Re: AbiWord crashes on exporting HTML

Pierre Abbat

phma@oltronics.net

Over fourteen years of experience in design and development of timing critical software applications and embedded systems. Extensive work on I/O subsystems, hardware/software interfaces, diagnostic tools, neural networks, and math libraries. Knowledgeable in a variety of programming languages and operating systems. Specialist in solving "impossible" problems.

Job objectives:

Software engineering interfacing with electronic or mechanical devices

Unix system administration involving web, mail, DNS, rsync, DHCP, and time servers, security, and automation of repetitive tasks.

Programming languages:

C, C++, Pascal, Forth, Python, bash, awk, sed, PHP, 6811 (6800), Z8, 6502, Z80 (8080), PIC, AVR.

Can easily learn any other language.

System administration:

Adding users, formatting, checking, mounting, and unmounting disk partitions, patching and compiling kernels. Familiar with ext2 and Reiser filesystems. Setup of Secure Shell and Secure Remote Password protocols, name servers, mail servers, rsync backup servers, web servers, DHCP servers, and file sharing using both NFS and SMB protocols. Autoresponders and other applications in which mail is piped to a program. Automation with cron, at, and background shell scripts. Firewall setup including NAT and IP port forwarding.

Graphics:

Familiar with the GIMP, POV-Ray, Gnuplot, and other programs for producing graphics, both for graphing results of experiments and system performance and for original design. Wrote a working JPEG encoder and decoder within two weeks of seeing the specification for the first time.

Embedded Systems:

Design and programming of radios for data communication, using both NRZ and Manchester codes, and ranging. Barcode decoding algorithms. Implementation of both ends of a protocol for making hotel keys, using parallel state machines to simulate multitasking. Precise time interval measuring-out program, running in the background so as not to disturb interrupts.

Hardware:

PC-compatible computers

Logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes

General logic circuit design

Patents:

Radio and communication method using a transmitted intermediate frequency (6188716)

System and method for generating pseudo-random codes (6079007, 6237075)

Professional Experience:

1995-2001: Worked for Pan Atlantic Corporation on data radios, ranging, and a system in which a portable alarm can be located by radio.

1994-1997: Designed a hotel key authentication method and wrote a hotel security system for Batteries Included and compart GmbH. This method is now used in hotels around the world.

1993: Worked for BR&D in the area of graphic and data compression. Performed analysis and compression on graphics files on the PC. Implemented several dithering and compression methods.

1986-1992: Worked on barcode readers and other projects at Hand Held Products, Inc. Wrote three complete decoding algorithms and revisions to the others. Programmed an automatic test device to feed distorted barcodes to barcode readers to measure the algorithms' robustness. Also wrote firmware for a medical testing device in which a reacting solution's transparency is measured over time.

Education:

1983-1984: Graduate studies, Computer Science - Purdue

1981-1983: BS Math, BA Computer Science - SUNY at Buffalo

1979-1981: Math and Physics - Case Western Reserve

Spoken languages:

Fluent in English and French; can read Greek. As a member of “strings police� for AbiWord, I check translation files in a variety of European and other languages. Also contributing to the development of Lojban, a constructed language.