John P. Pratt

John P. Pratt, Software Developer

P.O. Box 413
Duchesne, UT 84021 john@johnpratt.com

Software lead developer successful in leading program requirements, design, implementation, QA testing, documentation, and maintenance. Developed relevance algorithms for ranking indexing and search engine hits.

Programming Skills

Languages: C++ (10yr), Java (3 yr), PHP (3 yr), mySQL (2 yr), JavaScript (6 mo.), awk/Perl (1 mo.)
Platforms: Mac, Win9x/Win NT/2000, UNIX/Linux, NetWare
Examples: Calendar Spreadsheet (Java), Chess Recorder (JavaScript), Basketball Stats (PHP), Astronomy Exercises

Work History

Perfect Search (2007-2009)

Developed high speed indexing and search retrieval software.

Omniture (2005-2007)

Developed the browser based billing system for the entire company.

Cogito (2000-2005)

Lead engineer developing learning software for network database.
Developed proof-of-concept software for simultaneous multi-database searches.
Designed and implemented complex network traversal for engineering schematics.

Novell (1995-2000)

Team Lead of 5 QuickFinder indexing and search engine developers.
Co-invented 3 software patents.

WordPerfect (1993-1994)

Designed and implemented Mac WP 3.x/WP 6.x file format conversion for Mac.

Eyring Research Institute (1976-1993)

Team Lead of 9 Minuteman Missile simulation developers at Hill AFB.

Other Creativity

Created a new Hydrid Database combining features of relational, network and hierarchal.
Hosts several websites, adding innovative genealogy features.
Created algorithms for Hebrew, Venus/Mercury, Enoch, Jubilee calendars.
Authored 150+ published articles.
Created a pictorial periodic table.
Created a new tournament pairing scheme, now approved in nationally sanctioned table tennis tournaments.

Education

Ph.D. in astronomy, U. of Arizona, 1976
B.A. degrees in both Physics and Math, U. of Utah, 1969 (upper 1% of class)
Fluent in Portuguese; reads German, Spanish, some French