This page needs serious updating... it provides a snapshot of the mid 90s, but a lot has happened since then :-) My latest professional link is BlackHawk Technologies

Professionally...

The below is a bit dated. For my latest professional activities, check out BlackHawk Technologies.

• Current Hot Buttons
  • IP Routing
  • JAVA
  • The Web
  • Intelligent Software Agents
  • and recently... 3D Graphics
  
  
  
• General Background:
  • Software Architecture
  • Design & Implementation
  • Requirements Specification
  • Project Leadership
  • Standards
  • OO
  • Networking
  • Protocols
  • ATM, ISDN, Isochronous Ethernet
  • OSPF, ISIS, BGP, MPLS
  • Network Management
  • RDBMS
  • Misc:
    • Java
    • C/C++
    • Lisp
    • SNMP
    • System Software
    • Signalling Stacks
    • Call Control, Feature Control, Routing
    • Database applications
    • Various flavors of UNIX
    • Various real time OS's (VxWorks, pSOS, and proprietary)
    • RDBMS [Oracle], embedded SQL
  
  
  
• Recent Interests
  • Java! Check out Sun's JavaSoft page...
    And here is a link to some applets I've written in my spare time.
    
    
  • Intelligent Software Agents in general (click here)
    and KQML (Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language) in particular (over here)
    
    
  • Z ("zed" -- formal specification language... check out the page over here )
  • 3D Graphics, especially the Lightwave 3D package
  
  
  
• Formal Education
  • BS-EE from The University of Texas at Austin
  • MS-Operations Research from Stanford ,while on leave from Bell Laboratories (OYOC pseudo-scholarship program).
  
  
• Employment History (chronological order):
  • Bell Laboratories (before and after divestiture...) -- NJ
    • Bell Laboratories
    • Company X :-)
    • American Bell (Labs)
    • AT&T Information Systems Labs
    • AT&T Bell Laboratories
  • DCA/CohesiveNetworks -- CA
  • Racal-Milgo/Racal-Datacom -- CA
  • Lawrence Livermore National Lab -- CA
  • Ampersand, Inc. -- MA
  • Ascom Nexion -- MA
  • Co-founder JNet -- CA and MA

As a person...

• Outside Interests:
  • Music
    • Playing ( Guitar [rhythm], vocals, minimal keyboards )
    • Listening
    • Kinetic Appreciation :-)
  • Skiing
    • Downhill ( bump madness!! [while my knees hold out] )
    • Telemark ( but lift-served only; no backcountry )
  • Lindy-Hop/Jitterbug Dancing (especially with ariels [flips, throws, etc.])
  • Volleyball
    • currently looking for league or regular pick-up games for self and wife; 6-person or doubles; USVBA "B" or RecLeague/IndustrialLeague/YMCA "A/AA"; in/around the Worcester area
    • Any info or pointers to a league? I'm at dhudek@rcn.com Thanks. Oops... nevermind :-) Since the birth of our daughter, who has time for volleyball?!?
  • RollerCoasters

• Favorite Bands:
  • New Wave/Moden Rock/Alternative/Misc:
    • Depeche Mode, The Cranberries, B52s, Ruby, The Cure, Elastica, REM, Rentals, Rancid, Blur, Foo Fighters, The Clash, The Smiths, PIL, S*x Pistols, Split Enz, Oingo Boingo, Squeeze, Lene Lovich, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Yaz, Waitresses, Throwing Muses, Cocteau Twins, Violent Femmes, Pogues, OMD, Echo and the Bunnymen, Ramones, early Tears For Fears, early INXS, New Order, Devo, Wonderstuff, Pop Will Eat Itself, Front 242, Art of Noise, Good Charlotte, Blink182, Fountains of Wayne
  • Swing Music:
    • Current Bands: Royale Crown Revue, Indigo Swing, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums, Adrian Davis Orchestra
    • Classic Bands: Count Basie, Glen Miller, Benny Goodman
  • Mainstream/oldies:
    • Jimmy Buffett, Jim Croce, Eagles, Beatles