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From: jordan@cruzio.com (Jordan Bortz)
Subject: Re: Smalltalk Opportunities
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Dear Sir/Madam:

	I am writing you in reference to your recent posting on the Internet 
regarding Smalltalk Contractors.

	Since I have one of the most extensive backgrounds in the Bay Area in
the 
Smalltalk arena, I thought it would make sense to contact you.

	I have have been working with Smalltalk professionally since 1986 
Ten 
years. And I have been working with VisualWorks since the product was
introduced 
in 1991.

	I have been involved in almost every aspect of Smalltalk development, 
including end user applications, system internals, user inteface, SQL
interface, 
ODBMS interfaces.. etc.  As the principle designer of the Tigre
Programming Environment,
a widely used predecessor to VisualWorks I have one of the broadest
backgrounds
in the industry in the area of GUI design and implementation.

	I have enclosed a copy of my resume for your perusal.

	Additionally, Id like to take some time to tell you a little bit
about how I do 
business.

	I am located in Santa Cruz California, and am fully Incorporated in
the State 
of California as Object Production, Inc  therefore I tend to work on a
direct 
company to company billing  not W2, or 1099.  

	My rate structure is commensurate with my experience, 
although I do give a break for hours performed at my home office in
Santa Cruz 
versus being at the client site; this ends up being quite a savings
for the end client,
as they save dollars for all the "behind the keyboard" hours spent
coding, and pay the onsite
rate only for meetings, etc.

	Please take some time to examine my resume, and please give me a call 
anytime to discuss any questions you might have. I'm certain that I
can work with
you and your client to bring their client to a successful finish!

	Yours truly,

	Jordan Bortz



Jordan A. Bortz
1559 Escalona Dr
Santa Cruz, California   95060
408/426-5308 (W/H) 408/426-5388 (Fax)
jordan@cruzio.com (Email)
	


OBJECTIVE

To provide clients with consulting expertise in the areas of Design,
Specification, 
Code Development and Project Management, as well as Training and
Mentoring 
Services.

LANGUAGES/ENVIRONMENTS KNOWN

Smalltalk, Java, VisualWorks, VisualWave, JDBC, Envy/Developer,  HTML,

    SQL (Sybase, Oracle), C/C++, LISP, 4GL

Windows 95, NT, UNIX (HP,Sun,IBM), Macintosh 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Feb 1996,
Current


CONSULTANT-Designed and implemented a completely 
new product tracking system using VisualWorks and 
Sybase. This mission critical app empowers the sales force 
of this major software vendor with the ability to constantly 
inform customers of the status of various projects under 
development, as well as the certification status of various 
release under various platforms.  The system works in both 
an on line and off line mode, so that the data can also be 
accessed via laptop computer. Additional features include 
dynamic downloading of remote data from within 
VisualWorks, and a Web enabled HTML interface to the 
system using VisualWave.

May 1995, 
Dec 1995


CONSULTANT-Designed and implemented critical new 
features and a vastly enhanced user interface for a process 
control application written in VisualWorks.  Assisted in 
performance tuning of existing components, often 
achieving a better than 100x improvement in speed.  Also 
provided mentoring assistance.  This application was for a 
Fortune 500 manufacturer of Semiconductor Wafer Fab 
Equipment 

May 1994, 
Apr 1995


SABATTICAL-Took 1 year sabbatical.  Continuning Tigre 
and Tigris development and runtime revenues supported 
this endeavor.

Nov, 1993 
May 1994


CONSULTANT-CONSILIUM, INC.  Provided Smalltalk 
project design and implementation assistance. Designed 
implementation for the generalized Object Editing 
framework, to facilitate rapid design of UI screens in a 
uniform and consistent manner; the Object Editor is the 
crux of the User-Interface for the new Smalltalk based 
Factory Management Software that is Consilium's flagship 
product. Provided tutoring and mentoring services on an as 
needed basis for in house engineers.  Also provided design 
advice for other phases of the project, and made 
customizations to VisualWorks where necessary.

March, 1993 
to August, 
1993


CONSULTANT-VERSANT OBJECT TECHNOLOGY. 
Designed and implemented tutorial software and 
documentation to bring Smalltalk users up to speed rapidly 
on Versant, which is an OODBMS for Smalltalk and C++. 
Provided written analyses of current system; proposed 
recommendations to improve product from a useability 
standpoint.  Designed and implemented several new 
features to simplify programming, such as automatic 
database dirty. 

Feb, 1989 - 
Feb, 1993


CEO-TIGRE OBJECT SYSTEMS, INC. Designed and 
implemented initial version of Tigre Programming 
Environment. Designed and oversaw production of Version 
2.0 of Tigre. Oversaw Sales/Marketing/R&D organization 
of 15 people.  Raised Venture Capital to fund further 
development, as well as sales and marketing. Designed 
Tutorial and other training documentation for Tigre, as 
well as corporate educational video. Tigre is a GUI builder 
for ParcPlace Smalltalk, and  has achieved a widespread 
market acceptance among corporate Smalltalk users, 
especially in the "Fortune 1000"

Dec, 1987 - 
Nov, 1988


CONSULTANT-PIXELLITE. Provided development 
advice and code optimizations for the PrintShop program, a 
widely popular IBM PC program distributed by 
Broderbund.  Designed and prototyped PSHELL, a GUI 
user interface shell for DOS.

Mar, 1987 -
Nov, 1987


SEN. SOFTWARE ENG. TITN. Optimized TIFF file 
viewer in C for fax modem software. Developed platform 
independent GUI library for PC, UNIX.

Oct, 1985 -
Feb, 1986
CONSULTANT-ASHTON TATE PUBLISHING CORP. 
Developed the dBase Tools for C package, a widely used 
C programming interface that allowed dBase programs to 
call external C functions. This highly successful project 
also came bundled in with a library of various statistical, 
string, and disk access routines.

April, 1985 -
Oct, 1985
MINDBANK, INC. Developed Object Memory 
Management System for BrainFire, a multi-media 
courseware authoring system running on the IBM PC.  
Assisted in specifications for V2.0 of the C based class 
system used by MindBank to develop the system.

Jan 1983 -
Apr 1985
ENVISIONEERING. Co-Author of platform independent 
dBase III compiler under subcontract for Ashton-Tate.  
The compiler accepted the full dBase III language, as well 
as API, and generated code for both PC and UNIX 
platforms. Developed key modules for Autolab real-time 
multi-user medical laboratory database using Informix 
under Unix. Designed and engineered platform 
independent user-interface library for DOS and UNIX.


PUBLICATIONS

		Byte, July 1984  			Two LISP's for the IBM PC
		Cincinnati Enquirer, June 1983	Computer Security


Stephen Wheeler <swheeler@maximgroup.com> wrote:

>The Maxim Group, an international consulting firm, is currently seeking
>a qualified Smalltalk developer.  The project currently available will
>us e the skills: Visual Works, Envy and Gemstone.  All Smalltalk
>developers are encouraged to reply either by E-mail or telephone.  I
>look forward to speaking with all interested individuals.

>Thank You,

>Steve Wheeler					(800) 767-1948 x5052
>Maxim Group 					swheeler@maximgroup.com


