Theodore Weatherly, III (512) 415-8929 · tweather@alum.mit.edu · www.tedweatherly.com Objective      Seeking employment position designing and developing Adobe Flash user interfaces. Summary      Well-educated software engineer with 9+ years of industry experience. Senior knowledge of developing web sites and web applications on multiple levels, from designing web graphics and layouts, to programming Flash/Servlet/CGI functionality, to constructing and updating database tables. Proficient in a wide range of web development languages and design technologies. Passionate about creating user interfaces that are simple, attractive, usable, and highly effective. Skills      Programming Languages/Concepts: Actionscript, Java, Servlets, Perl, AJAX, DOM, C, JavaMail Web Languages: HTML, PHP, JSP, ASP, XML, XSL/XSLT/XPATH, Javascript, DHTML, CSS Graphics/Animation: Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Director, FLV, MC Tween Web Frameworks: Java Server Faces (JSF), Jakarta Turbine, Jakarta Velocity Database Technologies: MySQL, JDBC, JNDI, PL/SQL, phpMyAdmin, MS Access, OpenLDAP Web Servers: Jakarta Tomcat, Apache, Resin, Netscape Enterprise Server Editors/IDEs: Flash CS3, SEPY Actionscript Editor, Emacs, Eclipse, NetBeans, Dreamweaver Version Control: Subversion, CVS, Perforce, Visual Source Safe, RCS Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD Experience      Motive, User Interface Consultant 11/2007 – Present Contract employee within Professional Services fulfilling the roles of senior web developer, graphic artist, and usability specialist for a number of Internet service related software projects. Accomplishments: Designed animations that illustrated the various end-user actions during Internet setup (e.g. installing filters, connecting modem wires, verifying modem lights). This process often involved several steps: Photographing the filter or modem from the appropriate angles using a digital camera. Importing these images into Photoshop and tracing/shading the edges to create a clean digital replica. Importing this replica into the Flash IDE and drawing any other needed objects (e.g. wires, plugs). Positioning these items on the Stage and creating tweens to provide the necessary animation. Importing audio files (if any) and synchronizing the animation to match the commentary. Constructed HTML and Flash mockups used to guide the development of new applications. Several of these mockups also served to attract and acquire new sales opportunities. Organized and conducted onsite usability tests of Speedy Technical Assistant, an Internet troubleshooting application developed by Telefónica Brazil. Analyzed user feedback from these tests and wrote a usability assessment report that was instrumental in procuring a new Motive sales contract with the Brazilian phone company. Investigated and fixed Flash/Actionscript bugs in HomeView, a network management tool for AT&T. Digital Brewing Company, Senior Web Developer 03/2006 – 11/2007 Development lead for a variety of Flash and PHP/MySQL web development projects. Accomplishments: Built an assortment of Flash modules, pages, and web sites for numerous clients based on mockups designed by our internal art team. This process often involved a series of steps: Extracting mockup graphics from layered Photoshop files and importing them into the Flash IDE. Converting the imported assets into MovieClip objects and arranging them on the Stage. Writing object-oriented Actionscript logic to attach, position, modify and animate the various objects, often in response to keyboard and mouse events by the end-user. Composing music and sequencing sounds to enhance Flash interactivity. Constructing MySQL database tables to store dynamic data within the animations. Developing PHP code to query the database and output the dynamic data as XML. Extending the Actionscript logic to retrieve this dynamic XML data, parse it, and display it within the Flash content. Developed several web-based content management applications in PHP/MySQL, making it easy for customers to update the dynamic content shown on their web site. Formulated creative, effective concepts for project deliverables to satisfy broad client demands and tight time/budget constraints. Managed and supported junior team members to guarantee on-time completion of project deliverables. Configured, installed, and maintained Subversion as our internal revision control system to ensure efficient organization and central storage of development code within the company. Sendmail, Inc., Software Engineer 06/2003 - 02/2006 Lead user interface developer for Message Organizer (MO) and sole user interface designer for Sendmail Sentrion™, two enterprise-level mail management and delivery products for Unix. Accomplishments: Designed and implemented XML display templates which, when combined with various XSL stylesheets, produced Jakarta Velocity templates used to render HTML pages. Developed front-end Java Servlet code to handle web form submissions. Maintained Java JNDI logic used to authenticate users and retrieve data from an LDAP server. Wrote automated JUnit tests to simulate web-user interaction and validate application functionality. Used JavaMail to provide webmail functionality by reading and displaying IMAP mail messages. Conducted company-wide demonstrations to highlight new product features. Communicated with product management and engineering departments to clarify the marketing requirements for Sentrion™. Designed all 100+ web pages for Sentrion™ based on the finalized list of marketing requirements. Assisted in the development JSF pages for Sentrion™. CoroSoft, Inc., User Interface Engineer 12/2002 - 06/2003 Contributed to the development and marketing of CoroSoft Director™ and CoroSoft Traffic Manager™, two datacenter automation software products for Linux. Co-owner of the web interface components for these products. Accomplishments: Provided immediate help to develop and test the initial version of CoroSoft Director™. Designed new web pages for querying, submitting, and displaying datacenter automation data. Revised navigation, layout, and presentation of existing web pages to improve aesthetics and usability. Wrote Perl scripts to process CGI requests and output web page data. Outlined and produced Flash-animated demos to showcase key features of CoroSoft Director™. Designed corporate and product banner images using Adobe Photoshop. NexTag, Inc., Web Application Developer 07/2002 - 11/2002 Primary owner of all front-end and user-interface related issues for Nextag.com. Accomplishments: Designed a variety of dynamic ad prototypes to attract traffic to our site. Converted these dynamic ad designs from Photoshop images to HTML and, ultimately, to JSP. Drafted user interface specs, along with HTML mockups, for new features added our site. Wrote and maintained HTML/Java code in JSP files to implement necessary changes to the NexTag site. Constructed database tables and SQL queries to store and retrieve user feedback data. Organized and administered usability sessions with sample users to collect feedback on our site. Interpreted user feedback and log analysis reports to identify usability problems with our site and formulate solutions to these problems. Slam Dunk Networks, Web Developer 09/2000 - 07/2002 Sole owner of the front-end component of the Slam Dunk Networks portal. Accomplishments: Designed and developed XSL-based web pages to manage network and account information. Conducted user interviews and redesigned web pages based on user feedback and usability guidelines. Restructured code and improved GUI layout for the Unwrap Tool, a Java Swing application. Education      Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 08/1999 - 08/2000 Masters of Engineering degree received in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Master's thesis entitled “A Web-Based Usability Tool for Assessment of Small-Screen GUIs”. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 08/1995 - 08/1999 Bachelor of Science degree received in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Hobbies      Softball, kickball, basketball, running, movies, reading, travelling, listening to music. Through hard work and diligence built a profitable entertainment/promotion/DJ’ing business in San Francisco. References      Available upon request.