David Mitchell - A Brief Resumé

Current Skills, Strengths and Experience

very rapid prototyping in Java

typical sustained coding rate 100-250 lines per day
over 90k lines of code written since 1995
developed user interfaces, graphics, networking, messaging, scriptable agents, etc
attended Java One conferences in 97, 98, 99 and 2001

software architecture, design and development

senior architect on several large IBM software projects (see Recent Projects)
holder of 10 patents and many invention disclosures
very experienced OO developer (since 1988)
author of several popular PC programming tools used both within and outside IBM
have written in Java, Delphi, C and C++, Visual Basic, PC Assembler, Rexx, PL/I, Fortran, Cobol, BAL, etc

highly skilled presenter and developer of programming education

developed the first Java seminars inside IBM (in 1995/1996)
wrote the first IBM Java Tutorial
developed and taught 1-3 day Java classes at international IBM OO Conferences, IBM Share meetings, IBM Research Labs in California and Israel, etc
in an earlier career (1970-1983) developed and taught wide range of programming classes (including IMS and CICS) in USA, Europe, USSR
presented to international audiences of 500+ in Europe and USA
presented to very senior audiences (including CEOs and many IBM vice presidents) in Europe, Japan, the USA and Canada

experienced technical writer

wrote and presented papers at many technical/academic conferences (see publications below)
wrote hundreds of pages of SDK documentation for several projects
wrote a 300 page book on Adventure Game programming on the PC for Addison-Wesley in 1984-85 (see below and here)

very knowledgeable on CSCW (Computer Supported Co-operative Work)

worked on many CSCW projects since 1989, including research at Lotus
attended 5 of the biennial CSCW conferences (LA in 1990, Toronto in 1992, Chapel Hill in 1994, Boston in 1996 and Seattle in 1998)

2000-2001 consultant and developer

worked on XML-based infrastructure based on SyncML (see www.syncml.org)
worked on agent infrastructure based on FIPA (see www.fipa.org)
worked on naming/directory service based on JNDI (see java.sun.com/products/jndi)
developed a transaction service
worked on a SOAP/JMS service (see java.sun.com/products/jms)
over 35k lines of Java written since January 2000

1999 java developer

worked on forthcoming MQSeries-related messaging software for pervasive computing devices (e.g. Psion Netbook)
wrote 15k lines of Java - including sample applications, real-time graphical monitor, scriptable test tool

1996-1998 on assignment to Lotus Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts

worked on several real-time collaborative systems (all in Java) some of which became the heart of Lotus Sametime
wrote 25k lines of code, several papers
see www.lotus.com/research and www.lotus.com/sametime

1995-1996 consultant and educator in IBM Center for Java Technology

developed and taught a series of Java seminars that became a widely used Java Tutorial - see publications and here)
presented Java to many audiences in UK, Europe, Israel, the USA and Canada

1989-1995 architect and developer on various IBM desktop conferencing systems

peer-to-peer networking, including audio and video
worked on Person to Person (which won the 1993 BCS Computing Award) and Lakes architecture (see IBM Systems Journal article)
wrote over 30k lines of C and Visual Basic, many papers and patents

1988 architect and developer on Object Rexx project

1987-1989 designer and co-developer of LPEX

Languages and Tools (back to 1985)

Operating Systems (back to 1985)

Others

D. Mitchell, "A Component Approach to Embedded Awareness and Conversation" , WETICE 98, Stanford, CA, 1998 (available as Lotus Research Technical Report 98-08)
M. Day, J. Patterson, D. Mitchell, "The Notification Service Transfer Protocol (NSTP): infrastructure for synchronous groupware" , Computer Networks & ISDN Systems 29, Elsevier, 1997
D. Mitchell, "A Java Tutorial" , (available as Lotus Research Technical Report 97-01)
D. Mitchell, "Agents in Real-Time Collaborative Systems" , Proc. SPIE Conference on Multimedia and Full-Service Networks, Philadelphia, PA, October 1995.
B. Aldred, H. Lambert, D. Mitchell, A. Nakajima, "Real-Time Collaboration - past, present and future" , Telecom 95 Technology Summit, Geneva, Switzerland, October 1995
B. Aldred, G. Bonsall, H. Lambert, D. Mitchell, "An Architecture for Multimedia Communication and Real-Time Collaboration", IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 34 Issue 3, Autumn 1995
D. Mitchell, "An Adventure in Programming Techniques" Addison-Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-15030

IBM Outstanding Contribution Award
for desktop conferencing architecture work 1992-1995
3 IBM Patent Awards
representing 10 patents awarded between 1991 and 2000
one of IBM Hursley's Master Inventors
4 IBM Publication Awards
representing approximately 15 papers published between 1990 and 2000
many other IBM awards, including one of the first IBM Hursley Technical Vitality awards in 1995

British citizen, born April 14th 1941
Married with three (adult) children
BA in Theoretical Physics, Oxford, 1963
Postgraduate work in Psychology at UCL and LSE, London 1964
MA in History of Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2003