Jason Baker
Austin, Texas

OBJECTIVE:

Jason seeks software development opportunities in the Austin area where he can apply and expand his current software design and development skill set.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Jason is a software developer in his mid twenties. He has professional experience working on development teams designing and developing internal and consumer-facing web applications and infrastructure. He has been exposed to the entire software development process, including inception phase work such as requirements gathering, and design documentation. Jason also has experience in typical software application development, web design, and scripting languages such as Bash and PHP.

EXPERIENCE:

PayPal - March 2007 to Present Software Developer. (Austin, Texas)

Implemented custom junit taskdef for Apache Ant and enhanced Ant's existing JUnit report output for an internal test automation framework.
Currently assisting in design and implementation of optimized site-wide front-end framework.

Visa - Jan 2005 to March 2007 Software Developer. (Austin, Texas)

Gathered Requirements, assisted in design, documented, and developed portions of the Visa Prepaid Inventory Control Web Application (ASP.NET).
Assisted in user interface design and development duties for several iterations of Visa Prepaid Consumer Gift, Reloadable, and Teen Web Applications (ASP.NET).
Assisted in server-side services and data access design and development duties for internal call-center application. (Java/Hibernate/Spring/SQL).
Received employee of the quarter award.
Received Visa Star recognition award for outstanding work done w/ QA team during Prepaid Consumer projects.
Promoted twice in two years.

Farmers Insurance District Office - June 2003 to Dec 2004. I.T. Guy. (Arlington, Texas)

Developed informational website (http://www.dfwcareercenter.com/).
Developed internal-use Access Database application using VBA Forms and SQL.
Performed routine maintenance and troubleshooting tasks on office network, exchange server, and computers.

DEVELOPMENT SKILLS:

Java, Hibernate, Spring, JSP, PHP, Bash, C++, C#, ASP.NET, XHTML, CSS, Javascript

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

World's Worst Software (http://www.worldsworstsoftware.com) features Jason's personal open-source software projects and scripts.
Jason also occasionally dabbles in web design, selected masterpieces include http://www.onejasonforsale.com, http://www.anesotericvision.com, and the World's Worst Software website.