ROB WOOD
SENIOR APPLICATION ENGINEER
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Windows √ Linux √ Mac
WEB SERVERS
IIS √ Apache √ Nginx
PERSONAL SUMMARY
√ Clever, adaptable, cutting-edge network application developer
√ Diverse &
expansive education/experience
√ Established
& proven problem solving and application design skills
CLOUD PLATFORMS
√ Well-developed
AWS √ Google Cloud
√ Fast, energetic
RELATIONAL DATABASES
MySQL √ SQL Server
Oracle √ Postgres √ Access
DB2
DOCUMENT DATABASES
√ Motto: “In IT,
& intuitive leadership, coaching, and organizational skills
acquisition & comprehension of system knowledge
everything can be improved and nothing is impossible.”
WORK EXPERIENCE
Sphinx √ MongoDB
SERVER SIDE
PHP √ Classic ASP √ .NET
Node √ CGI
FRAMEWORKS
Yii √ Symfony √ CodeIgniter
Cake
CLIENT SIDE
HTML5 √ CSS3 √ Javascript
jQuery √ UX Design
Graphics √ SEO √ Flash
Flex √ Actionscript √ Mobile
Tech Data Corporation
SENIOR APPLICATION DEVELOPER
√ Pivotal
role in the launch of StreamOne 2.0
√ In subsequent hypercare,
increased order success rate by ~20%
√ Created
resolution tool for corrupted Microsoft CSP orders, eliminating a case
by case manual process that was getting farther and farther behind
Our Town America
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
C √ C++ √ C# √ Java √ Perl
VB √ ARM Assembly
LEAD DEVELOPER
APIS
√ Redeveloped
Google Maps √ Google Charts
Authorize.net √ USPS
UPS √ Facebook √ YouTube
Twitter √ LinkedIn √ And More
√ Improved
MISC. EXPERTISE
Server/DB Optimization
Web/Mobile Security
E-commerce
large print to mail production system. Started with two options
based on a single demographic point and a single envelope, created a system
providing unlimited demographic and envelope content variations
national mailing insert code to maximize revenue, resulting in
thousands of dollars in increased revenue monthly
√ Developed
a Google Maps system using Oracle Spatial to display ZIP/CRRT
boundaries and connect those to a variety of data in several different interfaces
√ Improved
PERSONAL DETAILS
sales tools and documents to increase performance and aesthetic
appeal, resulting in improved sales performance
√ Redeveloped
Rob Wood — BS Computer Science
an online end user print to mail postcard solution to a much
improved HTML5 canvas app
http://www.rob-wood.net
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“When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective
code.”
EDUCATION
WORK EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED)
Eastern Kentucky University
Web Commerce Partners
BS, Computer Science, 2004
√ EKU Honors Program
LEAD DEVELOPER
Society
√ Developed
an abandoned cart recapture system that resulted in completed
sales on 5-10% of abandoned carts
√ Numerous Dean's List Awards
√ Increased
√ Published in EKU Aurora Literary and
√ Improved
√ Lambda Sigma National Honors
response rate to email marketing campaigns by 25-30%
application performance via server and database optimization,
cutting load times, resulting in fewer page bounces
Arts Journal
√ Published in Eastern Progress student
newspaper
INDIVIDUAL TALENTS
American Marketing & Mailing Services, Inc.
PHP PROGRAMMER
√ Optimized
numerous scripts, moving the heavy data lifting from PHP to the
database, where it belongs, greatly improving performance
√ High percentile I.Q.
(98.7775566587%)
√ Optimized
and consolidated numerous database queries, improving
performance and code readability/maintainability
√ Aptitude for logic
√ Stubborn determination
√ Designed
√ High energy level
√ Curiosity
and implemented an innovative UX for name selection and mailing
Virtual Grace, Inc.
√ Impatience/sense of urgency
√ Loyalty & commitment
LEAD DEVELOPER/DESIGNER
√ Daring to innovate
√ Maintained
√ Improved
aesthetic quality of projects and introduced structural SEO,
increasing customer satisfaction, site performance and conversion rates
INDIVIDUAL SKILLS
√ Developed
√ Guru of Googling
√ Algorithm development
clients in premium positions in the major search engines
several Pro Bono projects for worthy causes
virtualStyle Web Development
√ Reducing complexity
√ Simple Answers
SOLE PROPRIETOR
√ Digesting obscure code
√ Numerous projects large
√ Learning new skills
and small since 1999 (also a lot of fiddling)
√ Anticipating problems
√ Handled
different sized web development projects from the sale all the way
through deployment
√ Communicating technological ideas in
√ Continuous management
non-technical terms
of personal servers for over a decade
√ Have remote piloted
numerous projects to deployment in a variety of business
and technological environments
√ UX development & design
√ Finding the right tool for the job
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy
way to do it.”
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