Career Goals:
I would like to work in a small team making a quality product. Special interests are innovative techniques in development (such as XP), Artificial Intelligence, web programming, and game design.

Work Experience:

• Computing:
  • 2003-Present - Developer, Fleming-AOD Inc. Fleming-AOD, Inc. is a Silver Spring, MD-based corporation offering a broad range of services and solutions to a diverse client base. Although best known for innovative thin client information and outcomes systems, Fleming-AOD also offers comprehensive policy analysis and policy modeling services. Duties include:
    • Product development in JSP/Java with a Postgres backend, taking projects from ideas to fully-realized products.
    • Sample: Developed Time Series graphing of outcomes information
    • Sample: Developed comprehensive Customer Relationship Manager for in-house and client use.
    • Sample: Developed Monolithic Information System for organizing a theater automation company's rental system.
  • 2002 - Senior Vice President of Development for MetaMachine Inc. MetaMachine makes file-sharing software. Duties have included:
    • Web site enhancements - creation of banner ad management system, user registration and credit-card processing system. (PHP/MySQL)
    • User interface design and implementation for file-sharing client (C#)
    • Maintenance to previous client (C, C++)
    • Misc. scripting and automation tasks (Python)
    • Back-End coding for www.transmissionfilms.com, a partner company devoted to selling movies over the web.
  • 2000-2001 - Software Engineer for TopicalNet Inc. TopicalNet is a startup in the knowledge management space, operating out of Woburn MA. Projects at TopicalNet included:
    • product development in PHP/MySQL - Took several projects from the idea stage to fully-operational demos.
    • webserver enhancements in C - Added new features to a proprietary web server
    • client/server programming - starting from scratch, created a client/server architecture. Later, implemented XML communications protocol with full error-checking.
    • product development in C/QT - from idea to early demo
    • Linux/Windows systems administration.
  • 1999-2000 - Laboratory and Residential Assistant Technician for Hampshire College Academic Computing. Responsibilities included campus-wide technical support, and primary responsibility for supervising a 30-computer student lab.
  • Summer 1999 - Assistant Java Programmer for FOREST project jointly sponsored by Hampshire College and University of Massachusetts Amherst. The FOREST project is an application being developed to aid in the teaching of forestry by computer modeling. Responsibilities were to develop an add-on graphing package to the existing application, using a third-party graphing API.
  • Summer 1997, 1998 - General computing and technology expert at Community and Rural Development Institute, Cornell University. Duties included updating website, troubleshooting hardware problems, installing and supporting software, various OS updates, and general tech support.

Computer Skills:

• Literate in DOS, Windows, UNIX, and Mac operating systems.
• Extensive experience installing hardware in PC-compatible architecture.
• Extensive experience troubleshooting Windows 95/98/2000 problems, including networking.
• Experience with HTML interface design and implementation
• Extensive experience picking up languages, APIs, and environments on the fly, and still getting the task done.
• Extensive knowledge of these language/APIs - Able to design, drive a project, and get it right the first try.
  • Java core
  • JSP
  • Postgres
  • C
  • C#/.NET
  • PHP/MySQL
• Good knowledge of these language/APIs - Able to participate in project design, and easily work with others.
  • C++
  • Common Lisp/CLOS
  • JavaScript
  • Java Swing
  • pthreads library
  • MFC
• Working knowledge of these language/APIs - Able to accomplish basic tasks, demonstrated ability to pick area up on the fly.
  • OpenGL/glut
  • 80X86 Assembly
  • TrueBasic
  • Scheme
  • Java Server Pages/TomCat
  • QT for Windows
• Experience with these programming environments:
  • gcc under *nix and windows
  • Visual Cafe for Windows
  • Visual C++ for Windows
  • EditPlus for windows
  • Emacs for windows and *nix

• 1996-2000 Hampshire College Amherst MA 01002
  BA: Computer Science and Cognitive Science
  Graduated May 2000
  
• 1989-96 Alternative Community School Ithaca NY 14850
  Graduated June 1996