Software Consultant Resume

SUMMARY:

I am a full stack software engineer with over 12 years experience doing full software life cycle development, including strong project and team leadership work. I have the ability to be self - motivated and also work well independently.
My preference and expertise is working on the back-end and database layers and solving larger problems. I am also the father of a two daughters, ages two and one, and after taking a few months off of work to spend time with them, am very ready to return to work
Experienced in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and practices.
Experienced lead in major software projects.
Believes in and uses a disciplined and systematic approach to software engineering with an emphasis on detail.
Very experienced and comfortable meeting with business clients to gather, analyze, and document requirements.
Very experienced in communicating technical issues to others outside of development.
Experienced with setting the foundation and growing new software development teams.
Very experienced with designing and implementing high traffic, flexible, scalable, and robust systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Recent experience in writing high availability REST services, refactoring old code to “micro services”, querying large databases and data stores, and solving architectural bottlenecks.
Languages: PHP, Perl, VB, ASP, C, and many others.
Very comfortable with REST, XML, SOAP, WDSL, queuing systems, and client side scripting such as JavaScript, AJAX, DHTML, JSON, CSS, etc. when needed.
Databases: MySQL/MariaDB (including differences between the MyISAM and the InnoDB storage engines), Redis (both its benefits and limitations), MSSQL, relational schema design, and NoSQL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software Consultant

Confidential

Evaluated code and architecture of existing websites done on the .NET platform.
Made recommendations for migrating current databases from MSSQL to MySQL as well as feedback and recommendations on other platform migration plans.

Software Engineer

Confidential

Key engineer designing and writing components for high available websites and services using PHP, MySQL, Docker, Redis, and REST.
Subject matter expert on payment processing systems (wire transfers, FirstChoice, Paxum, etc.).
Lead developer on several high traffic (600+ queries a second) RESTfull “microservices”, helping drive sales of over $1 million an hour.

Software Engineer

Confidential

Software Engineer

Confidential

Met with clients and helped develop feature list for future development.
Developed analytics for tracking effectiveness of different advertising campaigns.
Developed and integrated a version control tracking system for platform.
Performed design and maintenance activities in Dataweb’s own proprietary language.

Software Engineer

Confidential

Director of IT/Senior Developer

Confidential

Evaluated and redesigned DreamDinners.com during a time of tremendous growth.
Worked with the company and staff to educate and build a healthy development process, including hiring staff, mentoring employees, and implementing solutions that directly helped the business.

Software Engineer

Confidential

Custom PHP, MySQL, etc. work that led to my contract being bought out by Confidential .

Founder, Software Engineer

Confidential

Founded and developed anti-spam email service Confidential and later Confidential .
Featured on KOMO 4 News1, Seattle Times2, NPR3, and others.
Directly involved in the U.S.’s first Can-Spam case filed by the Federal Trade Commission and spoke at the press conference in Washington D.C.
Partnered and integrated service with anti-spam filtering service, Despammed.com, and Plaxo (cofounded by Sean Parker), a contact management service4.

Lead Developer

Confidential

Lead Developer for Confidential from 1999-2003 on projects for our flagship customers including Excite, MSN, Money Central, Earthday, and Expedia.
Components for Expedia included pre-trip and itinerary emails being sent to customers who booked flights through Expedia.
Components for Excite included event triggered real-time messaging for Excite users.
Led team of 10 developers on major release (the first and only after being bought out by a public company).

Database Developer

Confidential