Joshua Vickery

Phone: 919-412-0354 E-mail: josh@vickeryj.com Address: 19 Burr Street #3, Boston, MA 02130

Summary

Mobile and Web developer with strong OO design and development experience

Experience

Mobile (3 Years)

• Development of multiple iPhone applications including WHERE, CurseCounter and the Oxford American College Dictionary & Thesaurus of Current English
• Team lead in charge of iPhone development and mentoring of developers learning the iPhone SDK
• Core contributor to ObjectiveResource (http://iphoneonrails.com)
• Development of a J2ME chronic disease management application

Java (5 years)

• Extensive experience building J2EE, J2SE and J2ME applications for a diverse collection of projects
• Java development in FDA regulated environments
• As lead developer designed and implemented a SOAP webservice and SWT/JFace thick client application system to enable offline access to clinical data

Web Development (7 Years)

• Extensive experience building rich, dynamic and interactive web applications
• Web design work, both from graphic design composites and original designs

Ruby, Ruby on Rails (2 Years)

• Independent contractor working remotely on Rails development teams
• Mentored junior developers on Ruby and Rails practices
• Main proponent for Rails within mid-sized clinical research company

Infrastructure (5 Years)

• Linux systems administrator, Xen server virtualization
• Extensive experience with MySQL and Oracle administration and performance tuning
• Web and Application server deployment and tuning

Education

BA in Computer Science, Grinnell College, May 2002

Skills and Languages

Computer Languages

Objective-C, Ruby, Java, Perl, C, C++, SQL, Scheme, Pascal, Javascript, PHP, CLISP, SOAP, XML, HTML, CSS

Tools and Frameworks

XCode, Ruby on Rails, J2ME Polish, SWT/JFace, Hibernate, Struts 1 and 2, Spring IoC Framework, Webwork, Spring MVC, Axis, Xerces, Ant, JUnit, Eclipse, Netbeans, Visual Studio

Computer Applications

Git, Subversion, CVS, Apache, Mongrel, nginx, MySQL, Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere, Oracle 9i and 10g, Derby, PostgreSQL, Postfix, Courier and Cyrus IMAP, DHCP and DNS servers

Employment Timeline

Senior Software Engineer, uLocate Communications

Boston MA, March 2009 - Present

Independent Software Developer

Durham NC, November 2007 - March 2009

Senior Software Engineer, Confidant Inc.

Durham NC, February 2007 - November 2007

Software Developer II, Health Decisions Inc.

Chapel Hill NC, June 2004 - February 2007

Software Developer, Providence Software Solutions Inc.

Cary NC, July 2002 - May 2004

Programmer / Systems Administrator, Grinnell College ITS

Grinnell IA, August 2001-May 2002

Research Assistant, Grinnell College Department of Computer Science

Grinnell IA, April 2000-August 2001