JAMES HARVEY

Mountain View, California

james_b_harvey@hotmail.com

 

 

SUMMARY: Software Engineer with seven years experience software and web engineering (Yahoo, Inktomi, Infoseek Japan). Built robust, ultra-high availability, ultra-high volume, scalable web applications. Design back end processes in an open source Unix environment. Bilingual Japanese, speak/read/write. Four years expatriate work in Japan. Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills. Diverse experience as engineer, teacher, interpreter and intercultural liaison. Working knowledge equity/financial markets; experience as Market Analyst.

 

COMPUTER SKILLS

 

Languages: Perl, C/C++, Python,HTML, SQL, Javascript, Shell Scripting, XSLT,XML

Operating Systems: Linux, FreeBSD, Unix, Windows, Mac

Applications: Apache, HTML::Mason, mod_perl, Oracle, MySQL, gdb, CVS, Xalan,Tibco Rendezvous.

 

EXPERIENCE / ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 

INKTOMI, (www.inktomi.com) Foster City, California

2002 to Present

Software Engineer

 

·     Built paid inclusion contract database management web application and UI using OO Perl, HTML::Mason, DBI, mod_perl and ssl under Apache. Application includes authentication, sessions, perl object interface to Oracle database, table and trigger design, and object security framework.

·       Managed paid inclusion partner content feeds in XML,XSLT, Xalan and Perl (FTP,LWP,XML::Parser).

·       Prototyped search engine relevance features in Python.

·       Implemented and tested Japanese-language paid inclusion feeds.

 

YAHOO! FINANCE, (finance.yahoo.com) Sunnyvale, California

1998 to 2001

Software Engineer

 

·       Designed, implemented and maintained back-end feed and multilingual HTML page generation systems in Perl, Make, and Shell.

·       Developed web applications with Apache and C++/C.

·       Built Tibco Rendezvous based system for quote feed monitoring and escalation.

·       Coded CGI interfaces to MySQL in Perl/C.

·       Installed and configured Apache, MySQL.

·       Designed, maintained and optimized MySQL databases.

·       Designed feed formats (CSV, XML, fixed width) and coordinated delivery (FTP, HTTP, email) with Yahoo partners.

·       Mentored new hires in Yahoo procedures and development methodology.

·       Point of contact for producers and corporate partners.

·       Communicated technical concepts to non-technical salespeople.

·       Worked extensively in FreeBSD and Linux with open source development tools.

 

INFOSEEK JAPAN (Digital Garage Inc.), Tokyo, Japan

1997 to 1998

Software Engineer / System Administrator

 

·       Designed and wrote news site system in Perl.

·       Localized "Infoseek Desktop" to Japanese (double-byte) in C++.

·       Interpreter/liaison for IBM web effort at Nagano 1998 Olympics.

·       Managed internal banner advertising System.

·       Wrote scripts to automate system/e-mail tasks.

·       Configured machines and installed software using FreeBSD, Solaris, and Win95.

·       Coded HTML layouts using custom template system.

 

SHIMANE, Japan

1996 to 1997

Coordinator for International Relations

 

·       Planned and organized community events.

·       Researched and authored town home page in English and Japanese.

·       Wrote monthly town newsletter column in Japanese.

·       Promoted goodwill through speeches in Japanese to community groups.

·       Taught adult English class.

·       Translated tourism promotion materials, correspondence, et al.


 

 

MATSUE TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL, Shimane, Japan

1994 to 1996

English Teacher (JET Program)

 

·       Team taught full time at technical high schools.

·       Designed lessons plans, moderated English club.

·       Researched and wrote articles for school and Shimane publications.

·       Translated material for home pages from Japanese to English.

 

BIRINYI ASSOCIATES, Greenwich, Connecticut

1993 to 1994

Market Analyst

 

·       Analyzed markets and individual stocks and wrote computer programs to do so using Excel macros, ObjectPAL, and C. 

·       Planned and implemented long term research on international markets and on intra - day volume of the NYSE.

·       Tracked program trading, performed chart and money flow analysis.

·       Communicated with institutional clients, made stock recommendations.

 

EDUCATION / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

 

B.S. Magna Cum Laude Computer Science, May 1993

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME

 

Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level One(Fluent) Certification, the highest certification - 10,000 word vocabulary, 2000 characters.