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Culver City, California, Us

Victoria, British Columbia, Ca

San Jose, California, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Developer of internal tools for TiVo. Heavy use of Python/Django and various scripting languages.

Turlock, California, Us

Turlock, California, Us

Honored employee - was awarded recognition In April 2009. The only person in a 200+ employee company to be honored the entire year of 2009. Assisted with migration from Sun Web Server to Apache. Wrote Perl scripts to automatically migrate a huge list of redirects from Sun's XML redirect configuration to Apache's text based format. Heavy use of JQuery and Ajax to create a personal health record editor for users of the MedicAlert service. This replaced an old broken system and the company was extremely pleased to go from several dozens of customer complaints per day to virtually zero. Developed a class library in C# which was registered as a COM component and served as a transport for web service calls between a legacy VB6 app and newer web services. Wrote and maintained a huge library of Bash and Perl scripts to automate tasks which were performed manually. This saved the foundation hundreds of man-hours over time, and allowed engineers to focus on new enhancements.

Greenwood Village, Co, Us

Developed an automatic update client in C# - run silently on the field by hundreds of ambulance which would query a web service to determine if a newer version of software was available. If a new package was available it queue up the download using Microsoft's Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) API, which would trickle download the file based on limited internet availability on the field. When the download was complete, the application would spin up multiple threads which would decrypt the archive and extract, then automatically restart the necessary modules. Every bit of this was done without any UI interaction - completely invisible to the user. Created a very sophisticated C# console based daemon app which would monitor Tracy Fire Department's live data stream and send information to AMR's Ambulance dispatcher units through a six-step process of downloading, extracting, converting, processing, uploading, and logging. This data was emergency-service-critical and the daemon needed to be rock solid. It never once went down. Developed a desktop application which made heavy use of WPF and WCF to dynamically update UI components at runtime. XML UI definitions were downloaded from a server using WCF and the forms were updated in real time. This allowed the UI to be updated without the application to ever be restarted. Became proficient in Windows PowerShell to create build scripts and deployment scripts for a multi-user development environment. BeJane

Greenwood Village, Co, Us

Worked on EPCR (Electronic Patient Care) software and created automatic-update functionality to keep field ambulance laptops up to date with no user interaction.

Worked on a tile map level editor.

Developed Drupal modules in PHP to customize a high-traffic startup website.Wrote scripts to migrate existing forums (PHPBB) to Drupal Forums.Used Perforce heavily for source control management.Wrote scripts to process video files uploaded by users and convert them into various formats for streaming on the web and mobile devices. Essentially created a mini-YouTube.

Turlock, California, Us

Introduced and implemented object/relational persistence tools. Created entire class library, then used NHibernate to logically map all objects to existing database structure. Then created very simple CRUDs to allow edits through a .NET Web Service.

Migrated database from Oracle to SQL Server. Developed entire cashiering system from the ground up using C# and SQL Server. This included an expansion of their database schema and migration of portions of an old, undocumented Cobol application. Created a ASP.NET web-based court calendar application to assist with the scheduling of court cases. This calendar has become a key component in their day-to-day operations and was featured in an article in the Modesto Bee.

Developed a front-end Windows Forms user interface for data entry of lenders. Also created an auto-updating component that would query an internal web server on each launch, looking for updates. If updates were available, it would update the application and restart the application, all transparent to the user. Performed load testing for migrating an existing application from JRUN to Tomcat with clustering and load balancing. Wrote an extensive logging framework for tracking and debugging issues within the enterprise applications.

Developed a front-end C# Windows Forms user interface for data entry of lenders. Also created an auto-updating component that would query an internal web server on each launch, looking for updates. If updates were available, it would update the application and restart the application, all transparent to the user. Performed load testing for migration of an existing application from JRUN to Tomcat with clustering and load balancing. Wrote an extensive logging framework for tracking and debugging issues within the enterprise applications. Used Perforce heavily for source control management. Worked very closely alongside the build engineer to script advanced builds and source control administration/backups.

Used advanced geometry to create a geocoding algorithm which was capable of guessing the geographic location of a street address. Created a real-time hierarchical database tracer for tracing pipe networks upstream or downstream. Developed a modular Web application framework backend in ColdFusion with a skinnable front-end. Designed, architected, and programmed many GIS solutions on a variety of platforms including ColdFusion, ASP.NET (C#), and J2EE (Tomcat). Interfaced with many different database platforms including DB2, Oracle 8/9i, SQL Server, Microsoft Access, DBF, SHP, SDF, MySQL, and many more. Performed advanced file I/O on the SHP binary file format. This included parsing header information and creating a separate index file containing file offset addresses of key data. Created T-SQL and PL/SQL stored procedures for nightly batch processing of geographical data.

Used advanced geometry to create a geocoding algorithm which was capable of guessing the geographic location of a street address. Created a real-time hierarchical database tracer for tracing pipe networks upstream or downstream. Developed a modular Web application framework backend in ColdFusion with a skinnable front-end. Designed, architected, and programmed many GIS solutions on a variety of platforms including ColdFusion, ASP.NET (C#), and J2EE (Tomcat). Interfaced with many different database platforms including DB2, Oracle 8/9i, SQL Server, Microsoft Access, DBF, SHP, SDF, MySQL, and many more. Performed advanced file I/O on the SHP binary file format. This included parsing header information and creating a separate index file containing file offset addresses of key data. Created T-SQL and PL/SQL stored procedures for nightly batch processing of geographical data. Worked heavily with COM components interacting between applications, and developed some ActiveX components used in web applications.

Developed a secure authentication system for subscribers to an e-zine. (ASP 3.0) Migrated a database of over 100,000 subscribers to a normalized database in SQL Server 2000.

Sacramento, California, Us

Managed a team of four developers in the creation of an intranet application for data entry. This included a rich front-end - heavy in JavaScript/DHTML, and a powerful back-end in ColdFusion. Developed a database logging system which would track the speed and accuracy of individual data entry clerks.

Created dynamic front-end pages for large sites such as Pottery Barn, Williams-Sonoma, and Toys 'R' Us. Lead a team of six engineers for the entire front-end development of Williams-Sonoma Online Wedding Registry.

Performed maintenance on a high-traffic web site to decrease load times. Optimized back-end ColdFusion code to decrease server impact during peak traffic.

Used ColdFusion to create dynamic Web applications for several clients. Created an online telephone prefix lookup to find local numbers for a large ISP. Work samples, articles, performance reports, skill details, etc. are all available upon request.