Jason Ellis

Professional Experience

Software Engineer — IBM :: Rational :: Build Forge (aka Buildforge)
Oct. 2005 through present

• Senior User Interface Developer: I am one of two PHP developers that were charged with the complete redesign from the ground up of the user interface for the flagship build management product in the market.

Contract Web Developer — Hoover’s Inc
Jul. 2005 through Nov. 2005

• Web Development: One of eight full time PHP programmers that maintained and developed for an enormous object oriented code base for use in the collection and distribution of data encompassing every aspect of more than 17 million companies world wide.

Contract Web Developer — Austin American Statesman
Feb. 2003 through May. 2005

• Web Development: One of a small handful of web developers employed by the major Austin area newspaper to maintain and update content for multiple websites containing tens of thousands of individual pages.
• Web Programming: The sole developer of a custom multi-channel, cross-site ad delivery scheduling package written entirely in PHP to support the special needs of the Statesman’s infrastructure.

Law Enforcement Officer — Lakeway Police Department / Bertram Police Department
Sept. 2002 through Feb. 2005

[ I don't normally mention this period on my resume as I no longer am interested in pursuing this line of work -- however in the interest of being thorough and not leaving a big gap in the dates; I was a police officer for two different departments through this time period. One full time and one part time -- the job didn't suit me. ]

Senior Web Developer — C3 Communications
Feb. 1999 through Aug. 2000

• Web Design / Development: Insured over all webpage design and functionality, as well as compatibility to all legacy software used both in house, and by customers. Complete redesign of both the internet and intranet site using Frontpage and ASP on an IIS NT server farm.
• Web Programming: Designed and implemented dynamic CGI/PERL scripting for use in real time meter data reading and created time sensitive reports for customers.

Web Developer / Admin — Austin Independent School District
Sep. 1998 through Feb. 1999

• Web Development: Sole designer of all of AISD’s website needs to include initial design, overall layout and functionality as well as programming needs to meet virtual hosting requirements for schools belonging to AISD.
• Web Administrator: Initial and over all design and administration as well as maintenance and setup of all webservices for AISD.

Sole Proprietor / Software Engineer — Palaquest Internet Solutions and Design
Jun. 1997 through Present

• Web Development: Contract web design and development for a number of small companies about the Austin area and the world.
• Palavista.com: Creation of the number one digital music meta-crawler on the internet [at the time.] The first of its kind, Palavista was a search engine that searched other engines databases as well as a cache of previous searches and dynamically tailored output to suit the users need.

Network Administrator / Technical Application Specialist — CTA Incorporated
Jun. 1997 through Sept. 1998

• Web Developer: Designed and supported all webpages on our servers to include CGI space that was used to fix the Y2K bug.
• Network Administrator: Maintained all aspects of network in an administration role.

Signals Intelligence Analyst — U.S. Army
May 1992 through May 1997

• Web Development: Worked to provide rapid data deployment to the top secret internet.
• SigInt Analyst: Trained as a Signals Intelligence Analyst and a Korean Linguist, which entailed access to top secret information on North and South Korea as well as language training in Korean in order to provide time sensitive analytical reporting on intercepted foreign communications.

Software

• Languages: xHTML, PHP, Javascript, CSS, AJAX, XML, XSLT, DOM, xSSI, ASP, ColdFusion, Delphi, PERL, Java
• IBM Products: Lotus, Jazz, RTC
• Platforms: Windows, Macintosh, Linux
• Microsoft: Word, Excel, Outlook
• Misc: Modo, Lightwave, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, PageMaker

Education

• TCLEOSE: 698 hours in assorted peace officer training.
• Austin Community College: 12 credit hours in assorted classes.
• Other College: 10-20 credit hours of assorted classes
• Military Training: 46 credit hours in assorted classes and language.

Special Skills

I am a calm, considerate problem solver. I am a self taught computer programmer and software engineer and have worked with computers all my life. I am familiar with and have used most major operating systems and have an almost intuitive understanding of all major software packages, as well as having professional experience with most of them.

I enjoy rapid application development and web development. I have been working for years on the internet in one form or another to include creation of special utilities and websites for top secret military projects.

I have experience teaching my computer skills to others and I enjoy a challenge.

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