Rod Hilton

Current

• Software Engineer at Rally Software Development

Past

• Software Engineer at OpenLogic, Inc
• Senior Software Developer at Acxiom
• Software Developer at InsightAmerica

• Lead Software Developer at Truth-N-Beauty Software
• Teaching Assistant at University of Rochester

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Education

• Regis University
• University of Rochester

Recommended

4 people have recommended Rod

Connections

90 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• My Resume

Rod Hilton’s Summary

I'm a passionate, motivated, hard-working problem-solver with strong Computer Science background. I have over 9 years of experience developing web-based applications in a variety of programming languages and over 7 years of experience developing in Java for back-end server applications, web applications, web services, applets, and client applications.

Rod Hilton’s Specialties:

Java, Servlets, JSPs, Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, PHP, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Tomcat, Eclipse, Windows, Linux, UML, Design Patterns, Regular Expressions, C/C++, Groovy, ColdFusion, SOAP, REST, Flash, ActionScript, Python, EJBs, Struts, JBoss, Geronimo, JSF, Spring, Hibernate, Maven, C#

Rod Hilton’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  Rally Software Development

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

  September 2008 — Present (4 months)

  Developer on multi-tenancy J2EE web application utilizing Spring, Servlets, JSPs, and AJAX.

• Software Engineer

  OpenLogic, Inc

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

  January 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 9 months)

  Key developer on company's main product, a multi-tenancy SaaS web application meant to solve the problems of enterprises adopting open source. Worked on additional projects as well, including open source scanning desktop application and web services for open source census web site.

• Senior Software Developer

  Acxiom

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ACXM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 5 months)

  Senior software developer, worked on projects utilizing enormous data sets, collecting and linking data from differing sources (mostly public records) in order to provide customers such as background screeners and debt collectors with insightful slices of information about people.

• Software Developer

  InsightAmerica

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

  October 2004 — September 2005 (1 year)

  Lead developer on large-scale enterprise system for processing multi-state driver history records and collecting data into universally accessible format.
  
  (This company was acquired by Acxiom)

• Lead Software Developer

  Truth-N-Beauty Software

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2001 — September 2004 (3 years 9 months)

  Developed Java applets and Flash/ActionScript applications providing educational physics and astronomy simulations for inclusion with science textbooks.

• Teaching Assistant

  University of Rochester

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2001 — September 2004 (3 years 1 month)

  Teaching Assistant and Workshop Leader for three different Computer Science classes over 6 semesters.

Rod Hilton’s Education

• Regis University

  M.S., Software Engineering, 2005 — 2008

  Coursework: Information Systems Concepts, Information Systems Architecture, Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Software Requirements and Processes, Software Design, Enterprise Java Programming with Servlets/JSPs, Advanced Enterprise Java Programming with EJBs, UNIX Concepts, C# Programming

• University of Rochester

  B.S., Computer Science, 2000 — 2004

  Focus on Systems
  
  Coursework: Data Structures in C++, Computation and Formal Systems, Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Language Design and Implementation, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Cryptography, Computer Organization, Computer Models and Limitations, Design and Analysis of Efficient Algorithms, The Computational Brain

  Activities and Societies:

  Computer Interest Floor, Workshop Leader, Teaching Assistant

Additional Information

Rod Hilton’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Resume

Rod Hilton’s Interests:

software development, open source, windows, linux, java, ruby, web services, web development, gui design, web services, computer science, current events, writing, movies.

Rod Hilton’s Groups:

•    University of Rochester Alumni
•    BoulderJUG

Rod Hilton’s Honors:

Sun Certified Java Programmer, SE 5.0
Sun Certified Java Developer, SE 5.0
Sun Certified Web Component Developer, EE 1.4

Personal web sites featured in Total Film, Wired, Internet Advisor, Forbes, and Entertainment Weekly

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