Theodore Nguyen-Cao

Current

Software Engineer at Clearspring Technologies

Past

Software Engineer/Systems Architect at kajeet, Inc.
Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Engineering at Virginia Tech

Software Engineer (Intern) at Equant

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Education

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Theodore Nguyen-Cao’s Summary

I'm a software engineer with a passion for working with cool technology, cool startups, and cool people. I enjoy creating new things and tackling hard problems.

My interests include web development, user interface design, emerging technologies, and startups.

I make stuff work.

Theodore Nguyen-Cao’s Specialties:

Java, Ruby, DHTML/XHTML/HTML/XML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, AJAX

Theodore Nguyen-Cao’s Experience

Software Engineer

Clearspring Technologies

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

June 2008 — Present (8 months)

I am building something here.
Software Engineer/Systems Architect

kajeet, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 6 months)

kajeet is a brand new mobile phone service for kids and their parents.

Developed and maintained the customer portal (http://www.kajeet.com) and customer service system applications, launching new features and enhancing existing features.

Acted as team lead/ScrumMaster for a small group of software developers.

Led the integration and execution of a content management system into the enterprise as well as web and customer analytics tracking.

Worked closely with product and marketing to launch new products and features such as GPS Phone Locator and Talk & Text Paks.

Worked on third party vendor integration into custom built event-driven enterprise integration platform using technologies such as JMS and web services.
Consultant

Booz Allen Hamilton

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 8 months)

Worked on an government R&D program whose goal was to identify tools and technologies that can be leveraged to help facilitate intelligence analysis.

Developed a framework that provided infrastructure support to the evaluation of tools and algorithms. The framework provided features such as tool/workflow execution, job scheduling, dynamically generated UI, and tool parameter pipelining.

Developed one of the first Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Intelligence Community (IC) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementations. This distributed system provided the ability to federate queries across multiple data sources and allow independent visualization tools to consume the results, while remaining data source agnostic.
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Engineering

Virginia Tech

(Educational Institution; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

August 2004 — December 2004 (5 months)

Provided classroom instruction to over 180 engineering students. Course topic was an introduction to programming concepts and the application of those concepts.
Software Engineer (Intern)

Equant

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

May 2004 — August 2004 (4 months)

Developed a graph generator web-based tool for statistical analytics around network operations. Technologies used include Spring, Tapestry, and JFreeChart

Created an Oracle to Microsoft Excel data export utility using Jakarta POI.

Theodore Nguyen-Cao’s Education

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

BS, Computer Science, 2001 — 2005

Graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors. Minored in Mathematics.