OBJECTIVE:
A position as software engineer
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
SnowAlarm Inc, Steamboat Springs, CO 2001 - present
Principal/Senior Software Engineer
- Design and implement a custom PHP-based template system for websites.
- Create and integrate Content Management System so users can modify their own content.
- Seamless integration of Magento into my template system.
- Seamless integration of Flatpress blog into my template system, including automatically generated back-links to related user-generated content.
- Create and run website design and hosting company.
- Create and optimize a SQLite database.
Software Consulting
Real Estate Industry
- Write code to retrieve and display search data obtained from servers running the Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS) software.
- Develop and publish real estate websites that include real-time search capability.
Websites
- Create the front-end and back-end data entry and display system for snowfall prediction.
Atmospheric Science
- Support of Greek Olympics with atmospheric modeling of flow around the venues.
Privacy Networks Inc, Fort Collins, CO 5/2006 - 2008
Software Engineer
- Designed and implemented a role-based Graphical User Interface to allow users to interact with our software, which managed the email lifecycle of small to medium-sized businesses.
- Optimized SQL queries to achieve fast page-load times.
Mission Research Corporation, Fort Collins, CO 6/1994 - 5/2005
Atmospheric Scientist
- Atmospheric Modeling of flow over complex terrain.
- Modeling of flows over complex topography in order to determine plume dispersion.
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 5/1992 - 5/1994
Graduate Research Associate
- Atmospheric Modeling of flow over complex terrain.
- Cumulus parameterization.
EDUCATION:
Colorado State University. Ft. Collins, CO
Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science, May 1992
M.S. in Atmospheric Science, December 1985
Cornell University. Ithaca, NY
B.S. in Applied and Engineering Physics, May 1983
COMPUTER SKILLS:
- Operating system: Solaris, AIX, HP-UX , Linux.
- Software: SVN, CVS, Magento, mostly custom.
- Web Servers: Apache.
- Languages: PHP, Javascript, sh/bash, DHTML, Tcl/Tk, some C, Fortran.
- Databases: SQL, SQLite, Postgres.
- Software project life cycle: document specification, code design, performance tuning, final qualification test.