Resume of Alex Cherepanov; Software Engineer, Boothwyn Pennsylvania, USA

ALEX CHEREPANOV

PO Box 2092, Boothwyn, PA, 19061-9996
Tel.: 610 529 3475
email: alex@coscript.biz

SUMMARY

25 years of experience in software engineering complemented by solid knowledge of computer science, mathematics and electrical engineering. Technical skills include:

PostScript technology	PostScript 3, Adobe CPSI, JAWS, Ghostscript, DCS (Digital Color Separations), DSC (Document Structure Convention), OPI (Open Prepress Interface), PPD (PostScript Printer Description Language), CRD (Color Rendering Dictionary), EPS (Encapsulated PostScript), ICC profiles, Roman and Asian PostScript fonts, TrueType fonts
PDF technology	PDF 1.7, Ghostscript, ps2pdf, pdfwrite
Web technology	HTML, XML, CGI, Perl
Graphic formats	TIFF, TIFF/IT, JPEG 2000, JPEG, JBIG, BMP, GIF, PNG, EMF, WMF, PICT, PNM
Operating systems	Windows 8, 7, XP, Mac OS X, Linux, NeXT, VM/SP, CMS, OS/370, RT-11
Compiled languages and IDE's	Eclipse, Visual Studio 10, gcc, g++, Borland C++ 5.0, CodeWarrior, Objective-C, Fortran, PL/1
Scripting languages	Python 3, Perl, bash, Reduce, REXX, EXEC-2, JCL
UNIX tools	flex, bison, sed, gawk, m4, gdb, DDD, Valgrind
Source control systems	cvs, svn, git
Assembly languages	80x86, PowerPC, Z-80, IBM/370, PDP-11
Libraries	MFC, OLE, STL, PowerPlant, libTiff, openjpeg, Jasper, jbig2dec, lcms, freetype, cups, expat, zlib, trio

EXPERIENCE

6/13-Present Independent Consultant

Consultant

Provide PostScript- and PDF-related consulting services.

8/00-6/13 Artifex Software, Inc. , San Rafael, CA, USA

Senior Software Engineer

Maintenance of Ghostscript PostScript interpreter and PDF interpreter. (C, PostScript, PDF)

3/95-8/00 Scanvec-Amiable, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, USA

Senior Software Engineer

Implementation of PostScript Raster Image Processor based on Adobe CPSI (Configurable PostScript Interpreter) in PhotoPRINT application (C++, PostScript)
Certification of the RIP with Adobe
DSC (Document Structure Convention), DCS (Digital Color Separations), and OPI (Open Prepress Interface) preprocessors (C++, PostScript)
TIFF, JPEG, and BMP converters to PostScript (C++, PostScript)
PAP (Printer Access Protocol) front end based on OpenTransport (C++, OpenTransport)
PostScript prolog for FlexiSIGN graphic editor (PostScript)
Analysis of PostScript errors and workarounds for 3rd party application bugs (PostScript, PDF)
GUI PostScript resource management utilities for PC and Mac (C++, MFC, PowerPlant)
Windows printer driver based on Unidrive tool (C, SDK, Unidrive)
PPD (PostScript Printer Description) generation with M4 macro processor

1/93-11/94 Abris-A, Ltd., St. Petersburg, Russia

Software Engineer

WYSIWYG form filling application that used Adobe Illustrator EPS as a template (C++, OWL)
Map editor that imports Adobe Illustrator EPS files and measurement data (C++, OWL)
OmniCalc, a math problem solver and calculator (C++, SDK)

3/92-1/93 Eurfin Project, joint Russian-Italian company

Contract Programmer

OLE server that displays and prints Gantt charts (C++, SDK)
A windows class for multi-font text editing (C++, SDK)
OCR components: text editor, font editor, context-sensitive help, a procedure for integral estimation of pattern mismatch (C, Reduce)

4/91-3/92 Antares, Ltd., St. Petersburg, Russia

Consultant

Conversion of graphs from an association net form to a plotter command file (Net, Assembler, REXX)
Development of a context-sensitive help system (REXX, XEDIT)

4/87-4/91 Leninets Holding, St. Petersburg, Russia

Programmer

Computer model of ferroelectric transformers (PL/1)
Data verification for an airborne tape recorder (PL/1)
Development of a CCD signal processor simulator (PL/1)

EDUCATION

1998 Microsoft certified professional
1981-1987 St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, St. Petersburg, Russia. MS in radiophysics

REFERENCES

Available on request