Rachel Vecchitto Camero

http://www.magnetbox.org
518-573-6498 · New York, NY

Objective

To secure a full-time position with room for growth that will allow me to participate in the entire web application development process.

Qualifications

• Five years experience designing and developing web applications.
• Professional and personal experience with web and user-interface design.
• Most fluent in Java, proficient with PHP and Perl, familiar with C++.

Experience

Meetup.com (November 2004 - Present)

Developer

• J2EE, MySQL, Apache/Tomcat
• Responsible for the development of several major features and components.
• Redesigned the payment process to accomodate a change from "plus/pro" user accounts to a monthly subscription system.
• Built a per-group wiki with change tracking, reversion capabilities, and multiple read/write permission levels.
• Guided the development of various features through initial concept, implementation and final release.
• Specced and developed a tool to allow groups to easily post ads to Craigslist, leading to over 1,000 clicks to Meetup per day.
• Repurposed Meetup's affiliate program to appeal to bloggers and other personal publishers, leading to over 20 new registrations per day.

UBS Investment Bank - Stamford, CT (June 2003 - November 2004)

Web Developer, Client Portal

J2EE, Oracle, Sybase, Apache/Tomcat

Participated in the complete redesign of a centralized web navigation management system, including requirements gathering, UI layout, schema design and object model design.

Responsible for enhancing and releasing an internal web-based project management application, working with users in several departments to coordinate requirements and release schedules.

Application Developer, Equities IT

• Java, Sybase, Bash scripting, XSLT, Apache/Tomcat
• Responsible for enhancing and maintaining the data retrieval component of a Java-based instrument pricing and risk calculation engine.
• Designed and implemented a generic reporting engine used by risk managers on the trading floor that executed stored procedures, processed the output and used XSLT to present the output in several formats.

GE Power Systems - Troy, NY (May 2002 - May 2003)

Co-op, RPI e-Business Division

• J2EE, Oracle, WebLogic
• Designed and developed modular, scalable web applications using a proprietary model 2 framework.
• Was the primary point of contact with the client for a conference registration application, leading a team of approximately 5 developers from requirements gathering through design, development and release.

IBM - New York, NY (Summer 2001)

Summer Intern, Corporate Intranet Team

• Servlets, DB2, WebSphere
• Designed and developed a text messaging interface using Java servlets for the company intranet, allowing over 300,000 IBM employees to send pages and text messages to coworkers over the web.

Projects

MountainReviews.com (June 2006 - Present)

Sole designer/developer

• PHP, MySQL
• Served as the sole designer and developer for MountainReviews.com, a website with reviews of ski areas browsable by rating, difficulty and region.

Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Troy, NY (1999 - 2003)

• B.S. Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude