TIM J. CHADWICK

Entrepreneur, Programmer

 

Deadline-oriented

Ability to translate verbal problem into technological solution

Decision maker

Teammate

Problem-solver

Goal-oriented

Conscientious

Diplomatic

Career Highlights

1         Accepted as team member of Institute for Healthmetrics engineering. Mission oriented concern calls for the most dedicated and capable professionals to improve the complex world of medical information.

2         Major contributor to the IHM Meangingful Use Solution, one of the first available suites to implement the initial requirements for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

3         Engineered Oracle data warehouse release system for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance which served needs of both analytical and operational business activities.

4         Setup, administered, developed and maintained TechTarget data warehouse Cognos reporting infrastructure.

5         Obtained the first Masters of Science in Technological Entrepreneurship from Northeastern University.

6         Valued CollegiateLink Corp, and contributed to its acquisition by The New DJ Corp.

7         Major contributor to 1.0 release of SALink, a tool for student-activity departments which uses the J2EE platform and included a swing client, full web portal, and mobile content service.

8         Completed The Editor, effectively a web-enabled imitation of Microsoft Word with a versioning repository for NICU clinicians.

9         Developed the API of Cognos Transformer and AccessManager to create custom application: the AutoMapper, which reduced a 40 hour security task to less than 5 minutes.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dynamic Network Services, Inc. (Dyn)

Infrastructure As A Service (IAAS) Internet Company (www.dyn.com)

Database Alchemist 2011 - present

Dyn is the industry leader in DNS and email deliverability services. Uptime and scalability are the backbone of a company committed to engineering excellence, which prides itself for being one of the best places to work in the state of New Hampshire as well as the US. Scalability at Dyn means expertise with open source tools and going the extra mile in infrastructure. As the company has grown, the treatment of data has changed from a side effect of infrastructure, to a central asset in operations, planning, and new products and services. To lead the effort to best leverage data as an asset, I have been tapped as the Database Alchemist. The unique title implies the creative and out-of-box thinking that Dyn encourages, but also speaks to the nature of the role: a combination of developer and administrator that can bring experience in big data with traditional approaches and put a fresh perspective on solving scalability problems involving data. I am responsible for keeping all databases up and running efficiently, as well as contributing to the design of system, application and database architecture across the enterprise. Tools include MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, BIND, Linux, FreeBSD, Graphite, Tableau, Perl, Python, Java, all things bash, SQL and plenty of it.

 

INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH METRICS (IHM)

Mission Focused Medical Data Company (www.healthmetrics.org)

Engineer 2010 - 2011

The Institute for Health Metrics is a privately funded not-for-profit organization focused on developing an electronic data analytics system to support quality and operational improvement in hospitals, and research in public health and health care services. As a central component of its mission, IHM works with a network of leading hospitals and researchers to organize and analyze health information as part of a variety of programs to support quality of care research, measurement and improvement. Through its analytical research, IHM supports the development of electronic systems and services that transform raw data into actionable insight. We are a trusted intermediary among hospitals who are our business associates in compliance with applicable HIPAA regulations. IHM's technology stack includes Oracle, Postgres, MongoDB, Java, Groovy, Perl and all things bash.

 

TECH TARGET INC. (TT)

Technology focused Advertising/Media Company (www.techtarget.com)

Engineer 2006 - 2010

The needs of the Internet Marketing sector are pushing the data requirements of businesses every day. TechTarget leads the IT industry in online media, and their needs push that forefront of application and data requirements. I am the boss-declared "free safety" of a data warehouse team that combines traditional data warehousing techniques with enterprise java application requirements. Responsibilities include: maintaining application servers, building custom integration, designing front-end interfaces, building warehouse SQL structures, and writing internal utility applications. Technologies include, Cognos App Servers, Java, Perl, all things Oracle/MySQL. Recently lead effort to implement SVN into DW environment for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Was brought in by mentor at ADI to be technical lead on Cognos enterprise setup: Cognos8, with portal, Framework Modeler, Powerplay Transformer, and various reporting modules. Also wrote initial driver for allowing use of power cube technology to execute corresponding SQL statements for TechTarget "list cutting" analysis and operational needs. Implemented initial security schema and setup. Fleshed out CognosSDK layer for statistics reporting, wrote admin scripting for other team members to complete repetitive tasks in less time. Also prototyped similar functionality with the open source reporting package known as Pentaho.

 

COLLEGIATE LINK INC. (CL)

Computer Software Startup (www.collegiatelink.net) (Now a division of StudentVoice)

Founder / VP R&D, Web Architect 2003 - 2007

Served as web architect of a development team responsible for implementing the Student Activities (SA) Link product suite. The SA Link solution is a J2EE application utilizing Hibernate as the persistence mechanism, complimenting web portal, and WAP service for mobile-handhelds. Implemented XSLT Pipe design to accommodate multiple clients.  Responsibilities included: market research, workflow design, technical vision, system design, planning, integration design, employee training, coding. After getting products to market, valued company for acquisition.

 

ANALOG DEVICES INC. (ADI)

$2.5B Fortune 1000 Semi-Conductor Designer and Manufacturer (www.analog.com)

Application Analyst 2003 - 2005

Contributed to a team of business experts and system analysts in the Data Warehouse which supported well over 1000 users, and dozens of downstream applications including Microsoft Analysis Services Server, Hyperion-based reporting solutions, various custom applications, the executive-team reporting dashboard.  Responsibilities included analysis for request planning, integration design, documentation, and process design and documentation.  Contributed to 24/7 on-call service requirements, SQL/Unix coding, and enterprise batch schedule designs. It is at ADI that I wrote the mapper, which dug into the Cognos Powerplay Transformer and Access Manager (front of global LDAP) to engineer a program which allowed the security of thousands of sales reps and hundreds of territory dimensional data to be mapped in minutes, rather than the days and weeks it had formally taken other analysts on the team. The "AutoMapper" as mentioned above, has since been used by then mentor in role as Cognos consultant.

 

CLINICIAN SUPPORT TECHNOLOGIES (CST)

Computer Software Company

Junior Software Engineer 2002 - 2003

Served on development team responsible for implementing CST’s proof of concept software suite, BabyCarelink which increases the circle of care around the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit through targeted information to parents and clinicians. Created a web-accessible html editor for content creators and managers. This tool was supported by an instance of the semantic web that had fully RDF compliant architecture for integration with proprietary ontology engine and VSS document repository. Mastered web development technologies such as: JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, WebBehaviors (AJAX before it was AJAX), webServices and all things XML: XSLT, XQuery, XPath, and multiple DOM implementations. Used both Java and Microsoft platforms.

 

APRISMA MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES (AMT)

$2M Network Software Management Company (www.aprisma.com)

Assistant Web Master 2001

Maintained and developed the internal and external company website, using PERL, JavaScript and Adobe Photoshop.   Interacted closely with marketing, sales, and global partners groups for product and sales support.  Contributed to implementation of new website that still exists today. Result was initial exposure to cgi, and the client/server architecture of the web.

 

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

 

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY (NEU)

School of Technological Entrepreneurship (STE) (www.neu.edu/sote)

Gradudate Student 2006 - 2007

The NEU STE program takes the aspiring entrepreneur through a concentrated curriculum that provides tools and hands-on experience neeeded for building technology based businesses. Subjects include; budgeting and high-tech finance, opportunity assessments, technology based marketing for new ventures, intellectual property, operations management for tech firms, product development and others.  The program capstone resulted in a business plan and presentation to a panel of investors. The plan included execution of market surveys, extensive industry study, product prototyping, and creation of a software development plan and complimenting business / financial plan. Completed an indepedent study for product development using Agile development methodologies, supervised by Tom Ermolovich

 

WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (WIT)

Computer Science (WIT BCOS)

Student 1999 - 2003

Obtained a Bachelors in Computer Science.  Graduated with a 3.0 / 4.0 in a program well known for a reputation of applied skills combined with computing theory.  Concentration included "knowledge-mapping", while working with CST as well as graph rendering theory using tools such as JavaCC and my own topology engine as derived from the GraphViz graph engine by AT&T Bell labs

 

TECHNICAL SNAPSHOT

A team member that picks up the biggest challenges of the project and business.

As a contributor with a great range of backgrounds, Tim's role is whatever it takes to get the job done. Tim's experience moves up and down the technology stack, across multiple platforms. Tim's greatest strength is data modeling and component architecture. His experience in intense data driven businesses have focused him in meeting the demands of the business through data. In database technologies, Tim has extensive experience with Oracle, MySQL, Sybase and MS-SQL. Tim also has experience with Postgres and NoSQL solutions like MongoDB. His strength lies in Oracle and MySQL, and his most recent experience is dominated by MongoDB. In his last 2 roles, he was asked directly if he would consider accepting the role of DBA and represents a rare breed of programmer that can manage the responsibility of root and dba access without comprimising administrative priorities. At the server side layer, Tim's core competency is with Java and open source platforms but also includes experience developing Microsoft based components using the myriad of tools: Visual C++, .NET and VB. Tim also stays in touch with front end tools such as PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and toolkits such as GWT, JQuery or Dojo. Tim prefers to spend his day on the bash command line and daily uses tools such as perl, python, awk, mvn, and svn.

Hobbies

All of them. Love life, work hard, respect others.