Dave Johnson

Current
  • Social Software Architect at Sun Microsystems
Past
  • Staff Engineer/SW at Sun Microsystems
  • Senior UI Developer at SAS Institute, Inc.
  • Software Development Manager at HAHT Commerce
  • Software Developer at Virtual Software
  • Software Developer at Rogue Wave Software
  • Member of Technical Staff at NYNEX Science and Technology
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Dave Johnson’s Summary

Experienced and highly motivated software developer/architect and recognized expert in social software, blogs, wikis and RSS/Atom technologies.

Extensive experience with software architecture, Java software development on both client and server-side, web application development, cross-platform issues, best practices for software development and open source project management.

Founder of Roller Weblogger project, VP Apache Roller
Author of RSS and Atom in Action (2006)
Speaker at JavaOne 2005, 2006, 2007
Speaker at ApacheCon 2005, 2006, 2007


Dave Johnson’s Experience

  • Social Software Architect

    Sun Microsystems

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)

    January 2007Present (1 year 5 months)

    Responsible for architecture, design and development of social software products including blogs, wikis and RESTful web servces for integrating such applications.

  • Staff Engineer/SW

    Sun Microsystems

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)

    September 2004December 2006 (2 years 4 months)

    Responsible for design, development, deploymenty and support of the Apache Roller open source blog software that drives blogs.sun.com, for advancing and promoting blogging and blog technologies.

  • Senior UI Developer

    SAS Institute, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    July 2003September 2004 (1 year 3 months)

    Responsibilities include software architecture, software development, and user-interface design. Currently working on Java-based, database-driven web applications for Risk Management.

  • Software Development Manager

    HAHT Commerce

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

    August 1999July 2003 (4 years)

    Responsibilities include software architecture, software development, and technical leadership for HAHT's e-Commerce Platform Products: the HAHTsite application server and IDE, the HAHT J2EE server and workbench, as well as the eSyndication content and catalog syndicator.

  • Software Developer

    Virtual Software

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

    19981999 (1 year)

    Developed Java based document management software including a Swing-based FileNet compatible image viewer with annotations.

  • Software Developer

    Rogue Wave Software

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; RWAV; Computer Software industry)

    19961998 (2 years)

    Responsible for UNIX ports of Rogue Wave's C++ based Object Factory products. Developed wizard for generating C++/zApp based database forms and master-detail interfaces. Worked on Astro, the never released successor to Rogue Wave's JFactory Java GUI builder.

  • Member of Technical Staff

    NYNEX Science and Technology

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

    19931996 (3 years)

    Lead developer for SPARX, AutoCAD based broadband network design software developed using C++ and AutoCAD ARX API. Also developed Windows MFC/C++ based Customer Network Management (CNM) software.


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