Resume of Bear Bibeault

Responsible for design and implementation of the web application infrastructure used for the Works.com Payment Manager, Card Manager, ActivePay, and other enterprise-level, high-volume web applications. Further responsibilities include: delivery of application features, training and mentoring of engineering staff, usability analysis, in-house training and educational materials.

Technologies used include Java, JavaBeans, Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP 2.0), JSTL, EL, AJAX, HTML, DHTML, XML, more.

Responsible for the architecture and delivery of the Digital Motorworks Sales Assistant Web Application; a CRM tool for automobile dealers. Led a team of java web developers and coordinated with corporate shared resources to add new and enhanced features to the application on an ongoing and frequent basis. Hands-on role responsible for delivery of technologies from the user interface to the backing relational database. Also responsible for a set of related server tools (daemons) providing back-end, concurrent processing for the application data.

Technologies used include Java, JavaBeans, Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP), HTML, DHTML, XML, Java RMI, JavaMail.

Responsible for the design, architecture, coding and delivery of the User Interface for the Agillion CRM Web Application. Led team of three web developers, an interaction designer, a graphic designer, and production artist (served as Acting Manager of this group for a time). Hands-on role responsible for the delivery of JavaBeans, JSP pages, JSP custom tags, DHTML, HTML and XML components.

Technologies used include Java, JavaBeans, JavaServer Pages (JSP), HTML, DHTML, XML.

Responsible for the design and development of database and data migration tools and utilities for the Windows 95 and Windows NT platforms. Also responsible for internal intranet tools used in project tracking and management.

Technologies used include HTML, CGI, JavaScript, MFC, OLE Automation, COM, and other 32-bit Windows sub-systems and standards.

Responsible for the design and development of speech recognition tools and utilities as part of Dragon System's NaturallySpeaking suite of speech recognition products for the 32-bit Windows platforms. These tools are used to adapt the recognition engine's vocabulary and language modeling user speech files in order to tune them to a speaker's specific dictation topics.

Contributed to development of other utilities and applications within the product, and provided much of the digital artwork (icons, splash screen bitmaps, easter egg photos, etc.) used in the application.

Technologies and tools used include Visual C++, MFC, OLE Automation, COM, SAPI, and other 32-bit Windows systems and standards.

Co-inventor of United States Patent 616737: "Speech recognition language models".

Responsible for the architecture, design, and development of the object-oriented implementation of Lightbridge's proprietary client/server network operating system and related components. Extensive coding in C++ of various multi-platform, production-quality applications for the Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, Digital UNIX, RS6000/AIX, DEC ULTRIX, VAX/VMS, and OpenVMS platforms.

Highlights include directing the object modeling, design, and implementation of: An application framework class library to easily and quickly create programs that plug into the company's proprietary client/server network operating system as servers; an object-oriented SLR parser generator and parsing engine; an extensive class library of low-level, reusable C++ classes to serve as a base library for all object-oriented projects; and a variety of Windows-based user-interface-intensive projects requiring extensive data validation, using Visual C++ and the Microsoft Foundation Classes. ODBC and DAO classes were utilized to connect to PC relational databases.

Responsible for system-level planning, design and implementation of a wide variety of software components in ANSI C for the OpenVMS and UNIX platforms, as well as technical leadership of the DECforms for OSF/Motif product (a multi-platform User Interface Management System).

Adjunct faculty in the Graduate Electrical Engineering Department responsible for the development and instruction of such courses as: Systems Programming, Data Structures, Compilers, Assembler Language Programming, Programming Languages, Advanced Programming for VAX/VMS, various specialized topics, and the Seminar in Electrical Engineering. Served as faculty advisor to Master's Thesis candidates.