Jennifer Neighbors

Current

• Computer Scientist at Future Technologies, Inc

Past

• Software Engineer at EDO EVI
• Junior Software Engineer at Intellibot Robotics
• Programmer at CorpComm, Inc

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Education

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Mary Washington College
• Germanna Community College

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Jennifer Neighbors’s Summary

Web Developer specializing in User Interface programming and design. I love learning new languages and new things and try to keep up with the latest technologies. I'm also a big fan of open source, though I try not to be fanatical about it.

Jennifer Neighbors’s Specialties:

Java, JSP, .NET, C#, C++, ASP.NET, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Web Standards

Jennifer Neighbors’s Experience

• Computer Scientist

  Future Technologies, Inc

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  * Subcontractor to CACI
  
  * Worked as part of a team supporting PEO IWS developing features for Enterprise-level Portal Application (primarily part of Maintenance phase, with full life-cycle experience for new modules) Application connects thousands of users, allowing them to share files and events. Similar in purpose to Sharepoint, but customized for government needs.
  
  * Technologies used included: Java Server Pages (JSP), PL/SQL, Oracle SQL Queries, HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML (light), JavaScript and AJAX (using Prototype/Scriptaculous libraries)
  
  * Created stored procedures and complex SQL queries for Oracle Database.
  
  * Developed application using Agile Methodologies
  
  * Provided mentoring and help to colleagues
  
  * Minor graphics work, using Gimp for graphics creation.
  
  * Development Environment: Netbeans on Solaris host machine
  
  * Version Control: Subversion

• Software Engineer

  EDO EVI

  (Public Company; Defense & Space industry)

  May 2007 — September 2007 (5 months)

  * Worked with a team developing the web application portion of a multi-tiered enterprise-level application for a government client.
  
  * Technologies used included: ASP.NET, C#, Ajax.NET, Javascript, CSS, HTML, and DHTML
  
  * Minor graphics work using Adobe Photoshop CS.
  
  * Developed using Waterfall Model
  
  * Development Environment: Visual Studio on Windows

• Junior Software Engineer

  Intellibot Robotics

  (Privately Held; Machinery industry)

  January 2007 — May 2007 (5 months)

  * Worked as part of an R&D team to improve and develop new features for a vacuum that uses artificial intelligence to clean a room, avoiding any obstacles it may encounter.
  
  * Maintained and developed terminal software in Qlarity (similar to Visual Basic)
  
  * Developed Embedded Applications in C/C++ to communicate between graphical terminal and robot.
  
  * Developed lean PHP application to send commands to the robot and to get status of the robot over a WLAN connection. Took full advantage of CSS technologies to allow for a clean an extensible interface.
  
  * Developed thorough documentation of all new and pre-existing code.
  
  * Coordinated with senior engineer at remote location to ensure that communication between graphical terminal and robot worked without error.
  
  * Minor graphics creation using Adobe Photoshop CS.
  
  * Development Environment: Qlarity Software on Windows, XCode on Mac OS X
  
  * Version Control: CVS

• Programmer

  CorpComm, Inc

  (Privately Held; Public Relations and Communications industry)

  February 2005 — January 2007 (2 years )

  * Major technologies used included: ASP, PHP, Ruby on Rails (light), MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, CSS, AJAX, Javascript, XHTML(light), XML, XSLT(light), and Adobe Flash
  
  * Worked with primarily DoD clients, but occasionally commercial as well, developing custom solutions to allow for the effective dissemination of information to other government organizations and/or the public.
  
  * Worked as part of a very small development team.
  
  * Responsible for full development of custom Government News Portal Web application in ASP with Microsoft SQL Server Database.
  
  * Made all government sites meet 508 Compliance standards.
  
  * Developed several small one-shot web sites, most using PHP with MySQL database.
  
  * Developed common framework to allow for re-use of code for smaller projects, and to allow for a common interface for users to maintain their own sites.
  
  * Integrated custom web applications using corporate Active Directory server for user authentication.
  
  * Developed Microsoft XML Web Services.
  
  * Created Flash Applications using XML for data manipulation.
  
  * Used XSLT to develop site templates and to process XML data into a more user-friendly format.
  
  * Customized corporate Sharepoint site.
  
  * Developed custom Java applications to allow for automatic transfer of dynamic site data from a local server to a remote server that could only handle static HTML files.
  
  * Developed custom Windows photo management application in C# using Visual Studio 2005 for government client.
  
  * Provided occasional IT support by configuring servers and desktop systems using Windows XP Professional, Debian Linux, and Mac OS X
  
  * Minor web design/print work using Adobe Creative Suite Products.
  
  * Development Environment: Eclipse on Linux (light), Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 on Windows, jEdit on Mac OS X

Jennifer Neighbors’s Education

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  MIT , Information Technology , 2007 — 2010 (expected)

• Mary Washington College

  BS , Computer Science, International Affairs , 2002 — 2005

  Activities and Societies:

  Upsilon Pi Epsilon

• Germanna Community College

  AA&S , Liberal Arts , 2000 — 2002

Additional Information

Jennifer Neighbors’s Groups:

IEEE, ACM

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