James Williams 

Objective: 
Work with a team of highly motivated and skilled developers to do challenging work 
quickly with a focus on quality and a superior user experience.

Contact Information: 
James Williams
7980 Shadow Oak Dr.
North Charleston, SC 29406

Cell: 843.323.0627
Email: james@jameswilliams.me

Key Skills: 
* Visual Basic.Net
* The .Net Framework, WinForms
* Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL queries, indexing, performance, etc.
* Microsoft SQL Server SQL CLR procedures
* Generating and parsing XML within .Net and Microsoft SQL Server
* Objective-C, Cocoa, Cocoa Touch
* Javascript, HTML, CSS, etc.

Employment Experience: 
Blackbaud, Inc. 		Senior Software Engineer
						June 2005 - Present

At Blackbaud, James works within a larger team to develop an enterprise-grade 
application platform used build best-in-class enterprise fundraising solutions 
using technologies ranging from .Net and Microsoft SQL Server 
to web services, Javascript and HTML.

James writes and works with code that must be able to input, manage, transform, 
and report on tens of millions of records without performance issues. Over the past
eight years, he has developed skills for writing efficient SQL Server queries (and 
tuning existing ones), finding and removing bottlenecks from HTTP web service 
traffic, and writing fast, correct code in general. 

During his time at Blackbaud, James has led development teams and mentored new 
developers. He has been involved with transitions from waterfall development
methodologies to Scrum and modified agile processes inspired by Marty Cagan. 

Relevant, Non-Work Interests: 
Cocoa Development

In 2005, James bought his first Macintosh. Since then, he has fallen in love with 
Objective-C and Cocoa, the main framework in Mac OS X. He is self-taught on these
technologies, and he is proficient in: 

* Objective-C
* Cocoa
* Cocoa Touch
* The OS X network stack (including the high-level NSURLConnection classes and the 
middle-level CFNetwork framework)
* Macintosh user experience design

Education: 
Clemson University 		2001 - 2005

James graduated from Clemson University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 
Computer Science with a minor in Mathematical Sciences. Details of various honors, 
societies, scholarships, etc. are available upon request.

Clemson offered the standard vocational-focused computer science bachelor’s degree. 
Some wheres to which James was exposed at school (and have been a factor in his 
later successes) include:

* Java
* C
* C++
* Formal computation and automata
* Operating systems
* Complex data structures
* Machine architecture and assembly programming (using the SPARC assembly language)