Software Developer

Chris Adams

chris@cmadams.org


Please feel free to contact me for any reason!

About Me

  • I'll be graduating with a CS degree from the Raikes School of Computer Science and Management in May, 2013.

    I've worked as part of the awesome engineering at WePay where I learned to ship code every week and iterate based on constant user feedback. I've learned about project management and battling scope creep through collaborating with PMs and developers at Microsoft to ship a Windows Phone 7 app connected to one of Microsoft's ERP products. I've learned some of the lessons of trying (and failing) to create a startup when I worked at an incubator with five other students to develop planhandler.com.

    Above all else, I have and always will be constantly improving my ability to develop great software.

    Now that I'm going to be graduating, I look forward to solving interesting and challenging problems whereever I find them. My main focus is in web development.

    • Projects

  • Econoviz
  • This site was developed as a project for my Finance class. I wanted to explore data visualization, an area that I didn't know anything about but was interested in. The data processing is written in Java, the graphs were created with Gephi, and the front-end is an ASP.NET MVC3 website with heavy javascript. It's a work-in-progress, and a majority of the effort has gone into the data collection and graph creation rather than the user interface.

  • Planhandler (Video)

  • During Summer 2011 I worked with five other students at an incubator called Don't Panic Labs to develop a local events planning startup.

    Over the course of the summer I worked with:

  • Architecting a scalable backend
  • Project planning and management (Agile-ish)
  • Getting data from the DB to the client via REST
  • UI wireframing and mockups
  • Page load performance optimization
  • Front-end development
  • Single page application architecture
  • jQuery templating
  • Responsive web design
  • OAuth/Facebook integration

    • At the end of the summer we had a working product, but we'd realized the only way for a site like Planhandler to gain traction was to have concerted, grass-roots marketing from us, the founders. We made the difficult decision to stop working on Planhandler, but I learned more about developing a webapp and being in a startup than I ever could have hoped for.

    We took the site down, but here's a demo video that was shown to new users. If you'd like to see more of the site, I can host locally and show you over a screensharing session.

    Technical

    • Java
    • PHP
    • SVN, TFS, Git
    • SQL
    • Javascript
    • HTML & CSS
    • jQuery
    • Working in Unix
    • C#
    • C++
    • Android & Windows Phone 7

    Relevant Work

    Hayneedle, Inc.

    Design Studio

    Current

    Working as a student consultant of the Raikes School Design Studio team for Hayneedle. Currently NDA'd, but I can say we're developing a website using Java EE as the backend. Technologies: Java EE, HTML, CSS, JS.

    WePay

    Software Engineering Intern

    Summer 2012

    Developed a new internal admin site to replace the existing system used by the support, fraud, and other teams at WePay. Please see my recommendation on LinkedIn from Aleksey (VP-Engineering at WePay) for more detail. Technologies: PHP (using the Kohana framework), HTML, CSS, JS.

    Microsoft

    Vendor

    Sept. 2011 - May 2012

    Worked as a student consultant of the Raikes School Design Studio team for Microsoft Dynamics. We created a Windows Phone 7 app from scratch, and wrote backend code in one of Microsoft's existing ERP products. Technologies: The WP7 app was C#, XAML, and Silverlight using MVVM as a architectural pattern. For the ERP product we wrote some business logic and web services in C#.

    Don't Panic Labs

    Intern

    Summer 2011

    I worked with a a team of five other interns at an incubator called Don't Panic Labs to develop a local events planning startup called planhandler.com. Technologies: ASP.NET MVC3 (C#), HTML, CSS, JS. Extra heavy on the JS.

    Education

    University of Nebraska-Lincoln

    B.S., Computer Science — 3.7 GPA

    Student at Raikes School of Computer Science & Management

    Minors in business, mathematics

    Will graduate in May 2013

    Chris Adams — chris@cmadams.org — www.cmadams.org

    Credit for the template I used for this résumé goes to Matt Brown.