Resume for Dave Scruton                               fractal@maui.net
           155 Wailea Ike Pl #39		      www.frak.com
           Kihei, HI 96753			      (917)731-6903 cel
						      (808) 879-3880 land
NOTE:
Currently I am travelling across the Mainland, and am available for freelance
work.   Will relocate for the job.

Summary: Applications Developer with over 30 years of experience on almost every
type of computer.  Was instrumental in turning around a major video f/x software 
company's products on both Mac and Windows platforms.  I also have extensive 
laboratory experience (chip fab, cryo, laser, clean-room).

Experience:

2001 - 2006:    DigiEffects  (www.digieffects.com), Consultant.
                Was the sole developer, responsible for hundreds of video 
                plug-ins for Adobe After Effects. Inherited the code from
                Chris Athanas.  Also responsible for Web Site maintenance, 
		and customer support.
                All software had to be developed and maintained on both Macintosh 
                OSX and Windows NT/2000/etc platforms simultaneously.
		Products of Note: Fantazm (3D effects software)
                                  CineLook II / FilmDamage
		CineLook is used by major motion picture and TV studios worldwide.

1999 - 2001:    Boeing Rocketdyne, Consultant.
                Unix Motif programmer/GUI developer. Responsible for creating 
                dozens of complex networked Display Panels, Control Panels and
		other Displays which controlled all the telescopes for the Maui 
                Space Surveilance System (MSSS).  All software was developed
                on SGI Unix/IRIX systems.

1997 - 1999:    Side Job, working with Ramex, Inc (www.ramex.com).
                Created online shopping site complete with custom-built Perl
                shopping cart software and CCNum handling.

1983 - 1998:	Hughes Aircraft (which became Raytheon)
		MTS and later, Staff Engineer.
                Worked on dozens of "Star Wars" projects, on several different
                types of computer platforms. Work included hardware control,
                3D simulation, GUI's, and scientific software. 
		Projects: AOA, SSTS, BSTS, GSTS, SBIRS lo and hi, many more.

Education: BS EECS UC Berkeley, 1983.  
           Hatley-Pirbhai, 1993 (instructed by Imtiaz Pirbhai).
	   Self-Taught in dozens of other areas.

Skills:
I can program almost any type of software on any popular computer platform,
in any language: C, C++, FORTRAN, PASCAL, etc.

I have been writing software since I was in high school in 1979. 

My specialty is "putting out fires", or solving complex software problems in
short order.  No project is too small or too large.  Legacy code is no problem.
I have a very short learning curve, and am willing to learn new languages and
new platforms in a snap.

When I was at Hughes Aircraft, it was not uncommon for me to work on two or three
projects simultaneously, on different types of computers, and in different languages.  
I also can read and speak Spanish with moderate fluency.

Expert on computer-generated fractals, OpenGL / Inventor / VRML (Virtual Reality 
Modeling Language); also professional VJ (mixing live-generated video to techno music)

Clean-Room Certified
Static Certified
Laser Certified