About

Work Experience

• President, Director, Jack of All Trades, 

  May, 2007 - Present

  Oversee, manage, or perform all aspects of a software development and consulting firm, including production, marketing, programming, web design, and support, including taking multiple service websites from concept to market. (Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, React.js, C#, ASP.NET, Node.js, SQL, Dart, Flutter)

  • Hire and manage subcontractors handling graphic design, niche development, etc.

  • Provide corporate training in various programming techniques and technologies

  • Design, develop, and publish multiple applications for journalism, online discussion, project management, crowdfunding, publishing, social media tracking, and more (mostly Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, AJAX)

  • Supply custom software for clients on a consulting basis, including an embeddable web proxy, an extensible social networking platform, and several small games. (C, C#, ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript)

  • Maintain contact with customers and potential customers via corporate blogs and social media. (JavaScript, then-Twitter API, Mastodon API)

• Senior Software Engineer, 

  Jun, 2023 - Jan, 20246 months

  Assisted in team-building, coordinated between departments, bridged between development of legacy and next-generation products.

  • Mentored junior staff, two developers and a project manager

  • Designed and developed internal tools to improve the development process and general workflow by almost 4% (JavaScript/Node.js, various APIs)

  • Reviewed pull requests for potential long-term issues

  • Wrote and reviewed documentation for internal processes (Markdown, Mermaid, various collaborative tools)

  • Led development on integrations to and from external systems (C#, REST)

  • Designed and developed user interfaces and API endpoints for the next-generation product. (React.js, Typescript, C#)

  • Developed and maintained features for the legacy product (C#, ASP.NET, SQL, VBScript, Classic ASP, CSS)

• Software Engineer (originally Consultant), 

  Oct, 2015 - Oct, 20194 years

  Clarified requirements with clients, built/maintained various applications and features.

  • Informally mentored several interns and colleagues

  • Increased team productivity by 3% through knowledge-sharing initiatives, including through tools for engineering tasks (C#, WPF, JavaScript, SQL)

  • Enhanced/maintained private-network, national-scale e-commerce and point-of-sale platform, linking thousands of independent retailers (C#, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, jQuery, JavaScript, SQL, CSS)

  • Enhanced workflow/features of industrial reporting system, adding interactive reports (C#, ASP.NET, SQL, JavaScript, D3.js, CSS)

  • Enhanced/maintained industrial configuration/deployment tool for sanitizing geographical data (C#, WPF, SQL)

  • Developed features for kiosk software including daily schedule printing (Node.js/Electron, React.js, HTML, CSS)

  • Integrated dispatching system with third-party scheduling system (C#, WCF, SQL)

  • Moved desktop point-of-sale client from .NET default Internet Explorer control to CEF Sharp (C#, WPF, JavaScript)

  • Added error-reporting features to desktop clients (C#, WPF, Jira API)

  • Developed and documented various internal tools (C#, WPF)

• Senior Software Engineer, 

  Jun, 2010 - Dec, 20133 years 6 months

  Led development of Residential Engineering's software projects.

  • Trained junior staff on automation and software testing

  • Wrote and maintained product documentation, including training videos and test plans.

  • Managed certification for Z-Wave devices

  • Designed and led development for the Vizia RF + Installer Tool for home automation configuration in three months. Continued enhancements to same, including in-application guidance and remote control (C#), which reduced support requests by 6%

  • Compiled and analyzed registration, download data, and web analytics for marketing counterparts

  • Interfaced software with Leviton e-Store

  • Developed and maintained various tools for engineers (C#, JavaScript, Ruby, VBScript)

  • Documented all past and upcoming work for successors

• Bioinformatics Developer, 

  Mar, 2010 - Jun, 20103 months

  Created and enhanced several high-profile informatics tools.

  • Managed work requests from approximately twenty scientists

  • Cataloged tools used, for any successors

  • Fixed bugs in the Galaxy workflow manager (Python)

  • Developed assorted tools (Ruby, JavaScript, C)

• Adult Education Instructor, 

  Sep, 1999 - Dec, 200910 years 3 months

  Planned classes, taught non-technical students computer skills.

  • Introduction to Computers

  • Introduction to Microsoft Office

  • Computer Automation for Non-Programmers

  • Introduction to the Internet

• Senior Software Engineer, 

  Apr, 2005 - Apr, 20072 years

  Led design and planning of guided system configuration product.

  • Created prototypes in C#/WinForms

  • Brought web-based version of core application from concept to release, including automated building, testing, internationalization, and deployment (C#/ASP.NET)

  • Led development on account-provisioning product (C#/ASP.NET)

  • Prototyped automated test harness for key modules (C#)

• Senior Software Engineer, 

  Aug, 2003 - Oct, 20052 years 2 months

  Led development on several Enterprise Resource Manager modules.

  • Maintained and extended modules (C on Windows, some Java, eventually C#)

  • Trained colleagues in object-oriented practices and C# for system rewrite

  • Developed formal test plans and automated testing with QA counterparts

• Senior Software Engineer (originally Support Engineer), 

  Aug, 1997 - Aug, 20025 years

  Maintained and extended a national-scale trouble-ticketing system and our internal processes.

  • Led development of internal tools and network modules

  • Ran Y2K upgrade and deployment, developing automated tools to automatically discover, report, fix, and test thousands of bugs overnight, saving three weeks scheduled for the task

  • Advised management on technologies and methodologies for cost-effective solutions to evolving customer needs

  • Designed modular architecture for next generation trouble management solution

  • Provided remote support to and coordination between offices in Europe, South America, and the South Pacific

  • Developed a prototype workflow manager to bridge tickets between systems

  • Trained new customers (in conjunction with Sales) and new hires

• Software Engineer, 

  Oct, 1996 - Aug, 199710 months

  Prototyped modules, analyzed risk/reliability, advised integration architecture

• Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, 

  Jun, 1996 - Dec, 201418 years 7 months

  Advised students on thesis projects and provided technical direction and industry connections. Designed curricula for and taught multiple graduate courses.

  • Network and Client/Server Programming

  • Programming Languages

  • Operating Systems

  • Databases

  • Algorithms

  • other classes, as needed

Projects Experience

• Smoke Alarm

  Oct, 2023 - Present

  A rudimentary serverless application to track potential burnout (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

  • Tracks known significant signs of burnout

  • Data stored only in personal cloud repository

• Bicker

  May, 2007 - Present

  A web application mixing part e-mail, part forum, part bulletin board, part chat, and part blog with comments (Ruby on Rails, React.js)

  • Developed a method of focusing and managing conflicts by only allowing responses at punctuation marks

  • Used original version for both organization-internal and for a community of approximately one hundred users

  • Development process (of modern version) documented on my blog in some detail

• Thue

  Jan, 2000 - Jul, 201414 years 5 months

  A Turing-complete language with non-deterministic grammars as its sole mechanism.

  • Briefly became a media darling, as evidenced by its Wikipedia page

• Slack Backup

  Mar, 2018 - Aug, 20202 years 5 months

  An Electron app to simplify archiving and analyzing (pre-OAuth) Slack messages.

  • Grew from a way around Slack's paywall on a team refusing to pay to a full desktop application (Electron.js, React.js, previous Slack API)

  • Present timing, connections, and sentiment analysis of posts (D3.js)

• Auto-Story

  Jul, 2016 - Jul, 201711 months

  A prototype plot generator, based on the Hero's Journey and The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations.

Skills

Education