Colin Harrington

Current

Independant Consultant at Harrington Consulting Inc
Owner at Web Mentality

Past

Software Developer at Carol
Consultant (.NET) at Inetium
Musician at The Holy Christian Church

Software Engineer at PTC
BCO Test Engineer at PTC
Intern at PTC

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Colin Harrington’s Summary

Talented, skilled and creative technologist and developer with a broad range of experiences looking to make the use of advanced technologies commonplace in our daily lives.

Colin Harrington’s Specialties:

Groovy & Grails, Systems Architecture, Streaming Video, Web Application Infrastructure, Java/Swing, Groovy, Javascript + frameworks, AJAX, JSON, CSS, PHP, C/C++, VB.NET, C#, .NET 2, WCF, WPF (indigo, avalon), YACC/BISON, SOA, RESTful Services, Grails, MySQL, MSSQL, SQL Reporting Services, Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003, Mac OSC, Linux (Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora), VMWare

Colin Harrington’s Experience

Independant Consultant

Harrington Consulting Inc

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2008 — Present (10 months)

Grails, Software as a Service in the Medical Space; Billing/claims, Web Services, AJAX Web Applications.
Java2D, PSD -> XHTML/CSS, Global Information Systems
Owner

Web Mentality

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

2006 — Present (3 years)

Web Mentality is a web development firm.
I am a Chief Architect, Data Modeler, Product Definition etc.
Software Developer

Carol

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

April 2008 — October 2008 (7 months)

Software Developer - Grails | Flex - http://www.carol.com
Groovy, Hibernate, GORM, Spring, XML Web Services, Flex, Cairngorm, Mule, Java, EDI JavaScript, etc.
Consultant (.NET)

Inetium

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2007 — April 2008 (1 year)

Consulting work, Web Applications, Dynamic Solutions, Systems integration. I've worked on a .NET WPF & WCF SOA Application, And other dynamic web applications.
Musician

The Holy Christian Church

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Religious Institutions industry)

January 2006 — March 2008 (2 years 3 months)

Guitarist with the Praise Team at The Holy Christian Church http://www.theholychristianchurch.org/
Software Engineer

PTC

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; PMTC; Computer Software industry)

June 2005 — May 2007 (2 years)

Primarily worked on a Java/Swing client with an XML driven UI called PSE. Client server interaction on top of an enterprise Java application server.
BCO Test Engineer

PTC

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; PMTC; Computer Software industry)

December 2004 — June 2005 (7 months)

Build CheckOut (BCO) is PTC's first round of QA, to ensure that core functionality PTC's products are intact so the build can be used by the rest of the organization
I did both manual and automated testing. I also developed tools to install enterprise level software on a farm of test machines, designed, and implemented a status tool whereby we could view the state of each server from one common web interface.
Intern

PTC

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; PMTC; Computer Software industry)

June 2004 — December 2004 (7 months)

Intern responsible for developing web application for the company intranet.
Published news feeds from other sites, searchable / sortable training database, Organization and maintainence of link management tools, etc.