James Long
3842 Tacoma Ave S
Tacoma, WA  98418
(425) 738-0266
jameslong2003@yahoo.com

I have over 7 years experience as an application developer.  I specialize in Unix C and I am becoming fluent in the .NET Framework and Design Patterns. I have served in a supervisory capacity and have worked as a stand-alone developer. I am passionate about software design and have mentored several developers in the art of object design.

Objective:
Employment as an application developer.

Technologies:
C, C#, XML, XSLT, XSD, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Java, Javascript, PHP, C-ISAM, RDBMS Programming

Methodologies:
Object Oriented Programming and Functional Programming.

Experience

07/2006 to Present     Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro Toys               Renton, WA
Ecommerce Developer, Servers Team
My responsibilities at Wizards include:

• Finding and fixing bugs in the C# servers software
• Adding new features to C++ and C# based servers
• Using Windows Forms programming to construct tools for developers and support staff to use
• Construct new stored procedures and other database related tasks

Tools used:
C# (Visual Studio 2003 & 2005), .Net (1.1 & 2.0), Sql Server, xemacs, vi, and Make.

07/2001 to 06/2006 Full time
06/2006 to 05/2007 Part time             Advent Resources, Inc.         San Pedro, Ca
Senior Developer R&D Team

While at Advent, I:

• Researched and developed applications to enhance the company's core application.
• Managed three developers when in charge of the reports department.
• Was responsible for debugging and troubleshooting all aspects of the application using various tools to track down and fix errors.

Some of my accomplishments were:

• Rewrote an application that is used to transmit information to J.D. Powers from automotive dealerships that use the Advent System. When I took on the project, only 7 out of 108 dealerships were transmitting information on a regular basis. Now, 99%+ of Advent's clients transmit nightly, bringing in over $70,000 per year for the company. The time required to set up a new client is now approximately 70% less.
• Put into place a billing system for the reports department. The first year I worked at Advent, the reports department billed less than $5,000. We billed over $45,000 in 2003, $66,500 in 2004 and $73,000 in 2005.
• Instituted a documentation and training program that allows the company to train newly hired reports programmers in 2 weeks instead of 6-8 weeks, which saves the company time and money by allowing the new programmers to become productive in less time.

Tools Used:
C#, .Net, C, Informix C-ISAM, Java, JavaScript, PHP, gcc, gdb, xemacs, vi, and Make on Redhat 7.3/8.0/ES3 servers, complex multi-directory makefiles, Netbeans IDE, Tomcat 4 & 5, and Apache.

02/2004 to 05/2005      L-Squared Technologies        Los Angeles, Ca
Developer/Architect

At L-Squared, I was responsible for:

• Constructing new applications
• Modify/repair existing applications
• Port old applications to a client/server application

Tools Used:
Microsoft Visual Studio .Net (C#, ASP.Net), SQL Server, Microsoft Project, JavaScript, DOM and xml.

Education
Devry University, Long Beach, CA 3.84 GPA - Magna Cum Laude, Deans List 10 out of 10 trimesters
Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems

Project Management Certification from California State University, Long Beach 02-2004

C# Certificate from Brainbench (http://www.brainbench.com ) Transcript ID 807809.

Professional Skills
C, SQL SERVER, PHP, MySql, C#, ASP.NET, XML, XSLT, XSD, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, C-ISAM