About Joe Heck

Seattle, WA 98109

Twitter: @heckj, Facebook: ccjoe, Linkedin: josephheck

Work Experience & Projects:

  • Director of Engineering, Nebula Inc
  • Director of Automation and Cloud Services at Disney Connected and Advanced Technologies
    • 24 years experience in development, system administration and system analysis.
    • 15 years experience leading and mentoring engineering and development staff.
    • Proven ability to create and direct effective teams to accomplish amazing things.
  • Diverse experience encompassing both small organizations and large institutions.
    • Worked within environments from 3 to 30,000 employees.
    • Managed systems supporting multiple geographic locations.
    • Management and support of over 5000 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, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.
    • Development support and management of version control systems, bug tracking, system metrics and monitoring and configuration management systems.

Education:

Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, May 1990 from University of Missouri – Columbia, MO.

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