High School Customer
Resume:
Paul A. Jungwirth
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Lansdowne, PA 19050 (Philadelphia area)
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I Can
Listen to the customer, clarify their wishes, and discover hidden requirements.
Lead software teams (so far, up to 4 other developers).
Coordinate IT, creative staff, programmers, and management across multiple companies.
Write clear specifications and proposals, whether brief (1 page) or elaborate (200
pages).
Accurately estimate projects (so far, up to $250,000 over 3 months for 3 developers).
Juggle competing priorities.
Work productively with little supervision.
Manage customer expectations.
Argue a point and concede cheerfully if a team chooses something else.
Design intuitive user interfaces.
Design a normalized and efficient database schema.
Design stable class interfaces to ease team-based software development.
Judge when to build for tomorrow and when to build for now, when to abstract and when to
code the thing itself.
Track down difficult bugs with patience and not superstition.
Package software so it is easy to install.
Document and test my code.
Choose an appropriate technology/platform for a given problem.
Find existing libraries to avoid Not Invented Here syndrome.
Evaluate and choose from among different vendors.I Know
Primary Languages Ruby, Javascript/jQuery, Java, C#, Perl, Python, Bash, SQL
Secondary Languages C, R, PHP, PL/SQL, Objective C, Visual Basic
Tertiary Languages* Lua, Applescript, Lisp, Scheme, Prolog, C++, MIPS Assembly, Pascal
Ruby Stack Ruby on Rails, Haml, Sass, Phusion Passenger, Mongrel, Innumerable gems
Java Stack Hibernate, J2EE, Tomcat, JSP, Struts, Tapestry, Spring
Scalability Load-Balancing, Database Replication, Failover, Share-Nothing Architecture,
Memcached
Cloud AWS EC2, S3, ELB, Route 53, Heroku
DevOps Chef, Capistrano, Graphite, StatsD, Nagios, Munin, Monit, Apache
Social Media Integration with Facebook, Twitter, Google, Wordpress
RDBMSes Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS Access, FileMaker Pro
Development Tools Ant, Maven, Eclipse, vi, Spring, Log4j, Mantis, RPM, Launch4j
Testing RSpec, WebRat, JUnit, HttpUnit, Mock Objects, Cactus*, JMeter*
Source Code Control Git, Github, Subversion, CVS, Clearcase*, RCS, Scmbug
J2EE EJB, JBoss, Websphere*, XDoclet, Web Services
Credit Cards PayPal, Cybercash, Payflo Pro
Shipping FedEx, USPS, UPS, CorrectAddress
XML SAX, DOM, XSLT, XPath, FO, XSD, DTD, namespaces, XMLRPC, SOAP, WSDL
Print FrameMaker, Miramo, QuarkXPress, LATEX, Illustrator, Photoshop, Distiller, Apache
Poi
Net DNS, FTP, SMTP, snoop, tcpdump, iptables, ipchains, ssh, rsync, DHCP
Miscellaneous Unicode, Remind, Gnuplot, X11, GPG, JSON, YAML, Markdown
*Limited Experience
I Was
Open Source Contributor
Authored: db_leftovers gem, Launch4j Maven Plugin, SimpleHitCounter Wordpress Plugin,
ByeGmail Firefox Plugin.
Bug reports or fixes: Json.Net, Jurabib, XDoclet, Maven, Zillow.
StackOverflow contributor with reputation of 1296, as of 20 February 2012.Founder & CTO
ElectNext
Philadelphia, PA
February 2011present
Built web application to help voters find the best candidates, using gamified, crowd-
sourced content.
Accepted to DreamIt, Wharton Venture Initiation Program, and GoodCompany accelerator
programs.
Founder
Illuminated Computing
illuminatedcomputing.com
March 2006present
Built, expanded, and maintained e-commerce web applications, mostly while in grad school.
Software EngineerBanta Integrated Media: Internet Solutions
Cambridge, MA
September 2002August 2005
Tech lead on several websites; programmed and directed other developers for up to a dozen
at once.
Turned around a failing customer account by negotiation and attention to detail.
Responsible for everything from requirements gathering to design to implementation to
launch to support.
Negotiated and coordinated between IT, the customer, and other developers.
Won more revenue by proposing projects that helped our customers.
Championed and implemented a continuous build/test cycle.
Technical Services EngineerBanta Integrated Media: Digital Content Management
Cambridge, MA
May 2001September 2002
Implemented custom solutions related to a distributed content management application,
including business system integration; output to HTML, XML, and print (QuarkXPress); and
inventory/pricing integration.
Solved customer issues.
Contributed bugfixes to core application code.
Helped hire an excellent employee.
Technical EditorXyan.com
Needham, MA
September 2000May 2001
Hired ostensibly as a technical editor, assigned to data entry for large hardware
catalogs.
Facilitated my work by writing Perl scripts.
Saved hundreds of hours of proofreading and corrections by fixing a QuarkXPress utility.
Debugged a QuarkXPress utility saving hundreds of hours of proofreading and corrections.
I Studied
Ph.D. in Classical Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
2007 present
Robert A. Fox Presidential Prize Fellow.
Taught four semesters of Latin & Ancient Mythology.
Greek, Latin, Distributed Computing, other topics
Harvard Extension School
Cambridge, MA
1994, 20012005
B.A. in English Literature
Willamette University
Salem, OR
19951999
Tested out of Intro to Programming.
Took Data Structures & Algorithms, Programming Languages, Machine Organization.
Minored in mathematics; gave an extra-curricular talk on Godel's Incompleteness Theorem.
National Merit Scholar; Magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa.
Other
Eagle Scout.
California Boys' State.
High School & College Speech & Debate.
GRE: 800 verbal, 790 math, 5.5 writing, taken October 2007.
Active member of Philly.rb, Philly Tech Meetup, PLUG.
Have given talks on jQuery and Rails ActiveRecord
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