George Dawoud

Current

• Lead Software Development Engineer - Online Services at RealNetworks Inc

Past

• Lead Software Development Engineer - Media Application Platform Services at RealNetworks Inc
• Software Development Engineer at RealNetorks Inc
• Software Development Engineer at The Linguist

• Senior Software Development Engineer at MarketEra Corp.
• Senior Software Development Engineer at Avolo
• Senior Software Engineer at SunCommerce
• Software Development Engineer at Riptide Technology

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George Dawoud’s Summary

10+ years of internet knowledge with web-based technologies, including site architecture, development using Enterprise Java, ColdFusion, databases, and much more.

Ability to lead multiple project teams with disparate goals and adjust to fit client needs.

Talent and patience to explain the most complex technology to those unfamiliar or doubtful of the effectiveness of technologic change.

Co-founder of Avolo.com, a successful Aerospace start-up company, before the hard hit market.

George Dawoud’s Specialties:

Technologies: Java (J2EE), Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow, Servlets, JSP, Tag libraries, Hibernate, Ibatis, JMX, JAXB, RMI, ColdFusion, XML (XSD), JDBC, Struts, JUnit, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, JQuery, ASP/ASP.net,

Web Servers: Tomcat 4.x/5.5, JBoss, Orion, ColdFusion

Tools: Eclipse/MyEclipse, Forte for Java, Toad, MS Project.

George Dawoud’s Experience

• Lead Software Development Engineer - Online Services

  RealNetworks Inc

  (Public Company; RNWK; Computer Software industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  Working with program management, key stakeholders, and operations to consolidate existing eCommerce frontend application into a new framework, using the Spring Framework, and Spring Webflow.

• Lead Software Development Engineer - Media Application Platform Services

  RealNetworks Inc

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RNWK; Computer Software industry)

  January 2006 — January 2008 (2 years 1 month)

  Worked with program management, key stakeholders, and operations to coordinate, drive, and deliver tools releases in support of stakeholder business initiatives.
  
  Represented the tools development team in bug triage, collaborate in scoping releases and coordinating development tasks within the development team.
  
  Worked to adopt and conform to improved development standards and practices; including, collaborative architecture and code reviews and test-centric development, in support of improving the quality and predictability of project delivery.
  
  Participated in the design and implementation of key infrastructure projects.

• Software Development Engineer

  RealNetorks Inc

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RNWK; Computer Software industry)

  March 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 10 months)

  Developed the second generation of the Content Management System; which is used for managing and publishing of content to web applications.
  
  Developed Media Operating System, a collection of services to schedule, execute, and monitor broadcast media events for Real Broadcast Network..
  
  Developed components for RealNetworks Core Applications.

• Software Development Engineer

  The Linguist

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; E-Learning industry)

  December 2003 — March 2004 (4 months)

  Designed and developed the registration, billing, and customer management systems.
  
  Designed and developed a graphing API for displaying charts

• Senior Software Development Engineer

  MarketEra Corp.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  February 2003 — February 2004 (1 year 1 month)

  Planned and documented web-based private stock exchange application.
  
  Designed and implemented the database schema for the platform.
  
  Deployed the system for use in a fantasy sport site.
  
  Project Lead for the integration team. Integrated the system with financial charting software, Credit Card Gateways, and other communication packages

• Senior Software Development Engineer

  Avolo

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  January 2000 — January 2002 (2 years 1 month)

  Designed and implemented an internet-based system to manage and track purchases of aircraft components and services.
  
  Developed an n-tier Inventory Procurement System.
  
  Lead the migration of existing products from Coldfusion to the J2EE Platform.
  
  Gathered customer requirements for new features & components.
  
  Lead developer, created an intranet system to manage timelines and distributed workflow assignments
  
  Lead a team of 4 developers and 2 testers to develop and maintain the company intranet
  
  Developed tools to track customers, phone calls, bugs and generate reports
  
  Participated in developing a tracking system and reporting tools with dynamic PDF generation

• Senior Software Engineer

  SunCommerce

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

  September 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 4 months)

  Designed, developed, tested and documented a customizable e-commerce shopping cart system, Secure Merchant Pro.
  
  Analyzed, reviewed and re-factored programs and database structures to increase performance and efficiency.
  Enterprise Solutions
  
  Planned and developed multiple E-Commerce sites.

• Software Development Engineer

  Riptide Technology

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1998 — September 1998 (4 months)

  Developed, tested and documented a Point of Sale (POS) application.
  
  Created a proxy module using ISO 1845 format to communicate between the client software and the server.