Joshua Curtiss

Summary

Programmer/Analyst focusing on web development primarily with ColdFusion since 2000. Developed numerous public websites and built an academic institution’s intranet site practically from scratch, including several complex applications. Extensive experience in application design and development as well as maintenance, using object-oriented approaches with the assistance of industry-standard frameworks. Experienced with server-side and client-side development. Experience has developed a recognition of the importance of organized, well-written code and good documentation. Demonstrates a desire to keep up with new technologies and standard practices in the industry.

Education / Professional Development

Associates of Applied Science in Computer Information Systems
Rock Valley College, December 1999

Attended numerous classes and conferences since 2000, such as CFUnited and MAX; occasional certifications such as ColdFusion 5 and ColdFusion 7.

Related Employment Summary

10/2000 – Present: Programmer/Analyst
Rock Valley College in Rockford, Illinois

Primarily responsible for developing and maintaining applications on the college’s intranet site, which at times includes integrating disparate systems. Some large scale integration projects include Gmail, Active Directory, Blackboard ANGEL, and 3com VCX phone system. Developed the college’s intranet site practically from the ground up. Occasionally will develop applications on public web sites. Implemented CMS for intranet and public websites. Extensive use of ColdFusion and Microsoft SQL Server for back-end development, including CFCs, custom tags, Verity/Solr. Use of AJAX technologies and web services during interface development. Custom built numerous systems and tags to speed up development of powerful applications. Established standard practices of web development as well as project management and revision control via Subversion and Trac. Responsible for configuration/maintenance of IIS, ColdFusion, Subversion, and Trac systems. Also wrote numerous Visual Basic, Windows batch, and Java applications and scripts to address various needs, including system administration tasks.

5/2000 – 10/2000: Web Developer
Blair, Inc. in Loves Park, Illinois

Worked with graphic designers to build numerous public web sites for clients. Worked primarily with ColdFusion 4.5 and some work in ASP. Some sites included Content Management Systems. Utilized ColdFusion, JavaScript, and CSS. Also provided some database reporting and analysis.

Skills / Familiar Technologies

OS Platforms. Experience with Windows, Linux (especially Fedora Core and CentOS flavors), and Mac OS X.

Development Environments. IIS 5 and 6 on Windows, Apache 2 on both Windows and Linux. ColdFusion 4 through ColdFusion 9. MySQL, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft SQL Server as database environments. Subversion and Trac for revision control and project management. Eclipse and ColdFusion Builder are preferred IDEs.

Programming Languages. Extensive experience in ColdFusion (inc. Verity/Solr), HTML, XML, JavaScript (including AJAX techniques), CSS, SQL. Experience also in Visual Basic, Windows Scripting, Linux shell scripting, and Java. Occasional use of ASP, PHP, C/C++.

Frameworks/Libraries Most commonly used frameworks and libraries are Spring and ColdSpring for dependency injection and jQuery for user interface development.

References

Available upon request.