David A. Krauth

CashStar, Inc Portland, ME 2/2009 – Present

Sr. Software Engineer

Employee number 7 during early start-up phase, helped to grow CashStar from 3 to 90+ merchant accounts and 40+ employees.

• Developed skin-able eCommerce web sites for digital gift cards for top industry leading brands, e.g. https://homedepot.cashstar.com/ and https://williams-sonoma.cashstar.com/ (for extensive list see http://www.cashstar.com/egift-center/).
• Wrote internal customer service applications with integrations for proprietary, predictive fraud and risk analysis services to minimize credit card fraud.
• Designed extensive, patent-pending promotional and incentive packages for seasonal marketing campaigns.
• Developed analytical and reporting mash-up web applications for client dashboard services.

Somatic Digital Manchester, NH 11/2004 – 1/2009

Lead Software Architect and Developer

Co-founder and Vice President of a technology start-up, responsible for all developmental aspects of the Touch User Interface (TUI) technology, which naturalizes human/computer interaction by providing the conduit through which multimedia content is accessed through non-traditional means, such as paper.

• Managed or implemented all technology R&D, prototypes, and IT infrastructure to position the company to successfully raise over $1M in angel and venture funding.
• Wrote the primary desktop client applications using Python and the wxPython GUI framework, deployed to both Mac OS X and Windows platforms.
• Designed and implemented the somaticdigital.com and etouchbook.com websites using the Django web framework and the jQuery javascript library.
• Authored the TUI XML-based, content-mapping schema used to connect areas of the pages of the TUI-enabled book to digital content, websites, applications, and proprietary subscription services.
• Inventor / co-inventor named on 5 patents.
• Contributed to the success of Somatic Digital's strategic partnerships with NASA and the National Federation of the Blind.
• Authored the web accessible site http://NFBShareBraille.org/, allowing blind users to exchange braille publications through the USPS Free Matter for the Blind.
• Crafted the standardized TUI Icon library for entry into the INCITS V36 technology standards (http://v36.incits.org), as well as gain Somatic Digital's entry onto the committee.

OASIS Billerica, MA 10/2006 – 8/2007

Sr. Web Developer

Technical Services member

• Design and implementation of the OASIS Library, a document management system for the OASIS standards workflow process, featuring expensive metadata capabilities based upon Dublin Core (DCMI). Developed using Django, MySQL, Apache 2.2 and Debian Linux.
• Maintenance and enhancement of the Zope-based KAVI platform.

Microsoft Redmond, WA 9/2003 – 3/2005

Software Development Engineer / Test

Visual Studio 2005 Team Suites member

• Architected the core testing framework for the Team Suites integration with Visual Studio 2005, MS Excel and MS Project using C#.NET 2.0
• Supervised the daily outsourcing of test case development to Microsoft's contracting agents in China
• Enhanced the daily test automation environment using Python 2.3

Software Development Engineer / Test

Windows 2003 Server team member for Microsoft UDDI v3

• Implemented an XML-driven test harness using C#.NET to automate web browser UI and Windows Server 2K3 MMC test cases
• Wrote detailed test cases for the UDDI SOAP interface using XML and XSLT
• Automated the testing environment using Python 2.3

Honeywell Clearwater, FL 7/2002 – 6/2003

Software Engineer

Team member for the Ballistic Missile Range Safety Technology system (staffed through Manpower Contractor)

• Implemented a quadratic digital smoothing filter for radar data ingest
• Created an XML-driven, automated build system in Python 2.2 and C++, using MFC, SMTP, PVCS, MS Word integration

Lead Software Test Engineer

Team lead responsible for implementing white-box testing for a multithreaded, cross-platform, software library written in C++, used as the foundation for the BMRST system

• Designed extensive test code scenarios for a string class with regular expression interfaces; TCP/IP socket and listener interfaces; templatized containers (deques, maps, vectors); threading devices (semaphores, mutex, critical sections)
• Wrote a C++ language parser in Python to extract class and method declarations for generating skeleton test code.

Teltronics Sarasota, FL 6/2000 – 7/2002

Senior Software Engineer

Lead developer responsible for the design and development of the Site Event Buffer (SEBea), a remote hardware device used to monitor legacy telecommunication devices via data collection, alarm monitoring and event reporting. Designed with UML and implemented with C++, the customized RTOS and application layer was embedded in the Motorola PowerQUICC 860T

• Refactored and extended the Python 1.5.2 interpreter as a thread-safe, embedded code base within the RTOS application layer
• Authored a command line shell for remote telnet or serial interface
• Engineered the event detection process by which input is read, analyzed, and converted from a byte stream to meaningful records of information to be cached into a tagged data format for remote retrieval
• Contributed to the SEBEa MFC emulator application

IBM Tampa, FL 3/1999 – 6/2000

Software Engineer

Developed dial-up and broadband connectivity software for Windows and Macintosh

• Contributed to the development the dialer application, specializing in Windows dial-up networking with RAS, TCP/IP, PPP, VPN, and PPTP

Andersen Consulting St. Petersburg, FL 8/1997 – 3/1999

Software Consultant

Lead developer for the developmental tools team for a full lifecycle, large scale, client/server application package

• Wrote stand-alone MFC applications and web-based services for the optimization and enchancement of the development and deployment environments

Robbins Engineering Tampa, FL 11/1996 – 8/1997

Software Developer and Trainer

Development, deployment, and training of multiple engineering software packages

• Programmed designer roof engineering applications

Ridgway Roof Truss Gainesville, FL 2/1995 – 10/1996

Programmer/Engineering Systems Analyst

• Wrote custom C++ and AutoLisp tools for analysis of engineered roof systems