Andrew Wooster
awooster@cs.hmc.edu •
http://andrewwooster.com/
San Francisco, CA |
[Mobile] (831) 809-9751
I'm working on several startups, and not currently seeking employment.
I know what I'm doing and I get things done.
Apptentive, Inc, Seattle, WA
• March, 2011 - Present
Uncorked Apps, LLC, San Francisco, CA (uncorkedapps.com)
• March, 2010 - Present
• Developing iPad wine list apps for use in service at high end restaurants, including The French Laundry, Per Se, and The Plumed Horse.
Planetary Scale, LLC, Palo Alto & San Francisco, CA (planetaryscale.com)
• April 1, 2008 - Present
• iPhone and web startup focusing on social location-based applications with strong mapping components.
• Tweeteorites - Web+iPhone app which tracks what your friends are marking as favorites on Twitter.
• Amidst - Web app for keeping track of interesting places.
• Mappity - Mapping framework and line of apps which use the framework.
• Consulting - iPhone consulting for clients including Divvyshot (acquired by Facebook), Hello Chair (for Explor), 280 North (acquired by Motorola), and others.
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA
(www.apple.com)
• Software Engineer, June 2007 - March 31, 2008
• I worked on the backend of Time Machine and on web content filtering for Parental Controls (January 2007 onwards).
• Wrote software tied to the release of Leopard, Time Capsule, and MacBook Air.
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA
(www.apple.com)
• Software Update Integration Program Manager/Engineer, January 2003 - June 2007
• Worked on search, data mining, web information retrieval, automated testing tools and infrastructure, and various other technologies.
• Helped ship dozens of major and minor versions of OS X.
Tellme Networks, Inc., Mountain View, CA
(www.tellme.com)
• Network Operations Engineering Intern, Summer 2001
• Tellme is a leader in Voice Application Networks bringing the
power of the
Internet to the phone.
• Worked full-time developing tools to help manage, monitor, and
maintain
the large Tellme network service.
Developed in Perl and C++ and completed several projects that served a
variety of monitoring, system administration, and configuration purposes.
• Projects included a tool to automatically analyze multiple core
dumps to detect crashes caused by the same bug; programs that interfaced
with AT&T's call routing systems; configuration management tools;
extensions to the configuration management system
Verdad;
a distributed SSH key management and user access tool;
an extension to the large Tellme platform
codebase (in C++) to provide a complex call data feed, and a graphing
system on top of feed for realtime monitoring of call counts by the NOC.
Cybersense, Inc., Walnut Creek, CA
(www.cybersense.com)
• Internal Systems Programmer, May 2000 - May 2001
• Cybersense is a small web consulting and development company.
• Perl/CGI/MySQL and Perl/Shell scripting for web site productions and
internal systems management. Programmed database front-ends and user and
system security programs.
Pomona College (www.pomona.edu)
B.A., Computer Science via Joint Sciences Program with Harvey Mudd
College, May 2002.
Coursework:
Large Scale Software Development,
Computer Networks,
Software Design and Architecture,
Artificial Intelligence,
Algorithms,
Theory of Computation,
Programming Languages,
Intro. to Computer Architectures and Operating Systems,
Data Structures and Program Development,
Logic for Computer Science,
Multivariable Calculus,
Linear Algebra,
and Combinatorics.
Harvard University
(www.harvard.edu)
Summer Session, 1997
Coursework: Intro to Microeconomics, Visual Representation of Alternate
Topography.