Artisanal Software
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Software Project Lead at Carbon Five
- Owner at NDP Software
- Past
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- Principal Architect at TeeBeeDee
- Software Architect/Software Manager at GreatSchools
- President, Board of Directors at Streetside Stories
- Instructor at City College of San Francisco
- Software Development Manager and Senior Software Engineer at NAVIS
- Senior Software Engineer at Farallon
- Senior Software Engineer at Software Publishing
- Software Engineer at Mansfield Systems Inc.
- Education
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- University of Oregon
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Andrew Peterson’s Summary
Build compelling software.
Take on new challenges.
Tangible results.
Andrew Peterson’s Specialties:
Software conception, design and construction.
Andrew Peterson’s Experience
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Software Project Lead
Carbon Five
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
CarbonFive is a consulting company delivering software through an iterative and collaborative process. The project lead is responsible for client, project and technical management. We focus on (but are not limited to) open source Java and Ruby on Rails. Projects include:
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing industry web application
- Online educational platform for grades 3-6
- Online shopping product review service
- IM-bot software for a social search.
- Development and training to facilitate staffing transition at a social networking web property. -
Owner
NDP Software
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
February 1999 — Present (10 years 6 months)
Variety of web and software development, as well as software-oriented consulting.
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Principal Architect
TeeBeeDee
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
October 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 2 months)
Built Social Networking platform for Baby Boomers.
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Software Architect/Software Manager
GreatSchools
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
March 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 8 months)
Created Java implementation of popular school information site for parents.
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President, Board of Directors
Streetside Stories
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2000 — June 2005 (5 years 6 months)
Served as board president/chair, on governance committee, and hired the executive director.
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Instructor
City College of San Francisco
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2000 — June 2002 (2 years 6 months)
Taught web development classes part-time.
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Software Development Manager and Senior Software Engineer
NAVIS
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1992 — 1999 (7 years)
The leading supplier of software solutions for container terminals, shipping ports and lines, and distribution centers. I helped Navis Corporation grow from just a few clients when I joined (employee number eleven) to the world-wide market leader. I focused on the SPARCS product, a real-time, decision-support, client/server system that manages over 100 containership terminals around the world. I served many varied roles (often simultaneously) while at Navis.
Software Development Manager (shared) I built the development team, helped set the strategic direction of the company, and managed 4-10 major projects each year (and countless minor projects). I advocated for, and helped institute strategic planning, source code control, a coding style guide, task tracking and scheduling systems. Coordinated weekly technical meetings. -
Senior Software Engineer
Farallon
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Networking industry)
January 1990 — February 1992 (2 years 2 months)
Led a six-engineer team in the creation of the top-selling SoundEdit Pro / SoundEdit 16 (MacroMedia). To improve software quality, I founded (with three co-workers) the User Interface Task Force, which began user testing company-wide.
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Senior Software Engineer
Software Publishing
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; SPC; Computer Software industry)
August 1988 — December 1989 (1 year 5 months)
Designed and coded three cross-platform projects: a high-end word processor, a database and a presentation graphics product (Harvard Graphics). I analysed and recommended potential product acquisitions. I advocated quality, initiated internal documentation requirements and set programming style guidelines.
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Software Engineer
Mansfield Systems Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1986 — August 1988 (2 years 2 months)
As employee number four at this start-up company, I created a technical desktop publishing application for MacOS. I started as a summer intern and grew to a primary developer of the word processor.
Andrew Peterson’s Education
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University of Oregon
B.A. , Computer Science, Music , 1983 — 1987
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