Michael Bosworth

Ankeny, IA 50023 Contact

EDUCATON:

2005 Iowa State University Ames, IA B.S., Computer Engineering

2000 Logan-Magnolia High school Logan, IA Diploma

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Balanced Scale Media, LLC January 2008 to Present, Founder and Developer - Drupal archecting, development, and maintainence, Wordpress themes, Magento themes, HTML/CSS cutup work, PHP development, MySQL management, domain and email management.

Meredith Corporation September 2006 to Present, Associate Systems Engineer - Lead front end developer, associate server side developer, and JavaScript architect. Developing cutting edge Ajax applications on a J2EE/ATG plaform. Develop and maintain JavaScript standards and a custom built script management framework. New application and application maintenance on bhg.com, lhj.com, more.com, parents.com, fitnessmagazine.com, and midewestliving.com among many others. Working with third-party companies such as Pluck and Clear spring. Worked with third party api's including Facebook. Technologies used include: Actionscript (Flash), JavaScript (MooTools), HTML/XHTML, XML, CSS, JSP, SQL, and Java. Software used: IntelliJ, Eclipse, ATG Dynamo Server, Ant, CVS, Oracle.

Eller Enterprises January 2006 to September 2006, Web Master - Developed, designed, maintained, and promoted ellerdevelopments.com. Redesigned, maintained, and promoted eviationjets.com. Maintained and promoted westtowne.net. Designed company logos, business cards, and letterheads. Technologies used include: Actionscript (Flash), Javascript, HTML/XHTML, XML, CSS, ASP.NET (C#). Software used: Macromedia Studio 8.

Quality Attributes May 2005 to December 2005, Graphic Designer/ Programmer - Developed system/floor plan graphics, helped developed software in major company project using C#, produced various software solutions in VBA, C#.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Related Coursework: Object Oriented Analysis, Software Development, Operating Systems, Real Time Systems, Embedded Systems.

Technical Software: M-Graphics, Visio, Macromedia Studio 8, Visual Studio Eclipse, Visual Studio, IntelliJ, Ant, FlexBuilder

Familiar Operating Systems: Linux, OSX, Windows, Solaris

Languages I Use Regularly: JavaScript (MooTools, jQuery, Prototype), Java, SQL, PHP, JSP, CSS, HTML/XHTML, Flex, ActionScript 3

Languages That I Am Familiar With (But Need To Brush Up On): C/C++, C#, ASP.NET, VB

Open Source Technologies: Wordpress, Drupal, Magento

SPECIAL SKILLS/ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

- 2009/2010 Conducted JavaScript Training at Meredith Corporation

- 2009 Completed Accelebrate ActionScript 3/Flex Training

- 2009 Creative Excellence Nomination for FitnessMagazine.com's You Can Do It application.

- Spring 2008 Lead Front end developer and JavaScript architect at Meredith Corporation

- Fall 2005 Team Leader in senior design observatory automation project

INTERESTS :(in no particular order)

Spending time with my wife, skateboarding, problem solving, reading, travel, outdoors, playing guitar, writing/recording/performing music.