Christopher Wesley's profile answers

The job I'm looking for is with (or starting) a small, agile team of developers, who are focused on solving a problem for common people and creating value for their co-workers by adding value to the bottom line of the company for which they work. This team would be a group of server-side developers who work on Linux servers that must scale for high volume and high availability....

I would pay off the mortgage on my house, so that my wife and I no longer have that debt hanging over our heads, allowing us to save money for retirement, fund our own business interests, and use our money more for good, community deeds and charitable donations.

Fresh out of High School I earned an internship with Giant Food of Maryland in their Information Services division. The first summer I learned the ropes of the entire division. The second and third summers I worked as a Junior Software Analyst in the Store Systems department, writing code for the chain's point of sale and store controller systems. I worked on a small team that really helped me learn how to work in a corporate environment and code on a quick, agile software development team....

I moved to the city of San Jose, CA because it's a hub for many of the most intelligent people working in the tech industry, providing many opportunities to meet and befriend new, smart people constantly. The city is diverse in its social and ethnic make-up, providing many opportunities to meet interesting people of all walks of life. The local and imported cuisine is awesome, the climate suits me perfectly, and the proximity to the shore, hills, mountains, Bay, major West Coast cities, and transportation hubs makes it the ultimate jumping off point for an unlimited array of activities....

Getting hired onto my server development team required candidates to demonstrate their ability to react quickly and logically to common programming challenges and system architecture issues. Communicating clearly was extremely important. Being able to speak confidently about past experiences was absolutely necessary....