Robert Stehwien

Current

Software Engineer II at Universal Mind
Software Engineer I at Universal Mind

Past

Flex Consultant at Universal Mind
Flex Developer at Ideum
Senior Software Engineer at The Dashboard Company

Software Developer at VanDyke Software Inc.
Senior Software Engineer at CustomerCentrix
Software Engineer (Consultant and Staff) at Chancery Software
Lead Software Engineer at Misty City Software
Senior Software Engineer at Tally Systems
Junior to Senior Software Engineer at Baranof Software

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Education

The University of New Mexico - Robert O. Anderson School of Management
University of Phoenix

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Computer Software

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Robert Stehwien’s Summary

Robert Stehwien has been a software developer for 12 years, working mainly as a Windows application developer with some web development in Java. His most recent work has been doing web development with C# and Adobe Flex/AIR. Robert has found he enjoys the Adobe frameworks and ActionScript but is also learning Clojure (Lisp on JVM) to expand his knowledge.

His undergraduate work is in Information Systems, he has a MBA, and taught "Specification of Software and Systems" at the University of New Mexico.

Robert lives in Albuquerque NM with his wife, grandmother, and several small furry children. His hobbies include various forms of exercise, motorcycles, roleplaying games, and someday getting another masters degree or PhD in Computer Science.

Robert Stehwien’s Specialties:

Object oriented analysis, design, and programming.

Robert Stehwien’s Experience

Software Engineer II

Universal Mind

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2009 — Present (4 months)

* Flex 3.0 consultation and development of Web and Air applications.

* MXML and ActionScript 3.0 programming.

* Implement views for Cairngorm based applications.
Software Engineer I

Universal Mind

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

http://universalmind.com/

* Flex 3.0 consultation and development of Web and Air applications.

* MXML and ActionScript 3.0 programming.

* Implement views for Cairngorm based applications.

* Implement Mate based applications.

* Design AMF remoting data and calls.

* Implement a Ruby based scripting method of deploying and configuring Amazon Web Service instances.
Flex Consultant

Universal Mind

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

http://universalmind.com/

Flex 3.0 consultation and development. MXML and ActionScript 3.0 programming. Implement views for Cairngorm based applications.
Flex Developer

Ideum

(Computer Software industry)

April 2008 — May 2008 (2 months)

http://www.ideum.com/

* Design and develop Adobe Flex based Space Weather Media Viewer for Ideum's client NASA. http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/spaceweather

* Train Ideum's developers in the use of Flex, Subversion, and general software development practices.
Senior Software Engineer

The Dashboard Company

(Computer Software industry)

September 2007 — April 2008 (8 months)

http://dashboardcompany.com/

* Develop rich internet application for business dashboards using Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR using a C# Webservice and MS SQL Server database.

* Designed and implemented an Excel like expression parser in ActionScript.

* Worked on a Flex runtime UI designer for dashboards.

* Automate the build, creation, and deployment process for our dashboard application.

* Design and implemented a geospatial map charting component for Flex.

* Created a map generation tool that could parse standard geospatial shape data and create individual stand alone components.

* Design and implement a Flex control panel for creating and managing the VFX sites.
Software Developer

VanDyke Software Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2002 — September 2007 (5 years 5 months)

http://www.vandyke.com

* Product Manager for VShell for 7 months (7/2005 to 2/2006).

* Supervised and managed a development team of 9 people for 7 months (10/2003 to 5/2004).

* Researched, designed and developed SSH-based clients and servers for Windows and Unix. Using C++, MFC, and Trolltech's Qt.

* Design and development of a Unix-based automated functional test suite utilizing Perl and scripts.

* Refactor code to improve maintainability and ease porting efforts.

* Work on FTP over SSL and Telnet over SSL clients

* Ported a Windows-based server and command-line clients to Linux, Macintosh OSX, HP-UX 11, Solaris, and AIX.
Senior Software Engineer

CustomerCentrix

(Computer Software industry)

October 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 2 months)

* Designed and developed Java Servlets using SQL, XSLT,and XSLT.

* Designed and implemented a Java Servlet reporting engine.

* Implemented a Windows application sharing tool by integrating VNC (Virtual Network Computing) into a Java Applet and Servlet.
Software Engineer (Consultant and Staff)

Chancery Software

(Computer Software industry)

March 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 9 months)

Fixed bugs, added features, and created an installer for grade book software written in C++/MFC.
Lead Software Engineer

Misty City Software

(Computer Software industry)

March 2000 — October 2000 (8 months)

* Provided technical leadership for both Windows and Macintosh development.

* Rescued a project that was 2 years behind schedule and released it “on-time”.

* Implemented development processes that guided development from source code control to scheduling.

* Development Lead for Grade Machine and eClass Grades software products written in C++ and MFC.
Senior Software Engineer

Tally Systems

(Computer Software industry)

January 1998 — March 2000 (2 years 3 months)

* Tally Systems purchased Baranof Software and I continued on as a Senior Software Engineer working on the same products.
Junior to Senior Software Engineer

Baranof Software

(Computer Software industry)

August 1995 — January 1998 (2 years 6 months)

* Design Lead for a next-generation e-mail management tool, which incorporated a distributed client/server architecture and an SQL database with COM/DCOM.

* Collaborated on writing product requirements specification documentation.

* Mentored and critiqued junior engineers.

* Design Lead on Incentra, a web management tool implemented in Java, C++, and MFC. Product incorporated a proprietary sockets protocol designed from scratch.

* Design Lead on IP.Check,a TCP/IP performance monitor that supports scripting and numerous internet protocols (HTTP,Ping, FTP,and others). Written in C++ and MFC.

* Design Lead on WebEnabler,a web publishing tool. Written in C++ and MFC.

Robert Stehwien’s Education

The University of New Mexico - Robert O. Anderson School of Management

Masters , Business Administration , 2003 — 2005
University of Phoenix

Bachelors of Science , Information Technology - Web Management , 1999 — 2002