EDWIN W. MEYER
CONSULTING SOFTWARE ENGINEER
1701 N. Sayre Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707
(617) 395-7600
EMail: Edwin@alum.mit.edu
Web:  http://www.edwinmeyer.com

  Current specialty: Ruby on Rails design and implementation

· Web Development: Ruby on Rails; Java J2EE (Servlets, JSP, EJB and JDBC); 
  JavaScript; Apache & Tomcat web servers.
· Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris, Windows Vista/XP. 
· Databases: Oracle SQL, MySQL. 
· Other Technologies: Java J2EE (Servlets, JSP, EJB and JDBC), SVN, Eclipse, 
  LDAP, XML, XSLT, Flash, SQLyog, LXAdmin, cPanel, C++.

EXPERIENCE
Venture Interactive (Harrisonburg, VA)  2008 to present 
· Assumed responsibility on short notice for the development of a Ruby on 
Rails a web application for delivery to Northwestern University in Chicago. 
Interacted with the project manager to elicit specifications and the Flash 
developer on the service request interfaces to successfully implement 
complex logic requirements.Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Adobe Flash, MySQL.   
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Adobe Flash.

PictoLink.com (Cambridge, MA)  2006 to present
· Design and implementation of a three stage graphic link technology with 
applications to web advertising.  
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL.

Digimarc Corporation (Burlington, MA)  2004 to 2005 
· Developed a web-based three tier inventory management system as part of a 
small team. Primary design and implementation responsibility for the reports 
subsystem. Provided onsite customer support, managed software deployments, 
and trained successor support staff. 
Technologies: Java J2EE, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, 
JDBC, XML, Visual C++, Apache/Tomcat, Windows Server 2003, Oracle, 
Eclipse, Perforce.

Stolat Investors (Watertown, MA)  2001 to 2003
· Designed and implemented in Java J2EE a web-based stock value analysis 
  tool for an investment management firm.

Lucent Technologies (Cambridge, MA) 2000 to 2001 
· Elicited requirements, designed and developed a Java EJB to access an 
Oracle database for an online analytical processing (OLAP) application. 
· Analyzed business logic of an existing two tier customer service 
application written in Visual C++ on top of a SQL server.  

National Grange Mutual Insurance Co. (Keene, NH)  2000  
· Reviewed the design and implementation of a multi-tier COM/DCOM-
based customer service application written in C++ and J++ and 
reported findings to the chief architect.

GTE Internetworking (Cambridge, MA)  1999  
· Web administrator for a Solaris-based corporate portal involving 
content management, user access, and PKI issues. Researched undocumented 
features and created an administrator's handbook.

Netegrity, Inc. (Waltham, MA)   1999
· Principal consultant employed in the consulting group of the 
developer of the Siteminder network access control software.

Edwin Meyer Software Engineering  (Cambridge, MA)  1997 to 1998
· Object-oriented C++ development of a demonstration program for 
a software invention in the field of grammatical inference. 

Polaroid Corp.  (Bedford, MA)  1995 to 1997  
· Performed analysis, design and implementation of several drivers 
license production systems written in C++.   
· Appointed lead programmer for one license system project. This 
system was delivered on time in spite of a tight schedule and met 
customer expectations. 

Fidelity Investments. (Boston, MA) 1994 
Putnam Investments, (Boston, MA) 1994
Millipore Corp. (Bedford, MA) 1993-94
Synetics Corp. (Wakefield, MA) 1993-94 
· Lotus Notes application design and development. Developed Windows 
and OS/2 Lotus Notes API applications in C for interfacing Notes 
applications with external environments.  

Lotus Development Corp.   1989 to 1992
· Sales Engineer - Munich, Germany. Designed and conducted 3-day 
classes in Lotus Notes in German and provided support for value 
added resellers and direct customers.
· Principal Software Engineer - Cambridge, MA. Designed a schema 
for a cross-product object-based API and implemented it in C for 
a database product running under OS/2.

Micro Workshop of Cambridge (MA) 1977 to 1989
  Partner and Principal in a microcomputer consulting business.  
· Designed a Unix-based distributed system for real-time data 
acquisition and analysis.
· Presented courses, authored books, and reviewed computer hardware 
and software products.

Teledyne Geotech (Alexandria, VA) 1974 to 1977
  Senior Systems Analyst for distributed systems design.
· Designed and implemented a system for real-time seismic data 
acquisition from the (Internet predecessor) ARPANET. 
· Achitected two real-time distributed operating system proposals. 

M.I.T. Project MAC (Cambridge, MA)  1967 to 1974
  Staff Member on the MULTICS time-sharing system development 
project.  
· Highlights: ARPANET protocol development; MULTICS ARPANET software 
interface; system internals; several language porting projects.

EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  B.S. Electrical Eng. 1967. 
National Merit Scholar.
Harvard University.  Graduate extension school coursework in expert 
systems, C++, object-oriented programming, and discrete mathematics. 
1989-1991.

PUBLICATIONS
· (Internet) Network Working Group Request For Comments: RFC 46, 
  RFC 49, RFC 59, RFC 79, RFC 82, RFC 98 (co-author), RFC 129 
  (co-author), RFC 492.
· Three end-user tutorial books on Wordstar (Prentice-Hall, 1984 - 
principal author) and 1-2-3 (Hayden Books, 1984 - principal 
author) & (Micro Workshop, 1986).

OTHER
U.S. Citizen. 
Recognized as an ARPANET Pioneer during the ARPANET 25th anniversary 
  celebration sponsored by Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.  
Languages: competent in German; studied Russian