Tony Rasa

Current

• Development Manager at Blackfin

Past

• Consultant at MeanCat Technology (Self-employed)
• Systems Administrator at Orlando Science Center
• System Manager at Science Spectrum

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Education

• Boise State University
• Texas Tech University

Connections

42 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Tony Rasa’s Summary

I have designed and implemented software solutions of all sizes, for startups as well as major corporations. I enjoy working with project teams to help improve the quality of their work by introducing new technologies - as well as doing R&D on these new technologies to separate the marketing hype from cold hard reality. I am constantly reading, writing experimental software, and looking for new ways to get the job done.

Tony Rasa’s Specialties:

Software architecture, Test Driven Development, Professional Cat-Herding, .NET development, and various web development platforms.

Tony Rasa’s Experience

• Development Manager

  Blackfin

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

  August 2004 — Present (4 years 2 months)

  I work with project teams at Blackfin, steering architectures, assisting with training, writing libraries to be used by our clients. My focus is on raising what we do to the level of an engineering discipline; the field has a legacy of "cowboy coding" which is harmful to the goal of writing good, quality software that just works.
  
  I wear many hats here as well.

• Consultant

  MeanCat Technology (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  December 1997 — August 2004 (6 years 9 months)

  Worked on a wide variety of projects as a software developer and architect, worked closely with another software consulting firm as part of a loose confederacy of consultants, learned how to handle many different aspects of business from the technology, to keeping the servers running, accounting, customer service, and everything else.
  
  Oh, and I wrote some code too.

• Systems Administrator

  Orlando Science Center

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

  February 1997 — December 1997 (11 months)

  Was called in to help with major crash issues with the museum's ticketing and box office system - the VAX was crashing at peak times, every day. Figured out what was going wrong and fixed it, then worked with keeping the Windows NT systems up and running and building software to get the old VAX and the new PCs talking to each other.
  
  Once the problems were solved, I decided that I wanted to focus on software development full-time.

• System Manager

  Science Spectrum

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

  1993 — 1996 (3 years)

  I worked on a Science Museum ticketing system based on DEC VAX hardware, keeping things running. Also worked with the box office staff and rebuilt some PC-based exhibits using spare parts, twine, and a Borland C compiler.

Tony Rasa’s Education

• Boise State University

  BS, Computer Science, 2000 — 2003

• Texas Tech University

  Music Performance 1993 — 1996

Additional Information

Tony Rasa’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

Tony Rasa’s Contact Settings

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