Michael Moorman

Michael is a professional software developer with 20 years of experience, and is currently employed by Jewelry Television. Michael is competent in a variety of languages and platforms, including C, C++, C#, VB, ASP.Net and JavaScript, common scripting languages and shells on Windows and Unix, and most popular databases. Recently, he has been spending his time with Java and Adobe Flex. He considers himself well-versed in techniques like asynchronous communications, multi-threaded programming, building for separation of concerns, IOC, O/R mappers, and design patterns.

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Chad Vawter

Chad is a software developer with over ten years of professional experience as a senior developer/engineer, architect, architecture team lead, development and operations director, data architect, project manager, product manager, instructor, junior DBA and system administrator in the financial and commodity derivatives, mortgage insurance, life science, utilities, telecommunications, publishing, content management, contract manufacturing, healthcare and travel industries.

He has a formal education in computer science, financial economics, genomics and computational biology. His current interests include high-volume, low-latency messaging; market connectivity; ESB-based integration; and complex event processing in supply chain management, financial risk management and algorithmic trading environments.

After serving as the lead architect for Fimat USA’s (www.fimat.com) enterprise integration services team, Chad recently joined Jewelry Television as a senior software engineer.

James Kolpack

James is a software engineer with a wide range of professional interests including (but not limited to) web development on eCommerce platforms, knowledge based systems, applied statistics, and machine learning. His technological expertise includes many programming languages such as C#, C++, Python, T-SQL, and several scripting languages. He is member of Jewelry Television’s internet development team working day-to-day with ASP.NET and Oracle. He is a Tennessee Technological University alumni and has been working in the software industry for nearly 5 years.

Josh Carroll

Education: Bachelor of Computer And Information Science (May 2005)
Employment: Edfincancial Services
Primary Languages: C#, JavaScript, T-SQL Other Languages: C/C++, VB.NET, PHP Primary Platforms: Web (ASP.NET), MS SQL

Professional Interests:
Fancy new languages and technologies are great as I have dabbled in a variety of things including game programming with OpenGL and C++, XNA Game Studio, F# and functional programming… But what consumes me as a professional programmer is learning to provide solutions that are architecturally sound, elegant and easy to maintain. I spend a good deal of time reading up on enterprise design patterns, Agile software development, and TDD in order to continually improve the quality of code I write.

Greg Ogle

Greg is a software developer at Pilot with about eight years of experience, seven of which were at Jewelry Television TM. His professional experience includes reports writing, ASP(3.0, .NET), Win Forms, C#, VB(Script, 6, .NET), Java, Oracle, and SQL Server. For the past three years he has been developing ASP.NET applications using C# and Oracle as well as maintaining traditional ASP/COM applications. Recently, after moving to Pilot Travel Centers LLC, Greg has swapped out C# for VB.NET and has mostly switched from Oracle to SQL Server. Before these professional endeavors, Greg studied computer science at Pellissippi State.

Kyle Guerry

A software engineer converted from a design/creative background, Kyle focuses on the Flash Platform. Adobe certified as a Flash Designer and Flash Developer with numerous awards for his Flash work, over the last few years his focus has shifted to Adobe Flex and connecting applications with backend data utilizing advanced ActionScript 3.0, Blaze DS, Prana (Inversion of Control), test driven development, and the Cairngorm Micro-Architecture.

While Kyle is not using Flex to take over control of the world, he likes to dabble in military history, root on his beloved Cowboys, Stars and Yankees, and remind everyone that Texas is the center of the universe. Kyle is a Flex Software Engineer/Flex Architect with Affiliated Computer Services in Dallas, TX.

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Gabriel Cooper

Gabriel has worked in a Java/Oracle/Linux environment at Jewelry Television as a J2EE Software Engineer for the last two+ years developing and supporting the core software infrastructure that is the foundation of JTV’s SOA initiative. Before Jewelry Television, Gabriel spent four years at Mediapulse, Inc. creating B2B portals, backend service apps, websites, and internal thick apps for companies such as Regal Cinemas, Singer Sewing Company, Shoney’s, and Siemens/Cingular done in various technologies–some projects requiring a Microsoft solution, others asking for PERL, Rails or JSP, with most development done in Python utilizing a forked open source project as a web framework. Gabriel keeps himself busy with side projects to familiarize himself with various interesting tools such as JBoss Rules / Drools, Solr/Lucene, Flex, and most recently fiddling with the Google Android API… Even though he doesn’t have a G1.

Gabriel also enjoys long walks on the beach and describing himself in the third person.

Ryan Parnell

Ryan started out his experience working with computers doing network wiring and help desk while studing software development in college. That lead him to managing networks and information systems. But during that time he became more interested in databases, which he focused on in grad school. Fortunately, while he went to a management-based grad school, the coursework and professors were very technical. Because of the opportunities they provided and my amazing classmates he came back to software development with a new energy. Looking back he can see how that path has given me a well rounded understanding of all the aspects of business software: network, database, software and management training as well as hands-on experience.  Ryan enjoys challenging opportunities, so he lean heavily toward building enterprise-class software solutions, but since he’s come to know Agile he’s had a new understanding of architecting only what’s needed now.