Jon Tyson

                             350 Winfield Street
                           San Francisco, CA 94110
                               jon@bobimmy.com


                               WORK EXPERIENCE

incremental images (2000 - 2001), San Francisco:  Chief Engineer and Architect
I joined this startup before its first official day of business.  I assembled 
and led an 11-person engineering team to the successful creation of the first 
release of our product, a server-based platform for the delivery of multi-user, 
collaborative graphical applications to any client with a TCP/IP stack.

Working with the executive team, I defined the product, hired our engineering 
team, and created the right environment for the execution of our aggressive 
schedule.  I designed the architecture of this complex application server 
as well as coded significant portions of its core.  The engine is extensible 
through the addition of custom plug-ins written internally as well as by our 
customers and partners, so the quality of our interfaces and documentation was 
an important component of the project.

I mentored newly hired employees of all skill levels.  I helped my team excel 
by transferring the knowledge required to get their jobs done as well as the 
responsibility required to give them a sense of ownership.  I also helped to 
establish the development processes of our organization including a nightly 
build system, automated test harness, bug tracking software, source code 
control, and both internal and external documentation.  The product was 
simultaneously developed on all major Unix platforms (32/64-bit) as well 
as Windows NT/2000.  



3DPowerTools (1999 - Present), San Francisco:  President and Founder
I am responsible for all aspects of running this business, including 
product design, implementation, QA, marketing, sales, public relations, 
accounting, and technical support.  I assembled a 6-person team to build 
the product and corporate image.  I led the development and QA effort and 
successfully delivered a highly-praised product (Cadence Magazine, May 2000, 
5 out of 5 rating).



autodesk (1995 - 1999), Alameda:  Lead Engineer / Senior Software Engineer
I led the 5-person team that built AutoCAD 2000's 3D graphics pipeline.  
This was a daunting task, involving the successful integration of a 20-year 
code base with a modern graphics engine along with the creation of an API 
suitable for use by autodesk's best-selling vertical applications and 
3rd-party developers.  

For AutoCAD Release 14, I was a lead engineer on the project to replace 
AutoCAD's aging 2D graphics pipeline.  Somewhere from 2 million licensed 
to 20 million unlicensed users still exercise my code in their daily work.



                                   SKILLS

System and API design; excellent written and oral communication skills; 
ability to mentor both novice and expert engineers; many years of learning, 
using, making mistakes with, and designing for multithreaded programming, 
networking, graphics, and databases; performance tuning; server-based 
computing; multi-platform development; fast acquisition of new skills 
and technologies.

Tools:      C++, Perl, Java, JavaScript, SQL, OpenGL, sockets, XML, SOAP, 
            XSL, XSLT, PHP, Apache, msdev, cvd, gdb, dbx, ddd, cvs, sourcesafe, 
            bugzilla, doxygen
Platforms:  Win32, Linux, Irix, Solaris, OSF1, cygwin



                                  EDUCATION

Amherst College (1987 - 1991), Amherst, MA
B.A. degree, summa cum laude
Mathematics major with a concentration in music