Jeff Calado

Current

• Engineering Manager at Apple

Past

• Release Engineering Manager at Chordiant Software
• Principal Software Engineer at Chordiant Software
• Senior Software Engineer at OnDemand

• Software Engineer (contract) at Day-Timers

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Education

• University of Washington
• Santa Clara University
• UC Davis

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Jeff Calado’s Summary

Energetic and resourceful engineering services manager and software developer. Experience managing complex infrastructure projects impacting a globally distributed workforce as well as extensive hands-on software development experience.

Jeff Calado’s Specialties:

- Advanced Ant and Rake build system skills.
- Subversion administration expertise.
- Skilled at defining and implementing collaboration tools and processes.
- Web application development, client and server-side (Java and Rails).
- Project management and team management experience.
- Collaboration with globally distributed development and test teams.

Jeff Calado’s Experience

• Engineering Manager

  Apple

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)

  September 2005 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  Hands-on manager responsible for release engineering and development infrastructure.
  
  - Responsible for Subversion version control system including source builds, Apache WebDAV integration, authorization and authentication controls, and hooks.
  -- Developed automation scripts in Ruby for user management and reporting.
  -- Migrated CVS repositories.
  -- Provided training and support.
  
  - Implemented continuous integration build system in Ant, Rake, IntelliJ IDEA, and TeamCity.
  
  - Developed end-to-end web application in Rails for release management, interfacing with Subversion and TeamCity.
  
  - Created scripts in Capistrano to automate distributed deployment process and hooked into build system.
  
  - Deployed and championed Confluence wiki that dramatically improved communication and project management throughout the organization.

• Release Engineering Manager

  Chordiant Software

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; CHRD; Computer Software industry)

  January 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 9 months)

  - Managed up to 7 engineers responsible for build system; validation; source control; bug tracking; and installation, setup, and deployment of Enterprise Java applications.
  
  - Lead for project to open product development to globally-distributed field engineers and partners.
  -- Identified key aspects of solution including collaboration, project management, source control, and continuous integration.
  -- Compared hosted, full-service solutions with in-house solution, organizing demos and creating proof of concept environments.
  -- Identified necessary changes to Chordiant applications and worked with team to implement changes.
  
  - Led team through creation of automated build and validation system to deploy builds to application servers, configure databases, execute unit and functional tests, and generate email and web status reports.
  
  - Lead for ClearCase, ClearCase Multisite, and ClearCase-ClearQuest integration projects implemented by in-house developer and consulting team.

• Principal Software Engineer

  Chordiant Software

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; CHRD; Computer Software industry)

  April 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 10 months)

  - Designed and implemented run-time development environments in Eclipse+WebLogic and WSAD that enabled deployment of Chordiant EJB and WAR applications at installation time, dramatically reducing setup time for users.
  
  - Implemented web-based installation process leveraging Eclipse update site to replace traditional CD-ROM-based process.
  
  - Unified over a dozen unit test suites with numerous execution requirements to be executed consistently from single Ant script in an Eclipse project.
  
  - Designed and developed wizard in Java and XML for dynamic configuration and packaging of Chordiant solution as an Enterprise Archive (EAR) ready for application server deployment; served as technical lead for team of two developers.

• Senior Software Engineer

  OnDemand

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

  September 1998 — March 2002 (3 years 7 months)

  - Developed several web based wizards for user, metadata, search, and system administration using Java, Stateless Session EJBs, XML, XSLT, SQL, HTML, Jython/JPython, and JavaScript.
  
  - Designed and implemented JAXP-compliant framework for UI generation via XSLT.
  
  - Evaluated and demonstrated several XML/XSLT localization techniques.
  
  - Constructed unit tests for APIs with the JUnit framework.
  
  - Replaced fragile Perl based build system with Ant, adding unit test execution integration.
  
  - Ported application server from MS JDK 1.1 to Sun JDK 1.3. Required the removal of registry usage and the corresponding development of a customizable property environment, removal of server dependence on classes tied to WFC, and the transition of database connections from JDBC-ODBC bridge to pure JDBC.
  
  Acquired by Chordiant in March 2002.

• Software Engineer (contract)

  Day-Timers

  (Public Company; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1998 — September 1998 (9 months)

  Developed conduit framework in C++, including use of Standard Template Library (STL), for synchronization between Day-Timer Organizer and and the Palm Pilot.

Jeff Calado’s Education

• University of Washington

  Ph.D. Candidate , Finance , September 1999 — June 2000

• Santa Clara University

  BS , MIS , September 1995 — June 1997

  Graduated magna cum laude.

• UC Davis

  Biology September 1992 — June 1995