Degrees awarded
BS, Computer Science, Arizona State University, May 2003

9/2011 - Current
Software Developer/Owner
Wold Technologies, Inc.

• Provide contract software development services to a wide range of companies
• Assist with project planning, requirements gathering, product selection
• Develop custom software solutions in Java, Ruby on Rails, iOS, Android, etc.
• Provide services to test and deploy software to a production environment

6/2007 - 9/2011
Lead Web Application Developer
Arizona State University, University Technology Office

• Developed and supported applications to support ASU students, faculty and staff
• Developed software to support the IDEAL project, a statewide K-12 learning platform
• Maintained project management tools to support developers across the University
• Founded the ASU Open Source community site to provide a central resource for ASU-sourced projects
• Consulted other developers on architectural decisions and technical issues
• Served on the Architectural Review Board to review design of various applications across the University

2/2005 - 5/2007
Software Engineer III
Trimble Navigation Limited

• Developed a line of GPS-based fitness and driving applications for mobile devices
• Managed the process of porting and maintaining the mobile (J2ME/BREW/Blackberry) application on over 50 devices for several major wireless carriers
• Developed a Windows desktop application to integrate with the mobile devices
• Developed a web site to share activity-based information

9/2000 - 2/2005
Technology Support Analyst Senior
Arizona State University, Information Technology

• Provided support for email systems to the University-wide community
• Managed central web and email systems
• Developed the first web-based email system for ASU students
• Participated in the development of the initial enterprise web application platforms for ASU
• Provided guidance on development of the ASU single sign on environment
• Deployed uPortal as a campus-wide portal system

Operating Systems
Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), MS-DOS, Unix (Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, Linux, BSD), Mac OS X

Applications
Microsoft Office, Outlook/Exchange, Kerberos, AFS, NFS, SSH, dump/restore, tar, ant, Tomcat, Apache, Websphere, Sybase ASE, DB2, PostgreSQL, mySQL, Windows Installer (MSI)/WiX, CVS, Eclipse, Visual Studio 2003/2005, Confluence, JIRA, Maven, CAS, Sakai, uPortal, VMWare, Xen virtualization, Drupal

Programming APIs
Java J2SE, J2EE, J2ME, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, JavaMail, .NET Framework, Windows Forms, Web Forms, (N)Hibernate, JUnit, Qualcomm BREW, Spring, Tapestry, JSF, log4j, AJAX, YUI, Drupal module API, iOS, Ruby on Rails

Course Enrollment Manager
Arizona State University/IDEAL

Course Enrollment Manager is an application originally developed for ASU which synchronizes enrollment data between the student information system and online learning systems such as Blackboard, Sakai and iTunesU. This application was abstracted to remove ASU-specific code and used to provision courses for K-12 institutions under the IDEAL project.

alt^I Developer VM Environment
Arizona State University

Set up a system which provides on-the-fly deployment of virtual machines for developers to prototype new applications. This environment was based on the Xen virtualization system and is able to provision a new, fully functional Linux environment in less than five minutes. The system also supports Windows-based virtual machines on the same physical system.

Electronic Messaging Menu Application (EMMA)
Arizona State University

Deployed large-scale electronic messaging portal for a user base of about 70,000. Key features include a J2EE authentication framework in Java using servlets and a PHP-based web mail client based on the free IMP product. Modified the IMAP client used by PHP to support Kerberos for single sign-on.

uPortal development/deployment (myASU)
Arizona State University

Deployed an instance of the uPortal product (http://www.ja-sig.org), a J2EE portal designed for higher education. This work included writing an authentication module to support ASU's single sign-on environment, as well as configuring connections to databases, LDAP, etc. This also included writing various channels for the portal in Java, as well as making custom modifications to the portal itself.

Trimble Outdoors BREW port
Trimble Navigation

Ported the Trimble Outdoors J2ME-based mobile application to Qualcomm BREW environment for use on a wider range of mobile devices.

GuideWorx GPS
Trimble Navigation

Worked with a software partner to add turn-by-turn driving directions to Java-enabled handsets supported by the Trimble Outdoors product.

ASMTP Spam Filter
Arizona State University

Deployed the ASMTP spam filtering product by ESCOM (http://www.escom.com). Developed a custom J2EE web interface for users to manage their filtered mail and configure their spam filter settings.

Faculty/Staff Department Directory
Arizona State University

Designed a searchable hierarchical directory for ASU Faculty and Staff. Various staff members administer the directory across the University via a web interface. It is searchable via a web site and is used to generate the annual printed student/faculty/staff directory. Work included developing a database schema on Sybase, a Java object model to manipulate the database and manage authorization, several front end servlets for administration and searching, as well as a Java application to extract data for publishing.

uPortal - Person Attributes Group Store
Worked with staff from Columbia University to implement an attribute-based group system for uPortal, allowing roles to be assigned based on information from a central university directory system.

uPortal - Database Upgrade System
Designed and developed a system for performing automatic upgrades of a live uPortal database in preparation for deployment of the latest release of the software.

ASU/IDEAL - Course Enrollment Manager
Released ASU's Course Enrollment Manager as an abstracted service which can be integrated with any student information system and any set of online learning services. Course Enrollment Manager provides a way to automatically provision accounts within online learning services based on student information system data.