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Who is Micah Jamison?


PROFILE: Over six years Software Engineering experience including database design, desktop applications, server and client web programming, and financial simulations. Eight years IT Support experience with both software and hardware.

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING:

  • Developed Desktop and Internet applications using Python, Javascript, C#, C++, and ActionScript.

  • Used a variety of database servers in production environments including SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

  • Targeted and created cross-platform software for Linux, OpenBSD, and Windows NT (XP, 2000).

  • Developed financial simulation software used by the top energy trading firms in America.

  • Designed, developed, and hosted high traffic websites with over 100,000 hits a day.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPEMENT EXPERIENCE

  • Developed a gas demand simulation using Python and a PostgreSQL database back end. The Scipy python library was used to run regression tests on historical temperature and gas pipeline data. The forecast was then used by some of the top power traders in America including JP Morgan.

  • Developed a website information crawler application to download publicly available temperature, pipeline, snow pack, and river flow information that would then be fed into financial simulations. The application uses the WxPython, threading, urllib, and win32all python libraries. The solution was then registered as a COM server to allow it to be used from inside Microsoft Access.

  • Developed a Desktop Application in Python to allow customers to subscribe to forecast data and then have it automatically downloaded and appended to a local database.

  • Developed a graphing application in C# and SQL Server to allow the visual tracking of forecasts over time.

  • Developed a power plant production capacity estimator using C# with a SQL Server back end.

  • Wrote an Python application to store power plant and pipeline locations in an Oracle spatial database, and then dynamically generate pdf maps off the locations.

  • dev.Sno-Skinz.com – A recently completed website to allow customers to upload custom graphics for printing on snow boards. Used Python on the server and Javascript on the client.

  • Hit2Map.com – A visitor map MySpace widget developed using mod_python and the Google Maps API. The server is apache/mod_python and it uses AJAX when customizing and viewing the maps.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

GLOBALEDGE MARKETING, Spokane, WA – 5/15/08 – Present

Software Engineer

  • Web development using .NET and Python/Django.

DATACONCISE.COM, Spokane, WA – 10/01/06 – 5/15/08

Owner / Computer Consulting

  • Desktop and web development.

POWERLYTIX LLC, Spokane, WA – 3/30/04 – 10/01/06

Lead Software Engineer / Energy Analyst

  • Wrote energy forecast simulations using Python, C#, SQL Server, and Oracle.

BANK OF AMERICA MERCHANT SERVICES, Spokane, WA – 5/8/00 – 3/20/04

Internet E-commerce Technician

  • Technical support for internet merchants integrating their websites with Bank of America’s shopping cart.

  • Developed tools using Python to help troubleshoot https form posts from merchant’s websites.

EDUCATION

  • A+ Certified Technical Professional

  • David Solomon’s Windows NT Internals Technical Seminar

  • Shadle Park High School; 3.95 gpa

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

  • Python – Desktop applications using wxPython, SciPy, and win32all. Simulation applications using SciPy. Websites using Django, mod_python, SQLAlchemy, Kid Templating, SimpleJson, and PIL.

  • C# – Desktop applications including internet access using the standard library.

  • C++ – Fast calculations on large datasets.

  • Flex/ActionScript – Wrote a website widget that communicated with a back end server for reviewing businesses.

DATABASES

  • SQL Server – Accessed from a variety of languages including C# and Python. Proficiency creating advanced queries with complicated joins.

  • Oracle – Experience using spatial databases with complicated queries.

  • MySQL and PostgreSQL – Used for website programming.

OPERATING SYSTEMS

  • Linux – Experience with Redhat, CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu. Used for software development and web servers. Experience administrating user right and hosting Apache, Sendmail, Exim4, SSH, VNC, and FTP.

  • Windows XP – Used for development and for SQL Server databases.

  • OpenBSD – Used for hosting websites.

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