Scott King Walker

Last updated October 7th 2011
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SCOTT KING WALKER

540-338-9223 -

Purcellville, VA 20132

http://ScottKingWalker.emurse.com

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SUMMARY 
Experienced Software Engineering Leader with 4 years of team management experience and expertise in Cloud Computing, Search Engine Technology, Publishing Systems, and Agile Development.

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OBJECTIVE 
To lead and/or manage a software development team building reliable, mission critical software systems by leveraging web services and cloud computing infrastructure.

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WORK EXPERIENCE 

October 2011 - Present

Sterling, VA

Software Development Manager, Verisign, Inc.

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March 2010 - July 2011

Herndon, Virginia

Software Development Engineer, Amazon Web Services
  • Key member of the collaborative team that built Amazon's VM Import Service, which allows customers to migrate existing virtual machines from other virtualization platforms onto the Amazon EC2 platform via a REST API.
  • Built components leveraging other AWS Services including S3 (Simple Storage Service), EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), EBS (Elastic Block Storage), RDS (Relational Database Service), SDB (Simple Database), VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) and Amazon's CloudWatch monitoring.
  • Built, extended, and maintained components in Ruby, Java J2SE, and Microsoft Visual C++, on Linux and Windows, and leveraged a variety of open source components including Active Record, Log4r, RubyGems, XML, and YAML.
  • Identified unacceptable operational complexity in a key system component and proposed the redesign that allowed the successful multi-region deployment of the VM Import service.
  • Responsible for full life cycle development including requirements gathering, system and component design, implementation, unit testing, code reviews, integration and system level testing, operational deployment and operational monitoring.

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April 2008 - January 2010

Dulles, Virginia

Principal Software Engineer, AOL Inc. / AOL LLC
  • Collaboratively developed software in Java and MySQL to implement community features via a REST API for AOL websites including comments, message boards, tagging, ratings, and other user feedback.
  • Independently developed software in Java to intelligently cache RSS feeds for AOL.com portal.
  • Directed software development by other engineers, provided design guidance, and conducted code reviews.
  • Coordinated with other development teams, locally, remotely, and internationally.
  • Collaborated on projects developed via Agile Programming methods including a Scrum variant.
  • Reviewed architectural designs of software systems for scalability, reliability, and security.

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June 2004 - April 2008

Dulles, Virginia

Technical Manager, Software Development, AOL LLC / America Online
  • Managed a team of 13 software engineers, both locally and remotely.
  • Provided regular employee feedback, coaching, mentoring, and quarterly reviews.
  • Interviewed candidates, made hiring decisions, and set compensation.
  • Communicated and implemented company policy.
  • Coordinated with other development teams, locally, remotely, and internationally.
  • Traveled extensively to meet with employees, customers, and other development teams.
  • Tracked project schedules and budgets.
  • Managed projects following an established Software Development Life Cycle process.
  • Managed projects developed via Scrum / Agile Programming methods.
  • Reviewed architectural designs of software systems for scalability, reliability, and security.

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January 1998 - June 2004

Dulles, Virginia

Senior Software Engineer, America Online, Inc.
  • Designed and developed software for search systems in C++, Java, Perl, and Tcl.
  • Participated in the Software Development Life Cycle process from initial requirements gathering through maintenance.
  • Integrated Personal Library Software projects into AOL Systems after company acquisition.
  • Maintained and extended the search kernel (CPL) used by AOL Search and other projects.
  • Developed a Tcl API to allow real time monitoring of popular queries.
  • Developed filtering software to make AOL Search kid-safe.
  • Performed light system administration duties on a variety of Unix and Linux platforms.

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January 1995 - January 1998

Rockville, MD

Software Engineer, Personal Library Software
  • Ported CPL (Callable Personal Librarian) search software to many different operating systems including IRIX, NCR UNIX, OS/2, Macintosh, Digital Unix, and AIX.
  • Maintained and extended the CPL search kernel.
  • Wrote and maintained makefiles to facilitate building CPL and other software.

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EDUCATION 

University of Maryland at College Park, Spring 1995

Master of Science in Computer Science

 

University of Maryland at College Park, Spring 1993

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, with Departmental Honors

 

University of Maryland at College Park, Spring 1992

Bachelor of Science in Architecture, with General Honors

 

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SKILLS 
Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, EC2, EBS, S3, Cloudwatch, Java (J2SE), MySQL, XML, Tomcat, Apache, Eclipse, Netbeans, Linux, SVN, Maven, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, C/C++, Tcl, Perl, SQL, Unix, Windows, CVS, Clearcase, SOLR/Lucene.

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AWARDS AND HONORS 
  • Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America Troop 473
  • Winner of 1988 Young American House Design Contest, Montgomery County Construction Trades Foundation. Young American XVIII was constructed to my design in 1988-1989 by MCPS vocational students.

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COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT 
  • Boy Scout Troop 711 - Assistant Scoutmaster, previously Committee Member
  • Cub Scout Pack 711 - Cubmaster - served 2 years
  • Venture Crew 711 - Founder, Venturing Advisor
  • Purcellville Economic Development Advisory Committee - Served 2 years
  • Purcellville Parks and Recreation Advisory Board - Served 2 years
  • Patrick Henry College - Adjunct Instructor of Computer Science

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