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Brett Batie
(208) 964-5513 Brett@BATIE.COM
23533 EAST PARK ROAD CATALDO, ID 83810
Professional Experience
Senior Software Engineer, Software Projects, Inc.08/08 - presentTelecommute
  • Work closely with clients via email, phone, and instant messages to get an overview of the features/products they desire. Take the request and write project specifications, estimate time, and set deadline. Keep clients informed with each step of the process and make necessary adjustments if the scope changes. Ultimately provide clients with a deliverable.
  • Develop/Maintain a variety of different e-commerce sites receiving up to 20,000 unique visitors per day and processing orders in excess of 10 million a year. Setup these sites to support features such as one-click orders, up sells, down sells, customer back-office and affiliate system. This uses SaaS (XML based API) to separate the business logic from the view.
  • Integrate the customers back-office with 3rd party APIs such as disk.com (for fulfillment), web checks (payment system), GetResponse (email marketing), Google AdWords, and Yahoo Search Marketing.
Technologies Used: AJAX, Apache, C#, C++, CentOS (Linux), CodeIgnitor, CSS, cURL, dompdf, Flash, FreeBSD, GeoIP, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Mercurial, MVC, MySQL, Nginx, OOP, pdftk, Pear, Photoshop, PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP-FPM, Regular Expressions, SaaS, Shell Scripting, SOAP, SSH, XML
Software Developer, Fluent Edge Technologies, Inc.06/06 – 08/08Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
  • Maintain/Debug/Re-write applications written in languages such as Cobol, VBScript and C# that communicate with multiple platforms such as HP3000, Windows, MSSQL Server.
  • Maintain/Debug/Re-write websites written in classic ASP receiving ≈25,000 unique hits (3,000,000 total hits) per day.
  • Design/Build/Test applications in C# and Java to work with Ecometry and/or Banking Systems.
  • Educate Cobol programmers with current object oriented methodologies.
Technologies Used: Ant, ASP, Batch Scripting, C#, Cobol, CSS, Ecometry, HP3000, HTML/XHTML, IIS, J#, Java, JavaScript, JScript, JUnit, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, NAnt, NUnit, OOP, PHP, PostgreSQL, Regular Expressions, RDP, SqlLite, Subversion, UML, VBScript, Visual Basic
Owner/Developer, Classic Web Development, LLC10/02 - presentCataldo, Idaho
  • Oversee all business operations including, but not limited to: business planning, marketing, sales, invoicing, taxes, product offerings and programming.
  • Discuss website design ideas with the client and graphic artist and create necessary code.
  • Maintain a web server using Apache on CentOS and provide technical support to all clients.
Technologies Used: AJAX, Apache, CentOS, CSS, cURL, Flash, HTML/XHTML, Java, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL, OOP, Pear, Photoshop, PHP 4, PHP 5, Regular Expressions, Shell Scripting, SOAP, SSH, Subversion
Other Relevant Experience
Software Engineer, FileToLink01/09 - present 
Responsible for engineering all features of FileToLink.com so that files as large as 2 Gigabytes can be uploaded and then shared between computers with the link that is generated. The uploaded files are stored on Amazon S3 (using cloud computing) and recently requested files are also stored locally for faster retrieval. This service makes it easy to share large files with friends, family, and co-workers.
Software Developer, CMS Made Simple06/04 - 06/05 
Develop a content management system targeted for novice users with a team of five developers. It is one of the most popular content management systems, with over 25,000 downloads during the time I contributed.
Tutor, Department of Veteran Affairs11/04 - 12/04 
Teach other Computer Science students the necessary skills to excel in their Data Structures class at the University of Washington.
Volunteer, NPower Seattle04/04 - 06/04 
Consult with non-profit organizations to help them use technology better by discussing their needs, answering their questions, and implementing solutions.
Education
University of Washington01/04 - 08/06Tacoma, Washington
Bachelor of Science in Computing & Software Systems
  • Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon - International Honor Society for Computer Science
Pierce College09/00 - 12/03Puyallup, Washington
Associate in Arts & Sciences