Andrew Leer

Reading, PA

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Who was your most influential mentor and what did they teach you?

"Don't side with Java or .Net, when you do that you become a bad programmer."
- Tony Pope, Mobilvox

Tony taught me not to specialize in a programming language, but rather to learn as much as I can, and to apply whatever concepts I can in other languages where the syntax allows it. These are also known as Design Patterns to most programmers.

That being said, I would really like to get some .Net or C# experience just to balence myself out.... read more

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Work history

Xetex Business Systems May 2008 to the present
Software Engineer

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How would you describe your time at Xetex Business Systems?

- Performed development/bug fixes on existing legacy system in C/C++ (VS 97').
- Documented portions of existing system using a wiki.
- Ordered parts and assembled servers and workstations.
- Documented ordering of parts/assembly of servers and workstations.
PhyllisOnest.com March 2008 to the present
Web Developer

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How would you describe your time at PhyllisOnest.com?

- Maintained set of static HTML pages per Ms. Onest's requests via phone and email.
- Uploaded and downloaded files via FTP (Filezilla).
- Persisted website HTML and images in Subversion repository.
Concurrent Technologies June 2006 to February 2007
Assistant Software Engineer

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How would you describe your time at Concurrent Technologies?

Supervisor: (Confidential)

- Performed web development in Java MVC frameworks Struts and Spring MVC.

- Developed J2EE Applications using the Appfuse Open Source development tool.

- Unit tested J2EE Applications with JUnit.

- Setup and maintained a Zope ZiddlyWiki for maintaining code consistency on the development team.... read more
Mobilvox March 2005 to June 2006
Software Engineer

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How would you describe your time at Mobilvox?

Supervisor: Todd Orange - torange@mobilvox.com

- Performed software development in primarily Java, Javascript, and CSS.

- Developed AJAX enabled object-oriented Javascript components, including a suggest-box and a map component.

- Contributed to ArcObjects GIS Server map generating back-end.

- Developed web applications and components using the Struts and Tiles Frameworks.

- Developed Portlets for use in a web portal.

- Designed and documented software before writing code.

- Managed JAR files and sourcecode using Maven2 and CVS.

- Led and participated in design reviews.

- Developed, documented and implemented testing plans.

- Maintained the Mobilvox website using Adobe GoLive.

- Created and maintained the Mobilvox company portal.

- Performed research in selecting a Java Speech-To-Text/Text-To-Speech API.... read more
Pennslyvania College of Technology August 2003 to December 2003
Computer Programming Tutor

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How would you describe your time at Pennslyvania College of Tec...?

Supervisor: Jennifer Hammond - jhammond@pct.edu

- Tutored in various computer programming classes and languages.

- Tutored "traditional" as well as "non-traditional" students.
GPU Energy May 2001 to September 2001
Summer Programming Intern

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How would you describe your time at GPU Energy?

Supervisor: Donald Kujawski - (717)-738-0046

- Learned an employee's morning tasks.

- Automated an employee's morning tasks using a combination of Perl, wget, Excel and Visual Basic for Applications.

- Created a system for graphing power outages read from a database in Visual Basic and Java.
Ralad Architects January 2001 to July 2001
Web Developer

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How would you describe your time at Ralad Architects?

Supervisor: Aaron Pavely

- Developed website using PHP, and MySql for displaying the company's portfolio of clients.

Education

Pennsylvania College of Technology December 2002 to December 2004
B.S. Internetworking Applications

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Pennsylvania College of Technology September 1999 to December 2002
A.S. Programming and Database

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Berks Career and Technology Center September 1996 to June 1999
Micro Computer Technology Specialist Certificate

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Andrew's Network

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Devin Courtney
Sean Chambers
Jason Behory
Network Engineer,
Mobilvox
Ken MacPherson
Technical Recruiter,
Arcus
Technology Suppor...,
Extreme Holdings
Frederick Leer
Business Administ...,
shippensburg univ...

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Recommendations

Mark Butler
Technology Support Specialist at Extreme Holdings

Andrew has been a top notch programmer in every language he knows. He is the type of person any company would be honored to have with a great personality and the knowledge of one with great knowledge and experience.

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