
Software Engineer/Independent Contractor
Washington D.C. Metro Area

Software Engineer/Independent Contractor
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Most things backend application/infrastructure related using java as the language base. XHTML/css/javascript/Tapestry/html, as well as the technologies supporting the glue portions related to communications/relational database management/distributed architectures.
Unfortunately am also very familiar with client gui/driver/device development. Everything from .net c++ guis and low level device driver code to Swing based java web start applications on solaris/linux/windows platforms.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2006 — Present (3 years )
Mostly working on providing byte code enhanced runtime options so that expressions may operate in their pure java form without reflection when using OGNL in production / high load situations.
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Program Development industry)
December 2005 — Present (4 years )
Contributing development efforts to the java web application framework http://tapestry.apache.org, initially to provide a seamless integration point for ajax/dhtml/etc functionality via the use of the toolkit provided by http://dojotoolkit.org.
(Computer Software industry)
February 2006 — 2008 (2 years )
Working as an independent contractor, interested in working on projects involving tapestry/hivemind/dojo (or any combination within).
(Computer Software industry)
May 2005 — 2008 (3 years )
Developing and maintaining a library of tapestry web components for the web framework at http://tapestry.apache.org. The library also serves as the core engine/framework for ajax/dhtml support in tapestry via the use of http://dojotoolkit.org toolkit library.
http://tacos.sourceforge.net
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
August 2006 — 2007 (1 year )
Trying my best to contribute meaningful additions to the already outstanding toolkit that Dojo provides.
(Computer Software industry)
December 2005 — 2007 (2 years )
Initially contributed support in the form of maven patches and maven2 support for TestNG, but have also been known to make tiny adjustments to the library here and there.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
January 2001 — February 2006 (5 years 2 months)
Responsible for development and maintenance of various system components. Everything ranging from tiny medical devices communicating to operating room equipment, all the way up to java web based applications.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1999 — January 2000 (1 year 1 month)
Worked with various project teams to quickly build and deliver startup product offerings of various clients. These were typically quick 3 month engagements involving very well established management styles for specing out/developing/testing/delivering startup based web products for clients. Some of the products worked on were http://www.estudentloan.com and http://buildtopia.com.
(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1998 — July 1999 (1 year 5 months)
Attempted to startup a small consulting firm based out of San Diego with a graphics design partner. Most of the work involved ended up being bio-tech related web sites/intranets using perl/flash for the majority of work.
Apache Software Foundation / PMC member Tapestry web application framework, ASF, Dojo