David Kovsky

Current

• Software Engineer at ReframeIt
• Learner at Personal Side Projects: Ruby on Rails

Past

• Software Engineer at Bentley Systems
• IT Consultant at Self-employed
• Software Engineer at Encoda Systems

• Software Engineer at SyVox Systems
• Software Engineer at Prevue Networks
• Software Engineer/Tester at McGraw-Hill School Systems
• Contract Software Engineer at Texas Instruments

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Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

David Kovsky’s Summary

Result-oriented software engineer with many years of continually-evolving experience, primarily in C++ with various database systems. Lifelong learner with outstanding communication skills and a strong interest in optimal development methodologies.

David Kovsky’s Specialties:

Languages: C++, C#, Ruby, UML, XML, XHTML, CSS
Frameworks: Rails, ASP.NET 2.0, MFC, NUnit
Databases: MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2
Methodologies: Scrum, Test-Driven Development, REST

David Kovsky’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  ReframeIt

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

• Learner

  Personal Side Projects: Ruby on Rails

  (Internet industry)

  October 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)

  Currently developing a web application using Rails, MySQL, Subversion, NetBeans, and Amazon's REST API.
  
  Using Open Source tools and Test-Driven Development.

• Software Engineer

  Bentley Systems

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2004 — November 2007 (3 years 2 months)

  Worked on a small team to develop a new C# ASP.NET web application using Scrums and Test-Driven Development.
  
  Implemented numerous major reworks, enhancements, and defect fixes on a C++ application, refactoring whenever possible. Consistently delivered high quality code in a timely manner for this high profile project under a long series of tight deadlines.
  
  Created an internal tool to decipher long strings of archaically formatted data, saving countless developer days that were previously spent eyeballing the data.

• IT Consultant

  Self-employed

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2002 — October 2004 (2 years 6 months)

  Implemented small business websites using standards-compliant HTML, CSS, Flash, and JavaScript.
  
  Worked with a small team on a GIS toxic waste mitigation project using ArcMap and ArcCatalog.
  
  Evaluated and provided constructive feedback on several applications produced by a small software company, helping the company to significantly improve their products.

• Software Engineer

  Encoda Systems

  (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2001 — December 2001 (1 year)

  Worked with a small team to enhance existing software written in C++, VB, Centura, and Java.
  
  Converted existing software written for DB2 to also work with Oracle on schedule for several mission critical client demonstrations.

• Software Engineer

  SyVox Systems

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  April 1998 — June 1999 (1 year 3 months)

  Designed and implemented enhancements to the application logic of a voice controlled, hands free mobile computing system for warehouse workers using Visual C++ and Microsoft Access.
  
  Worked as part of a small team of programmers and client company representatives to create and maintain formal requirements and testing documentation.

• Software Engineer

  Prevue Networks

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  September 1995 — September 1998 (3 years 1 month)

  Extended a C++ application that displayed scrolling TV listings for a cable TV channel reaching 6 million homes.
  
  Developed a new internal application to assist in the sale of advertising on the cable TV channel using C++ and SQL Server.

• Software Engineer/Tester

  McGraw-Hill School Systems

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry)

  August 1994 — September 1995 (1 year 2 months)

  Worked on an automated unit testing tool written in C++.
  
  Trained the test team in Visual Basic for use with an automated testing product.

• Contract Software Engineer

  Texas Instruments

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TXN; Semiconductors industry)

  February 1994 — March 1994 (2 months)

  Wrote and maintained several Unix C shell scripts to manage large amounts of data for an experimental voice-dialing project.

David Kovsky’s Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  BS , Computer Science , 1988 — 1993

Additional Information

David Kovsky’s Interests:

I am especially interested in entrepreneurial endeavors and state of the art software development practices. I have been using Ruby on Rails on my own since October 2006.

David Kovsky’s Groups:

Frequent attendee of the Colorado Software Summit softwaresummit.com since 1994.

•    Boulder Network of Professionals
•    Colorado Software Summit

David Kovsky’s Contact Settings

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