Work Experience

Mashery, Inc.

February 2010 - Present

25 Kearny St. San Francisco, CA 94104

Programmer

I work with a team of extremely talented individuals on our customer-facing portal product. I implement new features and fix bugs as well as handle every day customer support and configuration issues.

  • I develop new features for our customer-facing portal product such as forums, blogs and documentation.
  • I work with our implementation team to deal with every day customer issues.
  • I work with our user interface designer to come up with innovative new features for our product.

Improvement Direct, Inc. (now Build.com)

February 2009 - October 2009

282 Convair Ave. Chico, CA 95973

Web Developer

I worked with a group of developers on the back-end admin system for several e-commerce Internet Retailer Top 500 websites. I worked in a primarily Coldfusion and Microsoft SQL environment.

  • Built financial reports
  • Wrote bolt-on applications for an enterprise e-commerce platform
  • Integrated new functionality into existing back-end order management system

Credentify, LLC.

October 2008 - February 2009

6621 St.George Lane £G Chico, CA 95926

Web Developer

I worked with a small group to build an applicant tracking system with Coldfusion and Microsoft SQL Server.

  • Used ColdSpring to manage dependencies
  • Worked with MS-SQL as our query language
  • Used Trac to manage the project
  • Used "e" text editor for Coldfusion development

MC2 Design Group, Inc.

March 2006 - October 2008

330 Wall Street Ste. 12 Chico, CA 95928

Web Developer

I worked with a team of designers to create highly usable, standards-based web sites with PHP and MySQL. I began with HTML and CSS layouts, eventually moving into a more programming-oriented role.

  • Integrated e-commerce and content management applications into dozens of client websites
  • Successfully introduced Subversion, unit testing, and many other best practices into the existing work-flow
  • Used Basecamp and Springloops on a daily basis to manage and deploy
  • Used various open source projects as well as my own components to develop an in-house MVC framework
  • Wrote various scripts to make day-to-day operations more efficient
  • Wrote comprehensive documentation for all in-house library code and applications
  • Used Javascript to enhance user experience on many projects
  • Worked with clients to write functional specifications
  • Used functional specifications to build application flow charts

Additional Skills & Experience

  • Zend Certified Engineer
  • Highly proficient in the use of OOP, design patterns, and best practices
  • Moderator of popular PHP developer forum, DevNetwork.net
  • Experience with several MVC frameworks, including Zend and CakePHP
  • Python web application development with the Django framework
  • Comfortable in a Linux shell
  • Project lead for several open source projects including qCal and PHP CSV Utilities