Our CV

Max Newell and Amy Isikoff Newell

Mind-melded husband-wife development team, working in web technology since 1994

CONTACT

15 Alton Place, #3
Brookline, MA 02446
USA +1 617-713-0675
max@thirdbit-nospam.net
amy@thirdbit-nospam.net

TAGS

Rails, Java, Requirements, Agile, Web Apps

DOMAINS

Pharma, Biotech, Interactive, Advertising, Medical, Finance, Web2.0 social networking

PROJECTS and HISTORY

Max
  • Disaster Recovery plans for core finance apps.
  • Data-masking and database auditing app development for financial data security project
  • OLAP reporting system for consumer auto website stats analysis
  • developed Bell Atlantic’s first DSL web sales channel in 1998
  • technical lead for teams of up to 8 web systems developers
  • managed in-house content management system project as Verizon consolidated GTE and Bell Atlantic web presence

2004 - present: Consulting Software Engineer, various organizations

1997 - 2004: Director, Technology Services, Euro RSCG Circle

1994 - 1997: Kafka Consulting, Inc. Web Application Consultant

Amy
  • Developed Test Plan and Test Summary Report for remedial validation effort for software system for use in FDA-regulated drug development.
  • Edited handbook on systems development process for validated computer systems (GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, etc.) for in-house informatics departmental use.
  • Developed training materials and system documentation for secure document transfer application. Trained users.
  • Developed Java-based intranet app for biotech molecular pathology department workflow management.
  • Conducted user interviews and requirements analysis for development of an FDA-compliant specimen management system to replace legacy Smalltalk application.

2004 - present: Consulting Software Engineer, various organizations

2001 - 2003: Software Engineer, Informatics, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

2000: Teaching Fellow, Data Structures course, Harvard Extension School

2000: Software Engineer, Abuzz Technologies

1998 - 1999: Project Manager, Office of Educational Development, Harvard Medical School

Together

2007: as thirdbIT: Developing Ruby on Rails-based social networking web 2.0 app for startup firm

EDUCATION

Max

B.A. in French and History, Macalester College

C.A.S. Software Engineering Harvard Extension School

Training: Oracle 9i DBA training

Amy

A.B. in Comparative Religion and Women’s Studies, Harvard College

Graduate coursework in software engineering, Harvard Extension School

Training: Oracle SQL and PL/SQL, Mastering the Requirements Process, Validation of Computer Systems for Pharmaceutical R&D, Biotechnology for Professionals

Sun-certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform

KEYWORDS

Ruby on Rails, Java, Perl, PHP, Javascript, Actionscript 3, SQL, C, Bourne/Bash/Korn shell script, VBScript, Unix (OS X, Solaris, Linux, Tru64), Windows 2000/XP/2003, LAMP, Apache, sshd, BIND, Microsoft IIS, .NET, Oracle 8i/9i/10g, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, ProClarity Analytics (OLAP/BI), Google Maps API, ferret, AJAX, Capistrano, Mongrel, Lumigent AuditDB, BMC Control-M, Akamai EdgeSuite, Cygwin, CVS, Subversion, Java RMI and CORBA, Java servlets, JSPs, design patterns, OO development, Internet protocols, TCP/IP, network architectures, XML, JBoss, Tomcat, HTML, XHTML, PL/SQL, C#, CSS, Dreamweaver, JBuilder, Ant, TeamTrack, Clearcase, JUnit, StarTeam, TOAD, UML, database design, project management, research, presentations, meeting facilitation, data masking, disaster recovery, database auditing, data warehousing, OLAP, infrastructure, availability, hosting configurations, analytics, architecture analysis and documentation, Ubuntu, RedHat

INTERESTING

Max

plays violin in an amateur string quartet, speaks near-native French (and some German and Spanish), makes beautiful diagrams, commandline geek

Amy

gardens, paints, grinds own grain to bake bread, wanted to be an anthropologist