Brad Dewitt Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Provide product development, technical consulting, and implementations using technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Python, Swift, AWS Lambda, MySQL, GraphQL, React, Jira, Confluence, and Slack. Managed short-term contractors, providing guidance and ensuring high-quality deliverables.• Provide pre-acquisition/investment technical due diligence

Chicago

Chicago

Greater Chicago Area

Simply Awesome Software is a LLC I started in 2006 to sell games and shareware for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows CE, and Windows (desktop). These apps were originally released in 2010. Awesome Video Poker has nearly 200,000 downloads; 'Triple Play Video Poker' which was featured as the 'Amazon App of the Day' in November 2011

Greater Chicago Area

- Design, implement, and support network interfaces using Java in a Linux environment.These interfaces are both real-time and scheduled, and use XML, HL7, and WebServices.- Design and implement Swing based applications and tools for use by other engineers.- Provide technical guidance to development teams located in India. This included designand code reviews, as well as presenting high level design options.

Tucson, Arizona

- Design, maintain, and develop client/server applications in C and C++, using Visual Studio,and LabWindows/CVI. These multi-threaded network applications are object oriented in design, utilize TCP/IP sockets to connect to each other over a LAN, and control programmable hardware such as oscilloscopes, radiation sources, and coolant pumps.- Participant in the complete software development life-cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering, design, implementation, documentation, and maintenance.

Tucson, Arizona

ARGO Tracker was a start-up in Tucson, AZ that closed doors in September 2006.- Designed and implemented a live data server in Java capable of receiving several hundred simultaneous incoming TCP/IP connections. The server responds to telemetry data requests from devices in the field sent over cellular based mobile IP networks. It was the core of the ARGO Tracker ecosystem and a required 24/7 participant.- Designed and implemented a GUI using Swing to interface with the data server. This GUI was used to assist in remote troubleshooting and maintenance of hardware devices.- Assisted in design and maintenance of the MySQL database on a SUSE Linux platform.- Maintained and added functionality to the multi-threaded C software that ran on Tracker devices.

Portland, Oregon Area

- Developed add-ins in Visual Basic 6 for Microsoft Outlook.- Upgraded the flagship application, You Perform, from version 1.0 to 1.1. This included fixingbugs in the legacy code base, as well as adding new functionality to the application.- Built installers by writing and running batch scripts that modified library references andproperties in Visual Basic Project files, then used MS Visual Studio Installer to build an MSI installer that was distributed with You Perform 1.0.

Portland, Oregon Area

- I worked as a contract QA engineer while in graduate school. After graduating I accepted a permanent position.- Performed black box testing of educational software during various stages of thedevelopment cycle in Windows and Mac.- Performed regression tests and communicated with engineers regarding potential risk areas.- Assisted in recruiting, training, and leading contract QA staff.

Master Of Computer Science, Computer

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology