Brian D. Carlstrom

Part-time advisory role during my time as a Stanford graduate student.

As architect for Buyer 8.0 release was involved in content definition, planning, feature design reviews, and operational execution. Evolved development process through component ownership practices. Consulted on refactoring to create application platform, the core of new Ariba products. Drove code cleanliness projects to remove JDK 1.1 limitations and supportability issues. Worked with legal, documentation, and engineering on many third party licensing issues. Drove technical leader review process, identifying future candidates, and worked with managers on the candidate's career development.

Led Buyer 7.0 Server team projects which involved design reviews, schedule tracking, and issue resolution. Delivered refactoring of server technologies such as object-relational mapping, RPC, and utility libraries for use by other products. Ariba Analysis was built from scratch on this platform and existing applications have begun adoption. Converted from RSA to Entrust crytography to reduce cost of goods sold, at the same time enhancing our security API. Created first unit test infrastructure and unit tests, now integrated with JUnit. Created 8.0 requirements and initial designs for database archiving and data migration. As acting manager, heavily involved in recruiting including college hiring. As acting director, coordinated office move.

Member of original team that designed and implemented the Ariba Buyer product. Drove engineering closure on first product spec. Created the Approvable document architecture, the user permissions model, and a Scheme interpreter for business rules. Implemented SMTP client and server for notification. Responsible for HTTP server used for printing and attachments and later converted it to the servlet API. Created Inspector tool for runtime debugging. Created command line monitoring tools to automate operations. Removed explicit locking from object model to simplify API. Converted RPC from using a thread per client to worker queues to improve scalability. Created javadoc doclet to allow fine grain control over published API. Assisted globalization by removing deprecated JDK 1.0 APIs. Converted all production batch and shell scripts to Perl for portability. Created and maintained development web site, mailing lists, and Emacs development environment.