Steve Sanders

Work Experience

• Principal client engineer for second generation Integrity (ZoneLabs’ enterprise endpoint management solution) client. Designed and implemented client-side cooperative enforcement feature, which evaluates security rules served in XML and renders compliance reports to the Integrity server and via client-side API. Implemented the interaction between SOAP/XML–based communication layer and TrueVector engine. Implemented generation of security event reports reported to server in XML. Maintained compliance of client codebase with XML schema documents (XSD). Code written in C++; Windows platform.
• Responsible for latest version of ZoneAlarm Integrity Desktop; particularly automatic download of security policies and upload of event log information.
• Principal client engineer for first version of Integrity client. Distributed firewall client features centralized policy administration and security enforcement. Worked at socket level developing communications protocol. Implemented the interaction between communications layer and TrueVector engine, and between TrueVector and Integrity client application. Implemented Integrity-specific portions of Windows client UI.
• Implemented several new features of TrueVector/ZoneAlarm products, broadening functionality from the engine layer through API layers to UI.
• Implemented custom TrueVector security API for NEC’s PCGate product. Enhanced TrueVector proxy API, allowing API functions to control remote clients via RPC.
• Designed and implemented localization architecture for TrueVector/ZoneAlarm, allowing for partially translated resource subsets.

• Implemented GUI elements of Third Voice client software using ATL and Win32 (no MFC), including subclassing of common control components and creation of new ATL-derived GUI objects.
• Principal UI engineer for Third Voice Netscape client plugin. Used VisualC++/MFC and JavaScript to duplicate design already implemented in DHTML. Multi-threaded client required synchronization with Netscape and server-side communications.
• Implemented Win32/GDI rendering of GIF images, including animation and interlacing, based on public-domain, platform-independent decoder source code.

• Debugging and final phase of first port of Extended Parallel Server (XPS) for WindowsNT, designed for extensible multi-processor architectures. Server engine in C, test environment in Korn shell scripts running on OpenNT.

• Integration of 3rd party ActiveX controls for document viewing/printing with Compaq's internal engineering data systems software, written in Borland C++/OWL for Windows95/NT.
• Maintenance/troubleshooting of ODBC issues, including conversion of MFC-based ActiveX control to ATL (Active Template Library). Control maintains ODBC datasource registration for client-side Visual Basic applications, providing secure login to Compaq's internal security databases, and features "backdoor" COM access.

• Port of the GUI component of Platinum's AionDS knowledge base development environment from Windows to Xwindows on HP-UX (Unix), using Wind/U (3rd party Windows API) libraries. Source code in C++.

• Implemented an OLE Custom Control (OCX) which provides CPI-C client/server communications services to COM containers under Windows95/NT. Advanced OCX features include multiple levels of multithreading and direct vtable binding via dual COM interface. Proposed by WallData as the industry standard OCX implementation of CPI-C.
• Ported configuration utility for WallData's RUMBA communications product from Windows95 to OS2 Warp.

• Principal user-interface engineer for CIC's Handwriter for Windows95 product. Designed and implemented control panel, toolbar and recognition training applications using 32-bit Visual C++, MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes), and Win32 API.
• Sole technical liason between CIC and IBM for first port of CIC's Roman handwriting recognition engine to OS/2. Implemented the interface layer between IBM's pen extentions to OS/2's Presentation Manager and CIC's internal API.
• Ported American, Japanese and European handwriting recognition algorithms fromSun UNIX to PC DOS, OS/22.0 and Windows.
• Designed and implemented applications for testing and comparison of different handwriting recognition systems on different platforms: Roman and Japanese recognizers could be verified for the first time on Windows, DOS and OS/2 to be ported correctly.
• Developed technology demonstration programs for DOS and Windows-based handwriting recognition systems using various graphical toolkits.

• Demonstrated handwriting input computers and software at major industry tradeshows worldwide, in both English and German.
• Independently conducted data collection of European handwriting samples in Germany.
• Performed marketing support functions: demonstrations, technical support, seminar presentations.

• Researched software specifications for a proposed banking solution.

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