Core Competencies
- Semantic Web
- Technical Search Engine Optimization
- Information Retrieval and Organization
- Technologies: CSS, JavaScript, Linux, MySQL, PHP5, XHTML
Qualifications
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Development
- Experience developing large, scalable web applications in a LAMP (or similar) environment.
- Proficiency developing XHTML/CSS interfaces to applications.
- Strong knowledge of object oriented design principles.
- Skilled at multitasking between several large projects on multiple platforms.
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Project Management
- Experience managing solo and group projects ranging from one week and several hundred lines of
code to several months and 150,000+ lines of code.
- Proven capabilities in project planning and risk assessment.
Technical Skills
- Languages: Bash, JavaScript, Perl, PHP 4, PHP 5
- Markup and Formats: Atom, CSS, Microformats, RSS, XHTML, XHTML Mobile, XML, XSLT
- JavaScript Frameworks: JQuery, MooTools
- Databases: CouchDB, MySQL
- Web Servers: Apache, nginx
- Operating Systems: Linux, OS X, UNIX, Windows
- Version Control: Subversion
- Web Software: osCommerce, PrestaShop, punBB, Wordpress
- I am also familiar with the following languages and technologies: Actionscript, Adobe AIR, C, C++, Coldfusion, Java, .NET (ASP, VB), Objective-C, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Processing, R
Professional Experience
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Launch Interactive - A Division of Meridian Group:
2007 -
present -
Senior Web Developer
- Advocate Web standards, usability, and accessibility.
- Provide technical recommendations and estimates for proposals.
- Develop and maintain clients' web sites.
- Manage a dedicated LAMP server.
- Notable projects include:
- Corporate training site with over 30,000 users
- Shopping carts (developed from PrestaShop with extensive modifications)
- Site search engine with a web spider/crawler
- Custom web application framework
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Dominion Enterprises (formerly Trader Publishing Company): 2005 - 2007
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Web Programming Group Lead -
Vehicle Web Services
(Jan. 2007 -
June 2007)
- Supervised a team of five developers (contractors and employees) to create web applications for clients.
- Worked with developers on creating a subtractive role-based access control engine.
- Led a team to develop a second generation CRM application in PHP5 (previous generation was in Java.)
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Web Programmer -
Vehicle Web Services
(Nov. 2005 -
Jan. 2007)
- Co-authored a suite of health check tools in Bash for Coldfusion servers.
- Developed a heavily modified version of an open-source eCommerce solution for dealers.
- Created new tools to be used for administering dealer web sites.
- Assisted in the migration of over 100 RV dealers' web sites acquired through an acquisition from Arizona to new servers in Virginia.
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HTML Programmer -
Operations Design Team
(May 2005 -
Nov. 2005)
- Maintained the front end of several large web sites including RoomSaver.com, HarmonHomes.com, and Parenthood.com.
- Migrated a majority of pages to a full div based CSS layout.
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Kelley Music:
2003 -
2005 -
Drum Instructor
- Taught children and adults how to play drums in private lessons.
- Learned effective methods for mentoring and coaching both concrete and abstract concepts.
Education
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Old Dominion University:
2001 -
2005
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (with minor in Philosophy)
- Graduated Cum Laude from the Honor's College
Affiliations
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): 2004 - present
- Free Software Foundation (FSF): 2008 - present
- Web Standards and Usability User Group: 2007 - 2010
- A founding member
- Organizer: 2008 - 2010
