Stanley E. Kurdziel

Summary:

Creative, persistent, goal-oriented Software Engineer with over 4 years experience in the Software Development and Wireless industries. Principal strengths include product conceptualization, object-oriented design, and problem solving. Exceptional industry knowledge, trouble-shooting, and communication skills with expertise in:

• Java (including J2SE, J2EE, J2ME, JDBC), C/C++
• Object Oriented Design, UML, Requirements management
• Web Development: HTML, JSP, XML, Cold Fusion
• BEA Weblogic, Jakarta Tomcat, Apache
• Databases (Oracle, SQL server, MySQL)

• Unit Testing - JUnit
• Wireless Web: HDML, WML, WAP
• Configuration management
• Concurrent Versioning System (CVS)
• UNIX: Solaris, GNU/Linux, Irix, FreeBSD

Experience:

• Initiated development on a Mobile Instant Messaging product, researched necessary technologies, and created development plan. Along with team of developers, implemented a fully functional and scalable system, providing corporate office with basis for market evaluation. Server technologies: JSP, Jabber/XML, JDBC, Oracle.
  Clients: WAP/WML, J2ME, BREW(C code), HTML embedded Applet
• Co-developed a VoiceXML controlled Voice Response System, including technical design, requirements management, and Macromedia Cold Fusion coding with a MS SQL Server backend. The end result was that customers could change their preferences by talking to the system through their cell phone, resulting in a 90% per minute cost savings to the company.
• Designed and implemented a comprehensive set of procedures to upgrade the BEA Weblogic application server while avoiding any downtime on the production site. Utilized efficient communication to ensure that the more than ten developers running development servers on their Solaris workstations were able to continue development without interruption.
• Provided engineering design, implementation, testing and support to a remote web application team working on a large HTML=based content delivery management and reporting system powered by Macromedia Cold Fusion. Improved the development process, met aggressive production deadlines, and enhanced product functionality for internal/external users including advertisers, content managers, business analysts, and Cricket subscribers.

• Wrote Java code, servlets, and JSP pages for a wireless portal application. Gained experience in the requirement gathering process, worked with the Oracle database team, and project management. Followed code through the release process, communicated with QA, fixed any bugs, and migrated code to the production servers.
• Took initiative to improve the deployment process by developing a set of secure deployment processes for our J2EE application server. This led to a fully automated, interactive perl script that turned what had been an intensive, manual, error-prone process into a quick, predictable, traceable command easily run by any member of the team.
• Managed all aspects of our usage of source control. Developed procedures used for accessing the CVS system that allowed developers to code independently of each other, retrieve any version of the codebase at any time, and maintain independent branches of development for the production service and next version. Helped developers to troubleshoot any related problems.
• Member of a team that designed and implemented a Wireless Music Demo which demonstrated the convergence of cell phones and music listening/purchasing devices. During the course of being shown to all five major labels, I assumed full responsibility for the demo: adding enhancements, fixing bugs, and developing new features as needed. Enthusiastic responses from the labels convinced the business team to pursue spinning our division out as a separate company.

• Decreased call turnaround times and increased customer satisfaction through efficient support and implementation of processes such as generating a number of canned responses which could be sent out by the first line support reps to answer over 25% of the initial requests.
• Tested pre-release code, communicating suggestions and bug fixes to the developers. Also elicited suggestions from customers on released products. Together these helped create more reliable software and increase repeat customers.

Education:

• Extreme Programming Explained - Kent Beck
• Design Patterns - Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
• The Cluetrain Manifesto - Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, David Weinberger