Jennifer Hodgdon

Current

• Owner and Lead Developer at Poplar ProductivityWare

Past

• Software Developer at Kiodex
• Research Software Developer at Insightful Corporation (also known as StatSci, MathSoft)
• Strategist Associate at Goldman Sachs

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Education

• Cornell University
• University of Washington

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My business site

Jennifer Hodgdon’s Summary

After completing a PhD in Physics at Cornell University in 1992, and spending a couple of years as a post-doctoral researcher at AT&T Bell Labs, I left physics and became a software developer in 1994. I worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co for two years (plus another as a consultant) writing software for financial derivative securities, then moved back to Seattle and worked at MathSoft for three years on statistical and image processing software.

After a short stint with a financial start-up, I started my own software consulting business in 2001, Poplar ProductivityWare (www.poplarware.com). I am currently concentrating on web programming with the open-source Drupal and WordPress packages, including site building, custom modules and plugins, and contributing to their open-source communities.

I've worked with many programming languages, including Fortran, Visual Basic, C/C++, Java, S-Plus, and Perl. Currently, I'm mostly using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, XML, XHTML, and CSS, since these are the languages used in Drupal and WordPress.

English is my first language; I am also fluent in Spanish, and speak/read passable French.

Please check out my company web site at www.poplarware.com for more detailed information.

Jennifer Hodgdon’s Specialties:

Custom Drupal modules, custom WordPress plugins, custom Drupal web sites, custom WordPress web sites, custom Drupal themes, custom WordPress themes.

Jennifer Hodgdon’s Experience

• Owner and Lead Developer

  Poplar ProductivityWare

  (Computer Software industry)

  April 2001 — Present (8 years 8 months)

  Freelance software development, currently concentrating on web programming with WordPress and Drupal. Visit my company web site at poplarware.com for more detailed information about past projects.

• Software Developer

  Kiodex

  (Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

  April 2000 — February 2001 (11 months)

  Developed software (Java/EJB/JSP, on UNIX/ClearCase) and wrote on-line help and other documentation (Word, HTML) for commodities trading risk management software. Acted as consultant for system architecture and models. Spurred adoption of software coding standards and development process.

• Research Software Developer

  Insightful Corporation (also known as StatSci, MathSoft)

  (Public Company; IFUL; Computer Software industry)

  June 1997 — December 1999 (2 years 7 months)

  Developed software (C/C++/VC++/MFC/Perl/Visual Basic/S-PLUS, on Windows/UNIX/CVS) and wrote documentation (FrameMaker) for statistical and image processing software. Architected data structures and led effort for software coding/documentation standards in creation of image processing library for medical images. Created production software, including user manual, for time series analysis.

• Strategist Associate

  Goldman Sachs

  (Public Company; GS; Investment Banking industry)

  January 1994 — September 1996 (2 years 9 months)

  Created models (Mathematica/S-Plus), software and web sites (C/scripting/HTML, on OS/2/Unix), and client presentations (PowerPoint) for commodities trading risk management. Supported commodities trading desk with software for risk management and securities pricing.

Jennifer Hodgdon’s Education

• Cornell University

  PhD , Physics , 1988 — 1992

  National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Cornell Sage Supplementary Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education National Needs in Materials Physics Fellowship

• University of Washington

  BS , Physics , 1984 — 1988

  B.S., magna cum laude, with College Honors in Physics, National Merit Scholarship Finalist, Honors Program Scholarship, Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award, Phi Beta Kappa

Additional Information

Jennifer Hodgdon’s Websites:

• My business site

Jennifer Hodgdon’s Groups:

Seattle Drupal Users Group, Seattle WordPress Developers, IEEE Computer Society

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•    WordPress
•    Ubercart

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