Walt Schlender

ph:                    510-280-4586

email:                walt.schlender@gmail.com

web:                  http://www.waltschlender.com

 

Prior Work Experience

Software Consulting Oct 2008 – Present

á  TeakMotionVisuals – FLEX software architecture and programming help e-commerce and advertising Flex sites

á  Teaching – Flex for AcademyX

á  Various Smaller Clients – FynSpire, KidBombay, AlLuckow Consulting, ReliaTechÉ – Flash/Flex architecture and programming help

 

Mousecloud – chief technical officer and lead developer Mar 2007 – Oct 2008

á  Developed scalable flash based web conferencing application – currently deployed by Calliflower.com including managing and training 3 person development team from 0 flex experience to flex expert level.

 

Software Consulting bLineCreations 2005-March 2007 – Various Clients

á  GAP Inc. - Customer service training games built in flash

á  OurChart Inc. - Social network graphing applications built in flash

á  TurnHere Inc. - Custom flash video players + concept flash widget and promotional pieces

á  Precor Inc. - C# testing applications to test wireless communication for exercise machines

á   Dave Blau Product Development – Firmware programming for exercise machines

á  EventRobot Inc. - Flash based audio players

á  Justin.TV – Developed the second version of the chat for Justin.tv

á  StrikeIron.com - web service demos for the Salesforce conference

á  MotionResearch – firmware programming – Motorcycle heads-up displays

á  University of Colorado CIRES research – weather radar data acquisition programming

Various smaller clients

 

Software Skills

á  Linux/Unix provisioning and administration

á  Amazon EC2/S3 development

á  Ruby/Rails development

á  ActionScript 3 – Flash CS3/4/Flex/AIR – Including work with remoting, video streaming, RTMP servers, BlazeDS and AMFPhP

á  Java – Spring, Hibernate, Experience with self-signed applet construction

á  Architecture experience – SOA architectures, web scalability, work with message queueing

á  UML experience – sequence diagramming, object modeling

á  HTML/CSS, AJAX, JavaScript, PHP, Google MAPS/Search APIs, MYSQL

á  Hardware programming – PicMicro

 

Other notable skills/talents

á  Member of Toastmasters International – Have given several speechs to software user groups in the bay area – the topic has been Flash and Flex

á  Member of various performance improv theater performance troupes 2004-present

 

Education

á  BA in economics with emphasis on econometrics from the University of Washington - 2005