Kenneth A. Jones III (Trey)
(713) 398 3492
contact@treyjones.com
Sarasota, FL 34235
OBJECTIVE
I would like to pursue a career that will expand my skill set and exposure to new technologies. I want to
work with a team of people who problem solve collaboratively and enjoy software as much as I do. An
ideal company will have professional development and growth opportunity.
EDUCATION
University of Texas at Austin Computer Science Bachelor's
WORK HISTORY
Tech Lead, Teksystems / LibreDigital / R.R. Donnelley
06/03/2010 – Current
● I am currently leading development of a Widget to preview our extensive catalog of
periodicals content and drive customers to buy issues and subscriptions.
JBoss/jQuery/REST/JSON/XSLT
● Realigned a legacy team to steer toward the use of best practices. Pushed for technology
updates, commitments to unit and acceptance testing, introduced thin slivers toward
integration testing, reproducibility, accountability and interactive code reviews.
● Coled a specialty team to replace, endtoend, the existing content ingest, transform and
deploy line with a more nimble, scalable and contemporary version.
JBoss/Fusesource/Servicemix/Camel/ActiveMQ/SOA/SEDA/Kanban/Oracle RDS
● Became Integration Engineer and Technical Lead of the LibreAccess project which
comprised both a Lviv, Ukraine team and a local Austin team. Orchestrated and
implemented regular crossteam service integrations. Organized extensive cross integration
performance tests and partitioned the LibreAccess app based on the findings.
Java/Eclipse/Maven/yum/RPM/ActiveMQ/apache modsec/tomcat+WSO2 WSAS/WSO2
ESB/synapse
● While waiting for the client portion of PlayReady DRM to be completed, I focused on
integration engineering, CentOS Linux deployment automation for the LibreAccess product.
Helped move the entire platform out to the Amazon cloud using RightScale to help manage
deployment tasks.
● Wrote a Microsoft PlayReady DRM server license and domain handler in C# to interface via
SOAP with LibreAccess, a java entitlement, distribution and user metadata engine serving
Scholastic Books' Storia readers. Source controlled the .Net code in SVN with Ankh for
Visual Studio. Participated in agile scrum.
Senior Developer, Teksystems / Hart Intercivic / Manatron
01/03/2007 – 05/28/2010
● Developed new C# features and applications for electronically recording real estate
documents via Web Service and FTPS interfaces as well as maintaining, troubleshooting
and working with support teams on existing VB.Net solutions. Extensive use of XML, XSLT
and TIFF file formats for the information exchange using PRIA standards.
● Envisioned, prototyped, and moved into production code an idea to save hundreds of
developer hours by creating a “Generic” approach to code reuse where Implementation
Specialists configure document management modules with a suite of tools in lieu of having a
dedicated developer configure those same features from behind the scene.
● Was frequently referenced for technical guidance and design consideration by my peers and
management.
● Crafted new modules for full cycle workflow of several categories of county government
legal documents to fit into existing proprietary document management system.
● Technical lead on analyzing, categorizing, suggesting optimization for and interpreting 2
million lines of mostly undocumented C# code for documentation project.
Senior Developer, MRE Consulting / BurrWolff Property Tax
10/20/2004 – 11/28/2006
● Ported into C#.Net portions of a FoxPro application, quickly becoming the technical
reference among my colleagues. In the end, with the framework in place, we had the choice
of tweaking interface or writing SQL statements for data exports and reports, so I chose
optimizing the SQL.
● We generated parameterized reports and data exports using C# .Net, ASP.NET, SQL Server
2000 and Crystal Reports for the dominant portion of the year, often having custom work
from large clients, but spent November to April repairing yearly updates to forms in FoxPro.
● Much time was also spent maintaining and supporting various bits of the existing
architecture while upgrading individual modules.
● I was able to apply quickly the volumes of information on methods and terminology
pertaining to the calculation and identification of property tax.
● Deadlines often became tight, and we had to be able to transition quickly from project to
project and language to language while staying careful to balance several projects at once.
Senior Developer, StrataSoft
06/23/2002 – 10/19/2004
● I was asked back to StrataSoft after creating a web version of their current reporting system.
(See entry below)
● I was initially hired to create a robust FoxPro Maintenance application utilizing ZLIB
archiving library, MSXML, SMTP, FoxFix5 Library, Tree view, Win API and Systray, I
showed such moxie that I was immediately given revision control over one of their major
application suites consisting of three applications designed to interface with their telephony
software.
● While adding useful new features, fixing inherited bugs, converting the system from a
FoxPro to SQL Server backend and adding support for language translation, I found time to
design and teach a Training Class for our customers at a Las Vegas conference, help tech
support learn more about development, and become the local technical reference.
● More recently I was the Lead Developer on a project of high importance to the company
utilizing C#.Net, ASP.NET, Web Methods, SQL server, Visual FoxPro 8, and other minor
tools to create a secure scheduling system for a variable number of doctor offices via the
web, attended phone and unattended phone systems. Because of the complexity of the
project, I worked hand in hand with the client for weeks to perfect the final spec.
● I often employed my skills in ASP, HMTL, CSS and JavaScript to help customers and the
help desk learn to customize and extend their applications.
Information Architect/Development Consultant, Simply Logical
07/04/2001 – 06/23/2002
● StrataSoft Created new web interface for existing reporting system for their proprietary
software with emphasis on XML and XSLT.
● Vats Intercontinental New Development/Feature Enhancement for desktop applications,
serverside components, network administration, database administration, web design, and
asp pages for the popular website “Switchemail.com”.
● Micropaq Corp. Complete Redesign of Micropaqcorp.com with some great bells and whistles.
ASP/Oracle Developer, Halliburton / Sai Software
06/01/2000 – 07/01/2001
● Primary Job function was maintaining an ERP project that utilized Oracle 7.0, Visual Interdev
6.0 with Visual Source Safe 6.0. The ERP module was to fit into an existing “Request for
Service” system, which already contained hundreds of ASP pages, and several base tables
in Oracle.
● I was primary caretaker for the web server and database servers, and did most of the local
troubleshooting for the team.
● In addition to our ERP portion, I helped make changes to other modules in the RFS system,
and also wrote a dynamic survey/quiz web app for a the company’s Computer Based
Training division.
IS Manager/Developer, Fresh Beginnings, Inc.
03/09/1999 – 05/12/2000
● Oversaw the complete operations of the information side of a company with 150+
employees.
● Made purchasing recommendations to owner on network, Internet, hardware, software,
software development, desktop, server, laptop, palmtop, etc.
● In addition to maintaining the data and network, also did some report development in MS
Access 97 and software enhancements with Crystal Reports 7, Visual Basic 6.0, Visual
Interdev 6.0, and JBuilder 3.0.
Software Developer / Support Manager / Field Engineer, Stratasoft
10/23/1997 – 03/09/1999
● I worked with MSAccess, FoxPro and SQL Server in ADO and DAO, writing ActiveX
controls and making calls to the Windows API using Visual Basic 5 and 6.
● I created several projects from scratch, and was involved in the improvement of several
other projects for purposes of debugging and product enhancement.
● I was also responsible for onsite network design and implementation for StrataSoft’s
turnkey installations, which involved running cable, punching patch panels and 66 blocks,
and configuring hardware.
● While Tech Support manager I managed a fourperson team on supporting all aspects of the
company’s predictive dialing system including, but not limited to, supporting Novel 3.12,
NT4, Dos 6.22, Win95/98, Access 97, and the company’s own numerous software packages.
● I was seen as the lead advisor and the last resort before contacting the development teams.
Support, Soft. Sup. Div. of Matrix
06/20/1997 – 10/23/1997
● Fix all aspects of Gateway 2000 computers via telephone. Software/Hardware