Patrick Veverka

Current

Senior Systems Engineer at GEICO
Owner at Veverka Consulting, LLC

Past

Partner at entryway
Founding Team Member and Lead Developer at Pikum!
Software Architect at Global Artistry

Software Architect at Euro RSCG Discovery
Web Developer at Artoria Limoges
Programmer at Cox Auto Trader
PC/Lan at Norfolk Southern Corporation
Graphic Operator at WPTV
Production Assistant at WDBJ

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Patrick Veverka’s Summary

Proven software architect with over a decade of experience developing cutting edge applications. I code in both Microsoft and FOSS technologies. I love learning new languages and applying them to real world situations.

Patrick Veverka’s Specialties:

ASP.NET, C#, Javascript, Web Services, XML, SOAP, PHP, AJAX

Patrick Veverka’s Experience

Senior Systems Engineer

GEICO

(Privately Held; Insurance industry)

January 2009 — Present (7 months)
Owner

Veverka Consulting, LLC

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Partner

entryway

(Computer Software industry)

October 2008 — January 2009 (4 months)

We are adept in a wide range of cutting edge technologies and fancy ourselves agile, curious, and clever. Collectively, the team has experience with large and small scale international projects, large enterprise architectures, messaging infrastructures, and high-performance scientific computing within 3D virtual worlds.
Founding Team Member and Lead Developer

Pikum!

(Internet industry)

January 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 9 months)

Leading international development effort to create next generation meta-gaming infrastructure for funded startup. Pikum! is funded by First Round Capital and currently still in stealth mode. We will launch in the U.K. in the spring of 2008.

Responsible for full software development life cycle of n-tier software solution from requirements gathering through system architecture design to launch

Building out staff domestically and internationally through intensive search and interview process

Mentoring developers on proper use of coding standards, best practices and code generation

Developing services to automatically and reliably import partner data feeds containing over 100 sports and thousands of events and teams into clustered database servers
Software Architect

Global Artistry

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

2004 — June 2007 (3 years)
Software Architect

Euro RSCG Discovery

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

October 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 4 months)

Software architect for large scale marketing operating system for external client utilizing custom search engine integration, credit card processing and management of over 400,000 members

Integrated legacy application into new service oriented data tier allowing for immediate changes to 200,000 product database

Implemented 3rd party content management system after extensive training

Guided junior developers in proper application design and architecture
Web Developer

Artoria Limoges

(Computer Software industry)

2002 — 2006 (4 years)

Redesigned website using PHP and MySQL to improve user interaction

Automated nightly data integration to allow for real time inventory status on multiple websites

Increased sales 25% during employment
Programmer

Cox Auto Trader

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

2004 — 2005 (1 year)

Developed Tablet PC application utilizing web services to communicate with legacy systems and backend data tier

Researched and proposed technology update for EDI application including rewrite in .NET and web interface for external partners

Interfaced with various groups within and outside of company on system wide technology refresh
PC/Lan

Norfolk Southern Corporation

(Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)

January 2003 — December 2003 (1 year)

Imaged and deployed computers in accordance with enterprise workstation
initiative for multiple departments
Consulted on selection of new software and hardware
Graphic Operator

WPTV

(Computer Software industry)

2001 — 2002 (1 year)
Production Assistant

WDBJ

(Computer Software industry)

1998 — 2001 (3 years)