J. PETER C. MARKUSH
1401 Early St., Charlottesville, VA 22902
(434) 295-6367

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Freelance Designer/Developer, Charlottesville, VA
December 2003–present
•    Created Little Mountain T’ai Chi Ch’uan and John Tansey web sites and Sugar Ridge Quartet logo, web site, and promotional materials.
•    Completed various other technical and graphical projects using Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and other tools.

Senior Software Engineer, Varian Medical Systems (formerly Multimedia Medical Systems), Charlottesville, VA
May 1996–December 2003
•    Actively participated in all stages of the development of commercial radiation therapy planning systems for Windows, including requirements specification, detailed object-oriented design, coding, and quality assurance using the Rational Rose design tool and Visual C++/MFC and OpenGL development technologies.
•    Developed a reusable ActiveX control for display of and user interaction with 3D models of patient anatomy.
•    Managed translation into French, Spanish, etc., of 3 major software projects, working with a localization vendor.

Graduate Research Assistant, Ctr. for Telecommunications Education and Research, Univ. of Ala. at Birmingham
September 1994–May 1996
•    Designed, developed, and secured corporate sponsors for the novel Networked Virtual Reality Medical Tutor prototype.
•    Wrote and co-wrote grant proposals for telemedicine, optics, and virtual reality projects.

Designer, Sonics Associates, Inc. (subsidiary of IMAX, Inc.), Birmingham, AL
March 1989–September 1994
•    Wrote computer scripts which reduced by an order of magnitude the time required to complete CAD drawings.

SPECIAL SKILLS AND AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Graphical design; web technologies; Windows user interface design and development; 3-D and 2-D graphics software development; object-oriented design (UML); project management; technical communication.

Programming languages and software tools: (X)HTML, Dreamweaver, Adobe PhotoShop, Visual C++/MFC, COM, ActiveX, ATL, OpenGL, Rational Rose, Visual Basic, VRML, C, Windows Sockets, AutoCAD.

EDUCATION:
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering: emphasis in Telecommunications, Digital Multimedia, March 1996, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering: specializing in Digital Systems, March 1992, UAB.

PUBLICATIONS & PATENT:
Markush, J. P. C., Grimes, G. J., Merril, J. R. "Investigations toward Using VRML for Distributed Medical Collaboration," Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, MIT Press, August 2000.

Grimes, G. J., Markush, J. P. C., et al, "Photonic Packaging Using Parallel Optical Data Links and Flexible Optical Circuits," Proceedings of the 46th Electronic Components and Technology Conference (IEEE), May 1996.

US Patent 6,360,116: Brachytherapy system for prostate cancer treatment with computer implemented systems and processes to facilitate pre-operative planning and post-operative evaluations. Jackson, Jr., et al. March 19, 2002.

AWARDS, MEMBERSHIPS, AND ACTIVITIES:
MCI Telecommunications Scholarship, 1996. Member, IEEE since 1991. Secretary, co-founder, and co-writer of bylaws, business plan, policies, and procedures for Little Mountain T'ai Chi Ch'uan Association.

REFERENCES: Available on request.