s k i l l s :

Platforms: Win/WinNT/DOS (6), UNIX (5), Macintosh (8)

Technologies (years in parentheses):

C#/ASP.NET Java (2) PHP (2) C/C++ (3)
D/HTML (5) Web Services JavaScript (4) ASP (2)
Perl/CGI (3) SQL (3) XML/XSLT (2) SQLServer2000
PostgreSql (2) ColdFusion HTTP (2) Flash (2)
VisualStudio.NET Apache Server VSS Photoshop (4)

Other: web applications development, windows applications development, human-interface design, web and graphic design, regular expressions, artificial intelligence, cryptography, animation programming, Digital Audio (MIDI, Reason)

e x p e r i e n c e :

Software Engineer:: Verizon Online, Carlsbad CA / October 2002 - Present
  • Designed an XML-driven ASP.NET dynamic web content solution, enabling .aspx pages to pull and transform their content from flat XML files or Web Services using XPath; achieved a 69% performance gain over the extant process (1500 lines C#)
  • Architected an interactive ASP.NET web application in C# and DHTML, allowing clients to generate custom reports on 8 traffic statistics for 23 sites, over user-definable periods, in graphical or tabular form; integrated with dotNETCharting dynamic graphing software; redesigned the existing backend database, resulting in a 90% improvement in data retrieval time (3500 lines C#)
  • Engineered a robust configurable windows network application in C# to intelligently locate and copy web log files across the Verizon network, parse and analyze their content (upwards of 30MB) using advanced Regular Expressions; coordinated the data with a SQLServer2000 database for subsequent reporting (700 lines C#)
  • Developed and maintained 50+ web templates for the KANA Knowledge Server, integrating KANA server-side directives, XHTML, JavaScript, ASP and ASP.NET technologies to extend KANA's functionality

Web Developer :: sphex.tentacle.net, San Diego CA / Summer 2002 - Present

  • Designed and administered a PHP/PostgreSQL dynamic content solution, integrating PHP and JavaScript with Flash MX; engineered PostgreSQL database administration tools in PHP (1200 lines PHP)
  • Authored a robust Flash front-page, coordinated with JavaScript routines and using involved action scripting
  • Configured Apache web server to require user authentication for restricted directories

C++ Contractor :: under Sherry Hurwitz, Austin TX / Summer 2002

  • Designed a time-sensitive copyright protection scheme for C++/Visual Basic-based document-generating software, employing synchronous encryption (IDEA) and custom timestamping and message digest methods

Software Engineer :: Newfound Communications, Lawrence MA / August 2000 - May 2001

  • Developed Java tools to tune Nuance speech recognition engines using artificial intelligence algorithms (1400 lines Java)
  • Developed an Object-Oriented extensible WML/HDML spider architecture in Perl; coordinated with PostgreSQL back-end (800 lines Perl)
  • Implemented Java tools using JDBC and Swing to facilitate maintenance of a speech recognition database
  • Overhauled CGIs to comply with a new CSS HTML architecture on the company website

Academic Research :: Tufts University, Medford MA / August 2000 - May 2001

  • Designed and implemented a 64-channel, fully-customizable live music production package in C using the Macintosh Sound Manager, including original VR tangible interface to knobs, sliders, and sprites representing sound channels; implemented DSP routines to achieve stereo positioning and low-pass eq effects (2000 lines C)

Jr. Web Developer :: Body1.com, Cambridge MA / Summer 2000

  • Designed Cold-Fusion pages driven by an Oracle database to create dynamic web content
  • Developed a multi-channel web chat using CGI and JavaScript
  • Assisted in the design and maintenance of the company website

Jr. Web Engineer :: Jenzabar.com, Cambridge MA / Summer 1999

  • Developed multithreaded intelligent Perl web agents to harvest data from 200+ remote databases, process and port the data to Oracle database via SQL

e d u c a t i o n :

Tufts University-School of Engineering, Medford, MA. May 2001.
BS in Computer Science w/ Minor in Philosophy. Magna Cum Laude.

contact :: k a g e @ t e n t a c l e . n e t