Summary
My strengths include programming, technical leadership, and team organization. I take code and applications to the next step by focusing on encapsulation, robustness, and modularity. I believe in good design, efficient execution and delivering high quality. I have excelled on projects ranging from Enterprise prototypes to dynamic web-based content management systems. I have 10 years experience with all Web 2.0 technologies.
Professional Experience
11/07 - Now
Staff Software Engineer - Paypal.com of San Jose, CA
- Founding member of CS SWAT team
- Optimize Account Home page load times by 4%
- Create trending application to monitor page response times
- Support new permissions request
09/04 - 11/07
XML/XSL Developer - Paypal.com of San Jose, CA
- Convert legacy CGI code to XML based templating language
- Instrumental in introduction Web 2.0 standards to site
- Create specialized Fraud Investigation page, which increased agent efficiency by over 600%
06/01 - 09/04
Sr. Web Applications Engineer - JWAY Group, Inc. of San Jose, CA
- Architect systems and data models for small to medium sized projects using UML and Use Case Driven Design
- Taught classes and led mentor sessions for Web Developers to learn basics and advanced techniques in the fields of ColdFusion, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Ant, Struts, Tomcat, LDAP, XML, XSL, and
JSP/Servlet
- Construct projects using Core J2EE patterns, Apache Struts, XSLT, EJB, and SOAP Web Services
- Optimized existing systems by reducing the database interaction action, improving SQL operations, and enhanced session management, which led to 75% faster load times
- Aided in Oracle data recovery resulting in a savings in excess
of $10,000
- Co-developed WAP tool for searching command library using WML,
XSL, & XML to be used with Palm, RIM pager, WAP-enabled phone
and PocketPC devices
- Managed teams of 2 – 7 developers to timely deliver stable,
sound projects that made the client happy!
- Led company to adopt Extreme Programming practice of development
and requirements exchanges to enable more predictable scheduling,
stronger test cases, pair programming, pattern usage and merciless
refactoring
05/98 - 08/98
Web Applications
Engineer - JWAY Group, Inc. of San Jose, CA
- Co-built a content management framework for developing web applications
that eases maintenance and modularity and utilizes XML for ease
of internationalization and localization
- Enhanced systems to add-on Verity Search, Real-time chat, message
boards & security/entitlement
- Developed internal tools to increase employee efficiency: wizard
to create db admin, employee database admin, software library,
process management documentation, and bug tracking process
- Designed ColdFusion application framework using the Model-View-Controller
paradigm
- Focused team meetings on requirement communication and design
implementation
- Designed and developed personalization / customization system
for Enterprise Web Application, using the technologies of ColdFusion,
WDDX, and DHTML
- Involved in network administration and server security implementation
05/99 - 06/01
Software Engineering
Test Intern - Microsoft/PowerPoint, Inc. of Cupertino, CA
- Researched and reported on in-house development tool for departmental
usage
- Created 70% of test files for department use with in-house development
tool
- Contributed to automated testing and system evaluation using
VB
- Created test scripts to open PowerPoint dialogs, which were
used in the International Testing pack
Skills & Accreditations
- Allaire(Macromedia) Certified ColdFusion Developer
- SUN Microsystems Certified JAVA Programmer
- IBM Certified Developer - XML and Related Technologies
- Languages: Java, ColdFusion, HTML, SQL, JavaScript, CSS, DHTML,
XML (XSL, WML, Xpath), PHP
- Technologies: J2EE (JSP, Servlets), SunOne, Oracle 9 DB, MS
Access, MS SQL Server 2000, Postgress, OpenLDAP, Castor, JSTL, MySQL
- OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP, Solaris (CDE), Linux (Red Hat)
- Servers: Allaire JRUN, ColdFusion (3.0, 4.0+), MS IIS (PWS),
Jakarta Tomcat, Orion, iPlanet (4.1, 6.0),
Jboss EJB server, GLUE Soap Server, OpenJMS, CruiseControl, Hudson
- Tools: ColdFusion Studio, VI, EMACS, telnet, CVS (WinCVS), Cygwin, Ant and
JEdit, ClearCase, ClearQuest, UCM, Subversion,
- Frameworks: jQuery, CodeIgniter, Smarty Templates, Flot, Google maps API, Spring, SpringWeb
Education
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San Jose State University in San Jose, CA
(1999)
BS in Computer Engineering
last updated: Mar 08, 2010
