Engineer Development

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James J. Sawczuk

Education

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Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, OH

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Minor, Mathematics

Courses taken include: software/web engineering, databases, operating systems,

networking, artificial intelligence, cryptography

Acted as team leader on several large team projects, including a data-driven website

project

Led a senior project which was a large system with web application, web services

application, client and iPhone client components, with the purpose of synchronizing users'

address books across services

GPA: 3.42

Experience

6/2009presentLouddoor, LLC

Columbia, SC

Software Engineer

Developed applications for the Facebook platform to serve millions of users

Leveraged a LAMP stack with memcache on an EC2 instance to deploy highly scalable

applications

Involved with implementing a Facebook Page management platform

Involved in a ground-up redesign of the corporate website

Developed an HTML5/CSS/JavaScript-based dashboard optimized for a 1080p display that

rotates through vital business statistics throughout the day

Spearheaded the development of a business pivot to Facebook Page audience analytics

Worked in a highly agile and fast-moving environment, grew used to fluid specifications

Spoke at a local tech group about Facebook platform development

6/20075/2009Lazorpoint, LLC

Cleveland, OH

Application Developer - Intern

Client Services Engineer - Intern

Assisted clients with basic PC issues as well as network, server and printer issues

Made recommendations for hardware and software upgrades for various clients

Continually monitored clients networks to ensure continued stability

Worked with other engineers to standardize a network monitoring system

Created custom, data-driven applications for various clients

Gained experience in .NET development, report development and handheld development

Worked with other developers to standardize practices including application deployment

techniques, version control management, and product testing standards

5/20067/2006City of Mentor

Mentor, OH

Engineering Intern11/20038/2005Perry Local SchoolsIS Department

Perry, OH

Web Programmer/Designer

Content management and addition for faculty and staff

Worked with other students on several larger projects, including a high school course

registrar and a course database complete with objectives

Skills

Development environments: Extensive experience with Visual Studio; familiar with Adobe

Creative Suite (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop)

Programming languages: Extensive experience with PHP (standard and MVC paradigms), C#,

HTML/XHTML, CSS, Javascript/jQuery; experience in C++, Python, Ruby on Rails

APIs: Extensive experience with the Facebook platform (Graph API, Canvas apps);

experience with the Twitter API

Databases: Extensive experience with MySQL and SQL Server development/optimization; some

experience with MongoDB, MySQL/SQL Server administration, Reporting Services development

Operating Systems: Extensive experience with Windows 98 through Windows 7, Mac OS X;

experience in Linux (desktop, terminal, and programming); some experience with Amazon EC2

set-up and administration

Office software: Extensive experience with the Microsoft Office suite, Sharepoint usage;

some experience with Sharepoint development (70-541 passed)

Other: Experience with Mathematica, Subversion, Mercurial, Git, and CVS version control,

Memcache, Sharepoint application/workflow development

Other

Created a small blog website that operated for almost four years. Users were allowed to

upload photos, write journal entries, etc. Source available upon request.

Implemented and open-sourced a WordPress theme from scratch for my personal blog.

Created and currently administer a website frontend and Google Apps-based backend of a

local church technology stack for about 25 users, including e-mail, calendars, chat and a

custom website.

Took and completed the inaugural free machine learning class from Stanford and Coursera

with a final score of 100%.

Microsoft Certified Professional ID: 6635414Stack Overflow: Jimmy Sawczuk

GitHub: github.com/jimmysawczuk

BitBucket: bitbucket.org/jimmysawczuk

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