Jason E. Rist

Current

Software Engineer at MediaNews Group
Co-Owner, Technologist, Designer at Wixa Labs, LLC

Past

IT Integrations Specialist at The Premier Company, LLC
Software Developer at Synergetics, Inc.
Application Support Engineer at BEA Systems, Inc.

QA Tester at Indicative Software
Systems Administrator / Programmer at Colorado State University

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Education

Colorado State University

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Jason E. Rist’s Summary

Application Developer, Database Administrator, and Project Manager in a wide variety of business applications.

Software Developer, Systems Administrator, Project Manager and Support Engineer in a very wide range of business applications. Creation, installation, management, and support of projects ranging from commissions systems to services buses to single-sign-on systems.

Many years of experience with a range of graphic design, from web to branding to print.

Jason E. Rist’s Specialties:

•JEE - Java, Servlets, JSP, Spring, Struts, JSF, MyFaces, Hibernate, Log4j
•Python, Plone/Zope, Django
•BEA Certified Admin
•JUnit, EasyMock, JMockit, EclEmma
•Reporting - JasperSoft iReport, JasperReports
•UML modeling; OO analysis
•HTML, XHTML, CSS, AJAX, XSLT, XML
•CM - Ant, CVS, SVN, Trac
•Oracle 8i, 9i, SQL Server, JDBC/ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL
•Eclipse Europa, Rational Rose, Visio
•Unix (Linux, Mac OS X), Windows, VMWare
•Best-practices (ITIL,Agile, DSDM, Test First)

Jason E. Rist’s Experience

Software Engineer

MediaNews Group

(Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

December 2008 — Present (8 months)

UI Engineer working with JavaScript (jQuery), XHTML, XML, XSLT, CSS, and Java. Currently implementing a new UI for the backend of our enterprise wide CMS.
Co-Owner, Technologist, Designer

Wixa Labs, LLC

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

July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

Web Design, Graphic Design, Brand Development, Web Site usability, user interface design, web site traffic enhancement, search engine optimization, brand synergy, analytics.
IT Integrations Specialist

The Premier Company, LLC

(Information Services industry)

November 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 2 months)

Integrations with other applicant tracking systems using XML, XMLRPC, SOAP, Zope, Python and Plone for better exchange of information between companies and partners.
Software Developer

Synergetics, Inc.

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

January 2007 — October 2007 (10 months)

-Co-Developed sub-application to track animal samples. Implemented a model-view-controller design pattern to separate data from business rules and presentation logic using Hibernate, Spring and Struts.
-Retroactively implemented unit/regression testing framework suite and coverage analysis tools.
-Created an Administration application capable of changing the log level for any logger, push the levels to a database, poll the db for changes and push any new changes to any other node in a cluster.
-Incorporated a reports application based on JasperSoft JasperReports that integrated with a backend to provide parameterized reports on data pulled from an Oracle database. Created all reports and included pre-built queries using iReport. Collaborated with data analyst on the queries, reports and reports filter.
Application Support Engineer

BEA Systems, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

August 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 6 months)

Maintain and enhance existing IT infrastructure.
Install/configure new kits and deployments.
Develop new tools for infrastructure testing and process management.
Assist business in day to day tasks.
Assist architecture in buildout and scalability of IT infrastructure.
QA Tester

Indicative Software

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

March 2004 — September 2004 (7 months)

-Designed and developed test processes and scripts for server, client, and agent software modules.
-Installed, configured, and maintained multi-platform virtualized testing environment for platform-independent enterprise level monitoring software. HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows on VMWare environments used.
Systems Administrator / Programmer

Colorado State University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

March 2000 — August 2004 (4 years 6 months)

-Maintained 50 machines on mixed network (Windows 2000/XP, Mac OS/X, Linux, Irix, and Solaris), including 20 node high performance, high availability computing cluster.
-Created, installed, and maintained numerous backend servers, including mail, web, and file servers.
-Assembled two rack-mounted terabyte RAID arrays for massive weather modeling output storage.
-Interacted with 20 users in high-turnover environment.