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| Brent Rector's Resume |
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| Professional
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| 1990
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Wise Owl
Consulting, LLC |
Redmond, WA |
| President
and Founder |
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Founded
Wise Owl, a Windows consulting and training firm, in April 1990. |
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Designed, developed and published the premier code obfuscator for the Microsoft .NET platform - Demeanor for .NET, Enterprise Edition. |
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Provided architectural, design and consulting guidance to numerous well-known companies including Microsoft, HP, NCR, and others. |
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Developed and presented numerous technical training courses on Microsoft Windows technologies to hundreds of companies and thousands of software developers. |
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Published many books and articles for publishers such as Microsoft Press, Addison-Wesley, Microsoft Systems
Journal, Windows Developer's magazine and others. |
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Presented many seminars on software technologies at leading conferences and for companies such as Microsoft, WiseOwl, and several other leading developer training organization. |
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| 1985 -
1990 |
MicroBeam,
Inc. |
Newbury
Park, CA |
| CIO
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Head of
software development for MicroBeam Inc., where the team developed focused ion
beam lithography systems for the semiconductor manufacturing industry. |
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Built the entire software development organization from scratch including firmware, embedded and host software developers. |
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Designed and architected the custom operating system and firmware for the multi-million dollar Microbeam focused ion beam lithography system. |
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| 1982 -
1985
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CONTEL
Cado Systems |
Torrance,
CA |
| Director
of European Software Engineering |
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Head
of the International OEM software development group, where the team developed a
custom operating system and programming language compiler for the European
market. A European computer hardware vendor went out of business and the team
designed an operating system and compiler that would run the abandoned user
base's applications on Cado Systems' proprietary hardware. The result was a $10
million per year in increase in hardware sales.
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| 1980 -
1982 |
CACI
International |
La
Jolla, CA |
| Manager,
Software Development |
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Lead a
team that designed computer simulation and modeling languages and implemented
native code compilers for those languages. Wrote the SIMSCRIPT II.5 compilers
for the NCR, PR1ME, and IBM mainframes. Worked on the SIMSCRIPT VAX compiler.
Helped design and implement PC SIMSCRIPT for the initial IBM PC and, later,
MODSIM II (a Modula-like simulation language) for Windows. |
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| 1974 -
1980 |
NCR
Corporation |
Rancho
Bernardo, CA |
| Systems
Architect |
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Various positions from Systems
Analyst to operating systems architect and developer. Last position was working
on the VRX (Virtual Resource eXecutive) virtual memory operating system, which
was basically NCR's answer to IBM's OS/370 operating system. |
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| 1972 -
1974 |
Purdue
University |
West
Lafayette, IN |
| Systems
Programmer |
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System's Programmer
on a CDC 6400 while a student at the university. |
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| Articles
and Publications |
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Introducing Microsoft WinFX, Microsoft Press, 2004 |
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ATL
Internals (with Chris Sells), Addison-Wesley, 1999 |
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Win32
Programming (with Joe Newcomer), Addison-Wesley, 1995 |
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Developing
Windows 3.1 Application using Microsoft C/C++, Sams, 1992
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Developing
Windows 3 Applications with Microsoft SDK, Prentice Hall/Sams, 1991 |
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Microsoft
Systems Journal articles |
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Windows/DOS
Developers Journal articles |
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| Conferences |
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Microsoft DevDays |
San Diego. CA |
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Windows
Developers Conference |
Boston,
MA |
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Windows
Developers Conference |
Santa
Clara, CA |
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WinSummit
Conference
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Davos,
Switzerland |
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VSLive
conference |
San
Francisco, CA |
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VSLive conference |
Sydney,
Australia |
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Various
corporate internal conferences |
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| Education |
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| Bachelor of Science in Computer Science |
California
State University, Northridge |
| Juris Doctorate |
Concord Law School |
| Admitted to practice law in California (2008) |
| Admitted to practice law in Washington (2010) |
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