Résumé
- Name: James F. Bisso
Employment history
- Principal consultant,
Bitzone LLC
- In charge of design and implementation of server-side programming
(Perl CGI scripts, Java servlets), client-side programming
(Java applets and JavaScript), electronic commerce solutions
(connectivity, security, and funds transmittal), and database-web
connectivity (JDBC, ODBC, Oracle, Access, and Cold Fusion).
Technical writing and training contracts include: API documentation for
Fresco (Java RAD product) at Infoscape Inc., updating and adding
new functionality to the Programmer's Guide and Reference Manual
for VisiBroker for Java and VisiBroker for C++ release 4.0 for
Inprise Corporation, and 5-day Java for Oracle Developers training
classes for Oracle University.
- December 1997 - present
- Adjunct lecturer,
Golden
Gate University
- Have taught CIS 102 Advanced Programming
Concepts (in Java), CIS 352 Object-oriented Analysis and Design,
CIS 361 Architecture of the Internet and the World Wide Web,
CIS 364 Database Development on the World Wide Web, CIS 375 Java for
Programmers, CIS 390 Capstone Project for Masters. Developed
curricula for CIS 361 and CIS 364 for the web certificate program.
- June 1998 - June 2000
- Senior technical writer,
Oracle
- Wrote API documentation for Sedona, Oracle's objected-oriented,
distributed components, integrated development environment.
Documented Sedona class library for on-line help. Wrote Sedona
C++ and Java Developer's Guide. Worked on JDeveloper online help
after the Sedona project became Java Business Objects.
- March 1996 - December 1997
- Product manager,
Oracle
- Planned instructor-lead classes and video-based and
computer-based training for a system management product, Oracle
Enterprise Manager. Developed and taught API classes to third-party
vendors. Wrote Concepts Guide and Application Developer's Guide.
Set up and maintained intranet web site.
- August 1995 - March 1996
- Technical writer,
Oracle
- Wrote and updated non-system-specific documentation for the
Oracle7 Server, Programmer's Guide to the Oracle Call Interface,
Programmer's Guide to the Ada Oracle Call Interface, and Pro*Ada
Precompiler. System administrator for Interleaf 5.3 (15 users)
running under UNIX, SunOS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.4.
- June 1994 - August 1995
Education
- Mills
College, Oakland, California
- M.A. Interdisciplinary Computer Science
Thesis: Jaako, A Common Lisp Implementation of a Two-Level
Morphological Rule Compiler
- May 1994
- University
of California at Berkeley
- A.B., Linguistics (Comparative Historical Linguistics)
- March, 1979