ANDREW J. YECKEL 8750 Kester Ave #22 Panorama City, CA 91402 818-574-6385 ay2b@queue.org www.queue.org/~ay2b/Resume/ OBJECTIVE To obtain a lead/senior position in the field of software development or management, which allows me to utilize both my technical and leadership skills. QUALIFICATION SUMMARY I have extensive experience developing software and problem solving. At both Microsoft and Yahoo, I have developed high performance, high traffic web-based server products. At Energy Innovations and through FIRST I have worked on low-resource embedded systems. I've also held many leadership roles, including 2 1/2 years as a manager. I learn new skills quickly and have a variety of interests. EDUCATION Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering Minor: Computer Science Graduated (B.S.): May 1998 COMPUTER SKILLS Primary Languages: C/C++, Perl Additional Languages: Java, LISP, Scheme, LabVIEW, PAscal Operating Environments: Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows 2000 / XP / Server 2003 / Vista PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Contractor Open42, Los Angeles, CA November 2009 - present Stealth-Mode Startup Technologies used: Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl (LAMP) Senior Development Engineer Energy Innovations, Pasadena, CA June 2008 - September 2009 Sunflower HCPV (High Concentration Photo-Voltaic) - Designed and developed the software for the Tracker Control System + Implemented a two-axis stepper motor controller with quadrature optical encoders + Implemented a multi-module controller including * ZigBee communication layer * Multiple open-loop sun location algorithms * Power-based closed-loop sun tracking * Maximum Power Point Tracking control of DC-DC Converter + Designed PC control system including * Weather monitoring * Logging and data storage in SQLite3 * Web-based interface for control and monitoring - Assisted in development of electronic control boards + Selected microcontrollers + Reviewed schematics + Identified hardware bugs Technologies used: C, ZigBee, SQLite3, PIC Microcontrollers, svn, LaTeX Engineering Manager Yahoo Search Marketing, Yahoo Inc, Burbank, CA September 2005 - May 2008 Domain Match - Managed full time employees, interns and contractors - Acted as "scrum master" for our agile development team - Actively participated in design, architecture and code reviews, and had "final say" on architecture and code changes to the front-end server - Worked closely with Product/Project Management and Quality Assurance teams to coordinate development and release schedules - Responsible for delivering a high quality build to QA every other week - Launched an updated product every other week, achieving 100% on-time launches, and a record one production bug in 2006 and zero production bugs in 2007 - Responsible for 40-50 projects per year including developing new small and large features, researching technologies for future projects, improving performance, requesting new hardware and generating reports to evaluate our product quality - Promoted a culture of excellence in development, including design and code reviews, documentation and unit tests; when code is handed to QA, it is expected to be bug-free - Helped grow the team to twenty developers Technologies used: Perl, Apache, XML, Berkeley DB, CDB, svn, Bugzilla Senior Developer Yahoo Search Marketing, Yahoo Inc (formerly Overture), Pasadena, CA January 2004 - September 2005 Domain Match - Developed new tokenizing and matching algorithms to significantly improve the relevance of results returned. - Significantly improved the performance of the product in terms of CPU load, response time and sustainable queries per second. - Mentored summer interns. - Served as team lead in the absence of our regular lead. - Interviewed candidates for Domain Match, Sponsored Search and Content Match, and helped improve the interviewing process - Helped develop consistent coding style guidelines used by both DM and SS - Helped grow the team from two developers to seven Technologies used: Perl, Apache, XML, Berkeley DB, CDB, svn, Bugzilla Software Design Engineer Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA July 1998 - March 2003 SharePoint Team Services version 2 - Developed the STS migration tool, \texttt{smigrate.exe}, which migrates sites from STS v1 to STS v2, or between two different STS v2 sites. - Designed the FWP file format, which is a CAB file with an XML manifest describing the contents of the site. - Designed and developed many of the core classes used by smigrate, FrontPage Solution Packages, STS Web Templates for creation and deployment including a CAB file reader and writer and XML manifest parser - Designed the algorithm used for backing up sites, and for deploying them Technologies used: C++ SharePoint Team Services version 1 / FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions - Developed FPSE/STS's handling of Thicket and MHTML files, including parsing, copying, moving, renaming and link fixup. - Maintained the Unix build of FrontPage Server Extensions, including + Fixing Unix-only build breaks + Maintaining the Unix build machine + Coordinating drops of the FrontPage Server Extensions source code to Ready-To-Run Software + Integrating patches from Ready-To-Run Software, to ensure that FrontPage Server Extensions continues to build and run on all supported flavors of Unix - Coordinated with the Windows team to deliver drops of FrontPage 2002 Server Extension, and to ensure that FPSE continues to install and run on the latest build of Windows - Maintained FrontPage's component in Windows' Object Component Manager (OCM) which allows FrontPage Server Extensions to be installed via the Windows "Add/Remove Windows Components" menu FrontPage 2000 - Developed and maintained portions of FrontPage's Microsoft Management Console (MMC) component, used to configure and manage FrontPage Server Extensions. - Coordinated with the Windows team to deliver drops of FrontPage Server Extensions 2000, and to ensure that FPSE continues to install and run on the latest build of Windows - Developed and maintained FrontPage's component in Windows' Object Component Manager (OCM) which allows FrontPage Server Extensions to be installed via the Windows "Add/Remove Windows Components" menu Software Design Engineer Intern Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA Summer 1997, Summer 1996 Windows NT GDI/OpenGL - Wrote an interactive OpenGL profiler for developers - Wrote a scripted version of the OpenGL profiler to be used in a configuration tool Microsoft Project - Wrote utility for developers to find memory leaks in MS Project - Coded and tested the MS Project '98 viewbar, a portion of the user interface ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE F.I.R.S.T. Robotics 2000 - Present - Mentored students at multiple high schools, and on multiple teams to design and build a 5-foot-tall, 120 lbs robot in 6 weeks to play that year's game. Robots must operate both autonomously and under remote control. Game challenges have included: + collect soccer balls and placing them into mobile goals + collect and stack plastic bins + collect large rubber balls, climb stairs and hang from a 10' bar + manipulate PVC tetrahedrons + shoot Poof balls into a 10' high goal + collect and hang innertubes on a central rack. - Taught students to use industry-standard tools such as CVS, Subversion and make. - Used a PIC embedded microcontroller to implement control system, including PID loops, inertial motion tracking using gyroscopes and dual axis accelerometers, and dead reckoning based on optical encoders; taught students about each of these techniques. HOBBIES AND INTERESTS Toastmasters, Personal MBA, Martial Arts, Filmmaking, Animation, Soccer, SCUBA diving, Skydiving, Floor Hockey, Caving, Chess, Amateur Radio (Tech Plus class, licensed since 1991), Foozball, Juggling, brother of Alpha Epsilon Pi