Had to touch up my resume today. Here's the latest version. And no, I'm not looking for a job -- just thought I'd publish this for the heck of it.
Benjamin A.E. Simon
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (1998)
summa cum laude
WORK EXPERIENCE
Vice President of Engineering (1999-present)
Amazing Media, Inc., Herndon , Virginia
· Manage a team of developers and designers responsible for the creation and maintenance of company products and tools
§ Supervise all parts of the software development process including task development and assignment, estimate creation, code reviews and achieving on-time delivery
§ Responsible for the building and maintenance of the code library ensuring that developers reuse existing code
§ Assist in shaping the vision of the technology team by choosing practices and methodologies for the team to follow
§ Conduct weekly team meetings and training sessions to encourage peer learning
§ Participate in human resource activities including interviewing, hiring and laying off of employees
· Contribute to the development of Amazing Media products by creating software using Java, Flash, perl, scheme and other technologies
§ Produce code using advanced Java concepts including threads, network communication, image manipulation, JDBC and J2EE
§ Instituted common programming practices such as JUnit testing, component creation and database interaction
§ Utilize domain specific languages such as scheme, PostScript, ActionScript, XSLT and awk to accomplish specific tasks
§ Develop software in a Linux environment using advanced Unix tools such as strace, tcpdump and netcat for diagnostic purposes
· Work directly with clients to understand requirements and propose solutions to internet advertising challenges
· Share responsibilities for performing Unix system administration such as the creation of accounts, managing mail, DNS, web services and the configuration of new servers
Contractor (2003-2004)
Macromedia, Inc.
· Authored ColdFusion components and documentation for release on several Development Resource Kits
· Components included an image manipulation API, RSS XML parsing tools and servlet utilities
Consultant (1998-1999)
Questra Corporation, Charlotte , North Carolina
· Provided consultant support to companies such as First Union and MCI for the creation of web applications in perl
· Developed an internal timesheet management application
· Worked onsite with customers to develop requirements
Contractor (1997-1998)
Latimer Data Systems, Buffalo , New York
· Created an implementation of the Logo programming language for use in educational software
· Utilized the lex and yacc tools to create an advanced language interpreter
· Developed the language interpreter in C on a Unix platform with capability to be cross-compiled to Windows
Photo Lab Technician (1993-1997)
MotoPhoto, Inc.
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