Objectives
Education
Work Experience
Non-work projects and awards
Technologies and Skills

Aaron Conole
49 Lantern Ln. Unit 1
Dracut, MA
01826
conole [at] comcast.net   |   978.609.8060

Position Sought

A fast-paced position in technology that lets me exercise my knowledge, skills and creativity using them to maximum my personal and professional potential.

Education

2001-2003 University of Massachusetts, Lowell MA. Majored in Computer Science

1997-2001 St. John's Preparatory High School. High School Diploma

Work Experience

2004-Present

Airvana Networks Inc., Chelmsford MA

Used VxWorks extensively Wrote multiple network protocol implementations, including A11, and A13 Instrumented tools for testing A13 and A11 Worked closely with customers to develop PCF component Developed Mobile IP pass through component, and worked on Packet Data Serving Node for femtocell technology. Also wrote key pieces of OS Abstraction code.

2002-2004

BL Software Systems, Franklin MA

Wrote the primary app for the Proof-of-Concept TVx product Developed BSP for real-time linux system provided by TimeSys running on the MPC8260. This included writing custom drivers for an rf modem, as well as interfacing with the Broadcom BCR system. Developed and implemented an application level RF protocol to communicate data from instruments such as Spirometer, Blood-glucose monitor, weight scale, thermometer, and other devices Developed a basic framework for relaying video data in h.264 Implemented a Macromedia Flash(tm) interpreter Actively demoed the product with potential customers

2001-2003

ComponenTree, Haverhill MA

Developed build system, and implemented an automated release notes generation system that used CVS Wrote some of the J2EE functionality still in use today at SemaTree, Inc. and used by the Coldwell Banker site Instrumented an email aggregation and transmission system, which may still be in use by the SemaTree ECS system.

1999-2003

ARC Solutions, Dracut MA

Founded ARC Solutions, along with Dan Froburg Wrote custom linux kernel extensions which added security features such as finger-print changing, root user removal, and non-executing stack. Had multiple customers including Nelson, Watson & Associates, Inc. and Apple Business Furniture.

Non-work Projects and Awards

Author and former maintainer of NetPipe, a userland firewall utility, and Libnpconn. Both have over 1,000 downloads and have been featured on major security websites including Packet Storm Security, Security Focus, and Security Team. NetPipe and Libnpconn are included in a Linux distribution called SourceMage linux.

Author and maintainer of GPF, a generic protocol framework for writing and testing protocols using linux. It is released under the LGPL and has been used by Airvana Inc. to develop an A13 test tool.

Author of (now-defunct) Grooves, a GTK-based iTunes Music Store client, written in C on the linux platform. (http://grooves.sourceforge.net)

Technologies and Skills

Experience with: C, C++, Java & J2EE, HTML, XML, Linux 2.2 & 2.4 series kernels, vxWorks, Microsoft Operating Systems (2000+), PostgreSQL, MySQL, JBoss & Apache Tomcat, QT, KDE, GTK, ncurses, shell scripting using Bash.

Understand some written and some verbal French.