I've written shipping software using a very wide variety of platforms, tools, and development idioms. I'm excited to learn yours!
I've been building RIAS and AJAX applications for over 10 years, from the days before XMLHttpRequest up through jQuery. I take Javascript seriously.
I produce solid object-oriented designs and thoughtful interfaces and abstractions. I keep change management and deployment in the front of my mind. I write carefully considered and crafted code, and I keep an eye on the deadline. I write good check-in comments.
I work well with designers. I've built networked applications, custom client software for Mobile and 3D, used serious ActionScript, and even generated video, all to bring great user experiences to life.
Javascript, Actionscript 3.0, Java development in support of a pen-and-paper-based mobile computing platform, with a team of eight.
Recent work includes custom clients for third party web services using Adobe AIR and C++.
PHP, Python, ASP.NET development of e-commerce websites and enterprise data tools. Management of junior technical staff.
In May 2009, HELO Online was absorbed into its parent company, DenTek Oral Care.
PHP, Javascript, Actionscript 3.0 development of media delivery platforms, social networking websites and e-commerce sites for national brands. Pixel-perfect HTML+CSS that shipped on time.
Projects included Actionscript 3.0/Adobe AIR/native code media player for custom hardware.
Javascript, XSLT, Python development of rich internet applications for $150 million/year, AJAX intensive e-commerce website. Data analysis and automated marketing strategy tools in the R statistical language.
An "evenings and weekends" data analysis project turned into an automated search marketing strategy tool that increased the return on investment of a multi-million dollar advertising campaign from 350% to 1100%, while also increasing total sales volume and total revenue.
Ruby, Lingo, Rails development of networked digital television show production tools. Design and management of Subversion-based system for large media assets and production artifacts.
Video production pipeline automation reduced show production time from over a week to under a single day.
B.A. awarded with distinction.
Python, PHP, Javascript, Actionscript 2.0 development of web applications for a boutique web firm.
Custom Twisted/Python HTTP service for rich, geography aware search, scaled to 60,000 hits/day on low cost hardware. Convinced graphic designers to love source control and scripted deployment.
Java, XSLT, Apache Cocoon development on help.unc.edu, campus-wide IT help web application.
Java development for medical informatics application service provider, with a team of seven.
Rich, asynchronous web application before XmlHttpRequest. "Servlet Model 2" pre-WebMVC architecture with in-house ORM.
Web development in Perl CGI, C, C++ for physical security applications. The only developer on the team.
Brought 20 years of old, enterprise critical data to the web, used Perl regexps over card-key history data to find industrial saboteurs.
Creative writing and Honors scholarship recipient. Lived in Cuenca, Ecuador for three months.
My last open source contribution was a slightly silly pure-python module for lzw compression (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lzw), and before that a three-line patch to Why the Lucky Stiff's "Potion" minimal language (http://github.com/fogus/potion.)
I'm interested in functional programming, machine learning, and physical computing; some code snippets and ephemera related to these topics are online at http://www.joe-bowers.com.
I play the accordion. Badly.