jeff schmitz

chief technology officer

About

Creative problem solver who takes on the most challenging problems in an organization. Experienced software developer and team leader. Creator of Scholaric Homeschool Planner and Liquibook order book. Specialties: algorithms, design, technical leadership, Ruby on Rails, C++, OO Design, architecture, distributed computing, automated testing, software maintainability, analytics, and data collection.

Country

united states

City

saint louis

Industry

computer software

Skill

software engineering, object oriented design, distributed systems, c++, agile methodologies, oop, software development, ruby, uml, ruby on rails, databases, visual studio, linux, algorithms, xml, design patterns, test driven development, software design, unix, jquery, test automation, multithreading, architecture, shell scripting, ooad, rest, git, web applications, open source, architectures, ajax, object oriented programming, subversion

Experience

techincal director

thomson reuters

2006-9 - 2007-8 · 1 yr

Responsible for the Development of Collections Systems for real-time networks for the Americas.

development manager

thomson reuters

2001-1 - 2006-9 · 5 yrs 9 mos

Development Manager for interactive systems including analytics (charts) on the Bridge Distribution Network.

senior software engineer

bridge information systems

1999-1 - 2001-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Transaction Services line handler development in C++/Windows/Unix/ISAPI/JavaScript. Worked on team which built java agent-based matching system.

project software engineer

boeing

1997-1 - 1999-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Developer on IETM Authoring System, responsible for data layer, parsers, recruiting and training. C++/Solaris/SGML/XML/Lex/Yacc/Perl/Versant OODBMS.

software engineer

boeing

1994-1 - 1996-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Ada programmer for Tomahawk Mission Planning System. Ada/Informix RDBMS/SGI IRIX/HPUX.

chief technology officer

health efilings

founder

positive slope

2011-4 - Present · 15 yrs 6 mos

Creator of Scholaric: online lesson planner for homeschool families, used my hundreds to create over 11 million lessons.

senior engineer

oci

2007-8 - 2013-1 · 5 yrs 6 mos

Consulting and Instruction in C++, UML, Software Engineering. Financial Services, Distributed Computing, Open Source Software.

senior software engineer

boeing

1996-1 - 1997-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

Lone developer of composite design tool known as Parametric Composite Knowledge System, which takes a three dimensional Finite Element Model as input and outputs a producible composite part design, including the ply stacking sequence, saving many person-months of effort per part. Developed in C++/HPUX in 6 months time, tool which out performed vendor's multiple person-year effort for both quality and speed of solution. Awarded 2 US patents for effort.