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Avi Finkel
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avi@finkel.org
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12345 Lake City Way NE
#257
Seattle, WA 98125
http://www.finkel.org/avi/
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Work Experience
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October 2010 -
Present
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Senior Software Engineer
Brightcove, Inc, Seattle WA
- Maintained and improved a system for migrating large amounts of video assets between CDNs.
- Designed, implemented and deployed a content distribution system:
- Used to upload video content to external sources, such as YouTube
- Handled millions of change notifications per day, updating remote resources as appropriate.
- Designed modularly in order to easily add new external distribution targets.
- Member of operations team overseeing a globally-accessed website and web service, maintaining high availability.
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August 2008 -
August 2010
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Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft, Redmond WA
- Developed and assisted in design of Search feature for the new version of the Office Online website.
- Maintained search indices for test data and developed test data generation code.
- Developed a high-traffic Clipart Search web service for use by Office applications.
- Designed and implemented a commercial-scale content upload and verification system for use by XBox game developers.
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August 2005 -
July 2008
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Software Development Engineer
Amazon.com, Seattle WA
- Refactored a high traffic system to be backed by a secondary denormalized store in addition to a higher latency transactional database.
- Developed unit tests to assist in refactoring of this system.
- Developed a multi-threaded application to migrate data from a single monolithic database to multiple partitioned data stores.
- Gathered requirements for, designed and implemented a highly availabled and high traffic centralized RBAC system.
- Developed a system for regular performance reports of many prominent website features.
- Designed and implemented a dynamic landing-page optimization system for the Amazon catalog.
- Improved development tools to allow for pre-release syntax checking of perl source, and fixed many of the bugs uncovered by this system.
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January 2004 -
July 2005
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Senior Software Engineer
Vocollect, Inc., Pittsburgh PA
- Developed management software to manage large installations of headless voice-managed wearable computers, using WebSphere, Informix and J2EE methedologies.
- Developed software to provide Vocollect's speech recognition and workflow software on third-party handheld devices using C++.
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September 2002 -
December 2003
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Software Engineer
CombineNet, Pittsburgh PA
- Used apache, mod_perl and MySQL to develop large-scale reverse auction and optimization systems.
- Developed a generic optimization scenario management interface and bid taking interface.
- Developed a database abstraction system supporting database clustering, fault-tolerance and object-reational mapping.
- Re-architected and re-implemented the security, user management and navigation system framework for project development.
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May 2002 -
August 2002
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Contract Programmer
eFlatbed.com, Pittsburgh PA
- Developed truckload-tracking application using Java servlets and JSP under BEA Weblogic server.
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August 2000 -
May 2002
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Software Engineer
WhizBang! Labs, Pittsburgh PA
- Developed machine learning tools, such as information extraction engines and site classifiers.
- Designed and implemented a system of generic database access classes (ORM) in Java.
- Implemented a system for interoperability between Java, database, and XML representations of data.
- Implemented a Java Servlet and JSP front-end for pilot phase of WBL's ChangeDetector service.
- Designed an Oracle database schema for backing arbitrarily large beowulf clusters.
- Designed a distributed Java framework to drive the aforementioned clusters.
- Developed install procedures for deploying WBL software at client sites.
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March 2000 -
July 2000
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Contract Developer
eFlatbed.com, Pittsburgh PA
- Used Java Servlets to develop a large scale eCommerce website.
- Designed a complex data model, implemented in Oracle.
- Designed and built the complete administrative interface.
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June 1999 -
February 2000
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Programmer Analyst
Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh PA
- Developed online banking system in a Java servlet environment:
- Used JDBC to communicate with complex Oracle database.
- Used MQ to communicate with legacy mainfrace applications.
- Streamlined the entire application's exception handling system.
- Assisted in development of a robust document delivery system.
- Developed modular log parsing and hit reporting software:
- Delivered large-scale monthly reports.
- Delivered real-time reporting of on-demand statistics.
- Simplified log reporting mechanism for use by non-technical users.
- Designed a generic, XML-based online form system using perl.
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February 1998 -
May 1999
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Production Support Analyst
Lycos Inc., Pittsburgh PA
- Modified and maintained load-testing application written in C.
- Extended load-testing system with network-based statistics gathering.
- Built report and graphing frontend to load-testing statistics backend.
- Member of small operations team, in charge of application health, systems administration and quality assurance.
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September 1994 -
January 1998
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Managerial Team Leader/Classroom Manager/Consultant
UMass/Amherst Personal Computer Classroom Operations, Amherst, MA
- Wrote programs to assist in consultant productivity and record keeping.
- Maintained computer classroom facilities consisting of more than 100 computers.
- Managed a consultant staff of over 150, and led a team of 4 other managers.
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Summer 1997
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Student Researcher
SRI International
- Conducted independent research of adsorptive properties of mesoporous crystals using computer modelling.
- Regular presentation of results to senior researchers.
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Education
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Dec. 1997
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Bachelor of Science in Physics and Astronomy
University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA
Curriculum:
- Physics: Concentration in computational physics & simulation
- Computer Science: Introductory & intermediate programming; Scientific simulation
- Astronomy: Instrumentation and observational techniques; Advanced astrophysics
- Mathematics: Calculus; Linear algebra; Differential equations; Numerical analysis
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Skills
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- Programming: Perl, Java (Incl. J2EE), C#, C, SQL, JS/AJAX (and jQuery)
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Open Source Contributions
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