Wes Winham

Current

• Software Engineer at Policystat

Past

• Webmaster at Virakar
• Owner at Iron Prairie, Inc
• Software Engineer at Leadjen inc.

• Product Manager at Engenius Solutions
• Software Validation Engineer and Software Developer at Theron Group
• Software Developer at Lake Design (Sole Proprietorship)
• Software QA Tester at Yapanda Software

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Education

• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Connections

24 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Wes Winham’s Summary

Wes Winham’s Specialties:

PHP, Python, Django, CakePHP, XHTML, CSS, Microformats, MySQL, Apache, Linux: Ubuntu and Gentoo, Java, C#, .net, YAML, Smarty, JUnit (and analogous language-specific unit-test tools), Selenium, ANT, PHING, PHPdoc, SVN, Eclipse (PHPEclipse, Pydev), Visual Studios, TorqueX and XNA, LUA, Scheme, Trac, SCRUM, Agile Development, XP

Wes Winham’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  Policystat

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  Architecting, designing, developing, deploying and maintaining a Policy and Procedure management system for healthcare. Implementing the system in PHP, Python, Django, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, JQuery and Javascript. Took a prototype PHP system and incrementally refactored and expanded it into a MVC-following application with Smarty templating and custom PHP-based ORM.
  
  Launched the application for use with an additional client hospital with approximately 500 nurses using the system daily and no bug fixes required after launch.

• Webmaster

  Virakar

  (Computer Games industry)

  January 1998 — 2008 (10 years)

  Maintained a guild website used by hundreds of gamers to keep in contact regarding guild activities. Used PHP, MySQL, CSS and HTML to maintain message boards and build data-driven pages. Created tools used by hundreds of members to track raid attendance, membership and character optimization.

• Owner

  Iron Prairie, Inc

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2007 — December 2007 (1 year)

• Software Engineer

  Leadjen inc.

  (Privately Held; Information Services industry)

  June 2007 — November 2007 (6 months)

  Software and product development on a new software product for hospital procedure management. Leadjen position incubated Policystat position.

• Product Manager

  Engenius Solutions

  (Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Higher Education industry)

  October 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 8 months)

  Managed proof-of-concept creation for a web-based startup inside Engenius Solutions. Produced a virtual asset trading network web application with support tools using 7 developers. Implemented a custom build process integrating unit testing in PHPUnit, acceptance testing in Selenium, automatic documentation in PHPDOC and coverage analysis in PHING. Launched and maintained ironprairie.com, beating VC-funded sparter.com to market.

• Software Validation Engineer and Software Developer

  Theron Group

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

  June 2006 — August 2006 (3 months)

  Architected, developed and deployed a web-application managing and tracking internal supplier relationships.
  Consulted to perform Validation and Verification for FDA compliance. Edited test plans and traceability matrices. Designed, wrote and performed over 100 test cases covering hundreds of requirements.

• Software Developer

  Lake Design (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2004 — July 2004 (2 months)

  Part of a two-man team that developed an inventory-control system for a DoD contract. Implemented the system using BC4J on oracle 10g.

• Software QA Tester

  Yapanda Software

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

  June 2003 — August 2003 (3 months)

  Lead exploratory testing across all product lines. Used VM technology to test windows version compatibility across C# products. Discovered several bugs prior to product releases and suggested feature improvements that were implemented.

Wes Winham’s Education

• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

  BS , Software Engineering , 2003 — 2007

  Performed acceptance testing on an upcoming release of Angel Learning's course-management software. Developed using XNA, C#, Java, Scheme, C, MySQL, SQL Server, PHP and superwaba

  Activities and Societies:

  Intermural Captain, Intermural advisory board, Co-founder and president of Adelphia, Engenius Solutions