Resume

Adam Monsen — software engineer/architect, author

Seattle, Washington
haircut@gmail.com
http://adammonsen.com/


PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

  • 8 years professional software development
  • Seeking employment exclusively writing Free and Open Source software

CAREER

  • Autumn 2007-Present; Grameen Foundation; Seattle, WA
  • Autumn 2005-Autumn 2007; Boeing; Seattle, WA
    • Programmer/Analyst
    • GNU/Linux consultant on the Electronic Flight Bag project
    • Built hardware, custom operating systems, and self-healing software for in-flight computer systems
    • Tools track winner for best technical presentation, Boeing Software Conference 1
  • Summer 2004-Autumn 2005; TwoBulb Consulting; Seattle, WA
    • client: Yodel/Sphere:
      • Python development for blog research
    • client: Gadoz.com:
      • Subversion, Zope and Plone administration on Linux and OS X
    • client: Classmates.com:
      • new feature additions to an internal application using an AJAX
        framework
    • client: Quantum Linux Laboratories, LLC:
      • patches to Knowledge Tree, a document management system licensed under the GPL (Java, PHP)
        • OCR image recognition/searching
        • bulk uploading
        • TIFF quickview
      • feature additions to a quiz/test/survey system for nurse practitioners (PHP)
  • Spring 2000-Summer 2004; Classmates.com; Seattle, WA
    • Senior Software Engineer
    • Design and Development of custom Java, Perl, and C applications critical to e-commerce
    • Ported Classmates.com (custom mod_perl/Apache application) to ATG Dynamo
    • Perl/Oracle backend processes for emailing, PGP-encrypted XML data exchanges, email statistics analysis
    • High thoroughput multithreaded Perl/Oracle application for asynchronous loading of Apache and ATG Dynamo logs into a database with SQL*Loader
    • Perl/Java Web application for planning online reunions
    • Oracle database schema design
  • Autumn 1998-1999; Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington; Seattle, WA
    • Webmaster
    • Cancer research, cell culturing, protein analysis
  • References available upon request

PORTFOLIO

  • Developer on the following FLOSS projects:
    • Email::AutoReply, a Perl software toolkit for building autoreply robots
    • Quizmo, a C++ educational test preparation program
    • Text::Forge, an Apache/mod_perl templating system
    • Gnewsuck, an intelligent RSS feed reader

SKILLS

  • [languages] English, Python, Perl, Java, PHP, C, Shell Scripting, some French, Spanish and Norwegian
  • [databases] MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Berkeley DB
  • [standards] SSH, HTTP, SMTP, HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, UML, ESMTP, NNTP, NTP, FTP, TELNET, IRC, IMAP, POP, NFS, J2EE, LDAP, DNS, OpenPGP, others

EDUCATION

  • CSE 415 at the University of Washington (credit class as a nonmatriculated student).
  • UW Educational Outreach program:
    • Perl Programming
    • Java Programming
    • C Programming
  • Java training at Batky Howell, Denver, CO
  • 1996-2000; University of Washington; Seattle, WA
    • BS in microbiology with a chemistry minor
    • Chi Psi Fraternity: Member, Choir Director
    • UW club water polo: 4 years, vice president, competed nationally
    • Microphiles at the UW: president, revived club in 1999
    • Taught Microbiology 302 Lab Course in winter 2000