JacobAtkins.com

Education

• University of Virginia’s College at Wise — Wise, VA
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathamatics with Minor in Physics (Projected May 2012)

Experience

• SilverNeedle Soft — Wise, VA
  • Founder: January 2009 to Present
  • Designed and implemented LitterWare for use by Environmental offices of local government
  • Designed DocNub a green framework to ease the transition to a paperless formate
  • Designed and hosted several websites for businesses in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee
  • Participated in Virginia Recycling Association Conference 2009
  • Manage remote backup system consisting of military grade security and several locations
  Managed a team of 4 programmers

• Wise County Circuit Court — Wise, VA
  • Deputy Circuit Court Clerk: December 2007 to Present
  • Responsible for maintenance of several in office databases along with court website.

• DEVELOP National Program, NASA — Hampton, VA
  • Scientific Visualization intern: June 2007 to August 2008
  • Developed tools to visualize atmospheric CO₂ from the ASCENDS steering committee in Google Earth
  • Developed virtual reality worlds from scientific data for student build portable CAVE using Mechdyne vGeo

• Wise DEVELOP, NASA — Wise, VA
  • Senior Software Engineer: June 2006 to Present
  • Responsible for maintenance and security of LDAP based domain for student interns.
  • Developed tools to ease the task of data processing

• Wolfe, Williams, Rutherford, and Reynolds — Norton, VA
  • Administrative Assistant: October 2004 to June 2006

Skills

• Computer Languages: C++, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Javascript, SQL, Java, HTML, CSS, XML, KML, LaTeX, NCAR Command Language (NCL)
• Software Tools: Ruby on Rails, Google Earth, Git, ArcGIS (Certified User), Processing, HYSPLIT (Registered user)
• Operating Systems: Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista/7, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008
• Academic Interests: Parallel Computing and Machine Automation

Publications and Presentations

• Hillyer, T. N., Hughes, B. S., Kramolisch, A., Atkins, J. T., & Lotts, M. (2008). DEVELOP final presentations: ASCENDS data visualization. NASA Television.