goal:    Combine my extensive software development experience, powerful interpersonal inclinations and blossoming design skills to design and build amazing software

school:

M.S. (2008) in design and human-computer-interaction (HCI) at Stanford University.  Taught (TA'ed) "Intro to HCI" with Terry Winograd and "Interaction Design Studio" with Scott Klemmer, in addition to researching end-user redesign in Professor Klemmer's lab

B.S. (1998) in Computer Science, UC San Diego, including graduate course work in software design (2: first, second) and operating systems.  Strong background in the basic sciences: chemistry, biology, physics and mathematics

skills:

Strong interpersonal skills

Extensive experience designing and building software systems.    Extensive experience leading software development teams.    Successful experience in both project and product management roles.    Practical understanding of basic business principles

Experienced java developer (over 10 years), more recent experience in php and javascript.   Considerable un*x knowledge both as an administrator and developer (primarily linux & solaris).   Good familiarity with oracle databases.  Strong sql skills  

Experience in php, javascript, java, unix/linux, oracle, sql (including optimization), html, flash, photoshop, illustrator, dreamweaver, perl, c, c++, http, numerous source control systems, apache, vmware, windows, macintosh, palm, jsp, jdbc, swing, mysql, sql server, dns, tcp/ip networking, design patterns and mvc

employment:

Genentech Corporation, October 2004 to October 2005


Provided a unique combination of product management, project management and technical leadership on a custom sales automation tool for Genentech. The application is a very large palm application integrated with numerous data sources. The team included 2 people I managed directly and a much larger set of people I coordinated with. I was responsible for system specification, project/process planning, debugging and architectural decisions. The application is still in use

Oracle Corporation, June 2003 to October 2004


Worked with a large development team (30+) on Oracle's Enterprise Content Management system, a java application connecting to an oracle database through the cmsdk library

Worked with a team of 5 people on a website content management system.  The application provided content-development features like versioning, locking, templating, searching, secured access, diffing, etc for users without traditional web-development skills.  It was built in java and accessed an oracle database through the cmsdk library.  In addition to my engineering responsibilities, I worked closely with (internal) customers to make sure functionality met their needs

PGP Corporation, February 2003 to June 2003


Worked with a team of 5 people on the Universal application.  I built the webmail system which allows a user to securely read pgp-encrypted emails through a web browser.  It was written in java using xmlc for html-generation and connecting to a postgres database via jdo.  The application is still in use

Co-founder and Senior Member of Technical staff for netRequisite, a builder of customized high-end transactional systems, 1999 - 2002.  During this time, I worked on the following systems:

CNET Networks, December 2001 to July 2002


Worked with a team of 7 people on a sales application to consolidate CNET's many different sales channels & teams.  I worked with the development team to resolve implementation issues and with business people to resolve functionality issues.  The system uses java swing to connect to oracle and oracle financial and it is still in use


Brodia, July 2000 to December 2001


Built and debugged Discover Financial System's deskshop application with a team of 5 people.  I built the connection & data-sharing mechanism between Discover and Brodia systems, and contributed widely to other pieces.  It was a java jsp system and connected to Discover's systems using a partial implementation of IFX protocol.  The Deskshop system is still in use, but the Brodia piece is not

Led a 7-person development team (5 developers & 2 QA engineers) to build an identity management system for automated & managed access to Brodia applications by 3rd party systems (effectively a "web service", but preceding the term)

Finally, I was the lead developer on a library to provide shared data and business logic.  The role was a fallout from my previous two positions with Brodia, during which time I built a data & business library that other groups started to adopt.  I gathered requirements from users of the library, and ensured their needs were met while maintaining consistency across projects.  This task involved a repeating cycle of careful design and rapid development.  The team had two other developers & 1 QA engineer


Providian Financial, January 2000 to July 2000


Built and debugged Providian's online credit card application with a team of 5 people. The application is built in java and netdynamics with an oracle database and a custom corba server, and is still in use

Bank of America, January 1999 to January 2000


Built, tuned, & debugged Bank of America's online banking application with a team of 9 people. Internally, the system uses java servlets & jsps, connecting to informix databases and various corba servers. The application is still in use

UCSF, October 2002 to December 2002


Part-time lab technician in Philip Sabes sensorimotor learning lab.  My primary responsibility was to integrate an IScan pupil tracking device with the existing experiments procedure and matlab codebase template

Organic Online, September 1998 to January 1999


System administrator responsible for administering & debugging live and development websites.  These systems were primarily solaris systems running apache webservers and oracle databases accessed by custom java applications.  Sites administered included Motorola, Nike , Levis and Kinkos.  Sites developed were primarily Rational Software and Fragrance Counter.

KinderView, June 1998 to July 1998


Built a custom java application to stream images from classrooms to parents


NCR Inc., March 1996 to June 1997


Intern for NCR's massively parallel Teradata database group.  Most notably, building a web-based java applet system administration tool allowing a user to remotely administer a very large database system.  I built the original prototypes and worked with the team almost through launch

references:   Available on request