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Bridge of Sighs (Ponte dei sospiri)
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My Resume

Additional forms of this document are available upon request.

Jason Weill

hireme@weill.org — http://weill.org

Objective

Software engineering work for network-enabled applications, with particular attention to usability and collaborative decision-making.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a Minor in Japanese, August 1999 – December 2002
Overall GPA: 3.44/4.00

International Christian University, Mitaka City, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Study abroad program, July 2002 – August 2002

Experience

Amazon.com, Inc., Seattle, Washington
Software Development Engineer, Email Platform, May 2006 – present

As a member of the Email Platform team, worked on the systems responsible for targeting, composing, and sending all e-mail that Amazon sends to its customers. Migrated two widely-used e-mail templates from an old architecture to a single unified template on our new architecture, bringing all six of Amazon’s marketplaces into feature parity and reducing upkeep development time.

CombineNet, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Product Engineer, May 2004 – May 2006

Worked with a team of engineers and researchers to develop web-based procurement applications for bid collection and scenario-based optimization. Improved the company’s application framework, based on Apache mod_perl and MySQL. Worked closely with project managers, fellow engineers, and software testers to ensure quality throughout the software engineering process.

Project Engineer, January 2003 – May 2004

As part of the project engineering team, worked with project managers and clients to develop customized solutions that extended CombineNet’s core framework to meet our clients’ needs. Developed databases, new features, and interface improvements that would eventually be brought back into the framework for use in all other client-facing projects.

Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
15-200 Course Assistant, August 2001 – December 2001 and September 2002 – December 2002

Worked closely with students in Data Structures (course number 15-200), a computer science course intended for non-majors. Assisted students in writing small weekly and biweekly projects using the Java Development Kit. Duties included weekly recitations, staff meetings, office hours in a computer lab, and grading of examinations.

Computer Associates International (now “CA, Inc.”), Islandia, New York
Intern — Unicenter Quality Assurance, June 2001 – August 2001

Assisted quality assurance (QA) engineers in testing of Unicenter 3.0, Computer Associates’ flagship product. Used Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0 to develop an application to aid in report processing. Also redesigned the intranet web page for the development QA team, utilizing JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets.