Peter D. Chatterton
E-mail:
peter@chatterton.nameHome page: www.peter.chatterton.name
Telephone: 905-312-8656
Career Summary
| Software Engineer / Systems Software Programmer. | |
| Over 20 years' industry experience developing systems software. | |
| Design responsibilities on large software systems. | |
| Programmed in C and Assembler on micros, minis and mainframes. | |
| Self-taught in Java, C++ and Windows. | |
| Internet Java development on front and back ends. |
Current Activity
Some of my Projects
| Designed a Windows 95 User Interface for data propagation. | |
| Wrote a real-time Sonar display program in 'C' under QNX. | |
| Wrote a complete compiler in Assembler under OS/MVT. |
Skills Summary
| Analytical, Problem Solving and Communications abilities. | |
| Detail oriented. | |
| GUI design experience. | |
| Java development tools: Visual J++, Visual Cafe and VisualAge. | |
| JDK using Servlets, Java 1.2 and Swing. | |
| C++ using Visual C++, Borland OWL, OS/2 CSet++ and VisualAge. | |
| HTML and JavaScript. | |
| VisualAge Smalltalk. | |
| MS-DOS and QNX 'C'. | |
| Assembler - mainframe, micro and mini. |
Summary of Hardware & Software Used
| IBM PCs: | ||
| Java using Visual J++, Symantec Visual Cafe and VisualAge | 8/97 to present. * | |
| IBM Network Station / HTML / JavaScript / LiveConnect & Java | 6 months | |
| Visual C++ / MFC / WinHelp for WIN32 / Windows 95 & NT | 1 year * | |
| VisualAge / Smalltalk for OS/2 | 1 year * | |
| CSet++ / ICLUI / EPM / REXX for OS/2 | 1 year * | |
| Borland C++ / OWL for MS Windows 3.1 | 2 years * | |
| 'C' & Assembler for MS-DOS & OS/2 | 5 yrs | |
| 'C' for QNX | 1 yr | |
| UNIX: Practical knowledge of the Korn shell and the vi editor. | ||
| AES C20 (micro) Assembler | 5 yrs | |
| DATAPOINT mini: DATASHARE & Assembler | 1 yr | |
| IBM mainframes: Assembler for DOS & OS | 6 yr | |
| (* includes non-industry experience) | ||
Some of my Programs
Consulting agency management information system.
Spec.Applet Version
XML Version.
Java applets for playing Gess - a variant of chess.
Copyright 1997,1998 Peter Chatterton.
Ghost -- a short but technically interesting Java program
TruncFlowLayout -- a custom layout manager
Possible bug in Internet Explorer 4.0 JVM.
Two C++ programs
Personal
Password Management for Anyone!
There is a very simple system of managing passwords that anyone can use,which lets you write down your password (in effect) and which is completely secure.
An article by Paul Graham about programmers that I find insightful.
From a collection of essays called "Hackers and Painter -- Big Ideas from the Computer Age".Note: he uses the term 'Hackers' to refer to expert programmers.