Randy H. Smith
COMPUTING EXPERIENCE
6/04-Present
Cypress Software, Apalachicola and Crawfordville, FL Small town IT.
Custom Access/VBA
applications and Crystal Reports for local government and retail customers. Delivered
an
occupational license system for the City of Apalachicola, a Road Department Work
Tracking Database for the Franklin County Road Department, a contractor and
building permit database for the Franklin County Planning & Building Department, a
membership tracking database for an Apalachicola environmental organization, a purchase order
module for a St. George Island retail establishment, and an application that records minutes
for county commission meetings. Developed Crystal Reports for the
Franklin County FuelMaster Installation, the Franklin County Clerk's
(Misdemeanor Plea document and Felony Sentence and Judgment document based on
OBTS data), and the Wakulla County Clerk's office (Felony and Misdemeanor
dockets based on OBTS data).
12/97-4/01 F5 Labs,
F5 Networks, Seattle, WA
User Interface (UI)
Software Engineer. Completed and delivered a
C++/XWindows/Motif
configuration tool for F5's load balancer BIG-IP (1998). Also for that product,
inherited and evolved the BIG-Config CGI application (gnu C++, CVS environment) as developer, then lead
(1998-2001). Designed and developed an object encapsulation of the
internals of BIG-IP and (a portion of) the parsed configuration file layer for
3DNS, which is F5's wide area load balancer. During this time span,
F5 Networks underwent initial and secondary
stock offerings as it established itself as a premier internet hardware and
software provider.
1/96-12/97
Cegelec-ESCA, Bellevue, WA
Software Engineer, UI
group. Developed, maintained, and supported the FG Rapport Application.
That UI component of their Energy Management System was written in
C/XWindows/Motif and ran on Digital UNIX, Ultrix, VMS, and Windows NT systems.
6/88-6/95 The Boeing
Company, Seattle, WA
Programmer/Analyst for Computer Services and the Defense & Space Group.
Developed,
maintained, and supported a suite of electromagnetic modeling applications
written in FORTRAN, with UI components in Pascal/native Apollo graphics,
C/XWindows/Motif, and XVT cross-platform kits. Time interval includes some part
time work as Masters was being completed.
1/87-3/88 Department
of Commerce, Boulder, CO
Physical Science Aide and Professional Research Assistant for the NOAA Space
Environment
Lab. Developed, tested, and utilized bitmapped solar mapping tools written in
Pascal/native Apollo graphics on Apollo workstations. First year of time
interval was part time as Bachelor’s degree in Applied Math was completed.
6/86-8/86, 1/85-7/85
Everest Geotech, Houston, TX
Contract Geophysicist
10/80-4/84 Gulf Oil
Corporation, Casper, WY
Geophysicist, Petroleum Geophysicist, and Senior Geophysicist working in oil
exploration. 
Design of acquisition, image processing, and interpretation of
seismic and potential field data related to
subsurface mapping of onshore properties.
EDUCATION
M.S. Engineering
(June
1994) University of Washington, Seattle WA Thesis topic: A Sommerfeld
Correction to Boeing’s WIRANT Moment Method code
B.S. Applied
Mathematics
(Dec. 1987) University of Colorado, Boulder CO Emphasis in Digital Signal
Processing and Electromagnetic Field Theory
B.S. Geology
(June, 1980) University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Emphasis in Geophysics
Way
Back Wakulla High Class Salutatorian, 1976