Calvin B Swart

Overview

Pronouns

He/Him/His

Title

Web developer

Bio

STSM Cal Swart joined IBM Research in the fall of 1982. Since then he has worked on a variety of projects ranging from object-oriented toolkits, handheld applications, and nextgen web applications.

Things I am proud of

Object-oriented ClassC programming
- helped test and deploy ClassC library
Object-oriented graphics classes
- helped develop graphics classes
- developed airline seating demo
PS2 video card
- tested the video API
- developed application showing video in a window
OS2 anti-aliased fonts
- developed and deployed anti-aliased fonts in OS2
- handed off to OS2 team
OS2 embedded browser control
- developed OS2 embedded browser control
- handed off to OS2 team
K12.net (NetVista)
- bring internet applications to schools on a low-cost budget
- developed internet applications for schools
- developed installation routines
- setup and maintained infrastructure
- traveled to schools to install, setup, and test installation
Palm Pilot Safeway home shopping application
- developed shopping application on the Palm Pilot
- helped develop backend support for the shopping application
- deployed at Safeway UK
Palm Pilot insurance application
- developed insurance agent application
- deployed for testing in Canada
Visitor's/Applicant's web site
- for people interviewing with IBM for scheduling their visit
Web Adaptation Technology (WAT)
- developed an IE plugin to allow low-vision users to modify web pages dynamically
- developed installation routines
- setup and maintained infrastructure
accessibilityWorks
- developed a Firefox plugin port of the WAT technology
- developed installation routines
- deployed at a school in NYC
- worked with other organizations to install and setup in their facility
Productivity assessment for parallel computing
- setup and maintained infrastructure to test
- developed routines to gather data
- helped analyze data
- able to show >10% improvement in productivity
Mobile application login with face, voice and gesture
- developed application to use face and voice as login methods on a mobile device
- developed installation routines
- installed and maintained backend infrastructure
CogTool
- prototyping tool that uses a human performance model to automatically evaluate how efficiently a skilled user can do a task on a design
- helped deploy at IBM
- developed installation routines
- setup infrastructure for deployment
Chef Watson
- create recipes using Watson technology that have never before been cooked
- www.ibmchefwatson.com
- setup and maintained infrastructure on Bluemix
- setup and maintained backend process on VM
- developed log analysis routines
- deployed to IBM CSF infrastructure
Maintaining researcher
- Maintain researcher infrastructure
- developed routines to upload photos and files
- helped develop and maintain interface to Google Scholar
- developed LinkedIn interface to import profile
- developed publications interface to Microsoft Academic
- developed an deployed W3 login
- maintained Watson Concept Insights (Piazza)
- ported Piazza to new Red Hat VM
- integrated Academy of Technology into researcher
- troubleshoot and fix problems
- deploy code
Port Researcher to Bluemix
- deployed SQL database to Bluemix
- deployed application(s) to Bluemix
- deployed application(s) to Kubernetes
- used Object Storage for pictures and files
- developed routines to upload files and photos to Object Storage
- used PHP S3 interface to access Object Storage
- ported researcher from PHP 5 to PHP 7
Group Support
- supported the groups that I was in by setting up, maintaining, troubleshooting team laptops
- setup and maintained group infrastructure
- group IT support
- go to person for troubleshooting problems
Systems
- Macintosh
- Windows
- Linux
Languages
- html
- javascript
- python
- php
- some java
- some nodejs express
- docker