Adam Kopczenski ad1gzc@r.postjobfree.com

540-***-****

www.linkedin.com/in/adamkop

Objective

Have fun; solve problems; learn things; help people. Technical Skills

• Programming Languages: Ruby, C++, MySQL, JavaScript, Java, C#, Go, Python, Perl, LISP.

•Web Languages/Frameworks: HTML5, XHTML, Nunjucks, Node.js, Sass, CSS.

• Data formats: XML, CSS, JSON, SVG, PostScript, RTF.

• Development/Tracking Tools: Git and GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Parature, Cherwell, Subversion, CVS, Eclipse, Visual Studio.

•Web Publishing Tools: EScenic’s Content Studio.

• Operating systems: MacOS, Windows, Bash shell, Ubuntu. Work Experience

Front-End Developer, 2017, The McClatchy Company, Raleigh, North Carolina

•Worked with a team of up to a dozen developers to maintain and expand a Node.js and Sass codebase used by 29 newspapers across the country to display their publications' websites.

•Served with my team as emergency 24-hour on-call support. Support Developer, 2014 – 2016, The McClatchy Company, Raleigh, North Carolina

•Assisted newspaper editors with the minutiae of website application maintenance.

•Devised and implemented a system that automatically creates a daily backup of hundreds of critical settings files used on the sites.

•Created a family of Ruby and Bash scripts that manipulated XML, JSON, and CSV data and aided in sites' menu development.

•Composed documentation instructing users about the workings of various publishing tools.

Software Engineer, 2000 – 2007, SynaptiCAD, Blacksburg, Virginia

•Maintained and extended functionality for computer engineering tool suite with 250,000 lines of C++ code.

•Specialized in GUI design and implementation.

•Wrote a subsystem to translate Borland ObjectWindows (OWL) commands into Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files, and maintained similar functionality for encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format.

•Designed and implemented several features to allow users to better annotate their work in the products, and created extensive internal documentation related to these projects.

Work Experience (continued)

Blender Operator, 2020 – 2021, Americhem, Morrisville, Pennsylvania Domestics Clerk, 2018 – 2020, Boscov's, Bensalem, Pennsylvania Multi-Department Clerk/Assistant Third-Shift Manager, 2006 – 2014, Kroger, Cary, NC and Blacksburg, VA

•Served customers and maintained supply chain in a variety of departments, adapting to a dynamic set of environments and responsibilities.

•Specialized in customer service, focusing on customer questions requiring a larger body of product knowledge.

Contract, Volunteer, and Hobby Work

• I've done contract work for Goatscript, an upcoming scripting language designed to compile to Golang.

• I've written a Perl implementation of the board game Phutball for the hobby site superdupergames.org.

• I've taken part in the Advent of Code and Project Euler challenges as a means of teaching myself new languages and maintaining my skills. Education

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1998 – 2001

•Computer Science (major) / Mathematics (minor)

•Served as webmaster and president for a major diversity-oriented student group.

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