Nils Jonsson

Current

• Associate Principal Developer at DataCert

Past

• Senior Software Developer at Bridgeway
• Programmer Analyst (development lead) at Fayez Sarofim & Co
• Telecommunications Programmer at Invesco Aim

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Education

• Rice University

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My programming activities
• Tech. articles I’ve written
• Tech. tests I’ve taken

Nils Jonsson’s Summary

I’m a pragmatic software craftsman with more than a decade of experience shipping commercial software products for the legal industry and delivering mission-critical homegrown applications for the financial services industry.

• I’m passionate about using software best practices — agile methods in particular — to produce profits
• I rapidly master new technologies and techniques
• I’m active in open-source projects and in the developer community at large
• My written, oral and visual communication skills are solid

Nils Jonsson’s Specialties:

Ruby • Ruby on Rails • test-driven and behavior-driven development • RESTful application architecture • semantic XHTML / CSS

Nils Jonsson’s Experience

• Associate Principal Developer

  DataCert

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  • I’m a member of a team that uses agile methods to build products for managing the business of law
  • I ramped up the skills and understanding of this team, helping them to build and take to production a new Rails-based web product
  • I made technical presentations and prepared tutorials for all DataCert’s development staff

• Senior Software Developer

  Bridgeway

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 5 months)

  • I shipped features in two releases of Bridgeway’s Java-based web product suite
  • I was responsible for the distinctive look and feel of a new Windows Forms product, authoring all GUI components and overseeing visual style throughout
  • I served as build master for the Windows Forms product

• Programmer Analyst (development lead)

  Fayez Sarofim & Co

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Investment Management industry)

  August 1997 — May 2004 (6 years 10 months)

  • I led a team of six developers in the development and maintenance of all FS&Co’s custom applications
  • I designed and constructed the extensible presentation layer of the application architecture and trained the rest of the development team in authoring applications for it
  • I designed and constructed an equity portfolio analysis tool in collaboration with the COO
  • I designed and constructed a custom groupware application for four stakeholder departments that collaborate to prepare materials for client meetings
  • I helped develop and deliver business process-specific training materials to power users of reporting tools, enabling departments to self-serve most of their reporting needs without help from IT personnel
  • I was asked by vendor Taurus Software for permission to reproduce my source code in their training materials because the code exhibited unusual and exemplary style

• Telecommunications Programmer

  Invesco Aim

  (Investment Management industry)

  April 1994 — August 1997 (3 years 5 months)

  • I designed and led construction of a new implementation of the AIM Investor Line (1-800-AIM-LINE, a voice response system with a user base of four million shareholders)
  • I helped develop and promote a corporate software development process as a charter member of a team whose work American Programmer (now Cutter IT Journal) spotlighted in the June 1995 article “Software Process Reengineering: Getting to [SEI Capability Maturity Model] ‘Level 3’ with Teamwork”

Nils Jonsson’s Education

• Rice University

  B.A., Linguistics, 1989 — 1993

  As a B.Mus. degree candidate I also studied violin performance, as well as music theory, composition and history at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music.

Additional Information

Nils Jonsson’s Websites:

• My programming activities
• Tech. articles I’ve written
• Tech. tests I’ve taken

Nils Jonsson’s Interests:

agile methods, test-driven development, TDD, behavior-driven development, BDD, usability, domain-specific languages, DSLs, social software, open-source software, OSS

Nils Jonsson’s Groups:

Houston.rb, RubyForge, Thawte Web of Trust Notary

•    Association of Rice Alumni
•    Agile Alliance
•    Rubyists

Nils Jonsson’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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