Adam Monsen

Adam Monsen — software engineer/architect, author

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

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over 10 years professional software development
• Specialist in Free and Open Source software

CAREER

• Spring 2011-Present; BreadVault; Fargo, ND
  • Co-Founder, Software Janitor

• Autumn 2007-Spring 2011; Grameen Foundation; Seattle, WA
  • Software Engineer
  • Open Source community evangelist
  • Java engineering on the Mifos project
  • 2009 Duke’s Choice award winner for best OSS Java technology

• 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
  • 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 and specific accomplishments available upon request

PORTFOLIO

• Author of the following publications:
  • “Understand Quicksort With DDD“. Linux Journal, January 2003; pp.91-93
  • libglade, Gtk+, GNU autotools tutorial
  • JUnit QuickStart tutorial
  • GNU Screen QuickStart tutorial
  • XML with Perl tutorial

• Contributor to several FLOSSprojects, including:
  • GWeather – 1
  • Mig – 1
  • Knowledge Tree – 1 2 3
  • asyle Fedora RPM – 1
  • Numerous bug reports in other projects

• Developer on the following FLOSS projects:
  • Mifos, microloan and savings portfolio management (contribution summary)
  • Chordii, C software for typesetting staffless lead sheets
  • 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
• Talks/Interviews

SKILLS

• [languages] English, Python, Java, PHP, Perl, Groovy, Shell, C, C++, some French, Spanish and Norwegian
• [databases] MongoDB, 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

• CS graduate courses completed at the University of Minnesota
• operating systems (CSCI 5103)
• compilers (CSCI 5161) – 4.0 GPA
• CS graduate courses completed at the University of Washington
• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CSE 415)
• 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