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William D. Doughty

7427 Dee Gabriel Collins Rd

Austin, TX 78744

(512) 585-3600

bdoughty@yahoo.com

SUMMARY

I am a software architect, designer and developer. I have 14+ years experience in computer technology working for organizations ranging from a multinational corporation to small startups. In addition to working at all levels of software development, I have played essential roles in sales, customer support, management and staffing. My work ethic is simple: exceed expectations. I have been recognized for excellence in every organization I have worked with.

EXPERIENCE

Easybooks – ROR Open Source Project (Austin, TX) Author 8/2008-Present

Description: Designed and coded personal finances tracker.

See: http://www.opensourcerails.com/projects/29906-EasyBooks

Technologies and tools used:

• Ruby on Rails 2.1.1

• PostgreSQL

• GIT / Github (source control)

Synchromesh Computing (Austin, TX) Contractor 6/2008-8/2008

Job Description: Design and coding of web-based, multimedia, e-commerce system using PHP, Apache and MySQL.

Technologies and tools used:

• PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery

• Apache Web Server, MySQL Database

• NuSphere's PhpEd (PHP IDE and Debugger)

• SVN (source control)

Responsibilities and accomplishments:

• Customized open source PHPBMS product to meet client's customer's specifications.

• Designed and implemented e-commerce application to customer's specifications.

  • Application involved multiple user roles, user authentication, image manipulation, shopping cart, credit card processing, and transaction accounting.

  • Application was the end-user visible component of an integrated business system involving multiple other proprietary and 3^rd party components.

• Worked directly with client's customer to define requirements and verify functionality.

• Worked with other developers to define inter-component communications, database schemas, and integration test plans.

Self Employed (Austin, TX) Professional Drummer / Recording Engineer 2003-Present

• Toured with Chris Casello, Jenifer Jackson, and Dickie Lee Erwin

• Featured on numerous recordings by artists including Dickie Lee Erwin, Gary Newcomb, The Breathers, The Lonesome Heroes, Trey Brown, and Jenifer Jackson.

• Own and operate and a small recording studio in southeast Austin.

Geobot, Inc. (Memphis, TN) Founder, Chief Architect, Engineering Manager 1/1999-6/2002

Job Description: Chief Architect, Lead Developer. Manager of development, test, and product support teams. Sales engineer.

Technologies and tools used:

• Java, JDBC, RMI, AWT, Swing, JBuilder

• Oracle 8i, MySQL, Solaris, Linux, VMWare

• XML, HTML, Apache, Tomcat

• Ant (build), CVS, Bugzilla, JUnit, UML and XP methodologies.

Responsibilities and accomplishments:

• Created the architecture for Geobot’s core product, the Geoswitch, an Object-Oriented modular software switch designed to enable rapid development of robust, distributed applications involving multiple heterogeneous computer systems. The Geoswitch is a 100% Java software switch developed to telecommunications and financial systems reliability and performance standards.

  • Designed and coded proprietary messaging kernel in Java to meet performance and scalability requirements

  • Designed and coded proprietary thread scheduler, overriding the JVM's default scheduler.

    Key Benefits:

    • Improved responsiveness and message throughput.

    • Provided independent control and throttling of CPU usage for individual messaging channels

  • Designed and implemented a modular plug-in architecture to allow application modules or “agents” to be loaded, configured, and unloaded from the switch at runtime without service interruption.

    • Developed stock agents for routing, translation, logging, and SQL database access.

    • Developed base classes to allow easy extension and 3^rd party development of agents.

  • Designed and coded fault-tolerant, distributed clustering architecture to enable scaling of switch across multiple physical processors and networked nodes.

    Key Benefits:

    • Multi-node configuration capable of recovering from individual node failures.

    • Switch processing capacity easily increased by adding additional processors or nodes to the network.

• Hired and managed an eleven person engineering group consisting of a software development team, a test team, a documentation specialist, and an IT support person.

• Worked with executive management and board of directors to refine company and product direction.

• Supported sales operations through technical presentations and pre-sales trial support. Presented company technology to potential investors and customers.

• Successfully delivered release 1.0 of the Geoswitch product to first customer. The customer is currently utilizing the product to manage real-time financial transactions in over 15 banks across North America.

• One of four original founders; company funded by angel investor.

• Designed, implemented, and administered company network and IT infrastructure to enable startup company operations.

  Company merged with Metatomix, Inc. (www.metatomix.com) 6/2002

Celcore, Inc. (Memphis, TN) Senior Software Developer, Systems Architect 8/1996-12/1998

Job Description: Design and coding of Celcore's flagship product, GlobalSwitch II.

Technologies and tools used:

• C, C++, ObjecTime

• QNX Realtime OS, Linux, Solaris

• PVCS (source control), bash (build automation)

Responsibilities and accomplishments:

• Product Support prime for Celcore's flagship product, GlobalSwitch II. Responsible for resolving escalated critical customer support issues with the system.

• Responsible for designing, producing, and evolving the GlobalSwitch II software system.

• Designed and implemented critical system monitor process for Celcore’s GlobalSwitch II using C and C++.

• Designed and implemented SS7 connectivity subsystem, a market critical feature for Release 2.0 of the GlobalSwitch II.

  • Integrated 3rd-party signaling hardware and abstracted hardware I/O messaging into a procedural API for the application layer.

• Proposed and implemented automated build process, saving dozens of man hours per month. Recognized with Outstanding Achievement award.

• Selected by upper management to present GlobalSwitch II Release 3.0 to MTN, a leading cellular service provider in South Africa.

  • Traveled to Johannesburg to give technical presentations to MTN management.

  • Lead a team of MTN engineers in functional verification of the system.

  Celcore acquired by DSC, Inc. late 1997. DSC, Inc. acquired by Alcatel, Inc. late 1998.

Nortel Wireless Technologies, Inc. (Richardson, TX)

Member of Scientific Staff - GSM development 6/1994-8/1996

Job Description: Design and coding of features for Nortel's GSM cellular switch.

Responsibilities and accomplishments:

• Designed and coded call-processing features on Nortel's GSM switch, a massive real-time data switch capable of processing hundreds of thousands of calls simultaneously.

• Assigned as Project Leader for Local Number Portability feature, Nortel GSM’s most critical deliverable feature for release GSM08.

• Received Technical Award for creating a Document Search Engine allowing thousands of Nortel GSM’s in-house documents to be searched for key words in seconds. The search engine quickly became recognized company-wide for its speed and completeness in searching and was ultimately marketed and sold to other Nortel departments by Nortel GSM, generating additional R&D revenue for the GSM division. The project was done outside of normal business hours and without any solicitation or involvement from management.

• Assigned to critical but failing Echo Canceler project midway through GSM release development cycle.

  • Resolved technical issues.

  • Redesigned problematic areas.

  • Finished coding and completed feature to meet deadlines.

EDUCATION

The University of Texas at Austin

• B.S. Computer Science awarded May 1994.

• Relevant Courses: Software Engineering, Database Management, Networks, Assembly Programming, Operating Systems, Systems Architecture, Computer Languages, Automata Theory, Scientific Computing, Computer Graphics

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Java, C, C++, x86 Assembly

• PHP, Ruby, Javascript

• HTML, XML, CSS

• XML schema and XML translation development

• MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, JDBC

• CORBA, RMI, SOAP, WSDL

• Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris, QNX (Embedded x86), Windows

• UNIX System Administration (Linux 12+yrs, Solaris)

• CVS administration

• TCP/IP network design/configuration

• XP / Extreme Programming process for software development

• UML and Rational Unified Process for software development

HONORS

• Dean's List - University of Texas at Austin.

• Excellence Award at Nortel for outstanding technical achievement.

• Outstanding Achievement award at Celcore for critical problem solving and internal process optimization.

• Peer To Peer Award at Geobot for leadership and commitment.

• U.S. Patent H1,964

• U.S. Patent H1,898

REFERENCES

Available on request.

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