Walt Schlender
ph:
510-280-4586
email:
walt.schlender@gmail.com
web:
http://www.waltschlender.com
stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/749709/walta
Prior Work Experience
Software Consulting Oct 2008 – Present
á Contracting – development
and software instruction – Ruby/Rails, Flex, Android, HTML, JavaScript,
for various clients
á Independent software projects
– Android Apps with tens of thousands of ACTIVE users – Speaking
Chinese FlashCards, PoetÕs Corner, iTazer
á Clients include – Adobe,
VMWare, Oracle, Teak Interactive, LA Metro, FynSpire, KidBombay and othersÉ
– 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, Android App Development
á Architecture experience –
SOA architectures, web scalability, work with message queueing
á HTML/CSS, AJAX, JavaScript, PHP,
Google MAPS/Search APIs, MYSQL
á Hardware programming –
PicMicro, Arduino
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
Education
á BA in economics from the
University of Washington - 2005