Hire Will
I am an extremely quick and voracious learner. I will not shy away from any new language, standard, or style. I am also a motivated task-oriented individual, and enjoy working in a team environment, especially pair coding. If provided the opportunity, I will use my tenacity and experience to become an excellent addition to your company.
Non-Technical Skills
I find that despite the electronic nature of the programming profession, those without non-programming skills find themselves left behind by the more well-written or charismatic of their brethren.
For myself, I believe my skillset outside of programming is what sets me apart from my competition. Of course, every programmer must have the ability to approach a problem from the coder’s point of view, but I have a great deal of experience in the “real world”, apart from raw code. This experience allows me to see problems from the client’s perspective, as a business analyst, and as an author of prose as well as code.
Web Development Skills
On to the real bread-and-butter. I have continually grown in my technical skills from lowly Jr Dev to the Senior Dev and lynchpin of a successful Development company. Below are my strongest skills, geared toward web development.
- Linux/BSD
- Vim 7
- PHP
- MVC Frameworks (Writing as well as using)
- Advanced OO PHP
- PEAR
- Mambo CMS Component Programming
- HTML
- CSS
- Standards-compliant code and web design
- Subversion
- Apache customization (mod_rewrite, etc)
- MySQL
- Adobe Photoshop
I of course have other less-related skills, including Adobe Illustrator, MS Office, Windows/Apple experience, etc., but I feel I have as much experience as the next Senior-position information worker.
Experience
February 2006 – Present
Senior Developer
Black Dog Studios
3200 J St.
Sacramento, CA
Hilights
- Wrote several excellent extensions to a home-brewed OO PHP framework
- Led the charge for standards-based css layouts
- Implemented and maintain svn version control, including development branching and release tags
- Wrote a weekly report tool using Basecamp data to audit per-employee weekly “profitablility”
- Whipped a few print-design-oriented employees into shape
Primary Software Tools:
- Heavily customized Vim 7
- Bash, GNU Screen, sed, etc
- Firebug (can’t live without it!)
- Subversion
- Photoshop
Aug 2005 – February 2006
CMG Capital Investment Inc.
(No longer in business)
9310 Tech Center Dr.
Sacramento, CA
IT Manager (Independant Contractor)
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Design, install, and maintain web hosting system in-house
- Design, install, and maintain intranet web applications
- Install and maintain open-source CMS solutions for public websites
- Install and maintain Linux-based m0n0 firewall
- Design, install, and maintain databases for websites, intranet, and other data retention
- Maintain office network by installing new computers and running CAT-5
- Maintain office equipment and pool of ~35 computers in the office
- Investigate and procure new hardware and office equipment as needed
Software tools used:
- Gentoo Linux
- Apache server
- MySQL Database
- PHPMySQL database manager
- Mambo CMS
- Horde Groupware
- Drupal CMS
- m0n0 Open-source firewall
Jan 2001 – Sept 2005
Young Construction
Sutter Creek, CA
Office Manager / Webmaster
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Oversee all computer-related operations both in the office and in satellite locations.
- Design and manage job-tracking software for implementation over the web.
- Manage small office network using Linux servers and windows/Linux workstations.
- Design and manage PostgreSQL databases.
- Design and manage PHP and Access database front ends.
- Manage field operations.
- Organize accounts payable.
- Design, create, and manage invoices and billing statements.
- Manage accounts receivable.
Education
Folsom Lake College
Associate Degree
Took classes in:
Web development in a client/server environment
Oracle PL/SQL
Database Management
Advanced Operating Systems
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