Candlelight Software is an independent software consulting and contracting service located in Northern California servicing the Bay Area. Our specialty is N-Tier J2EE solutions base on either the commercially stable BEA WebLogic 8.1 Product Suit or the more innovative open-source technologies such as JBoss Application Server and XDoclet generation engine. We also cover a wide domain of disciplines ranging from operating systems through real-time embedded systems.

Steven Punte, a brilliant architect and system specialist hailing from Hewlett Packard, Punte excels at leading edge technologies and extreme software development tactics. Punte's ability to apply what he calls a "real world feel" to cutting edge software engineering makes him a world class IT man. He is known for his "Xml Directed Software" architectures and lightweight design methodologies, otherwise known as "extreme programming." Before launching his own consulting firm, Punte served as System Architect for IntellectMarket.com designing a next generation "smart-repository" and championed the Software Component Capsule Specification. At Technologent, Punte was Senior Architect and e-commerce group manager. At various divisions in Hewlett Packard, he was titled Senior Software Systems Engineer, member of the Horizon Software Reuse and lead of Microwave Source Embedded Firmware projects and Network Analyzer of Embedded Firmware. Punte graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor in electrical engineering and cum laude with a masters in electrical engineering from UC Santa Barbara. He is currently pursuing a master of science in computer science from Stanford University.

MS-CS Stanford: Remote Education Program In Progress

Approximately 50% completed through HP-Stanford remote program. Completed courses are: language and automata theory, logic theory, distribute networks, Internet technologies, Java, operating systems, compiler theory, and data base theory.

MS-EECS U.C. Santa Barbara: June 1986 (cum laude)

Emphasis in communications, signal encoding and processing system identification, information theory, control theory, and computer science.

BS-EECS U.C. Santa Barbara: June 1983 (summa cum laude)

Emphasis in microwave engineering, circuit and filter theory, and RF communications. Minor in Biochemistry.

Short Term Consulting

For small engagements under 100 hours billable rate is $100/hour.

Long Term Contracting

For engagements over 100 hours billable rate is $80/hour.

Presently immediately available.