Technical Skills

Work Experience

• Developing web services in Java for the footnote website, delivering images of original historical documents in a community/web 2.0 environment, using Axis, Spring Framework, Tomcat, JPA/Hibernate, MySQL (InnoDB), JUnit.
• Heavily involved in performance tuning of MySQL and Hibernate.
• Attended MySQL Conference (Apr. 2008), MySQL Performance Tuning (Nov. 2007), TSS Java Symposium (Mar. 2007)

• Designed, developed, and tested educational software for K-2 grades teaching basic reading and math. Developed server-side, back-end and framework layers using Java/J2EE, JMS (Joram), Hibernate, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server.
• Principal contributor in architecting and implementing a large-scale migration from SQL Server 2000 stored procedures to database vendor agnostic data and business layers using Hibernate 3, and migration of an existing data layer from Hibernate 2 to Hibernate 3. Successfully directed the creation of extensive unit tests to ensure a smooth transition and timely completion of the migration.
• Led a major movement toward using JUnit for automated unit tests.
• Architected a data collection/data warehousing system for aggregating product usage information for research and analysis.
• Experience directing remote and local teams. Proven track-record of accurately estimating time to completion of major projects, and meeting deadlines.
• Experience maintaining and extending a large internally used web application using Enhydra/DODS and PostgreSQL. Investigated Java EE 5, EJB3, JPA, and JSF as a replacement for Enhydra for a re-write of the application.
• Attended TSS Java Symposium (2005, 2006).

• Designed, developed, and tested multi-tier Client/Server business management applications in Java/Oracle using J2SE, JDBC, JNDI, Swing. Gained experience with XP programming, Design Patterns, SQL, JUnit,JBuilder, Toad
• Led an initiative to create an extensive unit test framework where tests were run on an automated schedule and failures were e-mailed to responsible developers. Successfully used automated unit and functional tests to ensure the stability of critical fixes in an environment where bug-fix turn-around for clients was often a matter of hours.
• Wrote multiple Swing applications with support for i18n (internationalization).
• Revised and re-wrote many of the core tools used by clients for data import and aggregation from stores to corporate offices.

• Developed a wide range of applications, libraries, and services for web filtering, including an MFC client application, a TCP/IP Layered Service Provider, Java Servlets-based server applications, and Java Swing Applets. Gained experience in JNI, HTML, HTTP

• Performed research in medical image analysis, in the Medical Image Display and Analysis Group (MIDAG). Worked in a diverse group including professors from Computer Science, Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Psychiatry, and Neurosurgery, researching statistical methods for brain and tumor tissue segmentation from magnetic resonance images (MRI). Gained experience in C++, MATLAB, FLTK, statistics, pattern recognition algorithms.
• Primary author and co-author of multiple published papers. Attended a leading conference in the field to present findings from one of the papers.

• Researched, developed, and implemented new and existing algorithms in computational geometry involving 3D Delaunay triangulations. Gained experience in Java, J2SE, OpenGL.
• Maintained and extended a Java image processing library used by researchers and by students in image processing courses.
• Improved performance of a VRML rendering engine written in C++/OpenGL.

• Developed educational software, including a database browsing tool and a personal calendar application, using Visual C++, MFC, Visual J++, WFC, COM

Education

• Emphasis in image processing, computer vision, and medical image analysis

• Overall GPA: 3.86, Major GPA: 3.85 (4.0 scale)

Publications

Other Experience

• Learned to speak Spanish fluently.  Developed interpersonal and leadership skills

• Worked as camp instructor at various Cub Scout and Boy Scout camps. Led small groups in scouting activities, and served as merit badge counselor. Eagle Scout Award recipient

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