William Northway Jr.

Ann Arbor, MI 48103

Broad knowledge combined with an eagerness to learn, create, share and work collaboratively.

Work Experience:

Software Engineer 3: UI Specialist with Arbor Networks

June 2007 through present

Work with a small development team to help define the user interface for Arbor's network security and management product, Peakflow SP. Responsibilities include: developing dynamic, database and XML driven web applications. Participate in projects from early design phases through testing and debugging with QA. Gauge usability of existing features to make constructive changes. Manage relationships with contractors for UI design and augmenting coding work.

Webmaster with ITCS / UMCE, University of Michigan

January 2002 through May 2007

Freelance Programmer / Multimedia Developer as fluidthoughts.com

December 1998 to May 2007

Website development for an assortment of clients including: marra-bella, Northway / Hall Orthodontics, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Rocks and Robots Summer Camp, technical tutorials, web site hosting, technical lectures, and an email auto-response and tracking system.

Web Developer with Diamond Bullet Design

November 2000 to January 2002

Designed and built an e-commerce package with an emphasis on usability. Job duties included: database-backed web programming; organizing adoption of modern development methodologies; technical tutor; webserver system administration and project budget estimation. Primary projects included: moesportshops.com, granholmforgov.com and portfoliobuilder.net

Web Developer with CommerceOne, (formerly Appnet, Detroit (formerly Sigma6))

May 1999 to September 2000

Collaboratively created and maintained e-commerce websites. Wrote utility scripts, optimized images and HTML, and user strategy. Projects included: gale.com, jacobsons.com and michigannational.com

New Media Specialist in Office of Instructional Technology, University of Michigan

September 1998 to May 1999

Authored multimedia and websites for classroom instruction, consulted for faculty, and other various duties.

Instructional Assistant for EECS, University of Michigan

September 1997 to May 1998

Instructed lab courses on general computing usage, with a focus on Office. Developed and taught Photoshop curriculum, and maintained course webpage.

Consultant 3 for ITD, University of Michigan

June 1997 to September 1998

Desktop support for campus computing sites.

Open Source Projects

book of agreements (author)

Document / content management system used to track of an organization's agreements and minutes by committee and full group meetings. List by date, group, or search for content.

filedrawers (contributor)

An apache/php web-based openAFS file manager featuring dynamic HTML.

cosign module for drupal (author)

Drupal module supporting the single sign-on web authentication system, cosign.

Presentations:

AFS & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop, June 2006 Accessing AFS through the Web with Waklog

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Hobbies:

photography, vegetarian cooking, home improvement, organic gardening, ice hockey, taiji, homebrewing, mountain biking, snow sports, camping, waterskiing, racquetball, candlemaking and video authoring

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