NELS NELSON

Mailing address available upon request

Telephone number available upon request

E-mail is nelsnelson at hotmail dot com

 

OBJECTIVE

I will settle for nothing less than an advanced software engineering position that demands the most of my expertise and knowledge and inspires me to learn and perform at my best.

 

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Java, C/C++, C# JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, PHP, Python, Ruby, PERL, Lisp, and HTML.

• Three years Java programming experience at a professional level, including JDK 1.4, JDK 1.5 and nearly all of the Sun Java EE 5 SDK libraries.

• Three years of professional and academic experience using SQL (Oracle's SQL*Plus, PostgreSQL and MySQL.)

• Three years of professional experience using version control software such as SVN and CVS.

• Two years of professional experience using project management software such as MKS and Jira to manage and track several professional software engineering projects at once.

• Three years of professional experience with all aspects of the IEEE Software Development Life Cycle.
• One year of professional experience using JIRA issue tracking software.
• One year professional experience developing enterprise web service applications.
• One year of professional experience managing, configuring, and deploying to J2EE web-application server software such as Tomcat and JBoss.

• Several years of in-depth experience using a variety of operating systems including Windows NT/2000/XP, MacOS 7.x-9.x and MacOS X, UNIX systems such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD, and Linux flavors such as RedHat, Ubuntu and Fedora Core.

• Web (IIS 6.0, Apache, Tomcat) and system administration experience in all the above systems.

• In-depth knowledge of network security and intrusion detection.

 

EDUCATION	University of Texas at San Antonio
	Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science
	Graduated spring, 2004

 

PROJECTS

• Wrote an open source light-weight servlet container in Java based on the Apache HttpComponents Core project being lead by Oleg Kalnichevski.

• Integrated internal customer tracking and management systems with Salesforce.com for Rackspace.

• Analyzed and reconstructed build configurations using Apache Ant for all J2EE projects in the IS department at Rackspace.
• Developed, deployed and maintained several production web-services.
  

• Designed a comprehensive dot-com business Website template implemented in ASP, as well as the business level Microsoft Access database served with IIS.

• Developed a Java application to migrate legacy data to new XML format spec using JAXB under a contract with SRC.

• Refactored over 50,000 lines of Java code under a contract with SRC.

• Wrote a peer-to-peer file transfer solution in Java.

• Wrote a network tool for Linux using libdnet and libpcap in C which analyzes and replays network communications saved in tcpdump format log files.

• Developed a small Open Source Java library using JDK 1.5 to extend the functionality of the Java Swing API to facilitate quick and easy development of full-featured modern desktop applications.

• Currently designing a 100% Pure Java natural language parser and grammar mapper based on the Inform language by Dr. Graham Nelson.

• Currently developing an experimental distributed network node application in Java.

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 2006-present

  Rackspace Managed Hosting, CORE/SSE

  Software Engineer Developer II

• 2004-2006

  Syracuse Research Corporation, San Antonio Office

  Software Engineer

• 2000-2005

  Regianno's Italian Panificio

  Waiter

 

TRANSFERABLE SKILLS

• Will easily adapt to new systems, software and technology.

• Professionally trained in both the Agile and Rational Unified Process software development frameworks.

• Good people skills. Will excel as a member of a team.

• Drive, focus, and concentration enable my delivery of results. Will work well independently as well as cooperatively.

 

References Available Upon Request