Joseph M. Brenner

1594 Sanchez St.
San Francisco, CA 94131

(415) 550-7352
doom@kzsu.stanford.edu

INTERESTS

FEATURED SKILLS

• Ability to convert business requirements into technical solutions, with a minimum of new development, using existing code libraries.
  
• Familiarity with standard software programming methodologies and development tools.
  
• Seasoned interdepartmental technical liaison, communicating with and balancing the concerns of different technical and managerial levels.
  
• Experience with Apache, perl, DBI, Advanced SQL and Unix.
  Also familiar with lisp, C, assembly, Visual Basic, Pascal, and Fortran.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

At Emusic, developed a promotional email/web form system (in Mason/mod_perl) to encourage customers to send short term "gift subscriptions" to their friends. This was a hurried Christmas season promotional effort that succeeded in achieving year-end subscription goals.

At Emusic, solved difficult problems in generating accurate royalty reports from the central Oracle database via some advanced SQL queries and post-processing in perl. Eventually, succeeded in fixing the database schema to simplify these problems.

Designed system of automatically generated web pages for easy updates of the Jade Monkey site, which continues to bring in orders from new customers every month with out any additional sales effort.

Performed localization engineering work involving coordination with multiple developers, linguists, build engineers and QA. Wrote tools on the fly to solve unexpected problems on tight deadlines for simultaneous release of localized products with the US products.

EXPERIENCE

Obsidian Rook, 2003-2004

Emusic, Inc, 2000-2002

Polymuse Consulting, 1999-2000

Silicon Graphics, Inc, 1997-1998

Netscape, Inc, 1996-1997

Simultrans, LLC, Software Localization Engineering, 1992-96

IBM Almaden Research Center, Storage Systems Product Division, 1990-92

Stanford University, Center for Materials Research, 1985-90

Creative Contractors, Long Island, New York, 1984

Westinghouse, Advanced Projects Group at the NRF Core Facility, 1982-84

EDUCATION

Stanford, MS in Materials Science and Engineering 1990
SUNY at Stony Brook, BE in Mechanical Engineering 1982
Additional course work at Stanford and Idaho State University.

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