LARRY M. MIXSON
Resume
8294 NW 52nd Street
Gainesville, FL
Phone: (703) 244-4292
Note:
I retired in 2018 but here is a history of my work
experience.
Company names are links to my story
working at the company.
Summary
I have extensive technical knowledge and experience in a wide variety
of computer systems and software development environments. My background
includes experience with commercial and government application development,
particularly in the area of web systems implementation, client server
applications, document image systems, and computer graphics. I have
directed the development and integration of medium to large information
system projects and I have excellent communication, interpersonal and
leadership skills. I consider my strength to be the ability to apply
current technologies to the architecture, design and implementation
of integrated systems.
Technical Areas of Expertise
Website Hosting Infrastructure
Web System Development, Image Systems, Web Applications,
Client Server, HTML, Java, Java Script
SQL, C, C++, UNIX, PC, MS Windows; Visual Basic
PASCAL, FORTRAN, APL,
MS Word, MS Project, Excel, MS Access, CMM
Work Experience
Retired - September 1st, 2018 - Present
Carpathia Inc. & QTS Datacenters - Senior Implementation Manager: Responsible for the implementation of customer hosting implementations in Carpathia and QTS datacenters.
AOL, Dulles
Virginia 1999-2000
Senior Technical Project Manager: Responsible for the migration
of web sites and server hardware from various Time Warner divisions
and other third parties to AOL data center facilities. Served
as the primary interface between hosted company technical staff and
AOL technical staff to plan and coordinate the moving of web sites and
hardware . Work extensively with other AOL team such as Networking,
Network Security, DNS, Web Hosting, System Integration and Offline Storage
groups.
PEC Solutions,
Fairfax, Virginia 1998-1999
Principle Member, Technical Staff: Responsible for the design and development
of web application development and image system development. Responsible
for the architecture, design and development of a three tier web interface
to a animal disease database for the USDA. User interface was developed
in Active Server Pages, Java and JavaScript with Microsoft IIS web server
connecting to an Oracle database. Responsible for the architecture,
design and implementation of an image system for the ATF using Windows
NT server, Web based Java user interface, Verity full text search engine,
Kofax optical storage manager and Oracle database. I developed the Java
based user interface. Responsible for the architecture, design and development
of an document image storage and retrieval system for the ATF National
Revenue Center and ATF National Tracing center. System used the Eastman
Software Document Image and Workflow product with Visual Basic clients
and Oracle database.
Bell Atlantic
Video Services, Reston, Virginia 1996-1998
Senior Engineer: Responsible for the selection, procurement, integration
and installation of server systems for video on demand and business
applications for Bell Atlantic to compete against local cable companies.
Managed the installation of a SGI NVOD server that delivered 40 simultaneous
video streams into an ATM network. Obtained requirements, selected vendor,
selected and sized server systems and managed installation of servers
for business support systems. Systems included both HP UNIX and Compaq
NT servers. Investigated new technology for video on demand, video storage,
video delivery, video encoding and video set-top systems. Experience
with MPEG, DSMCC.
DynCorp
I&ET, Fairfax, Virginia 1993-1996
Program Manager: Performed technical support for marketing including
visiting customer sites, evaluating customer needs, working with customers
to understand requirements, proposing solutions and writing of proposals.
Responsible for the end-to-end integration and delivery of a 11 million
dollar contract with the US Navy to develop, install and maintain a
digital image storage and retrieval system for personnel records. Responsibilities
include budget management, hiring of staff, interfacing with the customer,
interfacing with two major subcontractors, scheduling, interfacing with
OEM vendors and providing day to day direction for the project. System
was developed in C, Visual Basic and Informix to run on Sun Unix servers
and PC clients.
Project Manager: Responsible for all aspects of the software development
of a Justice Information System including budget, scheduling, hiring,
gathering requirements at the customer site, interfacing with marketing,
assignment of resources, responding to RFPs, providing technical direction
and day to day supervision of 16 developers. System was client server
based with the client software being developed in Visual Basic and C++
under Microsoft Windows and the server software being Oracle database
under UNIX.
ICL, Inc., Office
Systems Development, Reston, Virginia 1988-1993
(I started with CCI which was later bought by ICL. In October
1993 ICL closed the Reston office and laid everyone off)
Project Manager: Managed large scale development projects, performed
scheduling, resolved issues, wrote product plans, assigned resources
and assured project schedules are met. Job involved interfacing to Marketing,
Product Introduction, Publication, Software Development, and QA groups.
Projects included office automation UNIX based software, PC based software,
networking software and integration of PC client applications with UNIX
based server applications.
Development Manager: Managed Workstations, Graphics, User Interface, and Networking groups for Office Automation products which integrated PC based products with UNIX applications via serial and LAN communications media. Developed advanced Windows based terminal emulation programs for Microsoft Windows, Sunview Windows and X-Windows (Motif). Managed eight to twelve persons including technical supervision and project scheduling. Wrote product plans, functional specifications and design specifications. Technical responsibility for entire development group during Director's absence. Awarded Outstanding Manager of the Year award. All work done in C on UNIX and PCs.
Paravant Computer Systems,
Melbourne, Florida 1987-1988
Senior Principal Engineer: Project coordinator for all contracts with
major company client. Wrote proposals, specifications, design, and implementation.
Designed and implemented configuration management procedures including
extensive testing procedures designed to meet FDA medical product approval.
Managed team of six persons that implemented and tested advanced blood
glucose meter that contained built in modem for automatic transfer of
data to remote data collection system. All work done in C and 8086 assembly
language.
Applied Computer Technology
(ACT), Melbourne, Florida 1983-1987
Computer Software Consultant (self employed, ACT was my company name):
Contracted to Level Five Research to design and code interface between
Level V Expert system and the VAX Common Data Dictionary, work done
in PASCAL. Contracted to Information Management Group to design, implement
and test software for medical products, work done in C. Contracted to
NCR Office Systems Division to perform the following: Ported electronic
mail interface from UNIX based system to PC based system, work done
in C; designed and developed screen editor for creating screen displays
to be used in Computer Aided Instruction programs, work done in C; developed
interface software for transferring electronic mail between NCR mail
system and VAX mail and Compuserve Mail systems, work done in C; developed
file archival program to archive files to remote system on Ethernet
based LAN, work done in C. Contracted to Allied Instrumentation Laboratory
to develop standard C I/O library functions for micro-based system.
Contracted to Harris Government Systems Division to design and develop
computer graphics software for display and modification of weather data.
System was designed in Ada PDL and coded in FORTRAN to run an a VAX-780
with a RAMTEK color graphics display processor. Contracted to NCR Office
Systems Division to design and develop data entry system. System was
coded in PASCAL and ran on a Convergent Technology workstation.
Harris Corporation,
Word Processing Division, Melbourne, Florida 1981-1983
Associate Principle Engineer: Member of the word processing architecture
team that designed a word processing system. Extensive top-down, composite
design methodology was used. Project leader for the Document Access
Method team that performed detail design, coding and integration of
over 10,000 lines of code. Work done in PASCAL. Project leader of optimization
team which performed timing analysis and made performance improvements
to the word processing system and compiler code generator. Work done
in Intel 80186 assembly language.
Applied Computer Technology
(ACT), Melbourne, Florida, 1978-1980
Computer Software Consultant (self employed, ACT was my company name):
Developed various modules for the Harris Composition system in PDP/11
assembly language. Developed software modules for the Harris Word
Processing Division.
Custom Programming Service,
Indialantic, Florida, 1976-1979
Senior software engineer: Developed a terminal I/O handler and other
modules for the Harris Composition newspaper system. Developed
in PDP/11 assembly language.
University of Florida,
Center for Information and Research Computing (CIRCA), Gainesville,
Florida 1974-1976
Computer Systems Analyst I: Performed various programming functions
in Fortran, IBM assembly language and PL/1 for University faculty and
staff. Developed graphic software drivers and modules. Also
responsible for the operation and maintenance of remote batch data entry
stations.
University of Florida,
North East Regional Data Center (NERDC), Gainesville, Florida
Computer Programmer I, 1972 - May 1974
Student Programmer
University of Florida,
Soils Science Dept., Gainesville, Florida 1970-1972
Computer Programmer I, Lab Technician: Developed statistical software
in the APL programming language. Performed various soil analysis
lab work.
University
of Florida, Computing Center, Gainesville, Florida May 1970-1971
Student Computer Operator: Assisted in the operation of IBM 360 mainframe.
University of Florida,
Shands Medical Center, Hospital Stores, Gainesville, Florida
1968-1971
Stockroom Clerk: title says it all.
Education
Bachelor in Computer Science, 1987 University of Central
Florida GPA 3.2
Associate of Arts degree, 1986 Brevard Community College