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S e n i o r • Web • D e v e l o p e r

Professional Profile

• Seasoned senior level programmer with the ability to take a company to the next level using new cutting edge technologies.
• Possess the ability to create complicated applications while not losing sight of detail and usability.
• Driven by a love for knowledge sharing and investing in the future of the next generations.
• Patient educator with experience in:
  
       Web Design:           14 yrs
       Database Design:    12 yrs
       Graphic Design:       10 yrs

Languages, Systems and Applications:

• I have spent most of my professional career programming rich internet applications in ColdFusion, HTML and Javascript.
• I have strong experience in database design as all of my experience in application development has involved a database in the back end.  This includes everything from installing and tuning SQL Server and Access to designing the database in BCNF and writing efficient SQL to manipulate the data.
• I spent 3 years developing applications in ASP.net.  using Object Oriented architecture.  This also included writing plugins for an existing framework.
• I have been in several roles throughout my career that required the installations of Windows and Linux servers.  I maintained and tuned these servers to meet the usage demands.
• With the exception of my last four years, I designed the graphic interfaces for applications in tools like Photoshop and Gimp.  These served as the graphic interface for the applications that I was writing.
• I have general networking experience including a Cisco networking certification.
• I have worked in a variety of environments from being an army of one to working on a team of up to 10.  Most recently I have been working on a team utilizing the Agile methodology, specifically SCRUM.

Work History:

Jobs2Web – Minneapolis, MN

Senior Web Developer, March 2006 – August 2010

• Helped develop a large scale job promotion engine from the ground up in ColdFusion backed by SQL Server. This application serves as a career site for BestBuy, Microsoft, and Target to name a few.
• Developed a program for this application that is responsible for sending out 1 to 2 million emails per night, using technologies like Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Solr and Coldfusion.
• Developed applications in Flex/ActionScript that facilitated admin for this system.

University of North Dakota, NDGRO – Grand Forks, ND

System Architect, October 2002 to March 2006

• Created a web portal in ColdFusion to capture research data from user activity
• Later migrated to DotNetNuke where I developed DNN modules to add further functionality to the various portals we created.
• Maintained the development and production environments consisting of Windows and Linux servers.
• Managed a team of two other developers.
• Presented papers at two international technology conferences in Quito, Ecuador and Wuhan, China.

Dakota Fusion, Inc. – Grand Forks, ND

Lead IT Engineer, December 2001 to October 2002

• Managed Exchange Server.
• Lead Web Programmer.
• Help with network administrator functions.
• Created and maintained the company intranet portal.
  
  

ComMark, Inc. - Mayville, ND
Systems and Design Manager, April 1997 to December 2001

• Managed the technical side of this startup business.
• Played an active role in project bidding and negotiations.
• Taught several training courses for the company including a ColdFusion course at a university.

o    Played the lead role in developing and delivering the following components with ColdFusion:

Guestbooks, Pop3 Email Management, E-commerce (Cybercash), Online Contributions (Cybercash), Contact Forms, Dynamic Content, Dynamic Forms, Polls, Online Classifieds, Photo Albums, Banner Administration, and an enterprise solution that tied all the above components into one administration system.

Certifications:

• Certified Advanced Cold Fusion 5 Developer (MMCP)
• Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in NT 4 Workstation

Research Papers and Presentations:

• Tim O’Keefe and Fred Shirazi, Terry Palmer and GRO Director, GlennMiller, - “Government Rural Outreach Project: An Attempt to Implement and Study Electronic Government Services in a Rural Setting” presented by Terry in Quito, Ecuador in November 2003
• Timothy P. O'Keefe, Terry Palmer, Glenn Miller, Fred Shirazi – “Characteristics of Rural Citizens in an Electronic Government Environment”  presented by Terry in Wuhan, China in June 2004

Professional Teaching Experience

·  1998 – 2000    Taught a few sessions in Coldfusion at Mayville State

·  1998 – 2000    Taught several training courses in Coldfusion for ComMark employees in preparation for Coldfusion Certification exam.

·  Summer 2000 Taught 3 sessions of an HTML class at the Grand Forks Air Force base