F. Grahame Murray Raleigh, NC 27604 Home: 919.828.9879 Email: jobs@grahame.com Web: http://grahame.com/ ---------------------------------------------------- Last Updated: Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 Check http://grahame.com/ for the most recent version, available in HTML, PDF, Word and text. KEYWORD SUMMARY Java, JEE, PHP, AJAX, Javascript, Servlets, XML, XSLT, JSP, HTML, SQL, PERL, CGI OBJECTIVE I am looking for a full-time position as a lead and/or senior software engineer, designing and developing challenging, interesting, and dynamic web applications. HIGHLIGHTS * 10+ years software development and design experience * Product development and consulting experience * Depth in educational and community projects CORE COMPETENCIES * Java web application development on mainstream application servers * Application design and modeling * Presentation layer coding and scripting (HTML, JSP, PHP, DHTML, XSLT, JavaScript, AJAX, PERL, ColdFusion) EXPERIENCE Technical Lead & Senior Software Engineer, September 2002 - Present BBH Media Raleigh, NC * Architected and developed and new website platform; moving all high-volume sites into a centralized, load-balanced, three-tier, standardized codebase using jQuery, PHP on Zend Framework, SOAP, JPA, EJB3, MySQL, and Lucene * Built a web-service-exposed, JEE middleware to power customer self-service and management portal using JPA, EJB3, SOAP, and MySQL * Architected, designed, and developed a scalable, clustered, high-availability, J2EE-based content authoring and management system using JBoss, Hibernate, JSP2, XSLT, and SQL Server * Designed, optimized, and normalized all major business systems' database schemas * Developed custom content management system using JBoss, EJB, Struts, Velocity, JSP, JSTL, and PostgreSQL * Made heavy use of DHTML and JavaScript for both front-facing and internal applications, including remote scripting and AJAX * Built and extended a custom PHP-based CMS system for e-zine publication * Wrote functional, integration, and unit tests * Administered CruiseControl and Hudson continuous integration and build systems * Mentored junior and new engineering hires * Documented requirements for outsourced projects * Designed and built internal web applications to automate internal business functions, such as content publishing, indexing, and search * Built international, multi-currency money management system, including automated thirty-party import and international credit card processing * Created and maintained PHP and PERL scripts for website management and content validation * Ported and rewrote legacy PERL scripts with more robust PHP scripts, also adding new site features such as pagination * De facto and acting Linux, BSD, and Windows system administrator Lead Engineer, May 2002 - September 2002 Sun Microsystems Menlo Park, CA * Led engineering effort for devCK, Developer Community Knowledge project * Main developer for reimplementation of JCP site, tasks included: * Redesigning the entire DB schema, as well as creating object-relational mapping * Porting and upgrading the administrative site from old Vignette TCL to the new Java platform * Rebuilding the public website from JSP (Model 2) site to MVC, as well as using the new data model Java Engineer, September 2001 - January 2002 James Irvine Foundation San Francisco, CA * Independently contracted with the James Irvine Foundation to complete Coral Connect project. * Designed and implemented message boards, file storage, address book, and other interactive services of the project using Arsdigita Community System, XML, XSL, and Oracle 8i. * Configured qmail, Courier IMAP, JWMA Web mail, and ACS for Java on Solaris 2.8 for custom integrated webmail feature. Java Systems Engineer, March 2001 - September 2001 Liquid Thinking San Francisco, CA * Designed and implemented binary parsing, scoring, and other educational algorithms for an interactive educational product using Rational Rose and ATG Dynamo 4.5. * Architected and designed file system integration for intranet using Arsdigita Community System 4.6, XML, and XSL. * Implemented product family parametric search for Cypress Semiconductor using JavaScript, PERL, and ColdFusion. * Led Quality Assurance effort for Certicom site redesign using Logigear TrackGear. * Began work on CoralConnect but entire team was then down-sized (finished at subsequent position with James Irvine Foundation) Software Engineer, June 1999 - February 2001 SRI International Menlo Park, CA * Architected and implemented many web applications, online surveys, and web assessments using Java Servlets, JSPs, XML, and MySQL databases. * Designed and coded various reusable frameworks, from survey tools to database abstraction layers. * Co-developed and designed ChemSense, a Java-based Knowledge Building Environment for high-school chemistry students. * Built CILT Knowledge Network and affiliated web sites, and single sign-on framework in Cold Fusion and MySQL on Linux. * Designed and authored TeamLab, a Palm Pilot-based open-ended assessment application, desktop conduit, and website that supports off-line data collection and on-line statistical analysis. * Helped port URLex from Python code to Java. * Implemented Instructional Metadata IMS Metadata XML Generator tool, on a contract for Sun Microsystems Software Engineer Intern, June 1998 - August 1998 SRI International Menlo Park, CA * TAPestry Java applet maintenance and enhancements for TappedIn, an online community of educators. * Extended functionality of URLex, an online community and web-based bookmark management web application, written in Python and Javascript. COMPUTER SKILLS Computer Languages: Java, JSP & JSTL/EL, XML, PHP, DHTML & XHTML, Groovy, XSLT & FO/P, PERL, Javascript, bash, Python, Velocity, i18n, C, C++, ColdFusion, Lisp, MIPS assembly, InstallShield Script Databases: MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Solid, FileMaker Pro, mSQL, Access Platforms: JBoss, Tomcat, Zend Framework, Spring, Resin, ColdFusion, Vignette, ATG Dynamo, Arsdigita ACS Tools: IDE: IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, NetBeans, Xcode, Visual Studio, CodeWarrior, JBuilder Modeling: Visio, Rational Rose, Visual Paradigm, Poseidon, Argo UML Version Control: Subversion, CVS, Perforce, SCCS, RCS Bug Tracking: JIRA, Bugzilla, Eventum, TrackGear Web UI: jQuery, YUI Build: Ant, Hudson, Cruise Control, Maven2, Make Unit Testing: JUnit, Cobetura, EasyMock, JMock, Cactus, TestNG Performance Testing: JMeter, Apache Benchmark, JProbe Caching: Memcache, APC, XCache Web/Integration Testing: Selenium, JProbe Search: Lucene, SOLR, Verity Persistence: Hibernate, JPA, EJB, OJB MVC: Struts, Grails, Spring MVC, Cake PHP, Bebop Virtualization: VMWare Server, ESX, Xen Messaging: JBossMQ & JBoss Messaging Text Editor: vi(m), Emacs Installer: InstallShield, NSIS Command Line: GNU tools, Cygwin IM: Jabberd, Openfire Aspect Handling: AspectJ, JBossAOP OSes: Windows Vista/XP/2000/NT, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, PalmOS, BSD, SunOS PUBLICATIONS "Disambiguating Drag-and-Drop: The Click-and-Fill alternative to managing hierarchies" I explained my implementation of a new "Drag and Drop" like interface Published: CHI 2000 Conference Proceedings, April 6, 2000 "Workpad + Palm Series Powered Pack 2000 Edition" My software was written up, rated, and included on accompanying CD-ROM Published: ASCII Corp., March 10, 2000 "Workpad + Palm Series Powered Pack" My software was written up, rated, and included on accompanying CD-ROM Published: ASCII Corp., June 11, 1999 EDUCATION 1995 - 2000 Goucher College Towson, MD BA in Computer Science Courses in Java, LISP, 3D Graphics, A.I., Assembly, Software Engineering, Algorithms, Hardware Architecture, and Computation Summers 1994 - 1997 University of Delaware Newark, DE Graduate & undergraduate courses in C, C++, compiler design, computer graphics, and multimedia design. 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