Stephen Travis Pope's Resume

Introduction · Stephen Travis Pope

Contact

Stephen T. Pope
220 Santa Anita Rd.
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Tel: (805) 895-6252
Email: stp@create.ucsb.edu
WWW: http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~stp

Summary

Stephen Travis Pope is a senior-level software engineer, analyst, designer, programming consultant, music composer, and mentor. He works as a consultant and mentor for software analysis/design/implementation applying object-oriented software technology (primarily the Smalltalk programming language, though he has developed large systems in C++ and Java as well) to real-world problems. His research interests are distributed programming, Internet content delivery, audio signal processing, and music representation languages.

Background

Stephen Travis Pope (b. 1955, USA), studied at Cornell University, the Vienna Music Academy, and the "Mozarteum" in Salzburg, Austria, receiving a variety of degrees and certificates in electrical engineering/computer science, recording engineering, and music theory and composition. He has taught both music and computer science at the graduate level, and has worked as a composer, software engineer, engineering manager, consultant/mentor/trainer, editor, and performing musician. From 1988 through 1997, he served as editor-in-chief of Computer Music Journal, published by the MIT Press.

He is currently active as a software consultant (AKA The Nomad Group) specializing in object-oriented software design, and as a senior research specialist at the Center Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) in the Department of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

In his 20 years experience in object-oriented software development, he has held technical and managerial positions in software development at PCS/Cadmus Computers GmbH in Munich, Xerox PARC, ParcPlace Systems, Inc., and Expertcity.com, Inc. in California, and in numerous consulting and mentoring roles in US-based and European industry (e.g., Sprint, AT&T, Teknowledge, Ariel, Meade, John Deere, AT&T, American Express, FedEx, Boeing, and Northrop). He has undertaken research projects at the Vienna Music Academy, the "Mozarteum," Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, the Swedish Institute for Computer Science, and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Stephen has over 80 publications on topics related to music theory and composition, computer music, artificial intelligence, graphics and user interfaces, integrated programming environments, and object-oriented programming. He has been an officer of the International Computer Music Association, and was elected a lifetime member by the board of directors in 1990. He has realized his musical works at computer music studios in the USA (CCRMA/Stanford, CNMAT/Berkeley, CREATE/Santa Barbara) and Europe (IRCAM/Paris, STEIM/Amsterdam, EMS/Stockholm, CMRS/Salzburg, IEuEM/Vienna); his music is performed frequently and is available in recorded form from Centaur Records, Perspectives of New Music, Touch Records, SBC Records, and on MIT Press Monograph CD/CD-ROMs.

Stephen lived in Europe (Austria, Germany and France) from 1977-86, and has spent several years there since then (in Holland and Sweden).

Accomplishments

Stephen's primary software development projects have included:

General-purpose windowing systems, user interfaces and libraries;
Smalltalk-80, CommonLISP and C++ software development tools;
Flexible front-ends to "legacy" corporate database systems;
Interfaces between Smalltalk-80 and UNIX C-based software;
Portable interactive multimedia electronic mail applications;
Music and digital audio signal processing tools;
Virtual-reality-based user interfaces and applications;
Hypermedia-based computer-aided instruction tools;
Graphical structure-editing-based user interfaces; and
Integrated Java E-commerce and Object/Relational database frameworks.

A selection of the released software products in whose design and/or implementation he has participated is included below.

vsh/msh - UNIX visual shells and DSP interpreter system
wsh/wsx - Windowing systems and API libraries for UNIX workstations
Smalltalk-80 - Contributions to, and release management of, several releases of the Smalltalk-80 Programming System
Siren - Smalltalk-80-based computer multimedia applications and tool kit
Navigator for UNIX - Graphics/direct manipulation-based UNIX front-end
Objectworks\C++ - C++ integrated programming environment
STAMP - Portable Smalltalk-80 electronic mail application and cross- platform mail transport mechanism
Bug56 - Window/menu-based interactive source-code debugger for the DSP56001 digital signal processor
ProductTrack - Interactive distributed expert system and database for requirements analysis and project tracking for manufacturing
RegMgr - Smalltalk-80 ISAM database package and editor/browsers
ION - Software for management of ATM networks
Expertcity.com - Web-based technical support service using real-time screen-sharing

Personal Data

Born December 9, 1955 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA; citizen of the USA; previous working permits in Austria, Germany, France, The Netherlands, and Sweden.