Computer Programmer
Greater Denver Area
- Current
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- Programmer at VRBO.com Inc.
- Past
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- Programmer at NewsGator Technologies, Inc.
- Systems Engineer at Galileo International
- Programmer at XTRA Online (XOL)
- Programmer at Sabre Decision Technologies
- Programmer at Electrospace Systems
- Education
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- University of North Texas
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
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Gordon Weakliem’s Summary
I have extensive experience in the technology surrounding weblogs and news aggregators.
I've worked for 2 of the 4 major GDSes and written code to work with all 4 GDSes. I've been involved in major innovations at my employers and I'm considered a domain expert, especially in the nuts and bolts of connecting diverse systems.
Gordon Weakliem’s Specialties:
Online content publishing and syndication, Web-based Service Oriented Architecture and Message Oriented Architecture, transaction processing, network protocols, applications logic.
Gordon Weakliem’s Experience
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Programmer
VRBO.com Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Hospitality industry)
February 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
* Designed and implemented integration testing procedures for VRBO's main site and member administration site.
* Implemented conversion from legacy ASP pages to ASP.NET 2.0 / Master Pages.
* Implemented enhanced validation to relieve property editors of manual tasks, allowing editors to approve listings much more quickly. -
Programmer
NewsGator Technologies, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
December 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 2 months)
Project lead for NewsGator Inbox (Outlook Edition) version 2.5
Architected NewsGator synchronization API (http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/api for more details), supporting client applications such as NewsGator Inbox, NewsGator Go!, NetNewsWire, and FeedDemon
Primary maintainer of RSS & Atom parsing code and NewsGator API -
Systems Engineer
Galileo International
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CD; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
December 1997 — November 2004 (7 years)
Currently working on Galileo Web Services project,
In the past, I've worked on:
* The Galileo Passport project, providing branded travel websites to third parties.
* Maintenance for the Focalpoint terminal emulator, the primary interface for thousands of travel agents, as well as the underlying application platform for a large number of Galileo's and other 3rd party travel agency productivity applications. -
Programmer
XTRA Online (XOL)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
August 1996 — December 1997 (1 year 5 months)
I developed the subsystems for managing connections to the 4 major GDS systems and for abstracting low level tasks on those systems into a generic interface, exposed via CORBA to the higher level reservation processing engine.
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Programmer
Sabre Decision Technologies
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AA; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
July 1994 — August 1996 (2 years 2 months)
I was responsible for performing maintenance on Sabre's DOS and Windows based travel agency products, primarily the ALC and X.25 Gateways and ticket printer drivers. I also was part of the core team that wrote an X.25 Gateway to run on Windows 95 and NT 3.5 and ported the Sabre travel agency platform to run on Win32 systems.
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Programmer
Electrospace Systems
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Defense & Space industry)
January 1994 — July 1994 (7 months)
Worked on a team responsible for creating software to manage calibration tests for a direction finding antenna. I concentrated on the code to control the running of the overall test, as well as to control various data-collection devices. I also developed a program to convert log files into spreadsheets for post-test analysis.
Gordon Weakliem’s Education
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University of North Texas
BA, Computer Science, 1989 — 1993
Minor in Music
Gordon Weakliem’s Contact Settings
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