Jeff W. Tulley
464 N 750 E
Lindon, UT 84042
(801)380-3248


Objective

To work on a highly efficient team to deliver quality software that creates high business value.

Employment

2005-present: Microsoft, Draper, UT. Software Engineer II
   - Created highly maintainable Business Intelligence web applications using Velocity, Spring, and Java
   - Had a primary role in search federation technology
   - Maintained the main query processing component of the Enterprise Search Platform
   - Brought quality to the federation and query processing components through increased unit and system test coverage
   - Discovered and fixed significant stability and algorithmic problems in the software

2001-present: Open Source contributions, Various Projects. 
   - Reworked part of Apache Ant's core file utilities code to work on NetWare OS (see: http://www.jajakarta.org/ant/ant-1.6.1/docs/ja/manual/api/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtils.html)
   - Contributed to various Apache Tomcat modules (see: http://www.wemo.cn/tomcat-docs/printer/changelog.html)
   - Contributed the initial version of the Jameleon Acceptance Test Framework's Selenium plugin (see: http://jameleon.sourceforge.net/selenium-plugin/index.html)

1999-2005: Novell, inc., Provo, UT. Senior Software Engineer
   - Lead Engineer on the WebSphere 3.5.3 porting project
   - Helped port SilverStream and JBoss Application Servers to Netware
   - Chief maintainer and supporter of Tomcat on Novell's Operating Systems
   - Worked with CIM-based server health monitoring, mostly at the UI level, on Linux and NetWare
   - I spearheaded a process to improve team communication and development effectiveness, resulting in a very successful product with an extremely low defect count. 

Spring 1999-Fall 1999: Community Learning and Information Network, Springville, UT. Software Engineer
   - Developed the companies' security module
   - Worked with undocumented and unsupported areas of Windows NT Device Driver programming
   - I Faced extremely difficult programming challenges, in the following areas: Remote Procedure Calls, Winsock programming, Kernel Mode Device Driver programming, Windows NT Installable File System Drivers and Filters, Windows NT Security

1996-1999: The Environmental Modeling Research Laboratory(formerly the Engineering Computer Graphics Laboratory), Brigham Young University, UT. Software Engineer
   - In charge of a platform-independent UI library underlies three professional Civil Engineering graphical modeling programs
   - Dealt with advanced graphics and UI design under Windows and XWindows
   - Implemented new UI controls and features such as printing, software protection, graphical file formats, animation, and DLL creation
   - Took part in all facets of Software Engineering, from design to implementation, to testing

1995-1996: WordPerfect Corporation, Orem, UT. Temporary tester
   - Temporary night-time tester for 4-5 months, testing Corel Suite 7
   - Gained hands-on experience with Software Engineering and Quality Assurance testing
   - Helped greatly reduce the defect count in WordPerfect Suite 7


Qualifications


Degree: Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering -- Brigham Young University, Provo UT -- Aug, 1999.  Cumulative GPA: 3.39

Programming Languages: Java (both J2SE and J2EE), C#, Python, Velocity, JSP, Servlets, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, XML, XSL, HTML, Javascript / "Web 2.0", C, C++, Perl, Pascal, assembly language(MIPS).

Software Specialties: Graphical User Interface design, enterprise search, search federation, advanced web design, C programming, Agile methodologies coach/consultant, device driver programming, computer graphics (3d Solid Texture Modeling especially), Windows NT installable file system filters, client/server issues, system engineering, animation(AVI, TIFF, BMP), color models, advanced data structures, software licensing/protection techniques, Windows(tm) programming, XWindows programming, CGI programming, scripting.

Hardware Specialties: Embedded systems (both HW and SW), VLSI/CMOS design, layout, and testing.


Interests

Outdoor recreation: Formed 2 outdoors clubs and helped with one other.  Was a long-time officer of Serac, a local mountain climbing club. I actively hike, mountain bike, rock and mountain climb, and run.

Martial arts: Achieved the rank of Teacher Certified black belt in the style Jendo.


Portfolio
Available upon request