Crag Markwood

   Web Applications Developer

10+ years experience as a developer working on everything from public-facing websites to internal user tools.

Experience and proficiency in all application layers: UI, Logic and Persistence.

Articulate and easy-going with exceptionally strong writing and communication skills.

User Interface: JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, DHTML, Flash.
Logic Layer: Java, J2EE, JSP, Struts, XML.
Database layer: Oracle 10, Hibernate, SQLServer, MySQL.
Tools: Eclipse, Ant, JUnit, SVN, CVS, Perforce, Apache, Tomcat, Websphere, Toad, SQuirreL.
Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac, shell scripting.

Applications Developer - Biotechnology
CombinatoRx, Inc., Cambridge, MA, 2007-present.

• Developed J2EE and Java apps using Oracle, Apache Tomcat on XP, Unix / Linux with Eclipse, Ant, Perforce.
• Integrated new features into CRx's high throughput robotic screening platform.
• Wrote client-server and internal web apps using Java, JSP, JavaScript, AJAX and Oracle.
• Implemented a document repository with Oracle Full Text Indexing. Coupled the article repository to a SOAP web-service for journal article ordering. Wrote a second web-service client for article citation retrieval from PubMed's EFetch.
• Implemented an enterprise Java scheduler package for automated email alerts and updates.
• Built a J2EE, web-based cell line repository for warehousing cell line data in Oracle and coupled to the Sanger Institute's COSMIC database
• Authored many UI and usability enhancements using JSP, JavaScript and Ajax to improve the intranet, time management and compound library systems.

Sr. Web Developer - Financial Services
MFS Investment Management, Boston, MA, 1999-2007.

Developed applications for MFS's public website on Websphere, J2EE, Struts, Hibernate, Oracle, Apache, CVS.   Site Review.

• Acted as security lead, responsible for secure code reviews, pre-release source scans, quarterly penetration testing, remediation and threat modeling.
• Implemented two REST-based single sign-on services with high cryptography.
• JavaScript, CSS, D/HTML, Flash, ActionScript and Adobe suite.

WebMaster / Publications Assistant
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France, 4/98-9/99.

Supervised layout and production for IARCPress, the Agency's in-house publishing group. Responsible for cover design, layout, working with printers and coordinating workflows between authors for 12 science texts in 1998-99. Responsible for all marketing, from concept to design to working with service bureaus.

Managed editing and implementation of IARC's website. Designed and connected in-house databases to IARC's internet and intranet. Responsible for maintaining 24/7 webserver with HTTP, Proxy, and FTP.

WebMaster / Graphic Designer
Designers & Planners, Inc., Arlington, VA, 11/96-4/98.

Designed and built D&P's original website. Web-related graphic design and publishing. Converted graphics and archived video to QuickTime web movies and HTML.

Managed the layout, editing, and updating of the Navy's Environmental Handbook as well as coordinating chapter authors and verifying the accuracy of legislation. Audited US Naval Bases to help in their environmental planning.

Manager
Computers in Language, Education, and Work, The Monterey Institute of International Studies, 5/95-9/96.

Hired and supervised staff of twelve Graduate Teaching Assistants. Responsible for all purchasing of computers, hardware, and software.

Supervisor
Graduate Computing Center, The Monterey Institute, 10/94-8/95.

Supervised student lab, printers, and network. Installed software and peripherals.
Skills include: WWW, LAN, WAN, Intranet, PC and MAC fluency, email, conferencing, digital photography, Adobe, Microsoft, desktop publishing, video editing, multiple language applications.

Volunteer
United States Peace Corps, Morocco 1992-94.

Worked in a school for the blind. Taught environmental education and health. Designed an environmental seminar addressing sustainable development, water use and sanitation, desertification, and reforestation of indigenous tree species. Authored two grants including a $10,000 USAID Small Projects Assistance (SPA) grant. Served as elected chair on Volunteer Advisory Council.

MA, International Policy Studies, The Monterey Institute of International Studies, May 1996. Economics, French, Arabic.

BA, Literature, French Minor, Colorado State University, May 1992.

Courses in Spanish, French, and Arabic from Le Bureau d'Echanges Linguistique et Economique, Morocco, 1993-94.