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[edit] Contact Information

E-mail: john dot tantalo at gmail dot com

[edit] Education

[edit] Case Western Reserve University

  • Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science (2007)
  • President’s Scholarship (four-year merit scholarship)
  • GPA: 3.66

[edit] Technical Skills

  • Familiarity and experience using Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
  • Expertise using Perl, Python, PHP, SQL, ActionScript, Javascript, XHTML, CSS, Java, C++.
  • Proficiency with C#, GNOME/GTK, IPC, PL/SQL, ASP.NET, ADO.NET.
  • Design experience with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Macromedia Flash MX, and others.
  • Solid theoretical and practical understanding of software development practices, design patterns, GUI design, documentation systems, networking, relational databases, source control, object-oriented programming, artificial intelligence, three-tiered architectures, data mining, bioinformatics.

[edit] Software and Design Experience

[edit] August 2007 to Present — Eventful, Inc., San Diego, CA (eventful.com)

  • Position: software engineer
  • Worked on the front-end team of a major event promotion and social networking website.
[edit] Accomplishments
  • Eventful Demand, the primary user-acquisition feature on the site.
  • My Top Artists, an OpenSocial app running on MySpace, with over 35,000 installs in the first two months of operation.

[edit] January 2007 to May 2007 — PerceptIS, Cleveland, OH (perceptis.com)

  • Position: software engineer, temporary.
  • Developed reports for company metrics based with Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio .NET, ASP.NET 2.0, ADO.NET, Transact-SQL.
  • Spearheaded department-wide adoption of ASP .NET as a solution for customized business-data interfaces.

[edit] June 2006 to July 2006 — Google, Mountain View, CA (google.com)

  • Position: engineering intern in Platforms and Resource Allocation.
  • Designed and implemented spare parts replenishment forecasting tool in python (Linux/Windows).
  • Worked with other Google engineers on side projects, such as a web-based resource reporting tool.

[edit] November 2005 to January 2006 — The Observer, Cleveland, OH (observer.case.edu)

  • Position: web developer, on contract.
  • Designed and implemented a content management system web front-end on a LAMP platform.
  • Wrote detailed and complete documentation of every system component and process.

[edit] July 2005 — Planarity (planarity.net)

  • Designed and marketed an original Flash MX Web game over several weeks, which was played by over 1 million visitors in its first month.
  • Featured in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Kalamazoo Gazette, and numerous electronic sources.
  • Received donations in excess of $1,000 through PayPal over the course of several months.
  • Featured in Cleveland Magazine’s “Most Interesting People,” 2006 edition, for the game.

[edit] July 2005 to August 2005 — Ghostly Records International, Ann Arbor, MI (ghostly.com)

  • Position: content management system developer, on contract.
  • Designed and implemented a PHP-driven content management system to allow Ghostly employees to easily and reliably manipulate database objects such as artists and retail items.
  • Wrote detailed and complete documentation of every system component and process.

[edit] January 2005 to May 2007 — The Observer, Cleveland, OH

  • Position: sports section layout editor, 6 hours per week.
  • Create four- to eight-page print layouts for weekly campus newspaper.
  • Responsible for copy editing, image editing, story headlines, and image captions.

[edit] February 2004 to January 2007 — Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (case.edu)

  • Position: assistant database application programmer and webmaster, 8 to 12 hours per week.
  • Produced PL/SQL procedures and reports of alumni giving research in an Oracle environment.
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