Supplement to Drew Scott Daniels' resume.
Title: Computer Programmer/Analyst
Company: Linear Systems Ltd.
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
When: 2003 January to present

• Creating/Maintaining Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) based applications. This requires some work with Microsoft's Platform API, and Microsoft's Windows API (WinAPI).
• Creating/Maitaining API's (application program interface's also known as SDK's).
• Some WDM driver maintenance ("Sound game and video controller" type). This required some work with Microsoft's Driver Development Kit (DDK). I also worked with the Driver Installation Framework (DiF).
• Working on applications, API's, and drivers for Microsoft Windows was done with tools like Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 (MSVS 6.0), Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2003 (MSVS .Net 2003), and Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2005 (MSVS .Net 2005). Particularly I worked with Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC++ AKA VC++ or MSVC).
• Diagnosing customer problems, developing solutions, and making recommendations to prevent future problems.
• Some diagnostic work and research resulted in me using the GNU C compiler (gcc) and the GNU C++ compiler (C++) under Microsoft Windows, and Linux.
• Working with some Microsoft operating systems including Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Windows Server 2003 (AKA Windows 2003), and Windows Vista (Longhorn beta 1).
• Working with Linux operating system distributions including Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora Core, Whitebox Linux, Debian (woody, sarge and sid), Knoppix and Ubuntu.
• Assisting with the development of MPEG transport stream analyzers.
• Assisting with the integration and documentation of DirectShow as it relates to applications, filters, and example code.
• Making recommendations about system integration including obtaining quotes on parts, documenting system limitations, and recommending operating system optimizations (particularly related to file system throughput).
• Collaborating on developing software design processes, standards and guidelines (sometimes called Software Engineering principles).
• Doing research on operating systems, MPEG, networks and other topics.
• Limited work with T1 and WAN cards that use NDIS drivers.
• Diagnosing network problems and assisting with recommendations (such as setting up a WINS server, finding misbehaving machines, providing steps to change Windows XP's firewall's scope for file and printer sharing).
• Working with encoder and decoder boards from companies like Optibase, VWeb, Vela, Stradis and others.
• NDIS driver work for a Gigabit Ethernet adapter. This included some WDM work, DDK, WDK, preFast, Driver Verifier, WinDbg (IEEE firewire kernel debugging), examining the e1000 Linux driver... Looked at targeting NDIS 5 (Windows 2000), but also NDIS 5.1 and WDM's DMA version 2 (Windows XP). I also did some future looking to Windows Vista's NDIS 6 and the KMDF part of the new WDF.
• Looking at Group of Pictures (GOP) information in MPEG2 video elementary streams.

I have worked with standards from:

• The Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG). Particularly ISO/IEC 13818-1:2000, but also 13818-2:2000 and 13818-3:1998 to a limited extent.
• DVB including DVB's ASI standard, their standard for tables (which goes beyond the MPEG standard), MPEG over IP (via RTP), and some of their recomended practices and other related standards.
• SMPTE including SMPTE 310M, SMPTE 259M (SDI), SMPTE 125M, SMPTE 292M, some of their recomended practices and other related standards.
• ATSC including SMPTE 310M, PSIP (alternative tables to DVB's).
• ITU particularly MPEG related standards documents.
• IETF RFC standards including TCP, UDP, SNMP and other related standards.