Justin M. Bennett

Professional Objective

To obtain an IT or programming position where I will be challenged to perform to the best of my ability on a daily basis.

Education

B.S. in Computer Science, to be completed May 2009
Clarkson University
Overall GPA: xxx out of 4.00
A.S. in Computer Science, May 2007
Broome Community College

Work Experience

Web Developer (Co-op)
Lockheed Martin Systems Integration - Owego, NY
May 2008 - December 2008

Analyzed and resolved performance issues (related to inefficient database queries) in key application used site-wide. Also fixed several bugs in the programming that caused portions of the application to crash unexpectedly. Extensive experience working on a development team and using a configured IDE to modify version-controlled documents.

Web Developer
St. Lawrence - Lewis BOCES and Clarkson University - Potsdam, NY
February 2008 - May 2008

Worked on a team to design and implement a website for the St. Lawrence County Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Partnership. This site uses as its foundation the open source content management system WordPress and was styled and structured based on extensive discussion between our team of developers and the customer.

Information Technology Lab Services (Co-op)
Lockheed Martin Systems Integration - Owego, NY
May 2007 - August 2007

Assisted various US101 engineering labs with Disaster Recovery documents, computer networking, workstation support, server configuration and utilization, etc. This position gave me the opportunity to meet and work with many different people over the course of my time there. I also did support for the various remote sites connected to Lockheed's Owego plant.

Information Technology Lab Services (Contractor)
Lockheed Martin (through CTG)
November 2005 - May 2007

This position was a pre-cursor to the co-op position described above. My key responsibility during this time period was coordinating the updating and rotating of Disaster Recovery documents as they progressed through the offsite rotation process. This position also included extensive support activities for remote sites.

Awards and Honors

Clarkson Achievement Award, Clarkson University, 2007

My academic achievements and success at Broome Community College led one of my professors to recommend me for the Clarkson Achievement Award, a scholarship that Clarkson gives to applicants with an excellent academic record.

Projects

jmbennett.org. jmbennett.org is a personal website I started in September of 2007. Since I started it, I've become more and more familiar with web development and various open source web applications (see skills section below). Use of these programs has furthered my knowledge of PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS and XML. Since starting jmbennett.org I've also launched a few other websites including my wedding site and the St. Lawrence County STEM website.
Digital Lifelines - Google Android Developer's Challenge Entry. During the spring semester of 2008, a team of students (including myself) and a professor from Clarkson started programming an application in Java to run on the Android Platform. Our entry placed in the top 25% in the contest.

Professional Memberships

ACM
2007 - Present

Skills

Programming/Scripting Languages: Java, C/C++, Python, JSP, J2EE, PHP, MySQL, XML, XSLT, XHTML, CSS

Applications: Apache Web Server, IBM WebSphere, Eclipse IDE, IBM RAD, WordPress, phpBB, Drupal

Operating Systems: Fully capable of administering and developing on GNU/Linux (Debian/Ubuntu, Redhat/Fedora) and Windows (server and workstation platforms)

Natural Languages: English Native, Reading knowledge of Spanish.