From: pathardy@well.sf.ca.us (Patty A. Hardy)
Subject: MIT BSCS+15 yrs SW Eng/C & MSWindows/UI & IR/SF Bay Area
Summary: Where are the electronic publishing giants of tomorrow?
Keywords: C Microsoft Windows compound documents information retrieval
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:34:18 GMT

Patty Ann Hardy
40 Forest Road
Woodside, CA 94062
Phone: (415) 851-4127
Email: pathardy@well.sf.ca.us

Objective:

I seek a position in the SF Bay Area where my skills in commercial software
development and my interest in user interface design, information retrieval
and organizational impact of technology can be applied to software design
and implementation.

Languages:  C, HyperTalk, 80286 assembler, PDP-10 assembler.
Platforms:  MS-Windows, Unix, DOS, Macintosh, VMS, TOPS10/TOPS20

Education:  BSCS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Originally
            class of '76, went to work for Digital Equipment Corp.
            as a co-op student; resigned from Digital in 1990 and
            readmitted to MIT in 1991; graduated in February 1992.)

Experience:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1991-92   Center for Coordination Science (Cambridge, MA).

Wrote an indexer and adaptive full-text search software in C for the Answer
Garden X-Windows database for my undergraduate thesis on user modeling,
"Relevance in Information Retrieval". Also worked part-time in the Barker
Engineering Library. Thesis Advisor: Thomas W. Malone, Ph.D.

Digital Equipment Corporation
1989-90   Compound Document Architecture Group (Nashua, NH).

Designed VAX/VMS-based document conversion utilities to translate between
Macintosh PICT and MacWrite files resident on file servers and Digital Data
Interchange Format for the "PathWorks for Macintosh" network product.

1988      PCSG Engineering Technical Office (Littleton, MA).

Designed and partially implemented a DECwindows file cabinet widget based on
William Jones's work on associative indexing and retrieval systems at the
Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corporation, using VAX C. The idea
behind this work was computer augmentation of human memory. This work was
sponsored by Digital's Research and Advanced Development Committee.

1987      PC Applications & Windowing Environments (Littleton, MA).

I was the Personal Computing System Group's liaison to Digital's corporate
Mail Task Force. As an advocate of PC-based mail products I wrote prototype
mail applications based on VAXMAIL protocol for PCs and for the Macintosh,
using the DECnet-DOS libraries for the PC and a third-party DECnet library
for the Macintosh. The PC prototype was an MS-Windows application. The
Macintosh prototype consisted of XCMDs and XFCNs called from a Hypercard
stack. Both were written in C.

1985-86   PC Operating Systems Group  (Littleton, MA).

Implemented an MS-Windows v1.03 mouse driver for the DEPCA, a PC/AT board
providing Ethernet and mouse ports sold as part of Digital's PC Network
Interconnect Kit. This driver was written in assembly language.

Also implemented the user interface for the Online User Information System,
a hypertextual help system running under MS-Windows v1.03, using the
Microsoft Windows SDK and C compiler. This was my first MS-Windows
application; it reached alpha test in three months and beta test two months
later.

Both were shipped with the first version of Digital's PC network product,
now known as "PathWorks for PCs".

1975-85   Large Computer Group (Marlborough, MA).

Project leader for PDP-10 mainframe assembler and linker development and
maintenance. Responsible for implementation and for preparing schedules,
reviewing work of other team members, tracking dependencies and reporting.
Tested KL commercial instruction set microcode.  Implemented parts of the
BASIC run time library for TOPS20. Performed bottleneck analysis of ANF10
network software. Ported a PL/1 interpreter from TOPS-10 to TOPS-20. Tested
the TOPS-10 page fault handler.

Affiliations:

      Association for Computing Machinery
      IEEE Computer Society
      BayCHI
      MIT Club of Northern California
      U.S. Citizen

References on request.
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