Thomas W.

Farthing
2107 Countryside Circle
Naperville, Illinois 60565
(630) 416-0474
tom@farthing.us
SUMMARY
Wide variety of experience in fostering good relations and getting people to work
together. History of high quality completion of projects. Quick learner with excellent
teamwork and problem solving skills.
EXPERIENCE
Little Friends
Naperville, Illinois
Teachers Aide
8/2008
present
Helped run classroom for special needs children. Provided structure
and emotional support for autistic and developmentally delayed
children. Prepared the children for transition to mainstream schools
and to adulthood. Coordinated responsibilities with other classroom
aides and helped train newer aides.
Bank of America
Chicago, Illinois
Historical Data Software Engineer
3/2003 3/2008
Member of the Historical Data group. Monitored, enhanced and corrected a system of
Unix ksh and perl scripts and C/C++ programs that load and use data in xmim and
Sybase databases. Coordinated move of the loading processes from a HP-UX to Sun
operating system. Wrote java programs using JBuilder to calculate historical interest
rates and discount factors. Coordinated data server move from Sun to Linux.
Bank of America
Chicago, Illinois
Financial Calculations Software Engineer
7/1995 2/2003
Member of the software support team for the options trading group within the bank.
Programming experience with C++ language; Unix script programming; Sybase; zApp
and Cscape GUI tools. Responsible for new development of components used by over
one hundred in-house option trading applications for the ongoing overall maintenance of
those trading applications. Worked closely with users to resolve issues.
S. G. Warburg Options, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois
Quantitative Research Software Engineer
7/1992 6/1995
Member of a small options trading firm's quantitative research group combining
computer and mathematical expertise to develop software for option valuation and
trading. Programming experience with C/C++ language; Unix programming including
sed, awk and shell scripts; Windows programming in Sunview and Openwindows; and
Sybase database programming. As trading operations expanded from Chicago to six
international locations, took initiative to contact overseas traders regularly, which led to
much more effective use of the trading tools.
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois
Call Processing Software Developer
12/1985 5/1992
C language programming in Unix environment for real-time, event-driven system.
Software skills in requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging and

maintaining. Mentored several new group members to help them get on board and
become productive quickly.

Graduate Assistant, Clemson University

Clemson, South Carolina
Instructor
8/1983 5/1985
Developed public speaking skills through preparation and presentation of lectures.
Corrected all work and assigned grades. Taught courses in Probability, Algebra and
Trigonometry.
EDUCATION
Illinois Institute of Technology
Graduate level computer science courses.

Chicago, Illinois
12/1989

Clemson University
Master's degree in Mathematical Sciences.

Clemson, South Carolina

8/1985

Kalamazoo College
Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics.

Kalamazoo, Michigan
6/1983

Other Interests
Training a group of University of Chicago students in change ringing, church retreat
leader, choir, guitar, harmonica.