Robert J. Wygand III
806 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
rob@wygand.com
(415) 218-4693
Summary
Senior programmer/architect with 13 years of broad software development experience.
Demonstrated abilities in the following:
Management: Team leadership. SDLC. Project management.
Architecture:
Requirements gathering. Writing specifications. Use case analysis.
Object-oriented design. RDB schema design. UML. Protocol design.
Programming: Java. C++. LAMP. Scripting. Design patterns. Rapid
prototyping. Network programming. Web services. XML/XSL. SOAP. LDAP.
HTTP. TCP/IP. SMTP. IMAP. SSL/TLS. SQL. HTML. Javascript. CSS.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer / Bebo (AOL/Time-Warner) / June 2008 - November 2009
Member of the viral team responsible for increasing user registrations and user retention.
- Led the project to convert Bebo infrastructure to support multi-part MIME alternative email
- Converted various customer-support related tools from legacy JSP to Bebo's homegrown MVC framework
- Designed and developed the Viral Path Tool which enabled non-engineers to create a virtual "path" through the viral loop with custom content and configurable A/B tests on each "step"
Member of Technical Staff IV / Sun Microsystems / April 2004 - June 2008
Key
member of the Sun StorageTek 5800 product group who contributed design
and code to critical components of this clustered archival storage
solution.
- Designed and developed original command-line interface, whose
design was later extended to allow a Java-based GUI to manage clusters
- Expanded the cluster management layer to enable implementation of a clustered distributed configuration
- Maintained the data integrity engine which included bit rot detection, cluster expansion and healing
- Wrote functional specifications and detailed design documents for all work
Senior Software Engineer / Oddpost / June 2003 - February 2004
Enabled
deeper market penetration of the Oddpost web-based email solution.
Oddpost was subsequently acquired by Yahoo and is their current
well-regarded webmail client.
- Designed and participated in the deployment of a new server
architecture allowing Oddpost to scale it's backend in a sustainable
manner
- Implemented enterprise-level functionality, enabling Oddpost to license their solution to 3rd party vendors
- Developed additional, highly requested features
Software Engineer Consultant / Autodesk / November 2002 - June 2003
Created
and enhanced features for Buzzsaw, an online collaboration and project
management tool. Mentored team members in XML and XSLT technologies.
- Increased overall client satisfaction with the Buzzsaw product
- All features completed ahead of schedule
Principal Engineer / FileFish / November 2000 - May 2002
Led
design and development of FileFish's flagship product, an
enterprise-level secure remote access appliance. Overall focus of the
design team was to create a product that was powerful, yet easy to use,
quick to deploy, with a low total cost of ownership.
- Grew engineering team from 1 to 10 people and created team processes
- Completed extensible file server API which enabled faster front-end development
- Quickly developed concrete understanding of wireless and file server markets
- Final gold product delivered on schedule and met all original design goals
- Awarded United States Patent #7,359,933: a method for
utilizing dual proxies to enable remote access to protected network
applications
Senior Software Engineer / ThinkLink / November 1998 - June 2000
Designed and implemented the web architecture (n-tiered) and application components for ThinkLink's unified messaging platform.
- Created highly scalable Internet architecture that supported 5 million registered users
- Completed servlet-based template engine that dynamically
created HTML via XML/XSL that allowed content/UI changes without
changes to code base
- Developed connection pooling system that improved uptime and response time of the Internet architecture by an estimated 80%
Architect/Engineer / USWeb / December 1995 - November 1998
Led project teams developing eCommerce and other Internet applications for Fortune 100 clients.
- Utilized a broad array of technologies to implement client solutions
- Built a web-based content management system that helped The Coca-Cola Company reduce overall print costs
- Designed and built the original system used by BellSouth.net
to provision new accounts. The solution integrated various legacy
systems and helped sign up millions of users
- Led the development of a highly customizable, secure Internet commerce engine utilized by USWeb clients nationwide
Education
Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ
Majored in Computer Science
1990 to 1991
Brookdale College, Lincroft, NJ
Majored in Mathematics
1991 to 1992