Officially Lucky

• Advanced experience with combinations of PHP, relational databases, Apache, Python, Django, mod_python, CherryPy, fast_cgi, lighttpd, and memcached to create web applications.
• 7+ years experience with X/HTML and CSS to build accessible, efficient, and maintainable web pages.
• The theory, practice, and implementation of the technologies known as Ajax. Experience with prototype, jquery, YUI, YUI-ext, and others.
• Utilized Python to scrape, process, and reformat, data; build web applications using Django and CherryPy; and automate Windows & OS X applications via Python’s Win32 COM extensions and PyObjC respectively.
• Experience with using scripting languages to access, consume, process, and republish information from web services, RSS, XML, screen scraping, and more.
• Knowledge of electrical and computer engineering principles including soldering, digital & analog circuit design, DSP, power electronics, RF circuitry, and cellular RF principles and application.

Work Experience

Senior Web Developer, Stone Ward—Sept 2006 to Present

• Worked with a diverse agency client list to develop intranets, micro-sites, social web applications, Facebook applications, flash games, corporate web presences, and internal tools.
• Developed web presences and applications using a diverse number of web scripting languages including: ASP.NET (C#,VBS), Classic ASP, PHP, Python, and Cold Fusion.
• Worked with corporate clients directly to inform and influence strategies involving “the social web.” Consulted on the usage of blogs, social networking sites, syndication, and similar technologies for use in a corporate setting.

Journalist; Copy Editor; Web Developer, Ars Technica LLC.,—2004 to Present

• Managed, edited, and participated in a team of writers that built one of the most widely respected and objective sources of news concerning Apple Computer, their hardware & software, and the 3rd-party developer ecosystem surrounding the company (http://www.arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars).
• Developed in-house web applications to improve resource efficiency using Python and Django.
• Composed articles and reviews ranging in length from 500 to 10,000 words on varied topics ranging from transistors, spyware, to hybrid vehicles. Articles were written with a technical audience in mind and on extremely strict deadlines with rigorous expectations of quality and technical understanding.

RF Engineer/Programmer, T-Mobile USA—May 2004 to Sept 2006

• Monitored, optimized, and designed the placement and specifications of existing and new cellular telephone towers.
• Became proficient in and made use of the following industry-specific software: Mapinfo (GIS), Odyssey, Enterprise Asset, Remedy XP, Insite, Nortel, OMC-R, and advanced usage of Microsoft Excel for data analysis.
• Familiar with and made extensive use of signal propagation theory, capacity forecasting, RF interference, and minimization thereof.

Junior Web Developer, Purdue University, CERIAS—Nov 2002 to May 2004

• Developed several object oriented PHP class packages to drive various sections of the CERIAS website such as: a hierarchical, user-contributed directory of security links, an online calendaring system, security event tracking system, and more.
• Ported aging PHP code-bases to efficient, well-documented, and object-oriented applications.

Education

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

• B.S. Computer Engineering Technology—2004
• A.S. Electrical Engineering Technology—2003