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Culver City, California, US

Victoria, British Columbia, CA

San Jose, California, US

San Jose, California, US

Developer of internal tools for TiVo. Heavy use of Python/Django and various scripting languages.

Turlock, California, US

Turlock, California, US

Honored employee - was awarded recognition In April 2009. The only person in a 200+ employee company to be honored the entire year of 2009. Assisted with migration from Sun Web Server to Apache. Wrote Perl scripts to automatically migrate a huge list of redirects from Sun's XML redirect configuration to Apache's text based format. Heavy use of JQuery and.

Greenwood Village, CO, US

Developed an automatic update client in C# - run silently on the field by hundreds of ambulance which would query a web service to determine if a newer version of software was available. If a new package was available it queue up the download using Microsoft's Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) API, which would trickle download the file based.

Greenwood Village, CO, US

Worked on EPCR (Electronic Patient Care) software and created automatic-update functionality to keep field ambulance laptops up to date with no user interaction.

Worked on a tile map level editor.

Developed Drupal modules in PHP to customize a high-traffic startup website.Wrote scripts to migrate existing forums (PHPBB) to Drupal Forums.Used Perforce heavily for source control management.Wrote scripts to process video files uploaded by users and convert them into various formats for streaming on the web and mobile devices. Essentially created a.

Turlock, California, US

Introduced and implemented object/relational persistence tools. Created entire class library, then used NHibernate to logically map all objects to existing database structure. Then created very simple CRUDs to allow edits through a.NET Web Service.

Migrated database from Oracle to SQL Server. Developed entire cashiering system from the ground up using C# and SQL Server. This included an expansion of their database schema and migration of portions of an old, undocumented Cobol application. Created a ASP.NET web-based court calendar application to assist with the scheduling of court cases. This.

Developed a front-end Windows Forms user interface for data entry of lenders. Also created an auto-updating component that would query an internal web server on each launch, looking for updates. If updates were available, it would update the application and restart the application, all transparent to the user. Performed load testing for migrating an.

Developed a front-end C# Windows Forms user interface for data entry of lenders. Also created an auto-updating component that would query an internal web server on each launch, looking for updates. If updates were available, it would update the application and restart the application, all transparent to the user. Performed load testing for migration of an.

Used advanced geometry to create a geocoding algorithm which was capable of guessing the geographic location of a street address. Created a real-time hierarchical database tracer for tracing pipe networks upstream or downstream. Developed a modular Web application framework backend in ColdFusion with a skinnable front-end. Designed, architected, and.

Used advanced geometry to create a geocoding algorithm which was capable of guessing the geographic location of a street address. Created a real-time hierarchical database tracer for tracing pipe networks upstream or downstream. Developed a modular Web application framework backend in ColdFusion with a skinnable front-end. Designed, architected, and.

Developed a secure authentication system for subscribers to an e-zine. (ASP 3.0) Migrated a database of over 100,000 subscribers to a normalized database in SQL Server 2000.

Sacramento, California, US

Managed a team of four developers in the creation of an intranet application for data entry. This included a rich front-end - heavy in JavaScript/DHTML, and a powerful back-end in ColdFusion. Developed a database logging system which would track the speed and accuracy of individual data entry clerks.

Created dynamic front-end pages for large sites such as Pottery Barn, Williams-Sonoma, and Toys 'R' Us. Lead a team of six engineers for the entire front-end development of Williams-Sonoma Online Wedding Registry.

Performed maintenance on a high-traffic web site to decrease load times. Optimized back-end ColdFusion code to decrease server impact during peak traffic.

Used ColdFusion to create dynamic Web applications for several clients. Created an online telephone prefix lookup to find local numbers for a large ISP. Work samples, articles, performance reports, skill details, etc. are all available upon request.