Adam Mathes - Resume
Adam Mathes

amathes@cs.stanford.edu
http://www.adammathes.com


Objective:

    Change the world, possibly using computers. Specifically, to obtain
    an information architecture or software design position that
    involves the organization, persistence and accessibility of
    information.
    

Education:

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    M.S. in Library and Information Science, 2005
    
    Stanford University
    B.S. in Computer Science, 2002

Experience:

    Graduate Assistant
    Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois - Urbana, IL
    August 2004-May 2005
    
    Assisted with graduate level courses in electronic publishing and
    document modeling. Created programs to assess DTDs and XML
    documents. Conducted tutorial sessions on creation and editing of
    XML documents and DTDs using Emacs on Linux. Enhanced schema
    documentation toolkit.
    
    
    Web Architect
    Linn-Mathes Inc. - Chicago, IL
    August 2003-December 2003
    
    Designed and implemented corporate web site. Collaborated with
    management team in the development of goals and information
    architecture. Designed and implemented a database of projects,
    clients, and media assets. Produced a publishing and content
    management system for both HTML and PDF output.
    
    
    Intranet Developer
    KnowNow - Mountain View, CA
    June 2001-August 2001
    
    Independent contractor that designed, implemented, and deployed
    company-wide intranet, knowledge and content management systems.
    Customized and adapted a content management system I wrote and had
    previously licensed to the company. Integrated KnowNow's technology
    into the system to enable streaming updates to any web browser in
    real time. Practical experience guiding a project from design to
    deployment.
    
    
    Senior Production Engineer
    deepleap - Austin, TX
    June 2000-August 2000
    
    Worked in a small startup environment on the development of a
    critically acclaimed web browser assistant. Assessed and integrated
    new technologies into the web-based application including XSLT for
    better separation of content from presentation, as well as XML for
    output and syndication. Developed and extended existing perl
    codebase; optimized code and database. Contributed to overall
    software architecture and product design.
    
    
    Systems Administrator
    Department of Anthropological Sciences - Stanford, CA
    March 1999-June 1999
    
    Deployed and administrated a small Linux computer lab for software
    development and genetic research.
    
    
    Intern
    ingenious multimedia inc. - Chicago, IL
    June 1998-August 1998
    
    Designed and implemented web applications using HTML, SQL, VBScript,
    JavaScript, Microsoft Active Server Pages.
    

Technical Skills:

    Document Modeling: including the design and implementation of
    SGML/XML DTDs, and Relax NG schemas.
  
    Electronic Publishing and Content Management: development and design
    of work-flow, text transformations, CMS for personal publishing and
    corporate intranets.
  
    Information Architecture: strong background in library and
    information science foundations that apply to the organization and
    management of information, including metadata standards,
    classification schemes, knowledge representation, ontologies.
  
    Web Applications: extensive experience designing and developing
    web-based database backed applications on Unix systems using Apache,
    mod_perl, and MySQL.
  
    W3C Standards: knowledge of and practical ability to select and
    deploy technologies like XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, RDF, and others as they
    emerge.
  
    Programming: Perl, Python, Java, C, C++, Lisp, and Pascal.
  
    Databases: Understanding of SQL and database design, developing
    entity-relationship diagrams and specifications.
  
    System Administration: basic system administration tasks in Unix and
    Windows environments.
  
    Desktop Publishing: experience producing paper publications using
    Adobe Pagemaker and Indesign for page layout and Photoshop for
    digital image manipulation and enhancement.
  
    Web Design: competence producing standards-compliant, clean, HTML
    and XHTML pages that leverage CSS for design.
  
    Other Technologies: additional experience working with RSS, Flash
    Actionscript, XML-RPC, SOAP.