John McAdams

Current

• Application Development Team Lead at Department of Human Services, State of Oregon

Past

• Owner at J. E. McAdams & Associates, Inc.
• Developer at Pacificorp
• Consultant at ComputerAid for Hertz

• Developer at Egghead.com
• MIS Director at Byers Portland Willamette
• Developer at Hollywood Entertainment

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John McAdams’s Summary

John McAdams’s Specialties:

Agile process, extreme programming, SDLC development, performance and optimization expert, mentoring, and customer centric development.

John McAdams’s Experience

• Application Development Team Lead

  Department of Human Services, State of Oregon

  (Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Public Safety industry)

  November 2004 — Present (4 years 1 month)

  Lead small, agile development teams on various projects at the State.

• Owner

  J. E. McAdams & Associates, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1988 — July 2007 (19 years)

  Technology and network consultants.

• Developer

  Pacificorp

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SPI; Utilities industry)

  December 2001 — March 2003 (1 year 4 months)

  Developed tools to help transform an important management decision tool from version 1 to version 2.

• Consultant

  ComputerAid for Hertz

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; F; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  August 2001 — December 2001 (5 months)

  Computer Aid, Inc. is a temporary staffing agency specializing in information technology professionals and providing technical in-sourcing. Hertz is the world leader in automobile rentals.

• Developer

  Egghead.com

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; EGGS; Consumer Electronics industry)

  September 2000 — May 2001 (9 months)

  Primary developer for company's "Real time feed" initiative, which was used to communicate information in near real time from the company's Smith Gardner Ecometry database to multiple Oracle databases.

• MIS Director

  Byers Portland Willamette

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Mining & Metals industry)

  April 1997 — September 2000 (3 years 6 months)

  Managed company's Y2k effort.

• Developer

  Hollywood Entertainment

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; HLYW; Retail industry)

  January 1996 — March 1997 (1 year 3 months)

  One of three developers tasked to maintain software for point of sale system for 1100+ stores.

Additional Information

John McAdams’s Interests:

Consulting opportunities, professional development, agile and extreme programming, employment search, employee search, bleeding edge, professional cooking.

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