Contact Information

Name: Justin McCormick
Location: Carbondale, Illinois
Email: mccormick.justinlee (at) gmail.com
Github: http://github.com/justinm

Experience

BlackBoard
October 2011 – Present
Software Engineer
Continuing maintenance and small enhancements in SchoolCenter software.
Adding enhancements to Edline software.
 
Gizmo.com
April 2011 – Present
Backend Software Engineer
Responsible for systems design and implementation of features. Utilized PHP, MongoDB, Memcached, and RabbitMQ on Amazon AWS and Rackspace Cloud to build a scalable system. Designed data schema and overall application architecture.
 
Edline
May 2011 – October 2011
Software Engineer
Continued maintenance and small enhancements in SchoolCenter software.
Added enhancements to Edline software.
 
SchoolCenter
September 2006 – May 2011
Programmer Level 2 2006-2007
Software Engineer 2007-2011
Implemented features to be used by thousands of K-12 schools nationwide.
Improved development processes to ensure deliverability.
Migrated existing code from PHP4 to PHP5.
Administered Subversion repositories and served as branch manager.
Integrated third-party software to supplement existing functionaility.
Aided in administration of Gentoo and Ubuntu Server installations.
Implemented process queue for offline data processing.

Education

Southern Illinois University
2005 – 2006
Department of Computer Science

Skills

Seven years of professional and freelance web development experience.
Six years of javascript experience.
Five years of professional LAMP experience.
Five years experience in Linux systems and command line tools.
Five years experience in version control systems, including CVS and Subversion.
Two years experience in Python.

Technologies

Languages:
Javascript, PHP, Python
Frameworks:
Django, Celery, Codeigniter, Bootstrap, jQuery, Prototype
Applications:
Memcache, RabbitMQ, MySQL, MongoDB, TinyMCE, MediaWiki
Email:
Zimbra, Axigen, Sendmail, and Postfix
Virtualization:
VMWare ESX-I, VMWare Workstation, Virtual Box
Cloud:
AWS S3, AWS EC2, AWS CloudFront, Rackspace Cloud

References

Available upon request

Accomplishments

Created a session management system for clustered systems
Contributed to Facebook’s Python API on Github
Used Celery, Django, and RabbitMQ to create a scalable backend processing system
Created several Django based sites while freelancing
Created build system for releasing code on testing and production systems
Migrated existing CVS repositories to Subversion
Created full page caching to increase page response times
Designed and implemented testing architecture using virtualization
Integration with the Zimbra Collaboration Suite SOAP API and Python
Integration and implementation of the Axigen Mail Server