William Northway Jr.
Ann Arbor, MI 48103

Broad knowledge combined with an eagerness to learn, create, share
and work collaboratively.


Work Experience:

Software Engineer 3 with Arbor Networks
    June 2007 through present

Work with a small development team to help define the user interfaces
for one of Arbor's products. Responsibilities include: develop dynamic,
database-driven web applications. Participate in projects from early
design phases through final testing and QA. Gauge usability of existing
features to make constructive changes.

Freelance Programmer / Multimedia Developer as fluidthoughts.com
    December 1998 to present

Website development for an assortment of clients including:
marra-bella, Northway / Hall Orthodontics, the Ann Arbor Film Festival,
Rocks and Robots Summer Camp, technical tutorials, web site hosting,
technical lectures, and an email auto-response and tracking system.

Webmaster with ITCS / UMCE, University of Michigan
    January 2002 through May 2007

Web application development including: biannual online student
government election, mfile (based on filedrawers, an open-source
web-based openAFS filemanager), and the Standard Practice Guide
(with a custom content administration tool).
*  MySQL database administration for over 20 servers (8
    replicating masters) backing various web applications, preferences
    data for central webmail, and SpamBusters antispam service.
*  Apache and Linux system co-administration for over 70
    webservers, and customer service related to supported services.
*  Pro-active project management for centralized web
    application signup service, process for departmental sharing with
    a multi-departmental linux from scratch project including migration
    off Solaris, and online student government elections.
*  Various other duties including: technical documentation,
    community outreach, consulting, and promoting usability, accessibility,
    and security issues across campus.

Web Developer with Diamond Bullet Design
    November 2000 to January 2002
Designed and built an e-commerce package with an emphasis on
usability. Job duties included: database-backed web programming;
organizing adoption of modern development methodologies;
technical tutor; webserver system administration and project
budget estimation. Primary projects included: moesportshops.com,
granholmforgov.com and portfoliobuilder.net

Web Developer with CommerceOne, (formerly Appnet, Detroit (formerly Sigma6))
    May 1999 to September 2000
Collaboratively created and maintained e-commerce websites. Wrote
utility scripts, optimized images and HTML, and user strategy. Projects
included: gale.com, jacobsons.com and michigannational.com

New Media Specialist in Office of Instructional Technology, University of Michigan
    September 1998 to May 1999
Authored multimedia and websites for classroom instruction, consulted
for faculty, and other various duties.

Instructional Assistant for EECS, University of Michigan
    September 1997 to May 1998
Instructed lab courses on general computing usage, with a focus on
Office. Developed and taught Photoshop curriculum, and maintained
course webpage.

Consultant 3 for ITD, University of Michigan
    June 1997 to September 1998
Desktop support for campus computing sites.


Open Source Projects

book of agreements (author)
    Document / content management system used to
    track of an organization's agreements and minutes by committee
    and full group meetings. List by date, group, or search
    for content.

filedrawers (contributor)
    An apache/php web-based openAFS file manager
    featuring dynamic HTML.

cosign module for drupal (author)
    Drupal module supporting the single sign-on
    web authentication system, cosign.


Presentations:
AFS & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop, June 2006
    Accessing AFS through the Web with Waklog

Technical Skills:

*  PHP, MySQL, Perl, HTML/XHTML, CSS, Javascript,
    DOM-Scripting, XML, CGI, C / C++, Java, Oracle

*  Well-versed in concepts such as usability,
    accessibility, information architecture,
    object-oriented programming, XP (eXtreme Programming),
    software engineering, GNU/open source software,
    regular expressions, data structures, and run-time
    efficiency analysis

*  Linux system administration skills involving
    installation, tripwires and loadsets, issue diagnosis,
    and Apache administration

*  Experience with administration of various open source
    web applications including: phpMyAdmin, Gallery,
    MediaWiki, and Drupal

*  Development tools such as: vi / vim, CVS, RCS,
    CodeWarrior, and gcc

*  Proficient with MacOS X and Linux. Also
    knowledgeable with Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS,
    NeXT, and other operating systems

*  Experienced with several desktop multimedia
    applications including: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe
    Illustrator, Macromedia Flash, iMovie/iDVD, iPhoto,
    SoundEdit 16, Premiere, and AVID

*  Statistics studies involved computational and
    modeling work with S-Plus, SPSS, and MyStat

*  Current educational interests include:
    DOM-Scripting / AJAX, mysql clustering, and python

Academic Education:

    University of Michigan, B.A., December 1997
        Major: Statistics with interests in Computer
        Programming, French, and Film Theory

    Universite© de Laval, Summer 1995
        Que©becois French studies

Other Activities:

    Treasurer, webmaster, cook, and other intermittent work positions
		for Great Oak Cohousing
    Intramural Ice Hockey 1986 to 1997, 2004 to 2007
    Volunteer Webmaster, Usher, Ann Arbor Film Festival 1996 to 2005
    Various officer positions with ICC residential cooperatives 1997 to 2000
    Cabin Counselor, Crystalaire Summer Camp 1993, 1994 and 1996

Hobbies:

    photography, vegetarian cooking, home improvement, organic
    gardening, ice hockey, taiji, homebrewing, mountain biking,
    snow sports, camping, waterskiing, racquetball, candlemaking and
    video authoring