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2 Brian G. Neal
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3 =============
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4 -----------------
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5 Software Engineer
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6 -----------------
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7
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8 :Email: bgneal@gmail.com
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9 :Location: Des Moines, Iowa, USA and available for remote work.
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11
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12 Professional Experience
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13 -----------------------
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14
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15 Workiva
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16 ~~~~~~~
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17 **Ames, Iowa & Remote - October 2014 to Present**
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18
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19 At Workiva I am currently a Staff Software Engineer, doing full stack web
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20 development. I currently take on difficult projects within my department,
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21 interface with other departments, mentor junior engineers, and participate in
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22 some project planning and discovery. Highlights:
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23
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24 * Work with product and user experience colleagues to develop and maintain
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25 applications.
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26 * Participate in quarterly planning and road map creation.
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27 * Take on difficult technical debt refactoring.
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28 * Participate in department architecture direction.
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29 * Tech lead for the Filing team. Led a small group of frontend engineers and
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30 built a next generation version of a key reporting application (Section 16)
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31 and a new bulk filing feature.
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32 * Authored a complex "auto-add" feature to assist customers in building
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33 outlines for XBRL reporting.
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34 * One of the core members of the next generation XBRL team. Built modern web
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35 apps for customers to author and tag XBRL reports.
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36 * Assisted with the company wide effort to modernize the tech stack by
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37 developing in Dart, React, Redux, and micro-services.
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38 * At the beginning of my career at Workiva I worked on the Python backend on
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39 Google App Engine.
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41 Rockwell Collins, Inc.
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42 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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43 **Cedar Rapids, Iowa - July 1999 to October 2014**
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44
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45 At Rockwell Collins I was a Principal Software Engineer, primarily working on
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46 communication products in a real-time, embedded systems environment.
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47 Here are some highlights of my work experience:
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48
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49 * Implemented a DSDV-based network routing protocol for an airborne, ad-hoc
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50 network.
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51 * Primary architect of a SATCOM protocol message processor. The design was reused
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52 on several subsequent programs within the department.
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53 * Championed the use of open source software within the department. Created an
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54 open source model for code sharing across teams within the department.
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55 * Participated in flight testing at China Lake Naval Base.
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56 * Experience with porting prototype code to a new hardware platform,
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57 maturing the code in the process.
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58 * Extensive debugging, software-hardware integration, and performance optimization
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59 experience.
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60 * Designed and implemented a network ingress protocol for an airborne, ad-hoc
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61 network.
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62 * Lead engineer for a team of 9 programmers. Led the team through requirements
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63 analysis, design, coding, and integration efforts.
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64 * Primary author of a software requirements document for a large
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65 software radio waveform.
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66 * Created operating system and architecture abstraction libraries used on
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67 multiple programs within the department.
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68 * Considered to be one of the department's C++ experts.
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69 * Mentored programmers in C++. Acted as an advisor to trainers developing in-house
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70 C++ training.
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71 * Our team won the Rockwell Collins Chairman's Team Award in 2005.
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72 * Regularly participated in issue resolution with other software, hardware, and
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73 systems teams.
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74 * Performed cost-accounting and scheduling duties for a small software team.
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75 * Led several software-hardware integration efforts.
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76 * Written device drivers to interface with cryptographic hardware, serial ports, GPS
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77 units, compass & inclinometers, and motorized gimbals.
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78 * Wrote code to load cryptographic keys into hardware crypto-unit.
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79 * Created PC-based simulations of routing protocols.
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80 * Created PC and Python based tools to aid in integration, testing, and debugging.
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81 * Leader of the in-house Python users' group.
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82 * I have represented Rockwell Collins at industry meetings and working groups.
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85 Commonwealth Edison
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86 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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87 **Braidwood, Illinois - June, 1992 to July, 1999**
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88
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89 * Maintained and created simulation models of nuclear power plant systems for
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90 six full-scale operator training simulators in FORTRAN, C, and C++.
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91
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92 * Interfaced power plant equipment to training simulators using various
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93 real-time embedded systems; utilized serial, shared-memory, and TCP/IP
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94 communications.
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95
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96 * Designed and implemented a three-tier client/server database system to
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97 manage maintenance requests for the simulators.
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99 * Received Individual Excellence Award in 1996 for creating a simulator
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100 computer to plant process computer interface under a very compressed
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101 schedule.
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102
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103 * Developed various tools for instructors to test simulator operations.
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104
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105 * Developed embedded software in C on a custom VME board to control
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106 thousands of I/O points in a power plant simulator.
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108
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109 Non-Professional Work
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110 ---------------------
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111
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112 - I have created and deployed a small community website based on Python and Django,
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113 and am currently updating the tech stack to Typescript, React, & Java.
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114 - I enjoy creating Python simulations of various World War 2 crypto devices.
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115 - I have made several small contributions to Django and related open source projects.
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118 Technical Skills
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119 ----------------
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120 :Programming Languages:
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121 Dart, Java, C++, Python, C, Javascript.
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122 Familiar with PHP, Ada, Perl, Fortran, various assembly languages,
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123 shell scripting, & SQL. Learning Typescript.
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124
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125 :Operating Systems:
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126 MacOS, GNU/Linux, INTEGRITY, VxWorks, Windows, LynxOS, pSOS+
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127
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128 :Technology Areas:
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129 Full stack web development, real-time and embedded systems, networking, device drivers,
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130 object-oriented design.
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131
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132 :Web Development:
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133 Dart, React, Redux, Python, Django, Javascript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, PHP, SQL
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136 Online Presence
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137 ---------------
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139 * GitHub_ (https://github.com/gremmie)
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142 Education
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143 ---------
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144 :1990 - 1991: University of Iowa, M.S. Computer Science
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145 :1985 - 1989: University of Northern Iowa, B.A. Computer Science, Physics Minor
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148 Hobbies
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150 Web development, Python, open source software, instrumental surf music, live music,
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151 gaming, World War 2 era crypto simulators.
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154 .. _GitHub: https://github.com/gremmie
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