Thomas Powell

Email: [ twilliampowell AT gmail DOT com ]

Objective	To broaden my skill set and gain in-depth knowledge in my current areas of experience, and to have some fun solving near impossible problems. To become an integral part of strengthening the communication bonds between development and its customers.
Experience	1999-Present Pizza Hut Development Louisville, KY Applications Systems Analyst § Coding of JNI bridge between static libraries and experimental user interface built in NetBeans 5.5. § Developed business and functional requirements with input from the Pizza Hut operations team. § Coded user interfaces for console-based point-of-sale system. § Specified data requirements for reporting. § Received Java applet code base from departing developer and worked with a web developer to solidify the code and package for release to field. § Technical design lead on projects for the last 3 years. § Programming and technology research resource.
	1999 StationPoint Louisville, KY Web Developer § Web developer for internet start-up, functioned in somewhat of a businesss analyst role.
	1996-1999 KFC Development Louisville, KY Co-op and Application Developer § Coded Data Extract Utility in Visual Basic for PH Data Management team. § Programming of OS/2 16-bit interfaces for MERIT. § Translated QuickBasic utility to C. § Wrote Data Adminstration reporting tools for MERIT in C/Visual C++.
Education	2000-2003 University of Louisville Louisville, KY § Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering and Computer Science. § Graduated with Honors, 3.32 GPA 1994-2000 University of Louisville Louisville, KY § Bachelor of Computer Science in Engineering Mathematics and Computer Science. § Graduated with 3.24 GPA
Skills	Programming Languages - ANSI C – 10 years - Java – 2 years (1.1.8, 1.3.1, Java 5 Tiger) - C++ and Visual C++ - 2 years - Unix (SCO) sh/ksh – 4 years - Linux/OSS graphics development library research. - awk/sed/php/ruby/perl – 1 year - ASP/JavaScript/iHTML - Assembly for low-level debugging Operating Systems - Windows - Linux (primarily Debian/SuSE) – mostly user level scripting and programming, some configuration/adminstrative script editing, both as hobbyist and developer. - SCO Unix – c/Curses programming. Other - Apache setup on Windows with name-based hosts and php module. - Basic MySQL setup. - Rational Clearquest. - Microsoft Office and OpenOffice suites - gvim 7.0 - Borland Caliber RM/DefineIt