Michael Ormsby

24 Dawn Heath Drive

Littleton, CO 80127
michael.ormsby@gmail.com
303 946 3678 (cell)
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Skills in Mind Map format

Career Objective
A web design and development position offering interesting work utilizing some of the following
interests:
Web design, web application design, HTML, CSS, Adobe Flex / Flash / AIR
Implementing web applications and dynamic HTML
Programming in Actionscript, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, and Java
User Interface design
Digital photography, digital video
UNIX, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris

Web Programming, Authoring, Admin Skills

HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, liquid layout. XML, XSLT, XPath. Adobe Flex 3, some familiarity with 4.
Adobe AIR, Cairngorm. Actionscript, Javascript, PHP, SVG, DOM API. jQuery Javascript library.
Eclipse, Ruby, Perl, Java 5, JSP. Omniture. Twitter and Scribd APIs. Apache Velocity and VTL. Apache
web server administration. HTTP, DNS.

Web Front End and Media Skills

User Interface design. Drawing wireframes. Adobe CS4 apps: Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator. Adobe Flex
3 / AIR certification (ACE). Digital photography, digital image manipulation and formats. Video file
formats, conversions, and encodings such as H.264. Some familiarity with shooting and editing video
footage.

Web Application Frameworks and Infrastructure

Cairngorm and Kingussie frameworks. Rails. Liferay Portal, Oracle (BEA) WebLogic Portal. Servlets,
JSR 286 portlets, web services. Apache Struts, WebLogic Server.

Database Skills
Relational database design, SQL, JDBC, Oracle.

Other Programming Languages

C++, C, UNIX shells.

Programming Design Methodologies

UML notation. Use Cases. Design Patterns. OOP.

Hardware and Operating Systems

Apple hardware and OS X. Sun Solaris. Wacom graphics tablet. UNIX / Linux system APIs. PC
assembly. Linux installation and configuration. FreeBSD.

Management Skills
Mentor junior team members in design and programming skills
Maintain team morale
Work with clients to ensure that requirements are realistic, satisfy business needs, and
documented
Generate resource and cost estimates

Recent Experience
December Flex Designer and Developer, Relationship Mapping, 2659 Dakota Place,
2009 to
present
Boulder, Colorado 80304.
Wrote Actionscript and MXML code to implement a collaboration software tool
involving mind mapping and visual representation of organizational structures
using the Cairngorm framework and RubyAMF.
Wrote usecases and created wireframes for this product.
Interfaced with Rails server side.
Created button icons using Adobe Illustrator.

June 2009 to Application Designer and Web Developer, Advantage Integrated Solutions,
December
2009
8851 E 29th Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80238.
Maintained and enhanced the Advantage SmartRoutes application using Adobe
Flex and Kingussie, a Cairngorm variant that works with Intuit's server
implementation. Added support for downloading routes to Garmin GPS devices to
this app. Reworked portions of the UI.
Designed and implemented a new portal project using Liferay, JSR 286 portlets,
Java, JSPs and QuickBase as the back-end.
Designed and implemented an Adobe AIR application to enable the offline entry of
contact and sales opportunity information and subsequent uploading to Intuit
QuickBase tables.
Inherited and rescued a portal project for Intuit implemented in J2EE, Javascript,
HTML and CSS. Had to redesign the creative concept and fix several thousand
lines of buggy JSP, HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
Maintenance of Ruby scripts for an inventory management application.
Various tasks using Adobe Photoshop to generate banner graphics for inclusion in
websites.

March 2009 to CoFounder, TwitDoc LLC

present
Worked with Bob Brinker to start TwitDoc.com
 Developed the website design and implementation using PHP, Adobe Flex, HTML,
and MySQL.
Designed and implemented an Adobe AIR client to enable posting of tweets and
associated documents, photographs, and movies to Twitter.

February 1998 Web Developer, Qwest Information Technologies, 930 15th St., Denver, CO
to March 2009
80202.
Set architectural direction and used Adobe Flex framework, web services to build
prototype of the small business self-service portal.
Used Omniture and LivePerson to analyze user experience in Qwest.com.
Designed and implemented the bundles section of the Qwest shopping cart using
Javascript, CSS, and jQuery to implement DHTML functionality in Qwest.com.
Used Photoshop to generate and modify graphics.
Used the Flash authoring tool to modify promotional material in Flash movies.
Implemented internal search engine functionality on top of the Ultraseek product
using Python.
Used the BEA (now Oracle) WebLogic Portal Workshop framework, Java, and
J2EE to implement shopping and MyAccount functionality in a WebLogic portal
environment.
Qwest MyAccount portal (online billing, ordering, and service).
Designed the Billing and Payments section of the MyAccount Overview page.
Implemented back-end Java / J2EE programming to fetch customer data.
Coded an XSLT template to transform XML from the back-end to a layout
based on customer data such as payment preferences and whether they have
a positive or negative balance. Implemented the front-end HTML and CSS
which displays the section of the page.
Implemented an XSLT template which dynamically constructs a list of
navigation links based on a customer profile for the Bill Details page.
Implemented a webservice to retrieve customer account preferences using
SOAP, WSDL, Java, and WebLogic Server servicegen.
Internal web application for querying a call record database used for billing
verification, law enforcement queries, voice network debugging, and auditing.
Designed and implemented the web client using dynamically generated HTML,
JavaScript, Java servlets, JDBC, and Weblogic server.
Designed the call record database using Oracle. The database contains close
to a billion rows.
Designed, implemented, and administered internal websites which document
various applications.
Implemented an internal web-based configuration and management utility for the
retail store application using Struts, JSP, JavaScript, and Java servlets.
Designed and implemented an XML based language called TCML to represent
switch billing information. Evangelized this representation to corporate architects
and switch vendors.
Designed and implemented a browser-based application for correcting switch
billing records using PHP and XML.
Designed, implemented, tested, and documented a telecommunications mediation
application between wireless voice switches and business systems in C++ with
STL under Solaris. Authored specifications, use cases, and UML diagrams for this
project. Tuned this application to support high volume and high availability on a
Sun E4500 multiprocessor machine. This application processed approximately 75
million call records per week in near-realtime.
Designed and developed an RPC-based program to fetch call records from remote
 switches for the above system. This replaced a licensed system which cost Qwest
Wireless $500,000 per year.

August 1996 to Application Designer and Developer, Xi Graphics Inc., 1801 Broadway,
January 1998
Denver, CO 80202.
Specified, designed, implemented, and documented a graphical configuration
application under Linux and BSD. Worked with market analysts, designed the GUI,
prototyped and reviewed alternative designs, and implemented the application in
C.
Designed an email application under Linux and BSD. Implemented the mail viewer
portion of this application. Application was coded in C++ with STL.
Established direction for graphical desktop product. Analyzed customer
requirements, and conducted a series of meetings to brainstorm and gather
feedback from sales force. Wrote proposals describing alternative product
offerings, relative costs, and technical considerations.

March 1993 to Software Engineer, Lucent Technologies, formerly AT&T Bell Labs, 120th
October 1993
and February
and Pecos, Westminster CO 80234.
1995 to August Design and implementation of software for a MultiMedia Communications
1996 Exchange (MMCX) server using C++ and real-time UNIX. The server and
associated client application enabled calls involving voice, video, and shared
applications between workstations over IP networks and the public telephone
system. Designed a component which provided a high level transport layer
interface and which managed the topology of multimedia calls, interworking with
the PSTN, and server resource allocation.
Created a PBX protocol converter using Rumbaugh OMT methodology and a
customizable state machine implemented in C++ under UNIX.

Earlier Experience
November
1993 to Software Engineer, US West Communications.
February 1995
July 1991 to
March 1993
Software Engineer, Evolving Systems, Inc..
June 1990 to
June 1991
Software Engineer, Cadis, Inc.
September
1987 to June Software Engineer, McDATA Corporation.
1990
June 1984 to
September Software Engineer, IBM Corporation.
1987

Education
Certificate of Completion, Web Site Design and Development, The Art Institute of Colorado,
Denver, Colorado 80203
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, With Honor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
84112
Bachelor of Architecture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York 11205
Hobbies
Drawing, cartooning, digital photography. Some of my photographs have been included in the Schmap
Denver Guide.