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Jonathan W. Hendry Chicago, Illinois, 60605

Objective: To obtain a position that allows me to utilize my skills at developing software using object-oriented languages and techniques.

Relevant Skills

Languages: Java, Objective-C, ANSI C, SQL, Perl, Adobe Postscript, TCL, Python
Operating Systems: Unix (BSD 4.3/4.4), Windows 2000, MacOS X, NeXTSTEP/OpenStep
Technologies: EJB/JSP, XML, XSLT, HTML, JavaScript, BEA Weblogic
Frameworks: Cocoa AppKit/Foundation, J2EE & JDBC, SAX, DOM
Databases: Oracle, Sybase
Version control: RCS, CVS, DevMan, ClearCase

Employment

5/2000—3/2001 Britannica.com, Chicago, Illinois
Senior Software Engineer, Taxonomy Development Group

Member of Taxonomy Technologies. Implemented improvements to Weblogic EJB-based APIs for accessing proprietary and RetrievalWare index information stored in Oracle databases. Collaborated with in-house users to refine and enhance those APIs. Wrote Java and XSL code to manipulate and transform XML search engine results into XML and HTML. Implemented 'Nations Page' HTML display.
[Skills: Java, JDBC, EJB, Weblogic, JSP, XML, XSLT, Oracle, Clearcase]

7/1997—4/2000 Bank One Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
Programmer-Analyst / "Systems Officer"

Developed and tested front office trading software, back-office maintenance utilities, and class frameworks using the OpenStep environment on Mach and NT. Developed middle office interface simulator to improve regression test automation. Updated, modified, or created Perl or TCL scripts for use in regression test automation.
[OPENSTEP/Mach, OPENSTEP/NT, EOF, RCS, Sybase, Perl, TCL]

3/1997 — 7/1997 SAIC, La Jolla, California
"Allekto" Project
Driver Developer (Contract/Perm, via Aerotek)

Developed NextStep-based distributed object "device drivers" for a complex multi-robot bioinformatics system.
(Project canceled 6/97)
[NEXTSTEP, EOF, PDO, Oracle]

6/1995 — 3/1997 Steel Driving Software, Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio
Contract Engineer / Principal

Clients:
   Lexis-Nexis, Dayton, Ohio
Part of a two-person team, implemented a prototype data retrieval system using NextStep and Oracle.
[NEXTSTEP, EOF, Oracle]
   SENCO Products, Cincinnati, Ohio
Developed portions of a NextStep-based customer service support system, as a member of a 5 person team.
[NEXTSTEP, EOF, Sybase]

6/1994 — 6/1995 Vanguard Software Corp.
Software Engineer

Developed NextStep applications for Vanguard's clients.
(Vanguard was acquired by Swiss Bank Corp. in 1995)

Clients:
   SENCO Products, Cincinnati, Ohio
Developed portions of a suite of client-server customer service support applications using NextStep and Sybase as part of a 5 person team. Implemented tools for nightly conversion of mainframe-generated flatfile data into business model objects for updating the front-end system's Sybase database.
[NEXTSTEP, EOF, Sybase]

   Swiss Bank Corp., Chicago, Illinois
Developed bank-proprietary licensing software.
[NEXTSTEP, DBKit, Sybase]

3/1993—9/1993 Anderson Financial Systems, Inc., Springhouse, Pennsylvania
3/1992—9/1992 Software Developer (two 6-month co-op positions)

Developed and tested portions of NextStep-based front office trading software, components, and class frameworks.
[NEXSTEP]

Education Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
B.S. Computer Information Systems 1994

References Available on request.

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