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Anthony Bull

San Francisco, CA
info [at] anthonybull [dot] com
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objective Seeking a senior software engineer role in San Francisco as part of a team of experienced and entrepreneurial web developers whose talent, tools, and processes deliver a great customer experience. Preference is for RoR stack (under Linux) in a Mac-centric environment.
experience

Technical Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (11/09 to Current)

  • Contributing to the most important RIA in the display advertising industry.

Technical Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (05/07 to 11/09)

  • Added RIA functionality to an enterprise monitoring-as-a-service replacement for Nagios.
  • Built and maintained web tools for a Nagios-based experience management solution checking 10,000+ URLs worldwide daily & generating 63M measurements per month.
  • Jumped in two weeks before release date, took ownership, and still delivered a web-based, executives' dashboard solution for experience monitoring without the benefits of system documentation or tests.

Software Engineer, Int'l Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, AUT (09/05 to 02/07)

  • Led an award-winning development team of three developers for a custom, web-based Enterprise Project Management solution used by 3,500+ users at an average of 166K hits and 2,600 unique visits per month.
  • Delivered a Java-based document management system for managing 50 years of PDFs on-time after assuming project leadership when the Project Manager fell ill.

Software Engineer, Int'l Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, AUT (09/03 to 08/05)

  • Led requirements gathering and implemented modular components for the authoritative web resource on scientific and technical nuclear information.
  • Worked with multi-lingual users to implement v2.0 of a translation workflow application.
  • Implemented a web-based, SQL Server-driven data warehousing solution for sales reporting using OLAP technology.

Co-op Intern, Cisco, RTP, NC, USA (01/03 to 05/03)

  • Improved departmental efficiency through the creation of sysadmin tools.

Graduate Assistant, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA (10/01 to 08/02)

  • Created tools for managing the most comprehensive digital library on culture of the American south.
  • Improved the document management process for a knowledge management system.

Intern, Siemens, Vienna, AUT (02/01 to 03/01)

  • Delivered software for reducing the time needed for Key Account Management by 65%.
education

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (08/01 to 05/03)

  • MS in Information Science under Dr. Gary Marchionini

Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria (09/00 to 05/01)

  • Coursework in Computer Science

Hope College, Holland, MI (09/94 to 12/98)

  • BA in Mathematics & Music (GPA: 3.68, Magna Cum Laude)

Institute for the International Education of Students, Vienna, Austria (Spring/98)

  • Study abroad

Budapest Semester in Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary (Fall/97)

  • Study abroad
honors
Recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize while working for the IAEA in 2005