Paul Rasmussen

Paul Rasmussen has worked as a computer software integrator and developer for the past 24 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. For the last 17 years he has worked as an independent consultant helping engineering teams in the computer business to create outstanding software products.  Paul is well known in the business for his ability to rapidly understand software systems, for his creativity and perseverance in finding tough software problems and for his professionalism, honesty and integrity. Paul has worked for over 10 years as a consultant to the Printing and Imaging Systems group at the respected Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.  Paul was a member of the team which developed one of the first POSIX compliant versions of Unix in 1988.

"Paul is an outstanding software engineer. He has been an integral part of my development team for the past 10 years, and he has consistently delivered high quality work which has contributed significantly to our ability to develop, enhance and support our product."

- Sharon Johnson, Manager Printing and Imaging Systems, Palo Alto Research Center, Inc.

Summary of Skills:

Languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, shell scripts, many assembly languages, other high level languages.

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris, SunOS, many other Unix variants, MS DOS, Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, Apple Mac OS 9 & 10, Plan 9, Mach, others

Network and Communications: TCP/IP, UDP, Appletalk, SSL, SNMP, RPC, RTSP, NFS, FS, Streams, BSD sockets, others

Web Development: Java, Perl, HTML, JSP, Javascript, Tomcat, Apache, Apache modules, XML, Xerces

Development Systems: Eclipse, CVS, Clearcase, SCCS, RCS, others

Education:

B.A. Computer Science - University of California, Berkeley - June 1980

Organizations:

 Computer Scientists for Social Responsibility (CPSR), I.E.E.E., Professional and Technical Consultants Association (PATCA)

References:

Paul has many excellent references. Just ask!