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   <header>
      <title>Short Form Resume for Mark Whitis, Senior Computer Engineer</title>
      <name>
          <firstname>Mark</firstname>
          <surname>Whitis</surname>
          <suffix>(Senior Computer Engineer)</suffix>
      </name>
      <address>
          <street>107-A Piedmont Ave SOUTH</street>
          <city>Charlottesville</city>, <state>VA</state> <zip>22903</zip>
          <country>USA</country>
      </address>
      <birth>
         <date>
             <dayOfMonth>6</dayOfMonth>
             <month>April</month>
             <year>1964</year>
         </date>
      </birth>
      <contact>
          <url>http://www.freelabs.com/~whitis/resume/</url>
          <email>whitis@freelabs.com (include "[JOB]" in subject line)</email>
          <phone location="mobile">+1-434-409-3210</phone>
      </contact>
   </header>


   <objective>
       <para>
           senior engineer position involving software development and/or 
           hardware design (electrical engineering).
       </para>
   </objective>


   <skillarea>
       <title>Software Engineering (26 years experience)</title>
       <skillset>
            <title>Platforms</title>
            <skill>Linux</skill>
            <skill>FreeBSD</skill>
            <skill>Solaris</skill>
            <skill>SunOS</skill>
            <skill>AIX</skill>
            <skill>Concentrix</skill>
            <skill>Ultrix</skill>
            <skill>UNIX</skill>
            <skill>MS-DOS </skill>
            <skill>CP/M</skill>
            <skill>HDOS</skill>
            <skill>Apple DOS</skill>
            <skill>VAX VMS</skill>
            <skill>IBM VM/CMS</skill>
            <skill>Embedded</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
            <title>High Level Languages</title>
            <skill level="21 years">C Programming Language</skill>
            <skill>C++</skill>
            <skill>ADA</skill>
            <skill>BASIC</skill>
            <skill>FORTH</skill>
            <skill>PASCAL</skill>
            <skill>APL</skill>
            <skill>FORTRAN</skill>
            <skill>LISP</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
            <title>Scripting Languages</title>
            <skill>PERL</skill>
            <skill>sh</skill>
            <skill>csh</skill>
            <skill>bash</skill>
            <skill>VMS DCL</skill>
            <skill>VM/CMS Exec2</skill>
            <skill>VM/CMS REXX</skill>
            <skill>MS-DOS Batch</skill>
            <skill>various application specific scripting languages</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
            <title>Assembly Languages</title>
            <skill>8088/V20/80286</skill>
            <skill>80386/i386</skill>
            <skill>68000/68020</skill>
            <skill>DSP56001 DSP</skill>
            <skill>TMS32010 DSP</skill>
            <skill>8080/8085/Z80</skill>
            <skill>1802</skill>
            <skill>6502</skill>
            <skill>6800/6801</skill>
            <skill>6805</skill>
            <skill>8051/80C552</skill>
            <skill>UYK-44</skill>
            <skill>IBM 370</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
            <title>Program Types</title>
            <skill>Scientific Programming</skill>
            <skill>Computer Security and Cryptography</skill>
            <skill>Embedded Programming</skill>
            <skill>Real Time Programming</skill>
            <skill>TCP/IP Client/Server and Networking</skill>
            <skill>WWW Web Applications</skill>
            <skill>Computer Aided Design</skill>
            <skill>Financial</skill>
            <skill>Motor Control</skill>
            <skill>Open Source Software</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
            <title>Programs Developed</title>
            <skill>Large DC Motor Control</skill>
            <skill>Motor controller Communications Protocol</skill>
            <skill>PCB Isolation (Mechanical Etching)</skill>
            <skill>Stepper Motor Device Driver</skill>
            <skill>Linux Device Driver for Data Acquisition Card</skill>
            <skill>On-line Mutual Fund System</skill>
            <skill>Secure Fault-tolerant Proxy Server</skill>
            <skill>WWW On-line Store</skill>
            <skill>Molecular Kinetics Simulation</skill>
            <skill>Terminal Multiplexer Software</skill>
            <skill>TCP/IP client/server</skill>
            <skill>Financial Transaction Consolidator</skill>
            <skill>P3-C Orion Sonar Buoy Acoustic Interface Unit Diagnostics</skill>
            <skill>Telescope Auto-guider (star tracker)</skill>
            <skill>Data Acquisitions</skill>
            <skill>Image Processing</skill>
            <skill>Menu System</skill>
            <skill>Network Tools</skill>
            <skill>Data Conversion</skill>
            <skill>Web based Email</skill>
            <skill>Morse Code Tutor</skill>
            <skill>Attendance Tracking</skill>
            <skill>Survey Processing</skill>
            <skill>Direct Labor Accounting</skill>
            <skill>FORTH Kernel</skill>
            <skill>CNC Milling Machine Control</skill>
            <skill>Fabry-Perot Spectrophotometer Control</skill>
            <skill>Thermal Analysis CAD</skill>
            <skill>Testability Analysis</skill>
            <skill>Expert System</skill>
            <skill>Purchase Orders</skill>
       </skillset>

       <skillset>
            <title>Web Development</title>
            <skill>HTML</skill>
            <skill>XMTML</skill>
            <skill>CSS</skill>
            <skill>CSS2</skill>
            <skill>SGML</skill>
            <skill>CGI</skill>
            <skill>XML</skill>
            <skill>XSL</skill>
            <skill>XSLT</skill>
            <skill>Accessibility</skill>
            <skill>Browser Independence</skill>
            <skill>HTTP</skill>
            <skill>Database</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
          <title>Tools</title>
          <skill>GCC</skill>
          <skill>Make</skill>
          <skill>CVS</skill>
          <skill>Emacs</skill>
          <skill>XSLTproc</skill>
          <skill>GDB</skill>
          <skill>DDD</skill>
          <skill>RPM</skill>
          <skill>bison</skill>
          <skill>flex</skill>
          <skill>yacc</skill>
          <skill>diff</skill>
          <skill>patch</skill>
          <skill>ghostscript</skill>
          <skill>sed</skill>
       </skillset>
   </skillarea>       
   <skillarea>
       <title>Electronic Design/Electrical Engineering (23 years experience)</title>
       <skillset>
           <title>Test Equipment</title>
           <skill>Fault Insertion Device</skill>
           <skill>Logic Analyzer</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
           <title>Data Acquisition and Control</title>
           <skill>Isolated IGBT Driver</skill>
           <skill>Analog to Digital Conversion for Infrared Camera</skill>
           <skill>Stepper motor Drivers</skill>
           <skill>Stimulus Generator</skill>
           <skill>Telescope Interface</skill>
           <skill>Temperature Stabilization System</skill>
           <skill>Motor Control Interface board</skill>
           <skill>ATE (Automated Test Equipment) Pin Driver</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
           <title>Programmable Logic</title>
           <skill>Verilog FPGA Code</skill>
           <skill>FPGA Development Board Design (partial)</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
           <title>Microcomputer/Microcontroller Designs</title>
           <skill>Disk Controller</skill>
           <skill>6502 Microcontroller board</skill>
           <skill>8085 Microcontroller board</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
           <title>High Voltage</title>
           <skill>Hazardous Voltage Indicator (1500V)</skill>
           <skill>Armature Voltage Measurement Circuit (2000V)</skill>
           <skill>DC-DC converter (1000V overvoltage protection)</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
           <title>Misc</title>
           <skill>Game Show Lockout Circuit</skill>
           <skill>many small circuits</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
           <title>Computer Aided Design (CADD/CAD/CAM)</title>
           <skill>2D CADD</skill>
           <skill>3D CADD</skill>
           <skill>Schematic Capture</skill>
           <skill>Printed Circuit Board Layout</skill>
           <skill>Thermal CADD</skill>
           <skill>Spice/GnuCAP Circuit Simulation</skill>
           <skill>CNC</skill>
           <skill>G-CODE</skill>
           <skill>Mechanical Etching</skill>
       </skillset>
   </skillarea>
   <skillarea>
       <title>Electronic and mechanical Troubleshooting and Repair</title>
       <skillset>
           <title>Examples</title>
           <skill>radios</skill>
           <skill>televisions</skill>
           <skill>transceivers</skill>
           <skill>stereos</skill>
           <skill>theatrical equipment</skill>
           <skill>computers</skill>
           <skill>computer peripherals</skill>
           <skill>video cameras</skill>
           <skill>video monitors</skill>
           <skill>lasers and laser power supplies</skill>
           <skill>test equipment</skill>
           <skill>sewing machines</skill>
           <skill>electrical wiring</skill>
           <skill>plumbing</skill>
       </skillset>
   </skillarea>

   <skillarea>
       <title>Computer Security</title>
       <skillset>
           <skill>Performed security audits</skill>
           <skill>Developed secure Internet applications</skill>
           <skill>security administrator for company networking</skill>
           <skill>Wrote secure programming chapter for textbook</skill>
           <skill>Cryptography experience including SSL, PGP, SSH</skill>
       </skillset>
   </skillarea>

   <skillarea>
       <title>Diagnostics and Test Engineering</title>
       <skillset>
           <skill>Mapped fault coverage of diagnostics</skill>
           <skill>Wrote test coverage analysis software</skill>
           <skill>Wrote test execution order determination software</skill>
           <skill>Wrote embedded diagnostic software for military hardware</skill>
           <skill>Installed Firewalls</skill>
           <skill>Developed Firewall Software</skill>

       </skillset>
   </skillarea>

   <skillarea>
       <title>Computer System and Network Administration</title>
       <skillset>
           <skill>ETHERNET</skill>
           <skill>TCP/IP</skill>
           <skill>Unix</skill>
           <skill>Linux</skill>
           <skill>FreeBSD</skill>
           <skill>Solaris</skill>
           <skill>SunOS</skill>
           <skill>AIX</skill>
           <skill>MS-DOS</skill>
           <skill>CP/M</skill>
           <skill>Data Center Design</skill>
           <skill>Web Farm</skill>
           <skill>Firewalls</skill>
           <skill>SMTP</skill>
           <skill>IMAP</skill>
           <skill>UUCP</skill>
           <skill>DECNET</skill>
           <skill>Sendmail</skill>
           <skill>qmail</skill>
           <skill>Corvus Omninet/Constellation</skill>
           <skill>Novel Netware</skill>
           <skill>NFS and PC/NFS</skill>
       </skillset>
   </skillarea>

   <skillarea>
       <title>Reverse Engineering</title>
       <skillset>
           <title>Software</title>
           <skill>Lotus Device Driver</skill>
           <skill>Corvus Network Adapter BIOS</skill>
           <skill>Nixie Tube Display System Firmware</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
           <title>Hardware</title>
           <skill>Ariel Switching Laser Power Supply</skill>
           <skill>Laboratory High Voltage Power Supply</skill>
           <skill>Incremental Optical Rotary Position Encoder</skill>
           <skill>ISA Serial/Parallel/Joystick Adapter and Disk Controller</skill>
           <skill>Computer Power Supplies</skill>
           <skill>Camera Pan and Tilt Mount</skill>
       </skillset>
   </skillarea>
   <skillarea>
       <title>Astronomy</title>
       <skillset>
           <title>Large Telescope Use and Operation</title>
           <skill>Mauna Kea 3M IRTF</skill>
           <skill>Kitt Peak 2M</skill>
           <skill>Kitt Peak 1.3M </skill>
           <skill>WIRO 2.3M</skill>
           <skill>NASA Mount Lemon 1.5M</skill>
           <skill>Whipple/Mt. Hopkins 1 meter</skill>
           <skill>CTIO 1.5M (Chile)</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
           <title>Infrared Detector Arrays</title>
           <skill>
               Acquired and reduced BIBIB and Indium Antimonide Infrared
               Detector Array Software
           </skill>
           <skill>Developed software to acquire data from infrared detector arrays</skill>
           <skill>Designed Data Acquisition boards to digitize images from
                  infrared detector arrays
           </skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
           <title>Fabry Perot Interferometer</title>
           <skill>Wrote control software</skill>
           <skill>Voice Coil and Piezo Driven</skill>
           <skill>Optical and capacitance micrometer position feedback</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
           <title>Telescope Auto-guider</title>
           <skill>Developed Auto-guider Software</skill>
       </skillset>
   </skillarea>
   <skillarea>
       <title>Image Processing</title>
       <skillset>
           <title>Used Image Processing Software</title>
           <skill>IRAF</skill>
           <skill>AIPS</skill>
           <skill>Gimp</skill>
           <skill>etc.</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
           <title>Developed Image Processing Software</title>
           <skill>Image Arithmetic</skill>
           <skill>FITS file conversion</skill>
           <skill>acquisition from detector array</skill>
       </skillset>
   </skillarea>


   <skillarea>
       <title>Other Experience</title>
       <skillset>
           <title>Lasers</title>
           <skill>gas lasers</skill>
           <skill>solid state lasers</skill>
           <skill>visible</skill>
           <skill>infrared</skill>
           <skill>ultraviolet</skill>
           <skill>HeNe</skill>
           <skill>Nitrogen</skill>
           <skill>Argon</skill>
           <skill>CO2</skill>
           <skill>Repaired laser tubes</skill>
           <skill>Repaired power supplies</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
           <title>Cryogenics</title>
           <skill>Liquid Nitrogen</skill>
           <skill>Liquid Helium</skill>
           <skill>Dry Ice</skill>
           <skill>Instrument Dewars</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
           <title>Biosecurity</title>
           <skill>Wrote document on combating bioterrorism</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
           <title>Facility Security</title>
           <skill>ultrasonic motion detectors</skill>
           <skill>microwave motion detectors</skill>
           <skill>infrared FLIR motion detectors</skill>
           <skill>code entry systems</skill>
           <skill>electric strikes</skill>
           <skill>electric gates</skill>
           <skill>telephone dialers</skill>
           <skill>audible alarms</skill>
           <skill>perimeter sensors</skill>
           <skill>vidicon</skill>
           <skill>nuvicon</skill>
           <skill>silicon target</skill>
           <skill>warm CCD</skill>
           <skill>SIT</skill>
           <skill>ISIT</skill>
           <skill>image intensifier</skill>
           <skill>metascope</skill>
           <skill>night vision</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
           <title>Theatrical Experience</title>
           <skill>Stage Lighting</skill>
           <skill>Sound</skill>
           <skill>Video</skill>
           <skill>Equipment Repair</skill>
           <skill>Movie Projection</skill>
           <skill>Scenery Projectors</skill>
           <skill>Stage Carpentry</skill>
       </skillset>
       <skillset>
           <title>Examination Design</title>
           <skill>
               Developed test questions for a Linux prequalification
               /certification exam used by recruiters
          </skill>
       </skillset>
   </skillarea>



   <skillarea>
       <title>Licenses/Certifications</title>
       <skillset>
           <skill>Amateur Radio Operator License: KI4BSZ</skill>
           <skill>AHA CPR Certification</skill>
       </skillset>
   </skillarea>

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   <pubs>
       <pub>
            <bookTitle>
                <link href="http://www.freelabs.com/~whitis/unleashed/">
                    Linux Programming Unleashed (1st Ed.)
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            </bookTitle>
            <author>Kurt Wall</author>
            <author>Mark Watson</author>
            <author>Mark Whitis</author>
            <publisher>Sams (Macmillan Computer Publishing)</publisher>
            <date><month>Aug</month><year>1999</year></date>
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       <pub>
           <artTitle>Kymograph: a muscle physiology toolkit.</artTitle>
           <bookTitle>Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine<bookTitle>
           <author>John S Walker</author>
           <author>Mark R Whitis</author>
           <author>Richard A Murphy</author>
           <date><month>jan</month><year>2004</year></date>
           <pageNums>Volume 73 issue 1 pages 23-34</pageNums>
           <url>http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0169-2607(03)00002-6</url>
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   <skillarea>
       <title>Consulting Clients</title>
       <skillset>
	  <title>Past Clients, Direct and Indirect</title>
	  <skill>Automated Financial Systems</skill>
	  <skill>Digitrade</skill>
	  <skill>T. Rowe Price</skill>
	  <skill>Testengine.com</skill>
	  <skill>University of Virginia</skill>
	  <skill>Macmillan Computer Publishing</skill>
	  <skill>National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution</skill>
	  <skill>Smithsonian Laboratory for Astrophysics</skill>
	  <skill>Naval Research Lab</skill>
	  <skill>Magnavox</skill>
	  <skill>IBM</skill>
	  <skill>Raytheon</skill>
	  <skill>Logistics Management Institute</skill>
	  <skill>Mercer Management Consulting</skill>
       </skillset>

   </skillarea>
   <history>
       <job>
           <jobtitle>Proprietor</jobtitle>
           <employer>Free Electron Labs</employer>
           <period>
               <from><date><year>1991</year></date></from>
               <to><present/></to>
           </period>
       </job>
       <job>
           <jobtitle>Senior Engineer</jobtitle>
           <employer>Cableform, Inc</employer>
           <period>
               <from><date><year>2002</year></date></from>
               <to><date><year>2003</year></date></to>
           </period>
       </job>
       <job>
           <jobtitle>Chief Information Security Officer</jobtitle>
           <employer>Digital by Design</employer>
           <period>
               <from><date><year>1995</year></date></from>
               <to><date><year>2000</year></date></to>
           </period>
       </job>
       <job>
           <jobtitle>Senior Systems Engineer</jobtitle>
           <employer>Naval Research Lab Center for Advanced Space Sensing/Applied Research Corp</employer>
           <period>
               <from><date><year>1987</year></date></from>
               <to><date><year>1991</year></date></to>
           </period>
       </job>
       <job>
           <jobtitle>Engineer</jobtitle>
           <employer>BITE, Inc.</employer>
           <period>
               <from><date><year>1982</year></date></from>
               <to><date><year> 1987</year></date></to>
           </period>
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           <employer>CAS, Inc.</employer>
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           <employer>Stonewall Jackson Middle School</employer>
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   </history>

   
   <academics>
       <degrees>
	  <degree>
	     <level>M.S. Equivalent or higher</level>
	     <major>Electrical Engineering</major>
	     <institution>Self Educated</institution>
             <annotation>23 years of experience</annotation>
             
	   </degree>
	  <degree>
	     <level>M.S. Equivalent or higher</level>
	     <major>Computer Science</major>
	     <institution>Self Educated</institution>
             <annotation>26 years of experience</annotation>
	   </degree>
        </degrees>
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   <clearances>
       <clearance>
            <level>US Citizen</level>
       </clearance>
       <clearance>
            <level>Confidential (expired)</level>
       </clearance>
       <clearance>
            <level>Secret (expired)</level>
       </clearance>
   </clearances>
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