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John Waiveris
Resume - October 2009
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john@invisiblegold.com


I am a senior level programmer with 15 years of professional experience primarily in developing websites, internet applications, and distance learning software. Early in 2001 I started Invisible Gold, LLC which sells an easy to use content management system used by 250+ companies.

Skills
Programming (web)HTML, Javascript, ASP, SQL, XML, HTTP, FTP, Windows 2000/2003 Hosting
Programming (high level)C/C++, MFC, Visual Basic, Java
Programming (low level)Assembler (x86, RS2000, Sparc, 8051), Parallel Programming
Programming (multimedia)Toolbook, Authorware, Director, Icon Author, Quest, Flash
HardwarePC and Embedded, Green and Renewable Energy
ManagementProject Management, Team Management, Teaching
PhotographyAnalog/Digital, Software for Showing and Selling.
2D/3D GraphicsPhotoshop, 3d Studio
Audio, Video, and AnimationMusician, Recording, Editing
Education TechnologyDistance Learning, Internet, LMS, Multimedia


Experience
2001-CurrentInvisible Gold - Started a company that creates and hosts easy to use websites and an innovative product that allows people to manage them. Client sites ranged in size from simple brochure sites to large ecommerce sites with hundreds of thousands of dollars of online sales. All run on the same proprietary CMS. (www.invisiblegold.com)
2006EPA Green Energy Leadership Club - Selected as one of 420 businesses nationwide because we run on 100% renewable wind power.
2006SBA Connecticut "Home Based Small Business Champion of the Year" Award - Selected because a large number of our clients are home based businesses and roughly 10% of our work is donated to good causes.
2004Innovation Prize - Silver Medal - Connecticut Quality Improvement Innovation Prize for our innovative content management system.
2003-2006Performance Optimization - Custom analysis tools, inline low-level code, and intelligent caching has increased server capacity by 100x.
2001-CurrentInvisible Gold - Created a custom XML based website management system used by several hosting companies. Features include: email newsletters, shopping cart, group tools.
1994-2001Mentergy - Industry leading synchronous distance learning software. I was hired as an intern software developer by a 1 month old startup (ILINC). My skills grew as company developed. After 6 years we were part of an international corporation and I was managing a development team in a sister office.
2000Portico - Managed team to develop next generation Learning Management and Integration product.
1998Aetna Pathware->LearnLinc Integration - Enterprise scale elearning system using LearnLinc and Pathware. Used by 18,000+ employees.
1996Keynote - Macromedia Users Conference - Onstage with Andy Grove (president of Intel) for keynote of 1996 Macromedia User Conference to demonstrate code that I personally wrote.
1995-2000LearnLinc Workshop - Designed and delivered monthly 2 day course on distance learning. Students covered all steps to deliver short class. Hundreds trained over 5 years.
1994-2001LearnLinc - Key member of software development team writing C and C++ on a wide variety of projects. Our primary application was the first to implement many aspects of networking, video conferencing, synchronous applications.
1993-CurrentPersonal/Freelance - Side projects often for little or no money.
2004-CurrentIFS 2.0 - Interactive fractal rendering application used by 20 or more classes of students and featured in math journals.
1998-2005GPS - Wrote tools for analyzing race car dynamics (and later lawn mowing techniques) using low level C, assembler, and four generations of GPS hardware.
1994Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge Tour - Psychedelic fractal animations used onstage during tour. Rendered on 2 incredibly fast (at that time) SGI Onyx workstations.
1994The Hedonist - Opening credit animation for extreme skiing movie.
1993Soul Sessions and Epic Impressions - Animation for first extreme skiing video by Steve Winter and Murray Weis.
1992-1995Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - BS in Computer Science with high honors in 3 years, expenses partially covered through scholarships.
1993Life - Conway's Game of Life with MS Windows style UI built in x86 Assembler
1993Tempest - Undergrad Research Job to port C++ code from 256 processor Maspar 256 to 16 processor IBM SP1.
1990-1993Image-Net Systems - Video production company in my hometown. I set up their computers and they let me use their hardware after hours.
1988-1992Wamogo Regional High School - Valedictorian