Dave's Resume
DAVID L JONES
EDUCATION:
Masters of Science, Technology Management (MSTM) (1992)
Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (1986)
California Polytechnic University, Pomona, California
Career Summary
Director / Vice President of Software
20 years experience defining, building, and delivering internet based and multi-platform end-user software to market through effective management of multiple staffs of developers, technical writers, technical managers, quality assurance, and numerous outside vendors/contractors. Developed a Professional Services department to closely align products to customer needs and expectations. Respected for being intuitive and diplomatic. Completes projects on time and within budget. Good strategic thinker with the ability to evaluate future technology trends to improve customer satisfaction and growth.
Management Skills
Manage technical groups ranging in size from 5 to 40
Delivered,on time and on budget, a recent large project over 15 months, with 20 staff, $2M budget, using latest Web 2.0 technologies for a large aerospace company's internal use.
Build effective and efficient technical and product development teams that adhere to software development standards.
Develop staff, hire, take corrective action, and organizational restructuring
Communicate effectively with executive levels, marketing, sales, and customers to define vision for future information products
General Technical Skills
Create product requirements, technical specifications, design documents, product development lifecycle.
Extensive experience with software development on multiple platforms, Internet, LAN and WAN high availability distributed systems.
Project management including creation of project plans, development schedules, and staff allocation
Architect large, scalable systems to help implement and transition customer systems. Review system designs, code, and processes
Broad and deep knowledge of current technology and trends
Specific Technical Skills
Design highly scalable client/server architectures including load balancing, fail-over, 24x7 operation for hosted server solutions, oversee hardware/software systems architecture/design
Designed and developed WinTel version of online collaboration tools using C/C++, JavaScript, HTML, XML, AJAX, CSS, PHP, WCTL, WCJS, Java, MySQL, TCP/IP Sockets.
Over 20 years of programming experience using C, C++, assembly language, Perl, and other languages on WinTel, Unix, and Macintosh platforms and program level experience with TCP protocols such as HTTP, SSL, SMTP/POP3, Telnet, XML-RPC, FTP. Limited experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and Flash/Actionscript.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Spokane Community College (04/2008 - Present)
Computer Information Systems Faculty teaching a variety of programming languages, web development courses, and information technology classes.
Lundeen and Associates/WebCrossing, Inc. (09/93 - 09/2008)
VP of Software responsible for management of the development, maintenance and enhancement of WebCrossing Internet Discussion/Social Network software and external customization contracts using a variety of Internet standard protocols. Strategic planning and budgeting for future directions of products, personnel and resources. Management of software development teams, QA, technical and production support. Personnel management of distributed development teams utilizing the full Product Life Cycle. Developed Professional Services department with contracts in excess of $2M/year.
Windows Development Manager/Director of Engineering responsible for developing cross-platform business / graphics / telecommunications / e-Commerce / utility software applications for the Macintosh and WinTel platforms utilizing C and C++ as the primary languages. Developed and led technical teams to create end-user products according to client specifications.
Spokane Community College (03/2008 - Present)
Adjunct Faculty currently teaching Agile Software Development and Beginning and Advanced Flash Development.
University of Phoenix (09/2002 - 12/2003)
Faculty Practitioner certified to teach 35 different computer, web, and project management related classes in the UOP online environment. Taught project management and software development classes concurrently with WebCrossing activities.
Rockwell International Space Systems Division, Downey (4/85 - 09/93)
Project Manager responsible for:
- Management of Internal Research and Development programs specializing in software development and hardware prototype projects with budgets in excess of $1.5M.
- Strategic planning for new business development.
- Concept engineering for commercial and governmental space activities including search and rescue, space-based public utilities, and terrestrial applications of space technology especially in the utilization of personal computer based systems and networks.
Project Engineer responsible for:
- Leading a software development team in the creation of an animated briefing system for NASA utilizing PC's and LAN's.
- Developed, implemented, and controlled the Division's local area network (LAN) and EMAIL system which utilized Novell and PC-LAN.
- Hardware and software evaluation, selection and acquisition.
- Project planning including schedules, budgets, personnel, and resource allocation.
- Customer contact for project status and configuration change authorization as well as continual marketing activities.
Software Engineer responsible for:
- Developing interactive, graphic briefing systems for distributed network applications.
- Performing research and development on real-time, animated raster and vector graphics software.
- Developing digital document storage and retrieval systems utilizing digital scanning, raster to vector conversions, data compression, communication and optical storage systems.
- Developing a digital data base archival system for all the documentation related to the Challenger Space Shuttle incident.
- Developing portions of a network communications system for the Space Systems Division of Rockwell.
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