Vitas Povilaitis

                           vitas@GracefulBoot.com

                                   Objective

          To excel as a C/C++ and Unix programmer in a startup
          environment with aspirations towards Project Management in the
          Boston MA area.  (Willing to relocate.)

                                    Skills

Training

          Xionics Postscript/PCL Porting, Digital Imaging Overview, Java
          Programming, Windows VxD Programming, C++, Object Oriented
          Design, Oracle/SQL, AIX Internals

Languages

          C, C++, Unix shell scripts (Perl, ksh, csh, sh, bash), World
          Wide Web HTML/CGI, Sybase, Oracle, Assembler

Environments

          TCP/IP, Unix, Solaris, SunOS, AIX, Xenix, SCO Unix, Linux,
          pSOS, LynxOS, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, MS-DOS, VAX/VMS

Tools

          IBM RiscWatch, Abatron bdiGDB, Windriver VisionICE/VisionClick,
          Rogue Wave Tools.h++ C++ class tools, Team Ware Code Manager
          source control, ppp, ftp, uucp, Internet, X11, elm, tin, rn,
          GNU, gdb, gcc, awk, sed, lex, flex, yacc, bison, emacs, vi,
          SCSI, Basic, Microsoft Office (Word for Windows, Excel), Frame
          Maker/Frame Builder, IPC, streams, shared memory, semaphores

                            Professional Experience

United Electronic Industries - October, 2004 to July, 2005

          Canton, MA
          EMBEDDED SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER

     Updated data acquisition firmware and libraries for Motorola's
          MCP5272 Coldfire processor under Windows using Metrowerks
          Codewarrior and Microsoft's Visual Studio.

     Ported firmware to Motorola's MPC5200 PowerPC processor.

     Designed and implemented release procedure.

     Wrote user documentation.

Motorola/Wavemark Technologies -- April, 1998 to November, 2003

          Boston, MA
          DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

     Ported printer application, libraries and drivers to embedded Linux
          on a new Motorola processor.

     Led project for embedded software of two printer products.

     Ported Postscript/PCL to new printers on PowerPC 403 processors.

     Designed, implemented and documented port specific paper handling
          policies.

Questra Consulting -- November, 1995 to April, 1998

     Contracted with Eastman Kodak and Xerox.
          Rochester, NY
          SOFTWARE ENGINEER

     Ported Postscript/PCL to new MFP on PowerPC 403 processors under
          pSOS.

     Designed,developed and enabled several integral daemon processes
          within the flow of Internet commerce server software.

     Interfaced with a prominent credit card processing firm, First
          Data/NABANCO, and utilized several processing programs which
          enabled my customer to automatically process credit card orders
          submitted over the World Wide Web.

     Designed, developed and debugged layered software programs.

     Motivated the development of the internal API's.

     Designed, implemented and documented embedded API functions, which
          consisted of a volatile database and of its' reporting.

     Completed a Xerox project ahead of schedule earning a considerable
          bonus and appreciation.

Northern Telecom -- January, 1993 to November, 1995

          Rochester, NY
          SOFTWARE ENGINEER FOR DIRECTORY AND OPERATOR SERVICES

     Administered AIX platforms for testing engineers.

     Developed, documented and maintained networking tools, and
          inter-process communications libraries using standard Unix IPC
          facilities.

     Supported the evaluation of networking software, process management
          software and installation tools.

     Designed and developed web-based access to proprietary bug-report
          database.

Graceful Boot Bulletin Board Service -- May, 1991 to December, 1995

          Rochester, NY
          OWNER AND C.E.O

     Maintained the daily operations of Internet e-mail, Usenet
          newsgroups, and file downloads for the Amiga computer
          telecommunications community.

     Designed and implemented additional services to interface with the
          Internet via UUCP, including a newsreader, a FAQ archiver and
          an automated binary file decoder and uploader.

     Processed billing and accounts receivable.

                                   Education

Rochester Institute of Technology -- 1991

          Rochester, NY
          B.S. in Computer Science

     Deans list on two separate occasions

     Senior Lab Assistant

                              Personal Disclosure

     Board game hobbyist

     Glass fusing hobbyist

     Day-hiker and casual bicyclist

     Writer

     Artist

   References available upon request