Feb 08
About Joe Heck
Work Experience & Projects:
- Experienced technical director, published author, and system analyst
- 17 years experience in system administration and system analysis.
- 10 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 several geographic locations.
- Management and support of up to 120 servers in heterogeneous OS environments (Windows and Linux).
- Software development using Python, Objective-C, C#, Perl, C, and Java,
- 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 using Ant, NAnt, Maven (2.0), JUnit, NUnit, Grinder, Cruise Control.
- Development support and management of version control systems (Perforce, Subversion, CVS), bug tracking (Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA), system metrics and monitoring (Nagios, Cacti, Big Brother), and configuration management systems.
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, XCoders macintosh programming SIG
- Contributor to Django web framework project
- Contributor to Review Board code review web application
- Creator of the Django-Queue-Service open source project
- Contributor to UnitKit Objective-C testing framework (retired)