Quality Assurance Developer

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Related Work Experience

June 2006 - Present: Consulting Web Developer, Analyzed existing code and implemented changes for simplest solutions to redesign issues under strict time constraintsUtilized prior experience and education in reviewing both raw code and rendered pages to create a seamless user experienceDelivered timely results for clients including Citi Futures, AOL, Rich & Skinny Jeans, and Cook's Illustrated Magazine

July 2005 - July 2006: Systems Analyst, Trover Solutions Inc.Continued enterprise administrative duties from previous position and took charge of multiple lines of dataScripted and maintained screen-scraping programs to circumvent data feed problemsEstablished requirements, then designed, developed and deployed system enhancements for multiple clientsMade use of Oracle Forms Builder 9i, Allround Automations PL/SQL Developer 7, and QVCS version control

March 2005 - March 2008: Web Designer, Arts Commission of Danville and Boyle County Accommodated requirements and resources of a small nonprofit organizationDesigned standards-compliant tabular and CSS layoutDeveloped user-friendly MySQL / PHP backend, including news system, file archive, calendar, member profiles

January 2005 - May 2005: Co-author, "Graph Building as a Mining Activity: Finding Links in the Small"Primary author: Dr. Mehmed Kantardzic, University of LouisvilleDesigned and scripted MySQL parser for large text data set, then wrote module for node-link similarity miningPaper presented at the Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference, August 2005

June 2003 - July 2005: Software Intern, Trover Solutions Inc.Self-taught to understand and investigate four-year-old Oracle and Java software system with hundreds of thousands of lines of codePerformed quality assurance from both developer and user perspectivesDeveloped SQL-based bridge between independent issue-tracking and timekeeping systemsAdministered enterprise-level timekeeping system

Technical SpecialtiesCross-browser, standards-compliant, bloat-free HTML/CSS implementationLow-overhead Javascript and Ajax development (Prototype and Scriptaculous included)LAMP / PHP development (equally comfortable with object-oriented and procedural code)Fluent in Java, Python, C#, XML, MySQL, Oracle PL/SQL, PostgreSQL and SQL ServerExperienced in use of MS Office and OpenOffice, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Visual Studio 2005, Audacity and Subversion

Education

BS in Computer Science and Dramatic Arts, Centre College (2003)MS in Computer Science, Speed School of Engineering at University of Louisville (2005)

OtherWrite a new 101-word story daily, Monday through Friday, at Play hand percussion (cymbals, bongos, congas)Performed long-form improv comedy with local troupe Street LegalBuilt the computer on which this was typed

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