LabVIEW Mac Contractor Needed

Listen Inc. in Boston, MA has a large 3000+ VI application which we wish to port from Windows to Mac.  We would like a contractor who could do the bulk of this work for us.
We do not need you to be on site for this contract.  
You will need to sign a Non Disclosure Agreement.
Please send resumes and a cover letter (including a description of your experience with Mac Programming as well as LabVIEW) to [email protected] 
Examples of things which we need:
· replace windows registry calls with the Mac OS equivalent,
· replace calls to windows system dll’s to get the status of key presses, mouse positions, etc…  (this code was written before there were native LV ways of accomplishing such actions, so it may be straightforward to replace such blocks of code),
· LVToolbox.dll, LVWUtil32.dll (either strip or implement another way)
· System Information.vi (used in to determine if there is enough memory)
· copy text to clipboard.vi - requires user32.dll and kernel32.dll
· Get Windows Files Locations (Used to get path of users desktop folder)
· Get Command Line.vi (Gets command line program was called with)
· Set Window Z-Position.vi  - Sets window depth relative to other windows using windows system calls (instead of LabVIEW vi references)
· get font names.vi (read registry to get font names for the machine)

I have sent you an email with my resume (actually two, one was sent in error).
Putnam
Certified LabVIEW Developer
Senior Test Engineer
Currently using LV 6.1-LabVIEW 2012, RT8.5
LabVIEW Champion

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