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Aaron Zeckoski - aaronz@vt.edu [ aaronzvt]
Senior Research Engineer, CARET, Cambridge University
Independent Sakai Consultant
Bio:
Aaron Zeckoski is a Senior Research Engineer in CARET (Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies) at Cambridge University. He has been involved in many aspects of system development over the past six years including analysis, design, implementation, QA, deployment, and support. His current responsibilities include project analysis, system design, and system implementation for web application development. Recent work involves Java, Spring, Hibernate, RSF (Reasonable Server Faces), PHP, and Sakai.
He was previously the Manager of Application Development and Lead Developer in the Learning Technologies unit at Virginia Tech for five years.
My current resume | My current CV | AaronZ Sakai Blog
Projects:
Current Projects:
DSpace 2.0 (Refactoring of the DSpace repository system)
Entity Broker (Flexible entity system for Sakai with RESTful data interactions)
Reflection Utilities Package (Reflection utilities for Java 1.5+)
Generic Dao Package (Package for developers to work with persistent objects without writing DAOs)
Sakai UX project (Data feeds for the Sakai UX project)
CamTools (Sakai at Cambridge)
RSF (Reasonable Server Faces)
- Wiki/Docs refactor, Code updates, Distributions/Maven, Training
Sakai Programmers's Cafe (Training and Docs for Sakai developers)
Sakai AppBuilder Plugin (Eclipse plugin for Sakai Rapid Application Development)
Recent Projects:
Evaluation System (Program and Course assessment for Sakai)
Hierarchy (Hierarchy for Sakai)
JCR Integration (JCR load testing and integration for Sakai)
Conference Scheduler (Conference scheduler for Sakai, supports Breeze)
Recent Activity App (What's New in a Sakai site)
Sakai Foundation Site tools (Tools for conferences, etc. related to the Sakai Foundation)
Sakai Migration (Migration and Archiving in Sakai)
Conference Committee and Program Committee (Planning for the Atlanta conference)
Sakai Skin Contest (Contest and working group to make a new skin for Sakai 2.2)
[Sakai Requirements] (Requirements tracking and polling)
Vancouver Conference Committee and Program Committee (Planning for the Vancounver conference)
Software Skills Gateway - https://gateway.edtech.vt.edu/gateway/
OCS Helpdesk - https://ocs.cc.vt.edu/helpdesk/
Confluence - https://content.cc.vt.edu/confluence/
JIRA - https://bugs.cc.vt.edu/jira/
Blackboard - https://learn.vt.edu/
Scholar (Sakai) - https://scholar.vt.edu/portal
Evaluation System - https://courseeval.cc.vt.edu/
FDI Tracking System - https://www.fdi.vt.edu/admin/
ePortfolio (OSP) - https://eportfolio.vt.edu/
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Recent Accolades:
Recent VT LT newsletter mentioning my work (first page)
Extraordinary Contributor Work Performance Rating (Highest) - 2006
Sakai Fellow (2006-2007) Fellow Nomination
Campus Technology article mentioning demos in Vancouver
Mellon RIT nomination which mentions my work and lists me as a contact (http://rit.mellon.org/)
Extraordinary Contributor Work Performance Rating (Highest) - 2005
Recent Training/Presentations Given:
Intro to RSF (Intro to RSF framework) (TSE 2007, Dec 13)
Sakai JCR integration and load testing results (Sakai Newport Beach, Dec 6)
Writing high quality code for Sakai (Sakai Newport Beach, Dec 5)
Introduction to the Sakai EntityBroker system (Sakai Newport Beach, Dec 5)
Newport beach conference cafe training and Ucamp (Developer training and exercises) (Sakai Newport Beach, Dec 3)
Sakai training in Mumbai for TIS (One week developer training in developing for Sakai) (TIS, August, 2007)
Intro to RSF (JASIG, Denver, June 26)
Programmers Cafe half-day Training (JASIG, Denver, June 24)
Building Rich but Accessible Sakai Tools (Sakai Amsterdam, June 14)
Intro to Evaluation System (Sakai Amsterdam, June 13)
Intro to Confluence[ and JIRA|CONF07:Introduction to JIRA] (Sakai Amsterdam, June 13)
Cafe/U-Camp Combined Session (Sakai Amsterdam, June 11)
Programmers Cafe Training (Sakai Amsterdam, June 11)
Programmers Cafe Training (South Africa, April 2007)
Programmers Cafe Bootcamp (Sakai Atlanta, Dec 2006)
Sakai CRIM Cafe Workshop in Montreal, Canada (4-day) (Sakai Cafe, Dec 2006)
Formative and Summative Online Evaluations (2-part/4-hour workshop) (VT FDI, November 2006)
Persistence and Hibernate (VT JUG, October 2006)
Sakai Tetra ELF Cafe Workshop in Oxford, England (3-day) (Sakai Tetra Cafe, Sept 2006)
JVM tuning (VT JUG, July 2006)
Security and Auth/Auth in PHP (VT FDI, July 2006)
User Interface Panel (Sakai Vancouver, June 2006)
Sakai Providers BOF (Sakai Vancouver, June 2006)
Sakai Requirements (Sakai Vancouver, June 2006)
Programmers Cafe Bootcamp Data persistence using Hibernate (Sakai Vancouver, May 2006)
Not so recent Training/Presentations given
Recent Training Attended:
CS 5614 Database Management Systems Course (Virginia Tech, Fall 2006 Term, Grade: A)
Javascript Techniques (Virginia Tech, November 2006)
Administering Apache Tomcat (Virginia Tech, June 2006)
Microsoft Developer Security Workshop (Virginia Tech, May 2006)
Sakai Developer Training (JSF) (Boston, April 2006)
SANS Security Week (Virginia Tech, May 2005)
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