Seattle, WA 98109
Twitter: @heckj, Facebook: ccjoe, Linkedin: josephheck
Work Experience & Projects:
- Experienced technical director, published author, and system analyst
- 22 years experience in development, system administration and system analysis.
- 13 years experience leading and mentoring engineering and development staff.
- Held both Director of Operations and Director of Quality Assurance positions as well as technical lead and manager for software development, system and network administration teams.
- Proven ability to create and direct effective teams and workgroups to accomplish amazing things.
- Diverse experience encompassing both small organizations and large institutions.
- Worked within environments from 3 to 30,000 employees.
- Managed internal systems supporting multiple geographic locations.
- Management and support of over 3000 servers in heterogeneous OS environments (Windows and Linux).
- Software development using Python, Objective-C, C#, Perl, C, and Java,
- Mac desktop and iPhone development (SeattleBus)
- Standalone GUI to n-tier application development with Postgres, MySQL, SQLServer, and Oracle databases.
- Web services and applications development with Python using the Django web application framework.
- Holistic and deep involvement with developement, quality assurance and operations for multiple web based service plaforms.
- Test directed development and continuous integration using Ant, NAnt, Maven (2.0), JUnit, NUnit, Grinder, Cruise Control, and Hudson.
- Development support and management of version control systems (Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, Perforce, Subversion, CVS), bug tracking (Redmine, Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA), system metrics and monitoring (OpenView, Orion, Nagios, Cacti, Big Brother), and configuration management systems (BladeLogic).
Education:
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, May 1990 from University of Missouri – Columbia, MO.
Affiliations
- Member of ACM
- Member of the Center for Wooden Boats
- Founder, Seattle Xcoders SIG
- Contributor to Django python web framework
- Contributor to Review Board code review web application
- Creator of the Eyes open source monitoring project
- Creator of the Django-Queue-Service open source project (retired)
- Contributor to UnitKit Objective-C testing framework (retired)
