I currently work as the programming team leader at The IDEA Center in Manhattan Kansas. The IDEA Center is a nonprofit organization supporting the assessment and improvement of teaching, learning, and administrative performance with clients across the nation. My job is to design, develop, and maintain a system to handle all of the processing at the center. The system includes a web application, multi-threaded Java server, multiple MySQL 5 databases, and a variety of client side Java swing based graphical user interfaces.
 
I graduated from Kansas State University with a B.S. in Computer Science in December 2002. I’ve attended the 2005-2008 JavaOne conferences in San Francisco, in 2006 I completed a one week "MySQL 5.0 for Developers" course in Washington DC, and I've attended the 2007 and 2008 MySQL conference in Santa Clara CA. I also have my MySQL 5.0 Developer certification.
 
I currently work with Java (JDBC, Threads, Servlet, JSP, Swing GUIs, I/O, JUnit, 2D Graphics, Generics, Collections), Hibernate, SQL (MySQL database creation and optimization), HTML, CSS, XML, Subversion (version control), Apache Tomcat (application server), Apache Ant (build tool), Atlassian JIRA (issue management), Eclipse and Xinox JCreator (IDEs), Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver, MS Office, Windows, and Linux. I have also worked with C/C++, PHP, NetBeans, Oracle, and MS Access in the past.
 
My web design projects include my personal site, a marketing website for Bullfish Concepts in Hutchinson KS, a site redesign for P.J.’s Restaurant and Pub in Manhattan KS, and SnuggyFudge Productions.