Software Engineer Java

PETER SEIBEL

**** ********* ****** • Berkeley, CA 94703 • 510-***-****

*****@***********.***

Skills and Experience

Writing

Expository and Journalistic

Author of Coders at Work

(Apress, 2009) and the Jolt Productivity Award-winning

Practical Common

Lisp (Apress, 2005).

Edited Code

Quarterly. Experience in daily and weekly journalism.

Published in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New Haven Advocate, Yale

Scientific and others.

Technical

Languages and Platforms

Extensive knowledge of Common Lisp and Java with

experience in writing distributed applications and

high-performance servers. Authored on Common Lisp.

Past experience building web based applications and

utilities in Perl. (Wrote Class::MethodMaker module,

available on ).

Also familiar with Javascript, SQL, Emacs, and UNIX environment.

Teaching

Java, Object Oriented Programming, and Tai Chi

Experience teaching Java programming and object

oriented design to audience of professional and amateur

programmers. Also an instructor of Yang style Tai Chi at

the White Magnolia Tai Chi School.

Education

1994

Yale University

BA in English with distinction in the major. Won

following writing prizes:

Wright

Non-Fiction, Second Place, 1993Wallace

Non-Fiction, Honorable Mention, 1993J. Edgar

Meeker Memorial, 1991Hersey Memorial Non-Fiction, Second Place,

1994

Employment

2010-2011

Editor & PublisherFounded

and edited Code

Quarterly, a magazine for computer programmers.

2007-2009

Author

Wrote Coders at Work, a

book of interviews with fifteen notable programmers, for

Apress Publishing.

2005-2007

Consultant

Consulted for a variety of clients focusing on Lisp,

QA and Software development process, and anything else

requiring a combination of technical expertise,

communication skills, and leadership ability.

2003-2005

Author

Wrote Practical Common

Lisp, for Apress Publishing. Won Jolt Productivity Award in Technical Books category.

1999-2002

Kenamea

Worked as Technical Director leading development of

transactional message switch and participating in design of

entire product line. Also responsible for Kenamea's

software development process.

1997-1999

BEA (was WebLogic)

Worked as Senior Software Engineer, on the WebLogic

Java Application Server. Last role was leading five-person

team developing next generation of EJB container in the

WebLogic server. Previously involved in implementation of

enterprise APIs such as JNDI and EJB as well as work on

internal test framework and coding standards.

1998-1999

UC Berkeley Extension

Taught Java: Discovering its Power, an

introductory course on Java and object oriented design and

A First Course in Java, a Java course for

non-programmers.

1996-1997

Organic Online

Worked as Software Engineer, writing groupware tools

in Perl and Java and Perl scripts for a variety of clients'

web-sites, including writing the search engine for Nike's

Atlanta 1996 Olympic site.

1995-1996

Mother Jones Magazine

Interned, and later contracted, as computer

programmer, sysadmin and web designer for, Mother

Jones's web-site. Designed and wrote the original Live Wire

web-discussion system.

Summer 1994

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Worked as reporting intern for city desk, features

department, editorial page and copy desk.

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