Overview

Allow me to introduce myself...

Hi, my name is Tim. I have been a professional developer since 2002; however I started programming Basic on an Apple IIe as a snot nose kid. I consider myself an easy going person who really enjoys all things computer programming.

I used Google Docs to build this beast.

I place high value on the following

• Separation of concerns

• Not over complicating problems.  Sometimes a hack is OK.

• OO design

• Source control

• Test driven development

• Continuous integration

• Open source technologies

• Robust presentation frameworks

• Strong understanding of database normalization/relational concepts

• Understanding of distributed/interoperable systems

• XP methodologies

• Object relational persistence frameworks

• Unit testing
• Interactive debugging
• Design that allows for i18N compatibility and private/white labeling.
  

Technologies I currently work with

• Adobe Flex (Since Beta 2) 

• ActionScript 3 (good low level understanding)

• Java 

• Subversion/Perforce

• Cruise Control

• SOAP  

• JUnit

• ANT
• BlazeDS
• ActionScript
• JavaScript

Technologies I have experience with (buzzwords) and would consider working with again.

• Languages: Java, C#, Smalltalk, JavaScript, ActionScipt
• Other: SQL, MXML, HTML, XHTML, SOAP, SCHEMA, XSLT, WSDL, .NET, AJAX

Experience

• Lead an effort to optimize snapfish's server side infrastructure to run on top of Jetty.  The goal was to allow the server and desktop applications to share a common code base.
• Leading "local photos" project that will allow users to interact with their photos in the web browser while they are being uploaded.
• Created an "image on product" application.  This enabled most ad placements to be personalized with a user image at run time.
• Started smart cropping initiative in books and cards builders.

• Helped screen the first 2 technical hires.
• Available for advice on an adhoc basis.

I did a contract for HP Labs. Pretty fun stuff, but not sure how much I can share.

At Searchme, I am 1 of 3 developers responsible for all aspects related to client and middle tier. In addition, I am responsible for maintaining and enhancing the core of our thumbnailing system (ask me about this one – it’s cool). Here is a brief list of what I have done thus far at Searchme:

• Developed and maintained a very complex low-level ActionScript 3 system (its fun to subclass DisplayObject).
• Architected our new Flex application (I can't wait to tell you about this). The goal was low memory usage and small initial download size.
• Created the company’s Firefox toolbar.
• Created middle tier to aggregate data from various 3rd party sites.
• Prototyped web-based iPhone application.
• Implemented the new "seachme ribbon" (animation and distortions).
• Created automated build scripts.
• Wrote "brain" that our crawler leverages to harvest the X&Y coordinates of every phone number, address, and piece of media on a web site.
• Prototyped the Searchme Ning application.

Snapfish a division of Hewlett Packard (May 2007-Present)

At Snapfish, I was part of the Emerging Technologies group. Our team was responsible for rewriting existing products on top of Snapfish’s proprietary technology. During my tenure, I accomplished the following:

• Implemented Flex photo edit and text edit components used across the enterprise.

• Created JavaScript wrappers for Flex components.

• Worked on selecting the team's web service framework..

• Developed JAVA middle teir to communicate with legacy back end.

• Used Flex to present data retrieved via web services and BlazeDS remoting.

• Ported complex image processing algorithms from Java to Actionscript.

SunBridge Capital  (December 2005-May 2007) 

I was brought in to help start the company’s software development team. Upon my arrival, I hired 4 individuals and together we created a software development lifecycle. Below are a few of the things we accomplished.

• Rid our office of all cubes! The environment created thrives on collaboration.

• Loose implementation of XP methodologies.

• Established source control.

• Installed continuous integration server.

• Produced test driven code (ask me about out green bar parties)!

• Leveraged various open source technologies.

• Established a coding paradigm that resulted in well tested, maintainable code.

• Introduced Flex 2.0 to create a rich presentation layer.

NovaStar Financial (March 2005–November 2005)

I was the primary contact for the company’s online mortgage servicing system (processing $13 million/ month in mortgage payments with an average of 13,000 payments/ month). Below is a list of my duties and accomplishments:

• Completed the conversion of the web site from COM+/ASP to C#/.NET.

• Seamless sign on integration to 3^rd party mortgage record keeping site.

• Assisted in weekly production installs.

• Provide support for the web site (help fix bugs, resolve outages, performance tuning).

DST Systems Inc.(June 2002-March 2005 )

The bulk of my duties at DST Systems Inc focused on using various technologies to harvest data from multiple legacy systems and present it via a web browser. Below are some of the responsibilities for this position

• Code Smalltalk interfaces using in-house framework to expose Smalltalk FAT Client functionality via the Internet using SOAP over HTTP.

• Transform XML using XSL in to HTML or FO to present the data to the client.

• Make Web Service calls using HTTP Request/Response objects (this was before AJAX frameworks were big).

• Develop classes (in a variety of languages) from UML object models, ERD, and business design specifications.

• Develop custom queries for performance enhancements using SQL and Smalltalk persistence framework.

• Write tools to speed up the development process.

• Facilitate knowledge transfer to the development team.

Things I mess with in my free time.

• I really appreciate convention over configuration.

• I love to write code generation tools.

• I like writing Flex widgets.

• Really good at AS3 and JavaScript.

• I remember when AJAX did not have a name. 

Education

• MBA Dropout (finished 1/2 Rockhurst University)

• Bachelors Computer Information Systems -- Central Missouri State University  

• Time Magazine's person of the year 2006.