Developer Software
Resume:
Josh Heumann
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Portland, OR 97202 ****@***********.***
A people-positive nerd who speaks both human and computer and loves translating between the two.
Experience
Senior Software Developer, Strategic Data, Melbourne, Australia, 2009-2012
Strategic Data provides data collection, processing, management and analysis services, primarily for
Australian universities, and various governmental organizations. http://strategicdata.com.au/
Improved project scoping and client communication by implementing agile practices.
Worked closely with QA to shepherd projects through quickly and vetted thoroughly.
Developed a web-based system to collect, calculate and report KPIs for Australia's mental health
organizations.
Guided technical side of gathering requirements with clients.
Created internal feature demo and code reuse repository, saving time and enabling the company to
take on more clients.
Championed efforts to provide tools for nontechnical users and client-focused tool design, including
intuitive access to advance tools.
Trained junior developers in Modern Perl including Catalyst and Moose.
Senior Software Developer, realestate.com.au, Melbourne, Australia, 2007-2009
One of the highest-trafficked websites in Australia, realestate.com.au is the biggest and most well-
known place for buying, selling, renting, and letting housing in Australia. http://realestate.com.au
Improved communication between engineers and upper management.
Worked with technical writers to help them make great documentation.
Led meetings, defined processes, and resolved technical issues with a large QA team to get projects
into production more quickly.
Led requirements gathering with developers, management and clients.
Created a culture of training and internal education; organized a Test Club for employees to learn
about testing during non-work time.
Introduced testing and testing standards to provide a basic level of confidence for a highly
complicated legacy application.
Redesigned database interface for Australia's largest real estate website to bring it up to modern
standards.
Developed experimental projects to showcase product potential, creating an environment of
innovation and experimentation.
Introduced, promoted, and educated the team on agile development practices; trained developers on
testing, modern programming practices, and teamwork.
Programmer, Rentrak Corporation, Portland, Oregon, 2005-07
Providing the entertainment industry with advanced data processing on movies bought, sold, rented,
streamed, played in theaters, and played on demand, Rentrak translates trillions of data points into
useful user intelligence for the companies that make, provide, and sell movies and television.
http://rentrak.com
Object-oriented Perl pair programming in a large-scale report-based statistics application with
300,000+ lines of code and 400,000+ lines of tests.
Trained junior developers in the company's coding standards and practices.
Created, tested and maintained data importers and reports.
Wrote complex SQL queries for Oracle and PostgreSQL databases.
Developed and improved Site News and Title Matching features.
Documented extensively on the internal wiki.
Education and Professional Development
Regularly attended the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), Open Source Bridge (osbridge) and
Open Source Developer's Conference (OSDC). Gave presentations at each of these on topics including
best practices in testing (OSCON 2006, OSDC 2007), new programming language technologies (OSDC
2007).
Led the Portland Perlmongers for three years, ensuring the best and brightest were giving talks on the
most interesting things they could. Spoke on Perljxta, an implementation of Sun's JXTA P2P protocols.
Leader, Portland Perlmongers (http://pdx.pm.org ) 2003-06
Member, Portland Perlmongers 2001-12
Member, Melbourne Perlmongers 2007-12
BA - Computer Science, Mathematics Minor. Willamette University. Salem, OR, 2002
Honors/Awards: Presidential Scholarship, Music Scholarship
Google Me and You'll Find
http://joshheumann.com
http://twitter.com/_heumann
http://amyandjoshontheroad.blogspot.com/
Excellent references available upon request.
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