Ryan J. Wagner

Technical Skills

10+ years professional software development experience
Graduate level education in Computer Science and Mathematics
Specializing in numerical analysis, algorithm development, high performance computing, machine learning, classification and forecasting, and computer graphics
Experienced in all aspects of the software development lifecycle; Agile methodology; CMMI Configuration Management
Python, Matlab, PV-WAVE, IDL, C/C++, PERL, Java, Cold Fusion, HTML,Javascript, CSS, PHP, Ruby, Fortran, Visual Basic, shell scripting, Oracle, MySQL,XML, MS Access, Linux, Solaris, Windows, system administration, FlexLM License Management, Install Anywhere, HDF, MPI, OpenMP, Wx, IMSL Numerical Libraries

Designed and implemented a formalized, CMMI-compliant, QA process for 15 different products which reduced testing times and improved overall software quality
SSupported and maintained PV-WAVE and PyIMSL, high-level visual data analysis development environments as well as ThreadSpotter and TotalView memory debuggers
Routinely handled technical matters such as code optimization, inter-application communication, license management, and general mathematics, statistics and computer science problems
Added new features to the PV-WAVE language including financial charting, neural networks and database connectivity
Software engineering consultant on many projects for clients in various fields including finance, engineering and aerospace

Maintained and upgraded an on-the-fly tax search document generation program
Results were fetched from a database and inserted into reports which were emailed to customers

Designed and developed "Independence", a test bed to simulate and evaluate the financial firm's various commodity-trading strategies
Aspects of this project included algorithm, database and interface design, the importing, cleansing and conversion of financial data, as well as financial charting

Developed, tested and supported eight database backed form-based applications including scheduling, payroll, and contract systems as well as online registration pages and searchable directories