William C. Wake

Work Experience

2001-present: Independent Consultant, as William Wake & Associates and Team Resonance LLC. Principal/Owner.

• XP and Scrum Coach. Process and skill coaching.
• Trainer. XP, Scrum, Test-Driven Development, Refactoring. Certified Scrum Trainer.
• Domains: Bioinformatics (Tools for DNA sequencing, and for analysis of STR, SNP, Mitochodrial, and Y-STR data); Financial Systems; E-Commerce.

1998-2001: Capital One. Richmond, VA.

• Architect, Customer Relations Management System (CRMS). Oracle, Java.
• E-Commerce Architect and Team Co-Lead, America One. Cellular phones and services.

1996-1998: MCI, contracted as a software consultant by DMR (an Amdahl Corporation). Durham, NC.

• GUI developer for Subnetwork Manager. Java, CORBA.
• Lead developer for CCMS WebSupport. Developer for CCMS, a (Clarify-based) help desk tool for local phone service. Webmaster for CCMS' home page.

1995-1996: Software Engineer. VTLS, Inc., Blacksburg, VA. NEXTSTEP. Web/Z39.50 search client.

1991-1994: Graduate Research Assistant. Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science. "Envision Project," a next-generation library. 

1987-1989: Part-Time Instructor (Computer Science). Rivier College, Nashua, NH.

1984-1991: Senior Software Engineer. Digital Equipment Corp., Nashua, NH. Compiler development for PDP-11 and Alpha.

Education

1990-1995: PhD Student (ABD), Computer Science, Virginia Tech.
     Proposal: A Model and Interface for Documents with Multiple Views.
1984: M.S., Computer Science, Virginia Tech.
1982: B.A., Computer Science, Mathematics, Music. University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse.

Technical Skills

Skills: Extreme Programming and Agile Software Development, Refactoring, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Web Development.
Programming Languages: C#, Java, etc. Sun Certified Java Programmer.
Systems: Windows, UNIX, Macintosh, NeXT, etc.

Author: Extreme Programming Explored (2001), Refactoring Workbook (2003), Design Patterns in Java (with Steve Metsker, 2006).

Professional

Member, Association for Computing Machinery.

Member, IEEE Computer Society.
Board Member, North American Simulation and Gaming Association.