Sean Anthony Corfield

5124 Ray Ave
Castro Valley
CA 94546
(904) 302-SEAN
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http://corfield.org/

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Objectives

To help business be more effective and competitive through the creation of efficient, flexible and forward-looking architectures for IT systems and software applications.

To leverage and grow my extensive technical skills in tackling new and challenging problems within the enterprise.

Skills

• Over 25 years of software design & development.
• Over 15 years of OO analysis & design.
• Over 10 years of professional web development experience.
• SOA and EAI expertise including web services, JMS, XML standards.
• Keen aptitude and desire for learning and implementing new and emerging technologies.
• Methodologies and tools experience includes Booch, Objectory, OMT, Rational Rose, Together Control Center, UML.
• Language experience includes ActionScript, AIR, C, C++, CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language), Flex, Groovy, Java, Prolog, SQL, with exposure to Erlang and Scala.
• Platform experience primarily Unix, MySQL, Oracle.
• Open Source software advocate and author, regular conference speaker (since 2004).

Experience

• Railo Technologies - USA
  • April 2009 to date
  • Chief Executive Officer, formerly CTO
  • Railo Technologies is a professional services organization offering support and consultancy for companies that use Adobe ColdFusion and/or the free open source Railo CFML engine (a JBoss community project).
  • Technologies: CFML, Java, JBoss, SQL, Tomcat
• Broadchoice, Inc. - Bay Area, CA
  • February 2008 to April 2009
  • Chief Systems Architect & VP Engineering
  • Responsibilities:
    • Architectural vision for the Broadchoice Collaboration Platform.
    • Management of distributed engineering team.
  • Accomplishments:
    • Ground-up redevelopment of hosted content management system as multi-tenant, extensible platform.
    • Architecture, design, development of desktop collaboration application.
    • Successful cloud deployment of two key Broadchoice product lines.
  • Technologies: ActionScript, AIR, CFML, Flex, Groovy, Java, JBoss, JMS, SOAP, SQL
• Freelance Consulting - Bay Area, CA
  • March 2007 to date
  • Senior Consultant
  • Specialties:
    • Architecture for high-scale web applications.
    • Architecture for middleware integration.
  • Accomplishments include ActiveMQ "event gateway" for ColdFusion 8.
  • Technologies: ActionScript, CFML, Flex, Java, JMS, SOAP, SQL, Tomcat
• Scazu, Inc. - Bay Area, CA
  • March 2007 to November 2007
  • CTO / Co-founder
  • Technologies: CFML, SQL
• Adobe Systems, Inc. - San Francisco, CA
  • March 2006 to April 2007
  • Senior Computer Scientist / Team Lead, Hosted Services
  • Responsibilities:
    • Architectural vision: assist in creating the next generation infrastructure to support future hosted services offering at Adobe.
  • Technologies: ActionScript, CFML, Flex, Java, JBoss, JMS, SOAP, SQL
  • December 2005 to February 2006
  • Senior Staff Developer (transitional)
  • Responsibilities:
    • Architect the next generation of one of Adobe's key customer-facing web systems.
  • Technologies: CFML, Java, SQL
• Macromedia, Inc. - San Francisco, CA
  • July 2000 to December 2005
  • Director of Architecture / Senior Architect
  • Responsibilities:
    • Architectural vision: assist in creating an efficient and reliable global corporate infrastructure for all aspects of Macromedia's business.
    • Standards & Policies: work with senior IT staff to create cross-team policies for enterprise integration and best practices for software development.
    • Requirements analysis, design & development (Java, SQL, ColdFusion).
    • Team management.
  • Accomplishments:
    • Architected (and built) real-time volume order management infrastructure on top of Oracle Applications (2004-2005).
    • Developed JMS "event gateway" for ColdFusion MX 7 (2004).
    • Developed policies for enterprise integration as groundwork for shift to SOA (2004).
    • Chaired IT architecture council (2004-2005).
    • Contributed to Open Source application framework "Mach II" and developed public coding guidelines for its use (2003-2005).
    • Architected (and built) XML standards-based data interchange infrastructure for order management on top of Oracle Applications (2003-2004).
    • Developed (and maintained) coding guidelines, initially for Web Technology Group (2001-2003) and later as public guidelines for the ColdFusion community at large (2003-2005).
    • Created Web Technology Group to rebuild macromedia.com as a "zero-downtime" technology showcase for Macromedia products (2001-2003).
    • Managed IT architecture team (2001).
    • Championed JMS-based enterprise messaging and created a system integration roadmap based on XML standards (2001-2005).
    • Mapped out and documented entire IT infrastructure (2000) and then Allaire's infrastructure (2001) to assist with integration post acquisition.
• IS Solutions Inc. - Redwood Shores, CA
  • August 1999 - May 2000
  • Software Development Manager
  • Responsibilities:
    • On-site consulting.
    • Recruiting & staff management.
    • Requirements analysis, design & development (C++, Java, SQL, BroadVision).
    • Project management.
    • Mentoring other developers.
  • Accomplishments:
    • Created a top-class BroadVision development team that built a number of successful ecommerce and portal sites, as well as sample applications for BroadVision Inc to ship with their products.
• Open Source Software Development
  • 1995 to date
  • Lead developer on numerous CFML projects:
    • FW/1 convention-based MVC application framework (creator)
    • Edmund event-driven framework (creator)
    • Fusebox application framework (2006-2008)
    • Mach-II MVC application framework (2003-2005)
    • Plus several smaller projects around concurrency, closures, etc
  • Contributor to numerous CFML projects:
    • Transfer and Reactor ORM frameworks
    • Model-Glue MVC application framework
    • ColdSpring DI/AOP framework
  • Founder member of Boost C++ library project
  • Parts of GNU STL C++ library
• ISO/ANSI/BSI C++ Standards Committees
  • January 1992 - November 1999
  • ANSI J16 Secretary / UK representative to ISO
  • Responsibilities:
    • Participate in technical working groups
    • Record committee discussions and decisions (as secretary).
  • Accomplishments:
    • Maintained official records for both ISO and ANSI committees for three years.
    • Proposed changes that simplified the language and/or made it more consistent (accepted proposals include: simplified rules for operator->(), consistency for full and partial template specialization; contributed to proposals for separate template compilation models, namespace lookup rules and smart pointers).
• IS Solutions plc - Sunbury-on-Thames, Middx, UK
  • March 1997 - July 1999
  • Senior Consultant
  • Responsibilities:
    • On-site consulting.
    • Requirements analysis, design & development (C++, Java, SQL, BroadVision).
    • Project management.
    • Mentoring other developers.
  • Accomplishments:
    • Worked with a number of high-profile clients on requirements for ecommerce and portal sites (Toyota, Oracle, Thomas Cook, Toshiba, Vodafone).
    • Lead architect for Thomas Cook's ecommerce site - a custom C++ / BroadVision system. The site far exceeded all their success metrics.
• Vodafone - Newbury, Berks, UK
  • May 1996 - February 1997
  • Senior Software Engineer
  • Responsibilities:
    • Design & development (C++).
  • Accomplishments:
    • Contributed to the design and development of the world's first "no contract, pay-as-you-go" cellular phone system.
    • Re-engineered portions of Vodafone's core C++ libraries.
• Programming Research Ltd - Hersham, Surrey, UK
  • September 1995 - February 1996
  • Senior Consultant
  • Responsibilities:
    • Design & development (C++).
    • Mentoring other developers.
  • Accomplishments:
    • Designed second generation C++ parser and template analysis engine for QA C++.
• Programming Research Ltd - Esher, Surrey, UK
  • June 1991 - August 1995
  • Development Group Manager
  • Responsibilities:
    • Manage developers and support staff.
    • Short and long term project planning & product roadmaps.
    • C and C++ programming.
  • Accomplishments:
    • Represented the company interests on the BSI and ANSI C++ Standards committees.
    • Designed and developed QA C++, a C++ source code analyzer.
    • Developed C and C++ coding guidelines for clients in Europe and America.
    • Conducted automated code audits for clients that often pinpointed bugs their teams had been trying to diagnose for weeks or even months.
    • Reduced customer support ticket closure time from three weeks to one week.
• Bacon & Woodrow - Epsom, Surrey, UK
  • January 1991 - May 1991
  • Senior Programmer
  • Responsibilities:
    • Design & development (C).
  • Accomplishments:
    • Designed and developed a compiler for an actuarial formula language that targeted the Inmos transputer and achieved near-linear scalability up to 16 processors.
• Knowledge Software Ltd - Farnborough, Hants, UK
  • August 1986 - December 1990
  • Senior Software Engineer
  • Responsibilities:
    • Compiler and code optimizer design and development.
    • C and assembly language (SPARC, 88000, 68881) programming.
  • Accomplishments:
    • Co-designed and developed the first ANSI-validated C compiler.
• Prior experience included C, COBOL and IBM 8100 assembly programming for Sun Alliance Insurance Co. Ltd. as well as freelance work.

Education

• Surrey University - Guildford, Surrey, UK
  • 1983 - 1986
  • Postgraduate research on programming language design and implementation techniques
  • 1979 - 1983
  • BSc 1st (Hons) - Math & Computer Science

Training

• Oracle DBA - ODK Inc - Oracle 2000
• BroadVision Component Development - BroadVision - October 1999
• OOAD/D using UML - QA Training - July 1998

Other Information

I regularly speak at conferences and user groups worldwide, generally on the topics of software design and best practices. Recent conferences have included:

• CFinNC - Raleigh, NC - October 2009
• Scotch on the Rocks - Edinburgh, Scotland - June 2008 / London, UK - September 2008
• cf.Objective() - Minneapolis, MN - 2006, 2007, 2009 (in 2008 I was content chair for the conference)
• Adobe MAX (formerly Macromedia MAX) - 2005, 2007, 2008
• CFUNITED (formerly CFUN) - 2004-2009 (every year)
• MXDU - Sydney, Australia - 2005 & 2004

In the last couple of years, I've spoken to the following ColdFusion user groups, some several times: Austin, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Triangle Area (Raleigh, NC) as well as the Department of State (MD) and the Department of Revenue (OR).

Since June 2002 I have maintained a weblog called "An Architect's View" focusing on software design in general and ColdFusion in particular. I currently get around 30,000 page views per month. My website also includes "C++ - Beyond the ARM", one of the textbook references on changes made to the C++ language by the ANSI/ISO Standards Committees as part of the ISO C++ 9X standard.

I am a US citizen.