C.J. ADAMS–COLLIER
Skills
Software Development | System Administration | Network Operations |
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Work Experience
Collier Technologies LLC • Member • 2001 – Present
Software development, system administration, management, staffing, network & office administration, operations and billing.
Clients include:
LiquidWeb: Doubleprime: http://www.esteelauder.co.uk/http://www.esteelauder.com.au/ http://www.clinique.com.au/ Cadmium Yellow Design: http://www.cadmiumyellow.com/http://www.makaturamurals.com/ http://www.billydavisfineart.com/ http://encserviceconcepts.com/ |
Computational Biology Research Center: http://seq.cbrc.jp/http://wolfpsort.org/ Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/dailyhttp://www.target.com/ http://bombaycompany.com http://store.nba.com/ |
LiquidWeb Inc. • 9/2009 - 9/2010 • Consultant
Software Development Engineer
Double Prime Inc. • 03/2009 - 9/2009 • Consultant
Software Development Engineer
Microsoft Corporation • 08/2008 - 03/2009 • Consultant
Technical Writer / Software Development Engineer in Test
Cardomain.com • 04/2008 - 08/2008 • Consultant
Software Development Engineer
Develop and recommend improvements for web infrastructure. Integrate the CarDomain brand and web presence into various social networking systems using web 2.0 tools, PHP, Perl and JQuery.
Amazon.com • 08/2007 – 03/2008
Software Development Engineer, Merchandising Applications
Maintain, support and develop content display infrastructure of retail web sites. The Merchandising Applications group (MA) is responsible for the prompt and accurate rendering of product data to an HTML format, consumable by all major web browsers. Our internal customers include the product group owners in all of Amazon's supported locales (.us, .jp, .uk, .de, .fr and .ca). Some of the most visible page types that MA owns include product detail (http://www.amazon.com/gp/dp/<ASIN>), category browse (http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse/?node=<category id>), and search (http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?field-keywords=<keywords>).
Amazon.com • 07/2006 – 08/2007
Software Development Engineer, Amazon Daily
Support, maintain and improve the Amazon Daily mason component codebase. Tasks involve project planning, code review, unit testing, feature design and implementation and release deployment
MySQL, Inc. • 05/2005 – 06/2006
Support Manager, MaxDB
Provided support for MaxDB, MySQL's re-branded database, formerly known as SAPDB, formerly known as Adabas D. Worked with colleagues spread throughout the world, especially in Germany, Sweden, Finland and US.
Amazon.com • 08/2004 – 05/2005
Software Development Engineer
Maintained and developed display infrastructure of Amazon's ECS sites including The Bombay Company, Target and the NBA Store. Organized presentations to Amazon developers by industry leaders including Randal Schwartz, Patrick Galbraith and Jon Swartz. Taught Perl classes from introduction to intermediate for new recruits and those interested in learning the language.
Advanced Institute of Science and Technology's CBRC center • 11/2002 – 08/2004
Software Development & Design Lead
Software design and development of user interface (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), system administration of source code repositories (Linux, CVS), lead developer and designer of web interface to WoLF PSORT protein localization prediction algorithms (Perl, HTML::Mason, Linux, Apache, mod_perl), Consultant for visualization of biological data (OpenGL, GTKGLExt, gtk+, GNOME, Glade), English documentation author (English language, groff, HTML), software build and test director (autotools, C++, CppUnit)
More work experience available upon request.
Community activities
Organizer of Seattle Perl Users' Group (SPUG). With support of Amazon.com's executive management, hosted SPUG meetings in the company's PacMed A/V rooms; booked and presented speakers for the October, November and December 2004 meetings.
http://web.colliertech.org/~cjac/spug.jpg
Founder and Organizer of Seattle Mono Users' Group
Charter member of the Linux Internet Support Cooperative (also known as LinPeople, OpenProjects and, most recently, Freenode) since 1994, member of Mensa, the Free Software Foundation, free software development teams including Mono, GNOME and various projects hosted by sourceforge.net and the like.
References
Chris Reinhardt (creinhardt@liquidweb.com), Software Developer Liquid Web
Emerson Mills (emerson.mills@gmail.com), Amazon ECS Bombay lead developer
Randal Schwartz (merlyn@stonehenge.com), Perl, Stonehenge Consulting
Brian Fey (feybrian@hotmail.com), Fey Studios, Microsoft retiree
Miguel de Icaza (miguel@ximian.com), Novell, Ximian, Mono
Paul Horton (horton-p@aist.go.jp), AIST (Computational Biology Research Center)
Interests and activities
Parenting, husbanding, software development, human-to-human communication, wireless communication, system/cluster/network administration, operating systems, the Mono project, Free Software, Perl, network administration and management, blogging, learning new programming techniques, design patterns, human and computer languages
Additional Information available upon request.