Jerry Abbott

Jerry is a software engineer that is currently filling a engineering manager role at Jewelry Television.  He started his information technology career in 1999 as a Java consultant for Eclipse Technology, Inc. while finishing his education at Pellissippi State.  In 2002, he was hired on with Jewelry Television as a web developer working with ASP, VB, Java and .Net.  Over the years, he has moved from the web developer position over to team lead and finally to manager.  Jerry is a family man.  His first passion in life is his family.  However, after talking with him, you will see that technology is a close second.

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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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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Ryan Parnell

Ryan is currently employed by Edfinancial Services as Manager, Software Engineering. He has a history of working in all the major areas of business information systems. He started out working on the IT side, working in network closets and doing help desk. From there in grad school he worked heavily with databases. After grad school and since he’s been building software using primarily Microsoft technologies both as a consultant and as a full time employee. His current passion is SOA architecture.

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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.

Alan Anderson

Alan is a software engineer currently employed by Jewelry Television. Alan started his software career developing C#, VB.Net, and ASP.Net at Metron North America and has since professionally worked with a variety of technologies including javascript, VB6, java, oracle, sql server, web services, enterprise service bus, several common scripting languages and shells on Windows/linux/solaris, and agile software methodologies. Alan is currently focussed on PL/SQL and implementing oracle callouts to interface with an ESB.