Contact Information

Zach[ary] Young
Norfolk, VA USA 23505
Mobile757.462.0045

Core Competencies

  • Semantic Web
  • Technical Search Engine Optimization
  • Information Retrieval and Organization
  • Technologies: CSS, JavaScript, Linux, MySQL, PHP5, XHTML

Qualifications

  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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
  • Dominion Enterprises (formerly Trader Publishing Company): 2005 - 2007
    • 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.)
    • 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.
    • 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.
  • 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

  • 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

References

  • Available upon request