Jim Ludwig

Seattle, WA

currently: Happily employed

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Are you willing to relocate?

Regarding willingness to relocate, I take the extremes: while I'm not even willing to take a job on the East Side of Seattle (Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland), I would be completely willing to relocate to Czech Republic or to France.

Posted @ 03:33AM, May 03, 2008 by Jim Ludwig | Permalink
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Work history

AdReady July 2007 to the present
Software Engineer

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Vulcan March 2006 to May 2006
Senior Software Engineer

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speakeasy December 2002 to February 2006
Senior Software Engineer

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New Edge Networks March 2000 to February 2002
Senior Software Engineer

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Watchmark December 1995 to October 1998
Software Engineer

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How would you describe your time at Watchmark?

WatchMark made a suite of dovetailed products designed to support the build-out and management of wireless/mobile/cellular networks for telecommunications companies.

My primary focus was to go to a customer site, overseas, and to complete a bullet-list of tasks within six months. Most of this involved writing software to communicate on one side with WatchMark's network management software and on the other with a whole host of various network elements from various vendors (voice mail systems, short message systems, base station controllers, mobile switching centers, etc). I needed to ensure that the network management software was able to get/set fault management data and to get performance management data.

In addition to writing software, I often had to negotiate with other on-site vendors to ensure they were able to provide an API (or, at the least, a command-line interface) for managing their systems, as the whole idea was to provide a single network management interface to the network operations center (NOC) for a heterogeneous communications network.

While not overseas, I was on the team of engineers who wrote the next iterations of the network management software.... read more
Spry (CompuServe Internet Division) May 1995 to December 1995
Software Engineer

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Research Assistant

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How would you describe your time at University of Washington Hy...?

Primarily I aided a civil engineering professor and his team of graduate students with programmatically finding watersheds (water basins) and relevant information regarding those watersheds with the use of digital elevation maps. I also taught those graduate students the UNIX basics they needed to get by in the labs' computing environments.... read more

Education

University Of Washington September 1989 to August 1994
Computer Science

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