Brett Carter

Phone: (503) 680-2891

1420 NW Lovejoy #525

Portland, OR 97209

<brett@rdnzl.net>


Experienced Product Development Manager

Effective, motivated Product Development Manager with nine years experience developing, architecting, and managing large web application projects.  Background in small companies, flexible development teams, and efficiently and precisely meeting project requirements.  Organized and delivered two year long software releases from planning to deployment and support.  Expert in unix IT infrastructure with experience building out a data center.


Professional Experience

Kavi Corporation     1999-Present

Product Engineering Manager April 2006 - Present

●Responsible for the Product Development team consisting of six developers. 

●Researched javascript libraries for implementation of web 2.0 technologies; selected JQuery and built out infrastructure in the application.

●Responsible for several major software versions including deployment.

Software Engineer April 2002 - April 2006

●Responsible for helping to specify software development projects, and fully responsible for implementation and meeting the project time-line and goals.

●Designed and implemented an eCommerce gateway under budget and defect free.

Web Engineer June 1999- April 2002

●Responsible for custom development projects. Helped to specify, design, and fully responsible for implementation. 

●Responsible for second tier customer support.


Education

Willamette University

Salem, OR

Completed BS in Computer Science, math minor.


Professional Development

Technology Skills: Software installation, Server maintenance, Software optimization, Product development, Quality analysis, Software design, Test driven development

Managerial Skills: Project management, Cost/Benifit analysis, Team building, Research and Development

Training: Leadership Lab, DISC, Meyers-Briggs, Strengthfinders


Technical Skills

Languages

Python

Perl

PHP

XML

XSLT/XPath

Javascript

XSL-FO

XHTML


Software

Apache

Zope

Qmail

EZMLM

MySQL

CVS

JQuery

DocBook

Hardware/OS

x86

MIPS

Linux

OpenBSD

NetBSD

OSX

Windows 95/98

References available on request.