SDK for Bank Client Software: Exposed Token.io's secure banking API via a set of SDKs (Java, JS). Coded APIs, wrote sample code, wrote docs.

Documented & Supported Developer Tools: Source control, build, test frameworks, code review tools.

Coding included: Static site generator. Python introspection code to document API that eluded PyDoc.

Documented tools. Wrote concepts, reference, and best practices for build/compile tools and source control. (Many of these tools are described at a blog post by Mike Bland.) Wrote and edited internal documentation for using Sawzall, an analysis tool for large data sets. (I didn't write that academic paper; I wrote user docs.) Wrote sample code. Wrote and maintained document-generating tools.

Documented App Engine Worked with a team writing about parts of the Google App Engine PaaS, including the NDB storage API.

Developed Internal Training Mentored writers. Developed and taught live classes.

Documented Mobile Device Software Platform: Wrote how-to, conceptual, and API documentation for Openwave's then-new mobile phone software platform. Wrote sample code. Researched topics by reading source code and interviewing engineers.

Supported Developers and Wrangled Development Kit: Release engineer for platform's software development kit. Helped visiting manufacturer engineers with technical questions and debugging.

Programmed on New Legends, an XBox 3-D Beat-em-up game: Set up scripted game events using UnrealScript (a game-engine-specific scripting language). Some AI programming, setting up strategy for computer-controlled critters. Wrote Perl script to extract information from Premiere files useful for creating cutscenes.

Programmed W-CDMA smartphone: UI programmer on OS for Mitsubishi D2101v, a Japanese smartphone. Designed, specified API for new UI features. Used logic analyzer for performance testing. Wrote implementation specs for application coders. Mentored Japanese engineers.

Wrote WAP provisioning doc: Technical writing contract with browser maker Phone.com. Rewrote large part of chapter about over-the-air provisioning for device programmers porting Phone.com's browser to their phones.

Drafted Palm platform overview doc: Technical writing contract with Palm. Wrote a system software overview for potential licensees of their OS, explaining how to tweak software to support hardware changes. Topics ranged from UI design to communications protocols to microcontroller support.

Doc Lead on Embedded OS: Worked with a group to write online SDK docs for GEOS-SC, the OS on the Toshiba Genio, Toshiba Dialo, and Mitsubishi Moem-D Japanese smartphones. (Excerpts at https://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/manual/sc/en/) Co-ordinated & scheduled three other writers. Wrote sample applications for SDK. Coordinated with remote Japanese translation contractors.

Documented Visual Basic-like tool: Documented visual builder tool and BASIC language for Japanese engineers of Genio smartphone. Wrote sample code.

Documented Embedded OS: Worked with a group to write printed and online SDK docs for PC/GEOS, an OS which ran on Intel desktop machines and, later, on handheld devices and smartphones. (Excerpts at https://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/manual/geos/) Read x86 assembly language. Wrote sample code. Wrote about graphics, printing, BSD sockets, other topics.

Supported Developers: Provided developer support for application developers on PC/GEOS. Answered technical questions in forums and via email. Lectured visiting developers. Assisted in training labs.

Documented Hypercontent Editing Tool: Wrote user-level documentation for a WYSIWYG editor of proprietary-format hyperlinked documents.

Converted test scripts for use with new tool: Learned SQL. Learned VMS.

Studied: Learned about OS design, compiler design, digital circuit design, theory, and AI (including grad-level courses in vision and natural language processing). Helped students with homework as a lab assistant for introductory CS course.

Made Troubadour Tour Board, a walking-around game for mobile web. Back end on Google App Engine; client uses geolocation and WebGL.

Made Octothorpean, a puzzle hunt web app. Wrote the app and most of the puzzle content.