Nathan Alden Cox
Glen Allen, Virginia 23060
Phone: (804) 332.1550
Email: nathancox0917@gmail.com
Objective
Secure a position in an innovative application development environment where I can apply my knowledge in object oriented design and skills for process modeling and application development.
Education
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
Computer Science
Computer Science
May 2013
Masters of Science
GPA: 3.60
Masters of Science
GPA: 3.60
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
Computer Science
Computer Science
December 2004
Bachelors of Science
Bachelors of Science
Work Experience
02/2005 - Present
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Engineer
Full-Time
- Working in a team oriented environment with established principles of communication, collaboration, and continual learning and development.
- Proven record in managing data driven intranet sites using the Apache, PHP, and MySQL web stack. Sites included our online publication collection process for Kindle and our department intranet site.
- Successfully developed an in-house Support Ticket system for allowing customers to communicate QoS issues through online and offline communication.
- Created a production application that is responsible for managing the Investor's Business Daily publication files.
Programming Experience
- Released at Richmond Times-Dispatch a C# Winform application for processing the Investor's Business Daily Monday through Friday publication.
- Released at Richmond Times-Dispatch a C# XML based application for managing On Call/Time off schedules for associates in department and output was HTML for intranet.
- Published a C# WPF Desktop Wallpaper management program.
- Published a C# WPF AGM Pi CPU Benchmark application that reports and graphs processor performace.
- Developing a C# WPF HTML/CSS/PHP/JavaScript content minimizer
Language(s)
Experience
Web Development Experience
• Configured personal Journalism website at www.thecomputerscientist.net
• Support Intranet WordPress site at Richmond Times-Dispatch
• Configured and Support Customer Ticket System at Richmond Times-Dispatch
Application Experience
• Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Visual Studio, Microsoft Blend, Microsoft Office Professional Plus, FileZilla, InkScape
Recommendations
Nathan represents what strategic leaders look for in their technology personnel. He is motivated, well versed in the technology and has the rare ability to see how strategy and technology must work together to accomplish the business' mission.
Don Scott
Leading Change in Media Sales (Sleeves Rolled Up)
November 4, 2015
Nathan manages the IT side of an important customer service initiative at the RTD. The newspaper has an online tool for readers to report issues or ask questions. A team from the newspaper offers quick responses and solutions. It's very popular with readers, and Nathan has helped make continuous improvements along the way including detailed reporting. Nathan has shown creativity on this project.
Rick Thornton
Vice President, Marketing & Strategy at the Omaha World-Herald
November 24, 2015