Michael Ormsby

24 Dawn Heath Drive

Littleton, CO 80127
michael.ormsby@gmail.com
303 933 7793 (home)
303 946 3678 (cell)
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Career Objective
A web design and development position offering interesting work utilizing some of the following
interests:
Web design, web application design, HTML, CSS, Adobe Flex / Flash / AIR
Implementing web applications and dynamic HTML
Programming in Actionscript, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, and Java
User Interface design
Digital photography, digital video
UNIX, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris

Web Programming, Authoring, Admin Skills

HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, liquid layout. XML, XSLT, XPath. Adobe Flex 3, some familiarity with 4.
Adobe AIR. Actionscript, Javascript, PHP, SVG, DOM API, Ajax. jQuery Javascript library. Eclipse,
Ruby, Perl, Java 5, JSP. Omniture. Apache Velocity and VTL. Apache web server administration. HTTP,
DNS.

Web Front End and Media Skills

User Interface design. Drawing wireframes. Adobe CS4 apps: Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator. Adobe Flex
3 / AIR certification (ACE). Digital photography, digital image manipulation and formats. Video file
formats, conversions, and encodings such as H.264. Some familiarity with shooting and editing video
footage.

Web Application Frameworks and Infrastructure

Apache Struts, Apache Beehive, Ruby on Rails, servlets, web services. BEA WebLogic Portal,
WebLogic Server, Workshop, and Console.

Database Skills
Relational database design, SQL, JDBC, Oracle.

Other Programming Languages

C++, C, UNIX shells.
Programming Design Methodologies
UML notation. Use Cases. Design Patterns. OOP.

Hardware and Operating Systems

Apple hardware and OS X. Sun Solaris. Wacom graphics tablet. UNIX / Linux system APIs. PC
assembly. Linux installation and configuration. FreeBSD.

Management Skills
Mentor junior team members in design and programming skills
Maintain team morale
Work with clients to ensure that requirements are realistic, satisfy business needs, and
documented
Generate resource and cost estimates

Recent Experience
February 1998 Web Developer, Qwest Information Technologies, 930 15th St., Denver, CO
to March 2009
80202.
Designed and implemented the bundles section of the Qwest shopping cart using
Javascript, CSS, and jQuery to implement DHTML functionality in Qwest.com.
Used Omniture and LivePerson to analyze user experience in Qwest.com.
Participated in architectural discussions of using Flex in the small business self-
service portal.
Used Photoshop CS4 to generate and modify GIF images.
Used the Flash CS4 authoring tool to modify promotional material in Flash movies.
Implemented internal search engine functionality on top of the Ultraseek product.
Worked with the CMS team using Apache Velocity.
Qwest MyAccount portal (online billing, ordering, and service).
Designed the Billing and Payments section of the MyAccount Overview page.
Implemented back-end Java / J2EE programming to fetch customer data.
Coded an XSLT template to transform XML from the back-end to a layout
based on customer data such as payment preferences and whether they have
a positive or negative balance. Implemented the front-end HTML and CSS
which displays the section of the page.
Implemented an XSLT template which dynamically constructs a list of
navigation links based on a customer profile for the Bill Details page.
Implemented a webservice to retrieve customer account preferences using
SOAP, WSDL, Java, and BEA WebLogic Server servicegen.
Internal web application for querying a call record database used for billing
verification, law enforcement queries, voice network debugging, and auditing.
Designed and implemented the web client using dynamically generated HTML,
JavaScript, Java servlets, JDBC, and BEA WLS.
Designed the call record database using Oracle. The database contains close
to a billion rows.
Designed, implemented, and administered internal websites which document
various applications.
Implemented an internal web-based configuration and management utility for the
 retail store application using Struts, JSP, JavaScript, and Java servlets.
Designed and implemented an XML based language called TCML to represent
switch billing information. Evangelized this representation to corporate architects
and switch vendors.
Designed and implemented a browser-based application for correcting switch
billing records using PHP and XML.
Designed, implemented, tested, and documented a telecommunications mediation
application between wireless voice switches and business systems in C++ with
STL under Solaris. Authored specifications, use cases, and UML diagrams for this
project. Tuned this application to support high volume and high availability on a
Sun E4500 multiprocessor machine. This application processed approximately 75
million call records per week in near-realtime.
Designed and developed an RPC-based program to fetch call records from remote
switches for the above system. This replaced a licensed system which cost Qwest
Wireless $500,000 per year.
Maintenance for a web-based order entry system for wireless service under Linux.

August 1996 to Application Designer and Developer, Xi Graphics Inc., 1801 Broadway,
January 1998
Denver, CO 80202.
Specified, designed, implemented, and documented a graphical configuration
application under Linux and BSD. Worked with market analysts, designed the GUI,
prototyped and reviewed alternative designs, and implemented the application in
C.
Designed an email application under Linux and BSD. Implemented the mail viewer
portion of this application. Application was coded in C++ with STL.
Established direction for graphical desktop product. Analyzed customer
requirements, and conducted a series of meetings to brainstorm and gather
feedback from sales force. Wrote proposals describing alternative product
offerings, relative costs, and technical considerations.

March 1993 to Software Engineer, Lucent Technologies, formerly AT&T Bell Labs, 120th
October 1993
and February
and Pecos, Westminster CO 80234.
1995 to August Design and implementation of software for a MultiMedia Communications
1996 Exchange (MMCX) server using C++ and real-time UNIX. The server and
associated client application enabled calls involving voice, video, and shared
applications between workstations over IP networks and the public telephone
system. Designed a component which provided a high level transport layer
interface and which managed the topology of multimedia calls, interworking with
the PSTN, and server resource allocation.
Created a PBX protocol converter using Rumbaugh OMT methodology and a
customizable state machine implemented in C++ under UNIX.

Earlier Experience
November
1993 to Software Engineer, US West Communications.
February 1995
July 1991 to
March 1993
Software Engineer, Evolving Systems, Inc..
June 1990 to
June 1991
Software Engineer, Cadis, Inc.
September
 September
1987 to June Software Engineer, McDATA Corporation.
1990
June 1984 to
September Software Engineer, IBM Corporation.
1987

Education
Certificate of Completion, Web Site Design and Development, The Art Institute of Colorado,
Denver, Colorado 80203
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, With Honor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
84112
Bachelor of Architecture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York 11205

Hobbies
Drawing, cartooning, digital photography. Some of my photographs have been included in the Schmap
Denver Guide.