Paul A. Jungwirth

• Listen to the customer, clarify their wishes, and discover hidden requirements.
• Lead software teams (so far, up to 4 other developers).
• Coordinate IT, creative staff, programmers, and management across multiple companies.
• Write clear specifications and proposals, whether brief (1 page) or elaborate (200 pages).
• Accurately estimate projects (so far, up to $250,000 over 3 months for 3 developers).
• Juggle competing priorities.
• Work productively with little supervision.
• Manage customer expectations.
• Argue a point and concede cheerfully if a team chooses something else.
• Design intuitive user interfaces.
• Design a normalized and efficient database schema.
• Design stable class interfaces to ease team-based software development.
• Judge when to build for tomorrow and when to build for now, when to abstract and when to code the thing itself.
• Track down difficult bugs with patience and not superstition.
• Package software so it is easy to install.
• Document and test my code.
• Choose an appropriate technology/platform for a given problem.
• Find existing libraries to avoid Not Invented Here syndrome.
• Evaluate and choose from among different vendors.

Open Source Contributor

• Authored: Launch4j Maven Plugin, SimpleHitCounter Wordpress Plugin, ByeGmail Firefox Plugin.
• Bug reports or fixes: Jurabib, XDoclet, Maven, Zillow.
• StackOverflow contributor with reputation of 354, as of 24 April 2010.

Founder

• Built, expanded, and maintained e-commerce web applications, mostly while in grad school.
• Currently working on a consumer-level C# desktop application.

Software Engineer

• Tech lead on several websites; programmed for up to a dozen at once.
• Responsible for everything from requirements gathering to design to implementation to launch to support.
• Wrote proposals which were usually accepted by the customer, winning more revenue.
• Negotiated with IT to achieve project goals.
• Developed and maintained several sites with credit card numbers and other sensitive data.
• Consistently upgraded sites without downtime.
• Championed move from EJB and Struts to simpler frameworks like JDO, Spring, and Tapestry.
• Used traditional methodologies, Extreme Programming, and not-so-extreme programming.
• Championed and helped implement a continuous build/test cycle.
• Debugged distributed and multi-threaded applications, including finding bottlenecks and deadlocks.
• Conducted accurate load tests.

Technical Services Engineer

• Implemented custom solutions related to a distributed content management application, including business system integration; output to HTML, XML, and print (QuarkXPress); and inventory/pricing integration.
• Developed an object-oriented API for our Services team to access the content management database ( 100 tables).
• Initiated a shared code repository for general utilities.
• Visited customers for requirements gathering, installation, training, and performance tuning.
• Solved customer issues.
• Contributed bugfixes to core application code.
• Helped hire and excellent employee.

Technical Editor

• Hired ostensibly as a technical editor, assigned to data entry for large hardware catalogs.
• Facilitated my work by writing Perl scripts.
• Saved hundreds of hours of proofreading and corrections by fixing a QuarkXPress utility.
• Debugged a QuarkXPress utility saving hundreds of hours of proofreading and corrections.

Ph.D. in Classical Studies

• Robert A. Fox Presidential Prize Fellow.

Greek, Latin, Distributed Computing, other topics

B.A. in English Literature

• Tested out of Intro to Programming.
• Took Data Structures & Algorithms, Programming Languages, Machine Organization.
• Minored in mathematics.
• National Merit Scholar.
• Magna cum laude.
• Phi Beta Kappa.

Other

• Eagle Scout.
• California Boys' State.
• High School & College Speech & Debate.
• GRE: 800 verbal, 790 math, 5.5 writing, taken October 2007.