An accomplished software engineer with extensive experience
in Object-Oriented Design and Analysis with extensive experience in the full
life cycle of the software design process including requirements definition,
prototyping, proof of concept, design, interface implementation, testing,
maintenance, user’s manual creation, web site publicizing, and product
demonstrations. A very
good large scale software architect and very good debugger. Capable of working as a
team member and independently as well. Possess a degree in mechanical
engineering. Once developed a 200,000
line geometrical modeling package single-handedly. Please visit my web site:
http://www.h-dm.com.
Summary of Qualifications
Software Engineering
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Expertise in Object-Oriented Analysis/Design
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Writer of well factored, modular, thoughtfully
designed code
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Java experience from version 1.0, including AWT,
Swing, JDBC, SOAP, RMI, Sockets, 3D
graphics, 2D graphics, JOGL, Xerces
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C++ with experience in MFC, OpenGL, SAPI4
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SQL experience through programming of accounting
software that uses a database with more than 10,000 tables.
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Experience in XML and binary file formats.
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Design patterns, UML
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Mathematical algorithms
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Much experience in 3-D graphics methods with
extensive experience with OpenGL, used through Java and C++
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Great graphical user interface (GUI) designer
with Java Swing including usage of standard JComponents
and creation of new component subclasses via custom 2D graphics and event
handling. Some HTML UI work as
well. (server-side generated)
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Experience in accounting systems (“Axapta”/ERP) including screens and report generation.
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Much experience in computational geometry.
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Much experience in speech recognition methods.
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Experience in various development environments
for both Java and C++
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Experience in Windows, Solaris (Unix), Linux
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Some experience using Python and FORTRAN
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Greatly improved accounting software of a large
factory and made them very happy.
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Created the world’s first system for writing
Java code by speech recognition techniques.
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Created an interactive geometrical modeling
framework with applications ranging from mechanical design to macro-molecular
graphics.
Professional Experience
- 2006-present:
Programmer/Analyst, for Microsoft “Axapta” based
accounting software for an aluminum extrusion factory (Sapa,
Inc).
- 1997-2004:
Research Programmer, Department of Molecular Biology, The
Scripps Research Institute. Labs: Tainer-Getzof,
Olson.
- 1996:
Composite Solutions, La Jolla CA,
a structural engineering consultancy.
Independent works
- 2001-2004:
The Happy Hands Java Speech Editor, an excellent program enabling one to
code by speaking, not to mention quite smoothly and easily. (Java and C++)
- 1998-2004:
The Modelzilla modeling-visualization framework
(Java) including
- Vincent
Van Mol for doing molecular
graphics
- CAD-Zilla for doing geometric modeling
- GridZilla for doing volumetric visualization (Java)
- 1996-1998:
The Guava interactive Java-like compiler and virtual machine (C++)
- 1997:
3D viewer for a metallo-protein database on the
web (Java)
Publications
- Hennessy,
Sean; "Computer Code Voice Transcription". Read on my web site.
- Hennessy,
Sean; Pique, M.E.; "Modelzilla: A Framework
for Building Domain-Specific Modeling and Visualization
Applications". Read on my web
site.
- Castagnetto, J.M.; Hennessy, S.W.; Roberts, V.A.; Getzoff, E.D.; Tainer, J.A.;
Pique, M.E. "MDB: The Metalloprotein
Database and Browser at The Scripps Research Institute". Nucleic
Acids Res. 2002, 30(1): 379-382.
Patents
January 2003: U.S.
Patent applied for on speech coding methods.
Education
Bachelors of Science, Mechanical Engineering from University
of California at San
Diego.
