Resume of Briana Boose

CAREER SUMMARY

Over 20 years experience working in the computer industry. BS in computer science with math minor from the University of Utah. Experienced in the design, implementation, and maintenance of both hardware and software products. Experienced on multiple operating systems including all Windows platforms, Unix, and Linux. Expert C/C++ programmer with experience in many other languages including Java, Pascal, Fortran, several assembly languages, and many others. Recent experience developing websites with PHP, MYSQL, HTML, XHTML, CSS, and Javascript. Capable of designing and implementing custom DBMS systems, implementing and using APIs for existing database formats, and converting data between different formats. Excel at learning new languages, new environments, and debugging existing program code very quickly. Independent worker able to manage multiple projects with little to no supervision.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Just Services 2004 to present

Salt Lake City, Utah

IT and Web Developer

Maintain all internal company computers, hardware & software. Built and maintain internal network. Currently developing interactive internal and external company websites.

Various 2004 to present

Salt Lake City, Utah

Web Developer

Working with Vorpaljack, a small startup; helped to rewrite several large websites, including http://www.corda.com and http://www.attosolutions.com/demo. Almost everything in the attosolutions demo is my work. I have also developed several sites on my own, and am currently developing the new CUUPS website at http://www.cuups.org/content2.

Evans & Sutherland 1992 to 2003

Salt Lake City, Utah

Sr. Software Engineer (1999 to 2003)

Designed and developed converters for many graphics database formats and tools for building 3D graphics databases using C++ on UNIX and Windows platforms.

Designed and implemented methods to convert large databases using parallel processing utilizing multiple processors across the network.
Designed and implemented a system for converting many different graphic database formats, which reduced the implementation time for new formats by over 50%.

Software Engineer (1992 to 1999)

Responsible for the graphics DBMS for a family of simulation image generators.

Redesigned and implemented the entire DBMS while maintaining the existing interface; this caused the weakest part of the system to become the most stable and reliable.
Rewrote an export converter, previously unable to complete the export of a very large DB in three weeks, so that it completed the export in two days.
With two other engineers, ported the entire database generation tool suite and DBMS from sun UNIX to Microsoft Windows NT.

University of Utah 1988 to 1992

Student. Completed bachelor's degree in Computer Science with math minor.

Evans & Sutherland 1981 to 1988

Salt Lake City, Utah

Field Service Engineer (1986 to 1988)

Responsible for tracking and installation of new graphic workstations and the maintenance of existing systems.

Wrote a program to access many different company databases to track new systems from initial order to successful installation, saving many hours of looking up status on each system.

Engineering technician (1984 to 1986)

Assisted in the design and prototyping of Digistar planetarium star rendering system.

Wrote hardware level diagnostics to aid in the debugging of new hardware designs.
Assisted in the implementation and debugging of the graphic pipe micro code.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

BS, Computer Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 1992.

References available on request.