Software Engineer

COLIN SMITH

*** **** ****** **** #*, Seattle, Washington 98102

206-***-****

*******@*****.***

SUMMARY:

Accomplished software-engineer/musician/problem-solver seeking full-time software engineering opportunity to

capitalize on a unique balance of creative and logical insight.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science from the University of Washington in Applied and Computational Math Sciences with focus on

Discrete Math, Algorithms and Computer Science in March of 2011.

EXPERIENCE:

Software Development Engineer – Amazon, Seattle, WA. (7/2011-6/2012)

Maintained and enhanced legacy internal tools for tracking and monetization of hardware requests using Perl,

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JavaScript, MySQL and HTML on Linux

Designed and developed major components in the redesign of hardware request tool using Ruby on Rails,

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JavaScript, MySQL

Wrote and executed detailed change management scripts for cross-team purposes: permissions management,

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data migrations, query based data changes, deprecation of legacy hardware request tool and setup of its

replacement.

Web Applications Engineer - Earthlink, New York, NY. (5/2000-9/2001), Seattle, WA. (9/2001-9/2002)

Web site production using Java/J2EE, EJB, XML, JSP, Sybase, MySQL and Oracle.

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Developed redesign of OneMain.com portal site, including parsing of XML and JavaScript data from content

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providers and brokering content based on user data.

Developed EJBs, Servlets and JSPs for Earthlink's 'Personal Start Page' and 'H20' web hosting and site

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management web applications.

Initiated and developed a framework to automate generation of test data for Java applications.

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Developed data structures for a warning message routing and aggregation system to notify designated recipients

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of issues across the Earthlink network and aggregate notifications according to recipient-specified rules.

Developer - i33 Communications/Appnet, New York, NY. (2/1999-5/2000)

Web site production using Java, Perl, HTML, JavaScript.

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Gained experience with Extreme Programming and test-first development.

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Wrote Java classes and Servlets providing dynamic content and shopping cart management for e-commerce

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jewelry-vendor site.

Developed the site's back-end administrative extranet for vendor order management.

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Was promoted from Junior Developer to Developer after three months for demonstrating self-taught skills with

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Perl CGIs and JavaScript.

Site Builder - IBM, New York, NY. (10/1998-2/1999)

Web site production for EWM Build Team tasked with IBM's Business-to-Business 'e-Commerce' campaign using

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HTML, JavaScript, Photoshop.

SKILLS:

Languages: Java, Perl, C/C++/C#, Lisp, Python, Ruby, SQL, PHP, XML/XHTML/XSL/XSLT, CSS, JavaScript, French.

Software: J2EE/JBoss/Tomcat, Oracle/MySQL/Sybase RoR, Unix/Mac/Windows, Matlab, Photoshop, Cubase.

Music: Digital recording and post production, drums, bass, guitar, vocals, songwriting.

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