OBJECTIVE

Software Engineering position. Experience: R&D, team, and individual environments; 4.5 years software and web.

EDUCATION

University of Central Florida; Orlando, FL — 2003-2007; GPA: 3.79 / 4.0
Computer Science (B.S.), Mathematics (minor); Cum Laude and University Honors

  • The Honors College - Experienced enriched and accelerated learning in traditional and non-traditional classroom settings; development of personal and business management skills.
  • Recipient of 11 academic, civic, and technology scholastic awards, totaling more than $39,500
  • 1 year on President's List Honor Roll and 3 years on Dean's List Honor Roll, 2003 - 2007
  • UCF Programming Team, ACM, Mentoring Program, Body of Animal Rights Campaigners

EXPERIENCE

Avatar International, Software Engineer; Sanford, FL — 2007 - present
Created and managed internal applications and an external reporting engine in mostly a team environment.

  • ImprovingCare.com: Lead Developer and Product Owner for this major patient satisfaction reporting engine. Enhanced user experience of complex data for healthcare professionals. PHP5, MySQL, AJAX.
  • Designed information architecture for and leading development of an MVC-pattern, RESTful API. Python.
  • Replaced legacy system with a supplemental PDF reporting engine, saving 500 hours of labor per year.

Independent/Contract Work, Software Engineer; Orlando, FL — 2004 - present
Created and managed several iterations of more than a dozen websites. PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

  • Most Active Users and Most Activity Facebook Application for the Web: fbCal.com, Nov 2007 - Mar 2008.
  • Road-Runner’s Internationale, Website of the Month: BobAbernethy.com, August 2005.
  • Full website portfolio (csbob.com/portfolio), including FocusHabits.com, fbLink.com, and MriPhone.com.

L3 Communications (Link Sim. & Training), Software Engineer; Orlando, FL — 2006
Researched, developed, and presented new training systems for Link Simulation and Training’s Strategic Technologies Team’s Independent Research and Development (IRAD) group for simulation purposes.

  • Received a Team Achievement Award for my exceptional performance on the UAS Prototype project, nominated by Lead Investigator of Emerging Technologies Mark Falash. The Unmanned Air Vehicle Control Training System utilized technologies to remotely control UAVs, including: XML, XHTML, CSS, client-side JavaScript, AJAX, Flash, Java servlets, C++, and QT.
  • Congressional Modeling & Simulation Caucus 2006: Demonstrated our UAV Training System to congressman and caucus chairman J. Randy Forbes and his congressional colleagues.

University of Central Florida, Teaching Assistant; Orlando, FL — 2004, 2006
Computer Science Teaching Assistant for C Programming course, as well as Advanced Problem Solving.

  • Course's best-rated teaching assistant over two terms by students, "highly knowledgeable."

United Space Alliance (NASA contract co.), Software Engineer; Houston, TX — 2005
Engineered software for the Navigation at Johnson Space Center, supporting NASA's space shuttle program.

  • Division-Wide Employee of the Month (June 2005), nominated by Navigation and Flight Design Integration's Manager II Gregory Schrage and Director of Flight Design Dynamics Angie F. Najarian.
  • Fast Automated Scheduling Tool (FAST): Prime developer of the automated navigational flight controller scheduling tool at Johnson Space Center. Automation techniques demoed to NASA. Written in VBA.
  • Trajectory Server Memory Manager: Tracks memory usage in NASA's Trajectory Server. Written in Tcl/Tk.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Programming: PHP, Python, Java, Javascript, C, C++, Visual Basic, VBA, Tcl/Tk, Lex/Yacc, Lisp
  • Technologies: LAMP, AJAX, MySQL, CSS, HTML, DHTML, Qt, DOM, XML, XHTML
  • Software: Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Xcode, Visual Studio, Visio, Project, Frontpage

FULL RESUME

For the expanded version of this resume, please visit http://www.csbob.com/cv/ at any time.