Engineer Management

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Experienced Engineer and Information and System Architect looking for new challenges.

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Skills

Ruby, Rails and other Web Scripting Languages and Technologies, WebService and

Middleware Tiers, Metadata Development, Objective C, Java, C++, Information Organization,

Information Retrieval Systems, Controlled Vocabularies, Client-server and Multi-tier

Architectures, Information Architecture, Design Patterns, SQL and RDBMS, AWS, Smalltalk,

REST Web Services, Non Confrontational Mediation, Program Management, Partner

Relationships, Technical Mentoring, Engineering Processes, iPhone Development, Filenet

APIs.

Experience

Web Application Engineer, Giant Campus; Seattle, WA 3/2010 to date

Development lead at an Online Education Provider. Design and develop site features and

reporting infrastructure in support of student learning and state reporting requirements.

Communicate with non-technical staff. Created SaaS-based service for running customer

sites. Manage Production IT of existing Giant Campus infrastructure post-merger. Currently,

helping design and prototype enterprise system architecture.

Consultant, Monstrous LLC; Seattle, WA and Austin, TX 6/2010 to date

As the lead server engineer, architect and develop high performance backends for online

games based on Rails. Interface with front end development and management team. Plan

and create deployment strategies. Create web service-based backends for iPhone and

HTML 5 Games designed for large user populations. Product was based on Rails with

processing queues based on Resque/Redis, and deployed on Heroku with asset storage on

AWS.

CTO, Tango Marketing Group; Portland, OR 6/2008 to 2/2009

CTO of a Portland-based stealth marketing startup. As lead and frequently only member of

the technical staff, responsibility included everything from specifying architecture and

deployment to engineering and development tasks. Product was based on Rails and

deployed to Amazon EC2 with asset storage on AWS S3

Self-Employed; Seattle, WA 7/2006 - 3/2010

Developed web applications for client and public release. Aided companies in analyzing busi-

ness plans and strategic direction. Helped companies transition and upgrade software pack-

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github.com/corprew ages. Requirements gathering. Program Management. Developed HTTP-based web serv-

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ices for web clients and iPhone games. Ran annual conference for local Information Science

community. Developed software for document classi cation and management. Created

mobile applications. Strategic consulting and CMS deployments for scienti c and research

organizations. Projects included a Yelp-like application for people with Celiac disease based

on Rails, a project in support of Oceanographic research at UW APL based on Drupal/PHP,

and other projects.

Web Systems Director, Static Factory Media; Seattle WA 10/2004 to 05/2006

Strategic Planning, Information Architecture, System Administration and Project Evaluation

for a Seattle-based new media and youth education startup. As the senior technical staff

member, advised the executives on technical and business matters.

Principal Engineer, FileNet Corporation; Kirkland, WA 9/1996 to 1/2005

Speci ed, designed and developed web, backend, and middleware products for Content

and Document Management. Worked independently on add-on products and as part of

larger multi-location teams on platform products. Helped educate junior engineers.

Designed and Implemented APIs for external and internal developers to use to access server

as a middleware tier. Taught classes to marketing and development staff. Worked

independently with partners and customers to design and create integrations. Took

professional development courses including Management and Project Management.

Represented company in standards efforts (JSR170.) Most development work was based in

C++ and Java on multiple platforms, with focus on performance and multithreading issues,

largely in the platform and system engineering role rather than the front-end developer role.

Developer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Cold Spring Harbor, NY 6/1991 to

2/1996

Software Engineer at an independent research laboratory. Helped create genomics software

and information retrieval systems in support of genetics and cancer research. Represented

the lab in standards efforts (HTML 2.x.)

Education

University of Chicago, AB History, 92

University of Washington Information School MLIS Program, 04- 06

Volunteer Experience

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Board Member, Ignition NW; Seattle, WA 7/2005 to 6/2008, 3/12 to date

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Board member and volunteer for a Seattle-based Participatory arts non-profit.

Co-Creator, InfoCamp; Seattle, WA 2007, 2008

One of the founders of an unconference aimed at information science professionals

(Information Architects, Taxonomists, Librarians.) As part of this, restarted the local

Information Science professional society chapter (PNW ASIS&T) and served as the treasurer

for two years.

Ranger Lead, Burning Man Project; Black Rock CIty, NV 8/99 to date

As a volunteer for the Burning Man Project, I help lead and manage a volunteer community

mediation group during the event. Through this, I have gained negotiation, leadership, and

crisis management skills.

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