Technical Lead at Orbitz Worldwide
Greater Chicago Area
- Current
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- Technical Lead at Orbitz Worldwide
- Past
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- Senior Software Engineer at Orbitz Worldwide
- Software Engineer at Motorola
- MIS Intern at Panduit
- Education
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- Northern Illinois University
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
- Websites
John Wood’s Summary
An passionate software engineer with experience in web and distributed application development. I am a proven leader on the job, as well as off the job. My last few personal projects have focused on web application development. Professionally, I'm currently working on back-end services that process web requests in a very high volume distributed environment. This area of software development interests me because of its rapid pace, and large number of possibilities. I enjoy keeping up to speed with the industry, and I'm always looking for ways to improve as a software developer.
John Wood’s Specialties:
Detailed knowledge of Java (J2SE and J2EE), HTML, XML, Linux, Object Oriented design and development, TDD, SOA, Bash shell scripting, Distributed systems architecture, development, and deployment
Strong knowledge of C, C++, Ruby, Rails, Groovy, SQL, CSS, Spring, BDD
Basic knowledge of C#, PHP, Erlang
John Wood’s Experience
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Technical Lead
Orbitz Worldwide
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CD; Internet industry)
August 2008 — Present (3 months)
Responsible for the technical direction of the transaction services team. This includes working on the high level architecture of the components the team owns, improving the quality of the team's products, and introducing new technology and processes that could help the team be more productive. Other responsibilities include representing the team in meetings discussing the technical direction of the company, mentoring team members, and conducting research and development on projects that could potentially help the team.
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Senior Software Engineer
Orbitz Worldwide
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CD; Internet industry)
August 2005 — August 2008 (3 years 1 month)
Senior developer on a team responsible for writing the back end software to connect to various airline reservation systems to make air bookings for customers. Design and implement new features, come up with, design and implement research and development projects that I feel could help the team, fix bugs, troubleshoot issues, support the 24/7 website operations, and mentor/assist other team members. Most tasks involved using Java, XML, Spring, and other open source products in a service oriented architecture.
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Software Engineer
Motorola
(Public Company; MOT; Telecommunications industry)
May 2000 — August 2005 (5 years 4 months)
Worked on various projects in different areas of the company. Worked on a startup project to develop a five nines common platform to be used by the cell phone call processing applications. Started when there were 0 lines of code for the project, and saw it through several production releases. Also worked on a small team responsible for maintaining and adding features to DOS and Windows desktop applications that monitored radio traffic on Motorola's radio systems. Most projects were done using C, C++, and Java in various environments and various architectures.
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MIS Intern
Panduit
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
May 1998 — May 2000 (2 years 1 month)
Used COBOL and JCL to write several programs to assist in converting our database to Oracle. One of four members of the Y2K team, whose responsibility was to insure year 2000 compliance in Panduit’s financial systems. Fixed problems with production systems by request of the user.
John Wood’s Education
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Northern Illinois University
Bachelors in Computer Science, Computer Science, Business, 1996 — 2000
Minor in Business Administration.
Recipient of a 1999-2000 Deans’ Award, which are given to students who have made substantial contributions to the university community and who have demonstrated outstanding scholarship.
Recipient of the Kraft Foods Scholarship, an award given to students who exhibit excellence in academics in the Computer Science Department at NIU.- Activities and Societies:
- President of the Student Advisory Board for Computer Science, Member of the Golden Key National Honor Society
Additional Information
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John Wood’s Interests:
Dynamic programming languages, software testing strategies, continuous education in the technology industry, fishing, shotokan karate
John Wood’s Groups:
Shotokan Karate of America
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Orbitz Alumni Network -
Shotokan Karate of America
John Wood’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- expertise requests
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
