Programmer
Greater Chicago Area
- Current
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- Principal Engineer at Rearden Commerce
- Past
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- Team Lead, UI Engineering at Orbitz
- Independent Consultant at Self-Employed
- Technical Manager at Orbitz
- Team Lead at Orbitz
- Senior Software Engineer at Orbitz
- Senior Software Engineer at Accenture
- Software Engineer at Hewitt Associates
- Software Engineer at IBM
- Co-op at DoD
- Education
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- Depaul University
- Indiana University Bloomington
- Connections
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connections
- Industry
- Leisure, Travel & Tourism
- Websites
Andrew Violette’s Summary
Summary
I am a developer with over 18 years of experience in technology. I enjoy designing and programming in different languages and environments. As a developer, I am primarily proficient in Java, PHP, JSP, Spring, Hibernate, Javascript, and web technologies (CSS/HTML). I also have experience programming in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, C++ and PERL. I have developed and managed software written for highly concurrent environments running on Apache, Weblogic, and Jini.
Andrew Violette’s Specialties:
Java, PHP, Ruby, Javascript, CSS, HTML, Prototype and Scriptaculous and a whole bunch of other buzz words. Managing complex, highly distributed production environments.
Andrew Violette’s Experience
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Principal Engineer
Rearden Commerce
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
2008 Present
I lead travel-related projects written in J2EE technologies such as Java, JSP, Spring, Hibernate, Tiles, JMS, etc. -
Team Lead, UI Engineering
Orbitz
(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
October 2007 — 2008 (1 year )
Managed ½ of Orbitz's UI team. Interfaced with product team, triaged bugs, did code reviews.
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Independent Consultant
Self-Employed
(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
September 2007 — 2008 (1 year )
I do independent web development (Primarily in PHP/Zend/Drupal). My clients range from doctors to a financial consulting company.
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Technical Manager
Orbitz
(Internet industry)
May 2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
Managed development and operations for Northwest Airlines' reservation site (res.nwa.com).
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Team Lead
Orbitz
(Internet industry)
September 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 8 months)
Managed development team for Northwest Airlines' reservation site. Additionally, I also act in a developer capacity focused on front-end development (Javascript, AJAX, HTML, CSS, and Java).
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Senior Software Engineer
Orbitz
(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
August 2001 — September 2004 (3 years 2 months)
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Senior Software Engineer
Accenture
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACN; Financial Services industry)
August 1996 — August 2001 (5 years 1 month)
Developed software in support of the consulting organization.
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Software Engineer
Hewitt Associates
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HEW; Human Resources industry)
June 1995 — August 1996 (1 year 3 months)
Developed Smalltalk telephony software. Developed software that built life insurance plans (yawn!)
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Software Engineer
IBM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1994 — June 1995 (1 year 1 month)
Developed portions of the OS/2 operating system in C. Worked on the Workplace Shell subsystem.
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Co-op
DoD
(Defense & Space industry)
1990 — 1992 (2 years )
Andrew Violette’s Education
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Depaul University
M.S , Software Engineering , 1997
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Indiana University Bloomington
BS , Computer Science , 1989 — 1994
Additional Information
Andrew Violette’s Websites:
Andrew Violette’s Groups:
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Orbitz Alumni Network -
Prototype Community
Andrew Violette’s Contact Settings
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