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Theodore Nguyen-Cao

theo.nguyencao@gmail.com

EDUCATION
B.S. Computer Science, Minor: Mathematics
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA
In-Major GPA: 3.9/4.0
Overall GPA: 3.7/4.0

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Software: Windows 98/NT/ME/2000/XP, UNIX/Linux, MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, Eclipse, MySQL, Oracle, Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere Studio

Languages: Java, Ruby, DHTML/XHTML/HTML/XML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, AJAX

Technologies/Methodologies: SDLC, Agile/Scrum, Design Patterns, J2EE/JSP, Ruby on Rails, Web Services, Spring Framework, Struts, Hibernate, iBatis, Cruise Control, CVS, SVN, Maven, Ant, various other open-source projects and libraries

EXPERIENCE
Software Engineer, kajeet, Bethesda, MD (Jan 2007 – Present)

• Developed and maintained kajeet customer portal and customer service system applications, introducing new features and enhancing existing features
• Participated in Scrum and played the role of ScrumMaster for a small team of developers
• Lead the integration and execution of a content management system into the enterprise
• Implemented web and customer analytics tracking
• Coordinated and managed deployments
• Developed web services for 3rd party integration
• Troubleshoot production issues
• Worked with product and marketing to launch new products and features
• Developed event-driven enterprise integration platform using technologies such as ESB, JMS, and web services
• Acted as a strong advocate of best practices for software development

Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, VA (June 2005 – Jan 2007)

• Developed Integration Framework in order to facilitate analysis tool and algorithm experimentation across heterogeneous environments for the Intelligence Community (IC).
• Designed and developed piloting prototype of GOTS integration framework to provide data access, normalization, transformation, and search capabilities
• Developed one of the first DNI IC SOA specifications reference implementations
• Developed Google Earth integration web application for geospatial data sources
• Wrote several developer guides for system components and system user guides

Software Engineer (Intern), Equant, Oak Hill, VA (May 2004 – Aug 2004)

• Designed and developed a statistical model chart generator for IAS (Integrated Automation System), using the Spring application framework and Tapestry web framework
• Developed Java application to export data from Oracle database into Microsoft Excel

CLEARANCE
Top Secret (SSBI)

CITIZENSHIP
U.S. Citizen