Steve Bitner Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Newport, Rhode Island

Worked as satellite communication spectrum engineer supporting contingency operations on the African Continent. Additionally designed and managed a Microsoft SharePoint knowledge management portal and led a security clearance maintenance program for over 50 personnel.Qualified Information Dominance Warfare Officer in September of 2013.

Greater St. Louis Area

PHP/MySQL software engineer. Works within custom framework for developing prototype webpages and websites to support A/B and multivariate site testing on one of the top ten ad-based revenue generating websites in the world. Optimizes caching, SQL queries and PHP scripting in order to minimize time to first byte responses for users and web crawlers. Maintains a content management system used on live website to generate new article content by over 1000 expert contributors.

Fort Leavenworth, Ks And Monterey, Ca

Helped to enhance and maintain simulation software used to support high level decision making processes by senior Army officials in the procurement and force structure arenas.Created a web-based personnel and project management software system to track personnel hours against billable projects as well as monitor and approve paid time off requests and comp/over time.Served as the project lead overseeing contract software developers as well as military strategists, historians and statisticians in the development of a geo-spatial software tool that is now used in theater in Afghanistan and several academic institutions across the United States and the United Kingdom to perform exploratory data analysis based on geospatial and temporal data sets. Also served as project lead on an analysis effort to assess the effectiveness of village stability operations and focused operations when performed by general purpose forces instead of special operations force personnel.Supported data collection cell working with military forces from Israel and Sweden in vehicle alternative testing and exercises in Israel and Fort Bliss, TX. Created data survey generation, collection and analysis software tool that enabled exercise modifications on a 12 hour timeline due to first line automated data processing.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Primary software engineer for the development and maintenance of Dealighted.com. Responsible for all front end HTML/CSS/JS integration as well as back end PHP/MySQL database storage, administration and scripting. Set up Amazon mTurk interface and processing scripts in order to automate basic site tasks.Designed and implemented multivariate testing for ResellerRatings.com approval seal program. Created detailed statistical reports to support program decisions as well as sales initiatives for merchant services via ResellerRatings.com.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

I created a new curriculum for and taught introduction to web development. This course laid the groundwork for students to write their own dynamic, data-driven websites using PHP/MySQL with an HTML/JQuery/CSS front end.Taught C++ programming course covering basic data structures such as stacks, queues, linked-lists and basic object oriented design principles. This is a core level ABET accredited course.

Ms, Phd, Computer Science

Jonsson Fellow, ASEE SMART Fellow

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Math, Physics and Computer Science Tutor at the Student Learning Assistance Center.