Resume
At A Glance
- Core contributor to the community source Kuali Financial System
- Master of Engineering, Computer Science, Cornell University
- 10 years of software development experience in Java/J2EE/Oracle, PHP/MySQL and Ruby/Rails/MySQL environments.
- Team leadership experience.
Selected Experience
Development Manager and Lead Developer, September 2006 - Present
Cornell University, Division of Financial Affairs, Kuali Project
Ithaca, NY
Cornell University, Division of Financial Affairs, Kuali Project
Ithaca, NY
- Technical leadership of geographically distributed development teams of 4 to 8 developers.
- Managing team time-lines and workload.
- Coordinating and leading technical analysis, design and development process.
- Coordinating efforts with other teams.
- Coordinating quality assurance process.
Technologies Used: Java/J2EE, XML, Oracle, Spring, Struts, OJB, Tomcat, Eclipse
Developer/DBA, March 2005 - September 2006
Cornell University, Division of Financial Affairs, Kuali Project
Ithaca, NY
Cornell University, Division of Financial Affairs, Kuali Project
Ithaca, NY
- Developer/DBA for a 800-ish table Oracle 10g database.
- Migrated General Ledger nightly batch processes from COBOL to Java.
- Developed user interface and transaction processing system using Struts & OJB (Apache).
Technologies Used: Java/J2EE, XML, Oracle, Spring, Struts, OJB, Tomcat, Eclipse, COBOL
Senior Programmer/Analyst, June 2004 - March 2005
Cornell University, Division of Financial Affairs
Ithaca, NY
Cornell University, Division of Financial Affairs
Ithaca, NY
- Technical leadership of 5 member development team.
- Migrated all financial applications from JRun4 to WebLogic 8.1.
- Developed new build system utilizing Ant.
- Significant performance tuning.
Technologies Used: Java/J2EE, XML, Oracle, Toplink, WebLogic 8.1, JRun 4, JBuilder
Freelance Web Developer, July 2002 - June 2004
Self Employed
Ithaca, NY
Self Employed
Ithaca, NY
- PHP/MySQL development for clients throughout the United States.
- Projects typically about 6 weeks in length and $5K - $15K.
Technologies Used: PHP, MySQL
Java Software Engineer/Team Lead, April 2001 - July 2002
Azurn Networks
Waltham, MA
Azurn Networks
Waltham, MA
- Developed core XML processing platform.
- Developed an IO protocol to handle multi-modal (voice, video and data) conferencing.
- Developed an HTTP server for delivering customized content based on configurable device profiles.
Technologies Used: Java/J2EE, XML, Oracle, OC4J, Eclipse, Nuance Speech Objects, WAP
Education
Master of Engineering, Computer Science, Cornell University, May 2007
- Coursework in Distributed Systems, System Security, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Technical Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Consulting.
Bachelor of Arts, Biology, Boston University, 1999
Research
Power-Aware Service Replication in Wireless Sensor Networks.
Adviser: Dr. Robbert Van Renesse.
Toolkit for Analyzing Web Graphs: A toolkit to enable analysis of the evolution of the link structure of the Internet.
Adviser: Dr. William Arms
Points of Interest
- Member, Boston University Mens Crew team (undefeated freshman season).
- House Director, Delta Gamma Sorority, Cornell University, 2004-present.
- Formerly nationally ranked clarinetist.