Current Technology Stack -
• Groovy & Grails w/ Java integration
• GSP/JSP
• Spring Source Framework
• HTML5 / Scalable Vector Graphics
• Tomcat
• jQuery / jQuery UI
• Hibernate
• Maven
Senior Software Engineer @ From August 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) UI Developer @ • Working with top domain experts to create highly interactive user interface for Open Access Automation project. Chemists will use this application for planning, preparation, execution, and analysis of experiments and data in BioMedical research.
• Created customized reusable jQuery UI widgets for displaying chromatograms, mass spectra, and other tools with scalable vector graphics (SVG) and other bleeding edge web technologies that are now used by other teams on projects at Novartis.
• Switched to working with ASP.Net after using Java for years with little to no down time From January 2013 to June 2014 (1 year 6 months) Sr Software Engineer @ • Project for CMap Team under the Cancer Program to provide interactive web tools and information sharing for ground breaking research in disease and medicine all focused around Genomics. Server side technologies are all Java based including Groovy and Grails. Client side is primarily jQuery and jQuery UI with custom plugins. Advanced caching techniques are used in providing snappy ajax intensive user interaction.
• Project for National Institute of Health to serve as web portal for the LINCS Project and LINCS Centers. These include: Broad Institute, Harvard Medical Schools, Columbia University, Arizona State, Yale University, etc. This portal has been accessed by more than 35 different countries around the World and reliably offers a Java based CMS implementation with Groovy and Grails. From June 2011 to November 2012 (1 year 6 months) Java Developer @ Created a J2EE status/reporting app to plan and predict power related emergency events across the country based on information collected from multiple web services and protocols (SOAP, REST) From April 2011 to June 2011 (3 months) Software Consultant @ • Designed and developed Groovy & Grails app with Java and jQuery for the administration of a cutting edge platform early in development stages, client application for consuming SOAP based Web Services, collaborated with other team members in implementing communicative dynamics with backend under concurrent development
• Maven2 used for project management and build life cycle control of dependencies, plugins: JaxB2 for un/marshaling of POJO’s/XML from contract first Web Service definitions (xsd’s), Maven-Grails-Compiler (alternative to Ant), Spring Web Services client library, Spring-Security Core & UI
• Administration of platform included management of User Roles with respective levels of privileges to all operations defined in Controllers, Remember Me services provide restrictions on operations according to different levels of authentication (is-authenticated-remembered, is-authenticated-full, et cetera), ACL for administrators of different user groups and access permissions
• Human-Computer Interaction expertise and analysis used to create rich Web 2.0 client featuring jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Theming and multiple jQuery Plugins, platform and browser independence as high priority goals, highly interactive and intuitive user oriented design, initial wireframes produced with Balsamiq Mockups From December 2010 to January 2011 (2 months) Web Engineer @ • Implemented the highly interactive and AJAX intensive search page for the new NewsEdge.com using Dojo's Topic API in conjunction with a simulated class system modeled after the prototype-based object orientation works of Douglas Crockford, this core functionality was designed as a tool for both novice and advanced users of NewsEdge to create search queries with Acquire Media's proprietary search syntax From August 2008 to May 2009 (10 months) Software Consultant @ • Developed both the client and server side functionality to incorporate a Topaz Signature Tablet to capture signatures from an LCD screen and display the input on a web page in real-time to subsequently accept the image or reset the device
• Developed a multi-threaded Java Swing desktop application to connect with and handle a raw mjpg stream to display the video feed & write buffered images to jpeg files on command From October 2007 to August 2008 (11 months) Web Applications Developer @ [Senior Coop at Northeastern]
• Developed a multi-tier enterprise Java web application using J2EE and EJB technologies on JBoss as an in-house solution for managing Newbury product licenses while contributing to regular team meetings for the “analyze-design-implement” project life-cycle
• Authored the very first Technical Developer’s Guide to describe usage of SOAP based web-service API’s for Newbury’s Location Appliance including several example usages of the SOAP API with Perl, Python and Ruby. This document was delivered to Newbury OEM partners and used by engineers to developing applications on top of the Newbury location platform
• Volunteered to assist QA team with applying test plans and diagnosing issues to help meet critical deadlines, and to write a new architectural design pattern document for using Ext JS with future Newbury application UI’s From June 2006 to December 2006 (7 months) Multi-platform programmer/administrator @ [Middler year Co-op. Worked for the Systems Group in the College of Computer and Information Science.]
• Shared partial responsibility for maintaining consistency and stability of system-wide Windows domain.
• Wrote server-side windows script to poll and record PC Lab terminal usage statistics and trends to be displayed on a web page for students and faculty.
• Built and deployed a new system wide DNS registration server for multiple subnets and platforms. From June 2005 to December 2005 (7 months)
Computer Science and Cognitive Psychology @ Northeastern University From 2002 to 2007 Landmark Education From 2012 to 2012 Jason Burke is skilled in: jQuery, AJAX, REST, Tomcat, Spring, Web Applications, JavaScript, SOAP, Hibernate, Perl, Grails, Groovy, MySQL, SQL, Web Services
Websites:
http://karenyoungendowment.org