Jon Paul Nollmann
                                      ne Darren Senn
                                   Ballistic Technologies
                              sinster@ballistictech.net (preferred)
                                   (888) 869-5668 (pager)
                                   (510) 719-9963 (cell)

Education
	Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering.  Honors in the Comprehensive.  UCSC
	Self educated in nearly all my skills.
	Past projects:
		16-bit fully orthogonol CPU (discrete)
		UART (integrated)
		2 1/2 octave 2 voice programmable wavetable organ with
		    adjustable attack, decay, and mixing. (discrete)
		Handheld automotive diagnostics computer.
                Database replication daemon.

Employment
5/96-Present: Ballistic Technologies
	Running my own business to do contract hardware and software
	engineering.  Clients have included:
	SCO: Network appliance security audit.
	AdAce: linux system architecting, security design, credit card
		processing system development, and database security.
	Siebel Systems: Call center application maintenance and improvements.  SQL
		optimization.  NT and UNIX portable C++, SQL, Install Shield, TCL.
        Energy Interactive: Firewall, proxy server, and mail host configuration.
	W3 Corporation: Linux system installation, repair, internal security
		audit, and system administration consultation.
	Predictive Systems, Inc: Security software installation and integration on NT,
		Solaris, and HP/UX.
	Japan Systems America: Linux system repair and system administration
		consultation.
	Scopus International: Motif/X/UNIX debugging on IRIX, SunOS, Solaris,
		and HP/UX. Internationalization. Database programming.
		Development of an offline database replication daemon under NT
		and UNIX. System security consultation.
	Interro Systems: Instruction of engineers on real time programming
		with a specific emphasis on Interro's product.  See below.
	Thuridion: Motif/X/UNIX debugging on Solaris. Postscript debugging.
		Internationalization.

6/92-5/96: Interro Systems, Inc.
	One of the original engineers, I was central in the development
	of their entire product line, a family of handheld automotive
	diagnostic computers.  I developed all the software which drives
	the acquisition circuitry, the data analysis code, and some of
	the user interface.  I also contributed to the design of the
	acquisition hardware itself, including the period counter, gain
	circuitry, backlight, power monitoring, high speed acquisition,
	peak detect, and RS-232 communications.  Configured and administered
	Interro's computer resources, including their Internet connection,
	gateway, and web site.

10/89-6/92: University of California, Santa Cruz.
	User interface programmer for a research project developing an
	automated surface router for multichip modules, called SURF.
	X, Motif, and Postscript under various UNIX platforms.

10/87-10/89: University of California, Santa Cruz
	Student computer consultant. Ran one of the computer labs on
	campus, helping students, faculty and staff to use the systems.
	Taught courses ranging from the basic use of DOS to programming
	under UNICOS on the Cray Y/MP.

Hardware projects:
	POCSAG decoder
	Cell phone jammer
	Robotic controller
	Digital puzzlebox
	Yaesu FT-50R reprogrammer
	High energy broadband RF cannon

Software projects:
	Linux (one of the original kernel authors)
	Yaesu FT-50R enhancements

Text projects:
	Darkwater GIT Lessons (http://www.darkwater.com/git/index.html)

Other projects:
	Sysadmin for Darkwater and my own machines for the last 10 years,
	and webmaster for Darkwater for the past 3 years, helping with the
	administration of dis.org for the past year and a half.
	Former domain registrar for all the .ca.us domains within Santa
	Cruz and southern Santa Clara counties.

Hobbies:
	Hunting, target shooting, pyrotechnics, chemistry, electronics,
	fencing, video games, cooking (and eating!), reading, cryptography,
	legal wrangling, motorcycles, swimming.