Chris Thomas

• Winsock-2 Layered Service Provider.
• MFC based GUI and system tray application..
• Multi-threaded Windows service, IPC, and WinInet based client authentication protocol.
• InstallShield programming and packaging.

• Development on a Windows iSCSI target device driver.
• Wrote Windows and Web based applications to demonstrate hardware capabilities.
• Implemented and maintained corporate intranet web-site using Apache/PHP/MySQL.

• Designed and patented (US 6,148,336) a Winsock-2 Layered Service Provider with plug-in architecture and COM based API that was packaged as an SDK for policy management. It was supported and sold to other independent software vendors who successfully integrated the components into their products.
• Created and patented (US 6,141,686) a plug-in for network traffic classification using C++ and COM to export application traffic data.
• Designed, released, and supported a Windows Network Address Translation (NAT) firewall product that consisted of porting Linux kernel code to a Windows device driver, service, and a C++/MFC application. It is currently deployed worldwide by a licensee of the technology.
• Implemented, released, and supported a C++/MFC application for visually displaying network traffic and statistics, packaged with InstallShield.
• Enhanced and maintained a network policy management and reporting application using Visual Basic, COM, SQL, and Microsoft Access.
• Wrote a network discovery agent and API implementation using C++, Winsock, ICMP and SNMP.
• Implemented a Solaris streams network traffic classification driver for a Unix version of the policy management SDK.
• Wrote a Perl-based product build and release system.
• Created and maintained installation packages with InstallShield

Software Engineer, NetManage Inc., Scotts Valley, CA (Formerly Syzygy Communication, Inc.)
Developed a network policy management architecture that included technologies such as ATM, IPv5, and other Quality of Service protocols.

• Designed and implemented a Winsock-2 Layered Service Provider with a plug-in architecture written in C++. Plug-ins included an HTTP content filter, protocol and address redirector, and a URL monitor.
• Wrote a URL filtering application using MFC and C++.
• Implemented Internet protocol version 5 (ST-II) as a Windows virtual device driver and Winsock-2 service provider.
• Performance tuned an NFS device driver for Windows.
• Enhanced and maintained a Network configuration application using C++ and MFC.

Student Researcher, REINAS Project, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Assisted in the creation of a real-time environmental data collection and reporting system. Developed several client and server network software components, including a protocol for remote control of weather devices.

• Designed and implemented a software module for remote control of weather devices using Unix, C, SQL, and sockets.
• Created an application for monitoring the status of devices written with C, Motif/X, and SQL.
• Wrote system configuration utilities in C.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering with Highest Honors
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA June 1995.

Associate of Science in Engineering with Honors
Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA June 1993