (NISSC), Baltimore, MD, Oct 10-13, 1995.
  • Patent 5,826,268 [USPTO]: Secure multilevel object oriented database management system; issued: Oct 20, 1998.

Education

  • MS Computer Science, Phi Kappa Phi, GPA: 3.92, 1990; Northeastern University, Boston, Mass.
    Concentrations in Theory of Computation, Theory of Programming Languages.
  • BS Civil Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, Alpha Chi, 1986; University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.

Honors

  • Phi Kappa Phi honor society, 1990.
  • Alpha Chi honor society, 1986.
  • Summa Cum Laude, 1986.
  • Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, academic year 1985-1986.
  • Dean's List and/or Honor Roll, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio, 1984-1987.

Academic

  • Northeastern University, Lowell Institute (1997 to present): C++ programming, data structures, software design.
  • Boston University Metropolitan College, graduate school of computer science (1996): graduate course on Object Oriented Databases.
  • Northeastern University, graduate school of computer science (1994): C programming, Algorithms and Data Structures.

Interests

Footnotes

HOAL: lambda terms using continuation passing, designed to be structurally similar to assembly language.
USPTO: Go to www.uspto.gov; click on Search, then Patent Number Search. The link to the patent document keeps changing, so I don't have an unvarying reference to it.