Kurt Werle
Last updated: March, 2010
http://www.CircleW.org/kurt/pages/resume
kurt@CircleW.org
Phone: (805) 788-0818
Address: 405 Jaycee Drive
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405

Objective: Develop applications using Ruby on Rails. Cover Letter

Skills:

• OO Programming & Design since 1990
• Ruby on Rails since 2007
• 10 Years of Java
• 8 Years in Objective-C
• 7 Years on Unix/Windows; Unix only since 1999.
• Client/Server since 1995:
• 2 Years Perl Server, 2 Years Client-Server Printing, 7 Years WebObjects
• Great communication skills.

Significant Accomplishments:

• Designed, implemented, released, maintained license management system, including customer facing application and internal client server application (for SAP integration). All in Rails.
• Designed, implemented, and shipped multiple WebObjects applications - several with XML-RPC front-ends for direct use with custom applications.
• Designed, implemented, and shipped Printer Management Tool for Apple Computer (Java).
• Helped spec and ship 2 patches for developer products for NeXT (Objective-C).
• Designed, implemented, shipped, supported, and improved client/server product for Lender's Document Service (Objective-C & Perl).

Employment:

• PGP

  March 2006 - Current

  Designed, implemented, released, maintained license management system, including customer facing application and internal client server application (Rails).

  Ongoing maintenance, fixes, new features for internal/external (VAR) order management system (WebObjects).

• F. Dohmen Co. (Independent Consulting)

  August - October 2005

  Quick emergency cleanup job. Cleaned up source repository: refactor code & frameworks; implemented bug tracking & QA process; implemented clean, reproducible release process (including automatic daily dev builds); implemented documentation project (daily build/install javadoc). Fixed dozens of hang/crashers throughout the code base.

• Banzai, Inc. (Consulting shop)

  Agouron: June 2001 - March 2004

  Worked on a team writing WebObjects applications used in drug design workflow. Including tracking designs and proteins, data consolidation and presentation, automated drug analysis.

  Avolent: February 2001 - May 2001

  Was responsible for making performance enhancements of WebObjects Application. Debugged/fixed multithreaded issues. Implemented caching of objects as needed. Reduced fetch complexities (table joins). Fixed memory leaks. Supported client's performance testing team. All Obj-C on MacOSX Server, Solaris, and NT.

• WebWareCorp

  September 1999 - February 2001

  Wrote small WebObjects App in Java using existing Obj-C EO's. Wrapped Frameworks and made improvements to existing Obj-C code as needed. Spec'd, designed, and wrote 'faceless' WebObjects Server.

• Sun Microsystems

  January 1999 - September 1999

  Engineer: Java Printing Group. Helped ongoing port of printing framework to the Personal Java Platform (JDK 1.1 on Solaris and a 'Java embedded' system).

• Apple Computer, Inc. - NeXT Software, Inc.

  January 97 - December 1998

  Engineer: Mac OS X Printing group. I was responsible for printing under Mac OS X Server (shipped product). This included several applications and modules: Printer Manager App (in Java), 2 printing daemons (one Objective-C and one a minor LPD port), Printer Driver (Objective-C, loading driver bundles for specific printers). I also worked on IPP Server (Internet Printing Protocol) written as a Java Servlet (not shipped).

  July 95 - January 97

  Senior Engineer: Premium Developer Support (NeXT). I was the lead contact for up to 6 accounts, responsible for answering their Objective-C design or implementation questions. This was done typically by supplying correct programming examples, bug workarounds, or patches. I also routinely submitted/verified bugs to engineering and contributed significantly to two patches to our products (gathering/verifying/supplying fixes, justifying patch). Was the support contact for the 'USPS project' (the largest EOF project during the beta and rollout of EOF 2.0) until promoted to engineering.

• Lender's Document Service

  March 1991 - September 1994 (Full-time)
  October 1989 - March 1991 (Part-time/Summers)

  I was the programmer for a legal document printing service. I developed, wrote, and maintained programs in Objective-C, using PostScript to print. Suite included several modules for data entry, a module to do the 'APR' calculations, and a module to parse the forms and merge the data for output to the printer.

  I also developed, wrote, and maintained an automated client-server system for 40+ customers in remote sites. This system was 'served' on a NeXT (unix box) and was largely written in Perl; it was responsible for automatic billing and file updates for the clients. I wrote several NeXTStep (Objective-C) apps for use in-house to help manage client systems. This system remained in active use for more than a decade.