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Built various small tools for private clients. Interesting projects include: - A group chat application in PHP 8 with Vue.js. - Systemd service management utilities built in Rust. - A web application in Python FastAPI and TypeScript, deployed through Docker with Docker Compose. - Configuration and management of a two-node Proxmox cluster.

Managed all aspects of the corporate IT infrastructure. Played every role on the IT team, including project manager, network engineer, systems administrator and helpdesk. - Rebuilt the IT team from scratch, replacing an outsourced group. - Audited, maintained and created existing infrastructure documentation through the corporate wiki. - Leveraged existing assets to maintain and expand working systems. - Retired aging hardware through virtualization. - Worked with every department to identify and resolve languishing IT issues. - Reviewed, revised, created and enforced IT policy when needed. - Managed vendor relationships and purchasing decisions.

Bothell, Washington, United States

Lead the development team responsible for maintaining and expanding the company's home grown ERP/CRM/CMS/e-commerce platform. - Guided the team through major corporate changes. - Championed refactoring and partial rewrites of business-critical code to enable ease of future maintenance. - Planned the next-generation configurator project, from initial daydreaming through requirements gathering and paper mockups. - Lead development efforts to ensure that new code would follow modern industry best practice while still keeping true to the spirit and style of the existing project. - Coordinated closely with IT team to expand and manage available resources in a more effective manner.

Worked with the rest of the development team responsible for maintaining and expanding the company's home grown ERP/CRM/CMS/e-commerce platform. - Worked directly with end-users to gather requirements, write specifications and implement features and reports. - Contributed to formalizing a previously ad-hoc code review and QC process. - Engaged in progressive refactoring of procedural PHP4 code into object-leveraging PHP5 code. - Lead the team developing the world's first online configurator for high-performance computing clusters.

Main developer on the grandfather of the modern linear forum, the Ultimate Bulletin Board. The UBB used plain vanilla Perl and simple flat file data storage to create a powerful, effective forum with the best back-end control panel in the business. - Coded to specifications, both formal and informal. - Coordinated the external beta testing team. - Wrote and edited end-user documentation. - Acted as "tier two" technical support, interacting directly with customers.