C.J. Adams-Collier

Current

Vice President, Information Systems at Collier Technologies (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

Consultant (Techical Writer/SDET) at Microsoft
Volunteer at Sno-Isle Natural Foods Co-op
Consultant (Software Development Engineer) at CarDomain Network Inc.

Software Development Engineer (SDE II) at Amazon.com's ma-team
Software Development Engineer (SDE II) at Amazon.com
Support Manager MaxDB at MySQL AB
Consultant (as Software Engineer) at Amazon
System Admin / SDET at A DOT Corporation
Consultant to the Computational Biology Research Center at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Software Developer and Designer at SecurityPortal
Software Engineer at eAcceleration
Junior System Administrator at Sinclair Communications

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Education

University of Washington
Olympic College
Edmonds Community College

North Kitsap High School

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C.J. Adams-Collier’s Summary

I've got quite a bit of experience with quite a few computer-related technologies.

C.J. Adams-Collier’s Specialties:

Software development, testing and deployment, system administration, wireless hacking, Linux geekery, Perl mongering, OpenGL tinkering, Mono fronting, social networking, fathering

C.J. Adams-Collier’s Experience

Vice President, Information Systems
Collier Technologies (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2001 — Present (8 years 9 months)

Collier Technologies has a history of providing software development and design services to leading enterprise companies in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and biotech R&D organizations on the pacific rim.
Consultant (Techical Writer/SDET)

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

July 2008 — March 2009 (9 months)

Tested integration of the Generic Application-Layer Protocol Analyser into the Forefront Client Security "Next Gen" Firewall.
Volunteer

Sno-Isle Natural Foods Co-op

(Computer Software industry)

November 2005 — March 2009 (3 years 5 months)
Consultant (Software Development Engineer)

CarDomain Network Inc.

(Internet industry)

April 2008 — July 2008 (4 months)

Helped the development team implement many web 2.0 and community site modifications, including member to member messaging, favorites lists and a new make/model portal.
Software Development Engineer (SDE II)

Amazon.com's ma-team

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZN; Internet industry)

August 2007 — March 2008 (8 months)

The MerchApps team writes data injection templates which produce the majority of Amazon's network traffic. Our intent is to reduce this network traffic substantially and thereby improve the customer experience (in terms of application latency) while reducing the company's footprint on the natural resource infrastructure required to power our equipment.
Software Development Engineer (SDE II)

Amazon.com

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AMZN; Computer Software industry)

July 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 9 months)

I work with a skilled team to build the infrastructure for Amazon's article publishing framework. This framework is externally known as "Amazon Daily" and provides a mechanism for authors and other artists to get in touch with their Amazon customers.

Members of our team use a number of development platforms including (but not limited to) Perl, Java and C++. Our servers run Linux, and folks use either Windows XP, Vista , or Linux as their desktop operating systems.
Support Manager MaxDB

MySQL AB

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 2 months)

As a support manager of MaxDB, I provided technical knowledge to our clients, assisted them during installation and configuration of MaxDB, and provided maintenance support when unexpected things happened.

I also studied and documented the MaxDB database daily in order to become more acquainted with the intricacies of the technology.
Consultant (as Software Engineer)

Amazon

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZN; Computer Software industry)

August 2004 — May 2005 (10 months)

I developed HTML, Perl, Mason, JavaScript, CSS and shell scripts for the Enterprise Commerce Services (ECS) team. During my contract with ECS, I worked on the infrastructure and front end of store.nba.com, bombaycompany.com and target.com. Our group worked closely with Large Accounts Services (LAS) to develop and maintain the first of Amazon's branded commerce sites.
System Admin / SDET

A DOT Corporation

(Computer Software industry)

2004 — 2004 (less than a year)
Consultant to the Computational Biology Research Center

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 2002 — August 2004 (1 year 10 months)

My work in this position with Dr. Paul Horton consisted of three contracts, each lasting three months. One of the contracts consisted of creating development infrastructure built on Linux, CVS, GNU automake, GNU libtool and GNU autoconf.

After the infrastructure was in place, I took a contract to secure the installation and create an authentication auditing mechanism.

We then used this secure infrastructure to build a web front end for Dr. Horton's protein representation parsers, PSORT and WoLF/PSORT. This front end was built on HTML::Mason, Apache and mod_perl.
Software Developer and Designer

SecurityPortal

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 10 months)

While working for Security Portal, I designed and implemented a web-based authoring, editing and publishing tool. The tool was used to publish security alerts via SMS, email, the web and XML.

Perl, XML, HTML, CGI, IIS, LWP, Apache, Linux
Software Engineer

eAcceleration

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

December 1999 — March 2000 (4 months)

eAcceleration is a Poulsbo, Washington based development firm. Since I grew up and went to school in Poulsbo, I evaluated working at the company.

Prior to my tenure there, they worked on cd-rom caching technology. However, with the newer, faster speed disc readers reaching nearly hard-drive speed, demand had reduced. They turned to advertisement as a new source of revenue after their initial product started losing relevance.

This position was my first professional experience using PHP and MySQL in conjunction.

Since I was not interested in developing or selling advertisements, and the owners and management seemed to not have a positive connection to the employees, I moved on after the end of the probationary period.
Junior System Administrator

Sinclair Communications

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1999 — December 1999 (1 year )

I began working at Sinclair Communications because I wanted to know how to operate an Internet Service Provider. I had five years of experience with Linux by the point I took this position, and I was looking for a practical application of my knowledge. The owner of the company, Danley Franks, was a wonderful teacher and mentor to me. This position taught me more about myself and the history of the computer culture than I have learned since.

During my position with Sinclair, I read many books published by O'Reilly, including Open Sources, Learning Perl, and Unix Power Tools. I was also introduced to W. Richard Stevens and began my journey through Unix Network Programming, Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment and his TCP/IP Illustrated series.

My responsibilities included installation, configuration and maintenance of our web, mail, database, and file servers. I became quite familiar with MySQL, Apache, Sendmail and NFS during my employment here.

C.J. Adams-Collier’s Education

University of Washington

GNM , Computational Linguistics , 2009 — 2012 (expected)
Olympic College

None , Computer Science, Music, Mathematics, Systems Administration , 1998 — 1999
Edmonds Community College

None , Computer Science, English, Political Science, CPR , September 1997 — June 1998

Activities and Societies:

Dean's list, Go-ju Ryu Karate, Philharmonic Bass Clarinet
North Kitsap High School

Additional Information

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C.J. Adams-Collier’s Interests:

Scarlet, Hannah, Technology, Family

C.J. Adams-Collier’s Groups:

Mono Project, Free Software Foundation, Freenode, Seattle Perl Users' Group, GNOME project, Ubuntu Linux, Perl Mongers, Seattle Wireless, MsgNET, Debian, CoM