George 
J 
Carrette 
148 
Peter 
Spring 
Road, 
Concord 
MA 
Phone: 
978-505-5989 
(Cell) 
E-mail: 
gjc@alum.mit.edu 
Website: 
http://alum.mit.edu/www/gjc 



Objectives 


To 
help 
people 
solve 
difficult 
problems 
through 
the 
amplification 
of 
human 
intelligence. 


Skills 


• 
Full 
software 
product 
lifecycle 
from 
requirements 
management 
to 
pre-sales, 
deployment, 
and 
support. 
• 
Deep 
understanding 
of 
multiple 
generations 
of 
computer 
hardware. 
• 
Real-time 
dynamic 
storage 
and 
multi-threaded 
programming. 
• 
Advanced 
SQL 
and 
optimization 
using 
Oracle, 
Sybase, 
SQL 
Server, 
and 
DB2. 
Experience 


Senior 
Developer 
(2006 
– 
May 
2011) 
Monster 
Worldwide 
(Maynard 
MA) 


Designed 
and 
implemented 
an 
application 
to 
pull 
job 
listings 
and 
employer 
recruiting 
requirements 
from 
multiple 
Job 
Board 
databases 
and 
serve 
them 
as 
targeted 
advertising 
by 
dynamically 
classifying 
viewer 
characteristics 
to 
match 
heuristic 
templates 
that 
are 
compiled 
into 
the 
intermediate 
languages 
of 
Microsoft 
CLR 
and 
SQL 
in 
order 
to 
execute 
the 
searches 
as 
quickly 
as 
possible. 


The 
application, 
launched 
as 
Monster 
Career 
Advertising 
Network 
(CAN) 
is 
currently 
the 
fastest 
growing 
product 
within 
Monster 
Worldwide 


Senior 
Technologist 
(2003 
– 
2006) 
Aras 
Corporation 
(Lawrence 
MA) 


Lead 
developer 
on 
the 
project 
to 
re-platform 
the 
company’s 
product 
on 
the 
Microsoft 
CLR 
and 
SQL 
SERVER 
2005. 
Significantly 
improved 
the 
skills 
and 
productivity 
of 
the 
efforts 
of 
an 
offshore 
development 
team 
by 
focusing 
them 
on 
testable 
results 
and 
rapid 
build 
turn 
around 
and 
enhancing 
the 
build 
process 
to 
include 
the 
database 
under 
source 
control. 
Created 
the 
scripts 
for 
converting 
existing 
customer’s 
applications 
to 
the 
new 
platform, 
supporting 
the 
field 
staff 
from 
the 
home 
office 
and 
traveling 
to 
customer 
sites 
to 
help 
successful 
product 
roll 
outs.. 



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George 
J 
Carrette 
Independent 
Consultant 
(2002-2003) 


Worked 
for 
Northrop 
Grumman 
to 
help 
complete 
some 
contracts, 
and 
worked 
directly 
for 
some 
previous 
customers, 
including 
Varian 
Semiconductor 
Equipment 
Corporation. 
Expert 
witness 
in 
a 
patent 
litigation 
for 
Heller 
Ehrman 
LLP. 
Helped 
out 
on 
a 
port 
of 
an 
insurance 
company’s 
huge 
COBOL 
application 
from 
the 
Wang 
VS 
to 
the 
SUN 
SPARC 
platform. 
Implemented 
a 
Business 
Workflow 
graphical 
editor 
in 
Java/Swing. 


Senior 
Principal 
(1998 
– 
2002) 
Northrop 
Grumman/TASC 
(Reading 
MA) 


Enhanced 
the 
EIGNER 
PLM 
Product 
(now 
part 
of 
Oracle) 
to 
meet 
the 
auditing 
and 
other 
security 
requirements 
for 
DOD 
Nuclear 
Reactor 
Program. 
Traveled 
to 
vendors 
home 
office 
in 
Germany 
to 
communicate 
requirements, 
build 
good 
will, 
and 
judge 
development 
efforts. 
Implemented 
a 
tracing 
and 
performance 
analysis 
tool 
that 
was 
able 
to 
identify 
small 
changes 
that 
improved 
customer 
application 
performance 
by 
a 
factor 
of 
2 
generally 
and 
by 
a 
factor 
of 
10 
when 
running 
in 
the 
highest 
security 
mode 
Recognized 
by 
the 
Satellite 
Intelligence 
business 
unit 
for 
my 
work 
on 
an 
XML 
information 
gateway 
that 
used 
an 
expressive 
calculus 
to 
perform 
transformations 


Software 
Architect 
(1996 
– 
1998) 
Information 
Access 
Company 
(Cambridge 
MA) 


Helped 
the 
Corporate 
Division 
produce 
6 
new 
products 
by 
introducing 
a 
productive 
web 
applications 
implementation 
framework. 
Gathered 
the 
business 
requirements 
for 
and 
designed 
a 
new 
product 
fulfillment 
and 
license 
administration 
application 
to 
support 
the 
new 
product 
lines. 


Project 
Leader 
for 
Web 
Applications 
(1995 
– 
1966) 
News 
Corporation 
(Cambridge 
MA) 


Designed 
a 
template-oriented 
web 
tool 
for 
use 
by 
the 
platform 
engineering 
group, 
presenting 
it 
at 
the 
1995 
World 
Wide 
Web 
Conference 
Worked 
on 
the 
committees 
responsible 
for 
the 
information 
flows 
within 
the 
service. 
Implemented 
the 
server 
components 
of 
the 
logon, 
including 
key 
exchange 
and 
dynamic 
assignment 
of 
client 
internet 
service 
provider. 
Helped 
the 
database 
group 
on 
64-bit 
architecture 
and 
data 
replication 
scale 
out 
issues. 
Helped 
the 
server 
engineering 
with 
kernel 
bugs 
that 
needed 
to 
be 
fixed 
by 
working 
directly 
with 
the 
vendor’s 
developers. 


VP 
of 
Research 
and 
Development 
(1988 
– 
1994) 
Mitech 
Corporation 
(Action 
MA) 


Implemented 
the 
development 
environment 
and 
compiler 
for 
an 
expert 
system. 
Patent 
4,975,865 
Method 
and 
apparatus 
for 
real-time 
control. 
Hired 
product 
support 
staff. 
Created 
the 
external 
data 
interface 
library, 
implemented 
several 
interfaces. 


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George 
J 
Carrette 
Lecturer 
(1988 
– 
1989 
concurrent) 
Biomedical 
Engineering 
Section, 
Boston 
University 
(Boston 
MA) 


Developed 
instructional 
materials 
and 
taught 
Artificial 
Intelligence 
Programming, 
course 
EK-201. 


Lead 
Developer/Architect 
(1987 
– 
1988) 
Gigamos 
Systems 
(Lowell 
MA) 


Ported 
the 
PICON 
expert 
system 
from 
the 
LMI 
proprietary 
hardware 
(lisp 
cpu 
sharing 
a 
memory 
bus 
with 
a 
68010 
Unix 
cpu) 
to 
a 
more 
open 
system 
combining 
Symbolics 
hardware 
networked 
with 
data 
acquisition 
servers 
running 
MS-DOS, 
VAX/VMS 
and 
Sun 
Unix. 
Created 
the 
portable 
binary 
format 
for 
the 
knowledge 
base 
storage 
and 
TCP-IP 
communications 
layer. 


Consultant 
(1987) 
Artificial 
Intelligence 
Section, 
Arthur 
D. 
Little 
(Cambridge 
MA) 


Implemented 
expert 
systems 
for 
clients 
using 
the 
platforms 
KEE 
and 
ART. 


Software 
Engineer, 
Manager 
of 
Software 
(1983-1987) 
Lisp 
Machine 
Inc. 
(Cambridge 
MA) 


Used 
the 
Gabriel 
Lisp 
Benchmark 
series 
to 
coordinate 
the 
work 
of 
other 
developers 
to 
optimize 
system 
performance. 
Worked 
on 
all 
areas 
of 
the 
operating 
system, 
microcode, 
compiler, 
and 
hardware 
of 
the 
LMI 
product 
line. 
Optimized 
file 
system 
directory 
update 
performance, 
implemented 
Sun 
NFS 
protocol 
client 
and 
server. 
Implemented 
TCP/IP 
stack, 
XDR, 
RPC, 
FTP, 
SMTP, 
TELNET 
etc. 
Designed 
new 
hardware 
instruction 
and 
implemented 
a 
timesharing 
mode 
for 
the 
system. 
Did 
pre 
and 
post-sales 
support 
for 
applications 
including 
Prolog, 
PICON, 
Macsyma, 
and 
Ada. 


Consultant 
(1983-1986 
concurrent) 
Lawrence 
Livermore 
Laboratories, 
B 
Division 
(Livermore 
CA) 


Worked 
on 
a 
compiler 
for 
a 
domain 
specific 
programming 
language 
with 
adaptations 
for 
proprietary 
simulation 
codes. 


Software 
Engineer, 
Sponsored 
Research 
Staff 
(1981-1983) 
Massachusetts 
Institute 
of 
Technology 
(Cambridge 
MA) 


Implemented 
a 
graphical 
teaching 
aid 
and 
electrical 
field 
solver 
for 
used 
by 
students. 
Optimized 
the 
memory 
footprint 
and 
user 
interaction 
for 
the 
Lisp 
platform 
used 
in 
the 
introductory 
programming 
course 
under 
the 
TOPS-20 
timesharing 
system. 
Worked 
on 
the 
VAX/NIL 
implementation 
of 
Lisp, 
accomplishing 
the 
bootstrap 
of 
the 
system 
off 
the 
PDP-
10, 
the 
port 
of 
the 
Macsyma 
application, 
and 
the 
packaging 
and 
distribution 
to 
first 
100 
customers. 
Implemented 
computations 
for 
plasma 
physics 
research. 


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George 
J 
Carrette 
Education 


BS 
Mathematics, 
Massachusetts 
Institute 
of 
Technology 
(1981) 


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Under 
the 
supervision 
of 
the 
Electrical 
Engineering 
department, 
enhanced 
the 
Macsyma 
compiler 
so 
that 
non-experts 
could 
use 
it 
to 
optimize 
the 
performance 
of 
all 
programs 
in 
the 
user 
contributed 
libraries. 
PUBLICATIONS/PATENTS 


USPTO 4,975,865 Method and apparatus for realtime control. 


Burke, G.S.. Carrette, G.J. and Eliot, C.R, "NIL REFERENCE MANUAL" MITLCS-
TR-311. January 1984. 


Carrette, George J. "VAX/NIL Port of MACSYMA", 1984 Macsyma Users 
Conference. 


Harten, Leo P and Carrette, George J. "The Share Library in DOE-MACSYMA" 
Proceedings of Robex 1985, NASA/Johnson Space Center and Instrument 
Society of America. 


A. Bers, K. Ko, V. Krapchev, A. K. Ram, V. Fuchs, G. Carrette, A. Della 
Fera, L. Harten, and K. Theilhaber, "Nonlinear Wave Interactions -RF 
Heating and Current Generation in Plasmas," No. 124, January 1982, pp. 
112-118. 
Carrette, George J. "SIOD" an open software package. 


Carrette, George J. "CRASHME" a system robustness exerciser. 


Carrette, George J. and Polanksy, Robert, "Using HTML templates in Web 
Applications" December 1995 World Wide Web Conference. 
http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Poster.html and 
http://people.delphiforums.com/gjc/chtml.html on the web. 


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