Andrew J. Peterson

4104 - 24th Street, #202San Francisco, CA 94114

415.648.5434415.377.3998andy@ndpsoftware.com Challenging technical projects, where I can use my broad software experience to build great, user-focused software. Lead a successful team that produces great software products, using my techical leadership, user-focus and management. Languages & Scripts Platforms, Technologies & Protocols Software Software Designer User Interface Analysis Object-oriented Design (OOD) Software Architecture Human Interface Design Database Writing Agile development Prototyping Human Interface Design User Testing Data Presentation HTML XHTML CSS CGI XML XSLT Java EE Struts PERL PHP AppleScript Javascript Java Linux Unix DOS Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows 98 MacOS X MacOS PERL PHP AppleScript MPW HyperTalk (Hypercard) Javascript VBScript TCL/Tk csh zsh bash regex (regular expressions) Symantec compilers Make Internationalization (i18n) TeeBeeDee Social and information networking platform for Baby Boomers. October 2006 - present Claude Devarenne, Director of Engineering Set technical strategy and advocated internal development projects. Provided technical leadership and mentoring. Established standard development patterns to improve maintainability and development velocity. Created tools to reduce code complexity. Designed and built the "kudos", a peer rating system; member profile pages; "Invite a Friend"; Q&A; "Real-life Scripts", and various parts of other functionality. Worked at all tiers: DB schemas, persistence mappings, services, web controllers, and views. Ran daily stand-up meetings, iteration check-in meetings, engineering estimations, and iteration retrospectives. Advocated agile development and worked with product development to implement an agile process. CSS Java 5 Javascript sh SQL Linux MacOS X Windows XP Agile development Ant Atlassian Bamboo Atlassian JIRA Atlassian Confluence DWR Extreme Programming IntelliJ IDEA JUnit EasyMock Prototype Scriptaculous MochiKit JSAN JSON YUI-2.3.0 DWR Lucene Search Engines Solr MySQL Pair programming Refactoring Test-driven development User stories Ajax Apache Commons Apache Jakarta Tomcat Apache web server SVN Hibernate 3 JSP Documents JUnit Compass Spring Framework Spring MVC XHTML XML Photoshop GreatSchools.net The premier guide to K-12 school information, the non-profit GreatSchools provides resources for parents to improve the U.S. education system. March 2005 - October 2006 Todd Huss, VP of Engineering Defined the technology stack and designed architecture to transition a data-intensive, high-traffic web site (max 2-3k page view per minute) from Perl to Java. Developed transition strategy and completed initial implementation. Implementing an XP/agile-based methodology including test-driven development, pair programming, code reviews, user stories and "planning poker." Hired and managed staff, and coordinated contractors as needed. Coordinated releases and development schedule. Implemented numerous web pages, from the CSS and Javascript down to the database schema. Prototyped new product ideas, especially mapping and Ajax-based UIs. Added secure Verisign credit card processing. Delivered user-friendly Swing-based data loading tool to internal team. CSS Java Javascript PERL sh XSLT FreeBSD MacOS X Windows 2000 Windows XP Agile development Ant Clover code coverage Cruise Control Extreme Programming Google Maps API IntelliJ IDEA JUnit Maven MySQL Pair programming Refactoring Test-driven development User stories Ajax Apache Commons Apache Jakarta Tomcat Apache web server CGI Cruise Control CVS Geocoding Hibernate 3 Hibernate Java WebStart JSP Documents JUnit Lucene Sitemesh Spring Framework Spring MVC Swing Verisign Credit Card Processing WebServices XHTML XPath XML Photoshop NDP Software March 1999 - present NDP Software creates high-quality software products and provides consulting services for enterprise, commercial and non-profit clients. Services range from web development to software development along with consulting. MooTools Navis LLC July 2002 - March 2005

Created the web and presentation tier for a next generation of enterprise software in the Java EE environment.

Led web tier development of company's Java EE platform. Defined, tested, documented, taught and sold the overall approach to the team and other teams. Built all framework components, including site map, navigation system, data dictionary, taglibs, ui "widgets" and business tier API. Used some aspects of extreme programming, notably unit testing and continuous integration. Java JSP SQL XML XSLT XPath HTML XHTML Javascript Java EE J2SE JDBC JSP Taglibs Servlets TCP/IP SDKs ULC (Canoo) Jakarta Commons Java utilities Spring Framework JWebUnit JUnit HttpUnit Unit Testing JDOM Hibernate Struts UML Macker Eclipse MacOS X Unix IntelliJ IDEA BBEdit CVS MySQL Ant Cruise Control JBoss Apache Jakarta Tomcat Object-oriented Design (OOD) Object-oriented Programming (OOP) Extreme Programming UML Design Patterns source code control Jon Shields, PhD., Navis LLC SpinGuys Provides quick to set up and easy-to-manage political campaign web sites to local and state-wide candidates. 2002-present Implemented web-site database backend system and template-based front-end system on a very tight budget. SQL Eclipse PHP XHTML HTML Javascript Apache Unix BBEdit MacroMedia Fireworks FTP MySQL Friends of Mike Gordon Dean Florez for CA State Senate Hannah-Beth Jackson for CA Assembly Rosenberg for U.S. Congress Ann Hutchinson for U.S. Congress Super Kathy Soundbites Reske for Indiana Assembly Dan Rosenberg AIDA Inter-American Association for Environmental Defence 2000-present Sole developer of a web site for the non-profit. Initially included hundreds of pages of content, but now is migrated to a custom, bi-lingual content management system. Site has instigated social change throughout the Americas. Anna Cederstav SQL Eclipse FTP PHP HTML XHTML Javascript Apache Unix BBEdit MacroMedia Fireworks MySQL Navis LLC October - November 2002 M and R Built prototype of new product to improve product design and work out ambiguities in the specifications. Worked with product managers, designers and graphic artist to create frameworks for current and future applications. PHP HTML XHTML Javascript MacOS X Unix BBEdit MacroMedia Fireworks CVS IDEX International Development Exchange is a non-profit partnering with small, local, non-profits around the world to facilitate grass-roots development. 2001-present Provided project management consulting throughout the web site production, and then became the "web guy." Created a user-friendly web content management system. Site now helps bring in thousands of dollars in donations. SQL Eclipse PHP HTML XHTML Javascript Apache Unix BBEdit MacroMedia Fireworks MySQL FTP Heather Mansfield, IDEX Liquid Audio Liquid Player 2001-2002 Developed from the ground up a flexible, usable "Music Organizer" component for a secure digital music player. C++ SDKs MacOS Metrowerks CodeWarrior PowerPlant Perforce Object-oriented Design (OOD) Object-oriented Programming (OOP) source code control Rosenberg for Congress 2000 Database design and implementation for a campaign donation tracking system, used throughout a campaign for U.S. Congress. FileMaker Pro source code control Dan Rosenberg Site of Care Systems 1999 Database design and implementation of a bug-tracking system for a medical software developer. FileMaker Pro MacCVS Pro 2000-2002 MacCVS Pro Added AppleScript scripting capabilities to MacCVS Pro. Designed and implemented an enhanced "history" view, which provides an easy way to explore the history of a file, its tags and branches. C++ AppleScript MacOS X Metrowerks CodeWarrior CVS source code control Latham-Watkins LLC, Menlo Park Sony Electronics TiVo 2003 - 2005 Provide expert witness research, reports and testimony. Matthew Rawlinson, Latham-Watkins LLC Navis LLC February 2002 - October 2002 Express Facilitated migration of an Oracle-forms based product from an un-versioned development process to a scheduled, versioned release process. Performed data gathering through extensive interviews. Recommended technical direction and best practices. Created all necessary technical tools and materials. Trained all stakeholders. Integrated in-house change management system with CVS, providing accurate mapping of code changes to bugs and enhancements. Designed a CVS front-end system. Integrated CVS with an in-house bug tracking system. Java CVS Doxygen source code control JDBC XML Rodrigo Silviera, Navis LLC Navis LLC Sparcs January - October 2001 CVS Conversion. Convert large codebase (1000 files) with dozens of active versions from MPW Projector to CVS source code control.
Created reliable and easy-to-use build system for a complex, cross-platform product. Facilitate conversion of large codebase from Object Pascal to C++. Provided coding style guidelines to faciliate C++ migration. C++ Object Pascal PERL TCL/Tk AppleScript Microsoft Windows MacOS X DOS Metrowerks CodeWarrior CVS Doxygen source code control Jon Ranstrom, Navis LLC City College of San Francisco 2001 - 2002 Taught CIS 135 series, which includes in-depth HTML, XHTML, and CSS; covered briefly Javascript, Java applets, CGI, PERL, XML, PHP, ASP, security and legal issues. Prepared course outline and homework assignments and delivered lectures. Graded student work. Rose Endres, CCSF Pierre Thiery XML XSLT XPath PHP PERL HTML XHTML tcsh csh sh Javascript IIS TCP/IP CGI ODBC Apache Unix DOS MySQL Navis LLC The leading supplier of software solutions for container terminals, shipping ports and lines, and distribution centers. 6/1992 - 2/1999 I helped Navis Corporation grow from just a few clients when I joined (employee number eleven) to the world-wide market leader. I focused on the SPARCS product, a real-time, decision-support, client/server system that manages over 100 containership terminals around the world. I served many varied roles (often simultaneously) while at Navis. I built the development team, helped set the strategic direction of the company, and managed 4-10 major projects each year (and countless minor projects). I advocated for, and helped institute strategic planning, source code control, a coding style guide, task tracking and scheduling systems. Coordinated weekly technical meetings, project plans and roadmap. Designed, wrote, installed, maintained, and supported two of the software products with a team of five to ten engineers. I created several key features of the product. I performed successful on-site installations and upgrades around the world. With team members, ported from 68k to PPC (MacOS), and later to WindowsNT. I solved y2k problems. I managed a source code system that supported over a hundred releases a year, with people working worldwide. I created a build system and trained a non-technical staff to use it while travelling. I created a QA department and established a bug tracking and release process. Object Pascal AppleScript TCP/IP SDKs MPW MacOS Microsoft Windows Metrowerks CodeWarrior FileMaker Pro Projector Eudora Pro MacApp Object-oriented Design (OOD) Object-oriented Programming (OOP) source code control Self-employed 3/1992 - 1/1993 Software Ventures Corporation (SVC) Wrote 80-page user's manual on TCP/IP. Microsoft Word Software Ventures Corporation (SVC) Developed installation tools. MPW TCP/IP Farallon Farallon Computing was a leading supplier of MacOS software and hardware. Netopia 1/1990 - 1/1992 Led a six-engineer team in the creation of the top-selling SoundEdit Pro / SoundEdit 16 (MacroMedia). To improve software quality, I founded (with three co-workers) the User Interface Task Force, which began user testing company-wide. C++ C Object Pascal SDKs MPW MacOS Apple Projector MacApp Object-oriented Design (OOD) Object-oriented Programming (OOP) Software Publishing Corporation Software Publishing Corporation is a leading supplier of commercial PC software. 8/1988 - 12/1989 Designed and coded three cross-platform projects: a high-end word processor, a database and a presentation graphics product (Harvard Graphics). I analysed and recommended potential product acquisitions. I advocated quality, initiated internal documentation requirements and set programming style guidelines. C++ C MPW Symantec compilers MacOS Microsoft Windows DOS Object-oriented Design (OOD) Object-oriented Programming (OOP) Mansfield Systems, Inc. 7/1986 - 9/1986, 7/1987 - 8/1988 As employee number four at this start-up company, I created a technical desktop publishing application for MacOS. I started as a summer intern and grew to a primary developer of the word processor. C Lightspeed C compiler MacOS Object-oriented Programming (OOP) University of Oregon Computing Center The Computing Center provides computer services to the campus community. 9/1985 - 6/1987 1984 - 1985 I administrated, installed, and maintained labs serving 800 students per term. I maintained libraries and organized electronic conferences, planned and taught classes, solved problems, tutored students and sold computers. Cobol Fortran Object Pascal MacOS DOS Applied Navigational Devices Supplies hardware for mapping underground oil exploration sites. Summer 1985 Maintained quality assurance software. Fortran DOS University of Oregon Institute of Molecular Biology 1984 - 1985 Wrote plotting and spectrometer data-acquisition programs. BASIC DOS Quality Educational Designs 1981 - 1983 Ported more than 50 small educational programs from the Apple II to the Commodore PET. These programs sold successfully for years on the Q.E.D. label. BASIC University of Oregon B.A. in Computer Science, 1987 Dean's List, Phi Beta Kappa, Presidential Scholar, Honors College, Student Senator UC Berkeley Extension Technical Marketing Streetside Stories 2000 - 2005 Streetside Stories builds literacy, critical thinking, and community among middle school students through volunteer-led storytelling literacy arts programs in Bay Area schools. Initiated and oversaw transition of board to a committee structure. Hired and managed Executive Director. 10 years leading software development teams. 15 years delivering commercial and vertical market software. Strong software design: excellent problem analysis, object-oriented analysis, design methods, human interface design and database design. Software includes enterprise level client applications, vertical market software, successful commercial products, and web-based applications. Solid understanding of the software development process, including requirements gathering, analysis and design, development tools and technologies, release and version control, contemporary testing methodologies, and deployment management. Expert in the full lifecycle of software development, software methodologies, software architecture, software engineering, and usability. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Versatile and pro-active leader, team-player and problem-solver. Capable of working with tight deadlines. Fast learner. Proven track record of shipping successful, usable software under pressure. Experienced collaborator in defining product vision and strategy. Technical expertise in popular development tools, web technologies, languages, servers, and applications.