Resume of Howard Jess

Howard Jess

Web Application Software Developer/Engineer

Objective

I really enjoy working in a small collaborative team environment, doing web application development; ideally, the team and company culture place highest emphasis on customers, employees, and providing a social good, as well as keeping an eye on the bottom line. Interests and abilities include front-end design and implementation, especially in the areas of accessibility, and feature tracking.

Capabilities

In-depth understanding of Javascript, HTML and CSS.
At ease working as part of a team or as an individual contributor.
Experience in traditional commercial software development as well as web applications.

Experience

Navigating Cancer Web Application Developer June 2016 → present Developer for Navigating Cancer's suite of Patient Care Management software, dedicated to improving and streamlining the relationship and care experience for cancer patients and oncology clinics. Achievements and projects completed include:

Complex Triage Pathways: implemented a set of JSON Schema-/JSON Editor-based dynamic forms to standardize symptom data recording for cancer patients
Living Style Guide: continued work to maintain and upgrade the development group's style and component library

Rosetta Stone (after April 2013 Livemocha aquisition) Front-end Web Application Developer November 2012 → April 2016 Developer for Rosetta Stone's Advanced English for Business language-learning application, and Livemocha, a social community-based language-learning application. Achievements and projects completed include:

Password reset/recovery
User profile management
Partner connections
Analytics, using Mixpanel Analytics
System rewrite from Sproutcore to AngularJS.

Optify, Inc. Front-end Software Engineer September 2011 → October 2012 UI developer for Optify's Inbound Marketing software suite, a SAAS tool for B2B marketers. Achievements and projects completed include:

Customer site “Landing Page” editor/publisher
Contact Manager & Email Manager tools
Analytics, using Mixpanel Analytics
Rewrote UI coding standards document, and overhauled the Javascript library namespace

Cobalt.com, Inc. Senior UI Developer September 2009 → September 2011 Lead UI developer on Cobalt's New Products team, charged with creating and delivering innovative website products for sale to auto manufacturers and dealers. Achievements and projects completed include:

Embedded Google maps for location pages
Facebook and Twitter publishing and feed widgets
Embedded YouTube player/playlist handler
Initial implementation of front-end unit testing using jstestdriver

Wetpaint.com, Inc. UI Web Developer September 2008 → July 2009 UI developer for Wetpaint's “build your own wiki” system. Achievements and projects completed include:

Enhanced messaging forum system
Access to PayPal's recurring billing system
User authentication using Facebook Connect
Conversion from home-grown library to jQuery

Cardomain Networks, Inc. Web Developer September 2006 → September 2008 Front-end specialist for Cardomain's “facebook for car enthusiasts” applications. Achievements and projects completed include:

Homepage and navigation overhaul, with complete site re-layout for uniform ad placements, using Perl/TTK
Member group subsystem, using Ruby on Rails
Immersed in all aspects of Agile development, including story estimation, pair programming, TDD, sprint demos, and frequent releases

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DHI Technologies, Inc. Software Engineer March 2004 → September 2006 Javascript specialist for DHI's JSSorcerer™ Javascript transpiler. Achievements and projects completed include:

Created detailed catalog of browser behavioral differences for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera
Designed and built an unobtrusive JavaScript library for common browser behavior
Designed and built AJAX routines illustrating JSSorcerer's technology
Integrated JSSorcerer into the VIM editor
Designed and built a lightweight drag-and-drop Windows JSSorcerer application

ATT Wireless, Inc. Senior Software Developer November 2003 → February 2004 (using Openet FusionWorks, DSD, C, HPUX)
Identified DSD code hotspots; built TCL FusionWorks plugin to evaluate DSD vs. TCL; group resource for C, Unix and DSD issues.

LSI Logic, Inc. (formerly Syntax Systems, Inc.) October 1986 → March 2003 Senior Technical Engineer, Administrative UI, 1997 → 2003
Designed and created a browser-based UI server configuration system, using CGI, C, Java, TCL, JavaScript, and DHTML; designed and implemented an internal engineering document publish/search system, with UIs for both technical and non-technical users.
Senior Engineer, Client Products, 1994 → 1997
Implemented product I18N routines; designed a client/server (Windows/Unix) PC backup system using NetBIOS and TCP/IP. System Engineer, Networking Products, 1986 → 1994
Built the first SMB-based PC file-sharing server for VMS; designed and produced DOS and Windows network OS administrative UI programs.