Sean Upton Email & Phone Number

Sandy Ut

Mostscript builds, supports hosted (SaaS) software for healthcare and public health quality improvement. ShrubFrog QI, its primary product, provides a unified space for form-based data collection, quantitative measurement, data visualization, and project facilitation; built in Python, JavaScript, Plone CMS, and D3. Supporting client health QI projects with hundreds of users in eight US states.

South Jordan, Utah, United States

Python/Django backend development for transactional data systems (file-based, REST, SOAP) for healthcare employee/vendor verification service preventing fraud, waste, and abuse. Using; Django, Docker, Celery, Sentry.io, mypy, PyCryptodome, Jira, Gitlab CI.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Development for NewspaperWorks — a Ruby-based linked-data repository solution for historic newspapers in the Samvera / Hyrax digital asset management platform, based on Rails, Apache Solr, and Fedora Commons Repository. Primary developer (remote) on a distributed four-person project team, an IMLS-funded collaboration of The University of Utah and Boston Public Library.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Developed QI TeamSpace, a comprehensive healthcare quality improvement (QI) platform, a tool used both by University-sponsored projects and ten partner organizations across the US. Responsible for all aspects of development, support, operations, product management, and planning. Application development in Python (Plone, Django), JavaScript (D3, JQuery, ECMAScript 2015).

Python developer for large-scale cloud computing infrastructure-as-a-service project. Developed components for increased scaling and capacity management for clustered cloud systems as well as maintenance and improvement of cloud management database API modules.

Working on web development and integration projects in PHP and Python.

Leading cross-media media content management software development/deployment projects. Established development platform standards (Python, Linux, WSGI, Django, Subversion, Solr/Lucene, etc.) used by a dozen developers in three different divisions of the company. Supporting key infrastructure, virtual servers, and standards for other development teams across the company. Leading software development in feed processing, backends for rich internet applications (DHTML and Flex), image processing and metadata extraction (JPEG/JFIF, SVG). Reverse engineering and re-implementation of TCP print-spool system from legacy systems.

Head of information technology for Internet Operations division of The Union-Tribune, including systems integration, data-center administration, software development, and support for 25+ servers and 80+ workstations.Supervised and led expansion of technical team from two to seven programmers, engineers.Multiple hats: "alpha geek," key business leader, and technical mentor for an expanding multi-million-dollar content and advertising business.Project/product manager for many key technology project areas serving entertainment, classified advertising, subscriber retention products as well as back-end infrastructure.Key projects: Lead architect for multiple generations of content management, delivery systems used for news, entertainment content workflow and local search. Developed three generations of online classified advertising systems. Led a data-center migration, developed multi-site high-availability, and coordinated an office move.

Lead developer for online advertising (classified, search) and content feeds (text-processing). Software development in Python, C, and Perl.Architect/admin for data-center network and server integrations. Initiated platform migration from Sun hardware/software to open-source stack (Linux-HA, Apache, MySQL, Squid, Zope, Python), commodity hardware clusters. Led data-center migration and build-out of highly-available application server farm and shared storage clusters.

Directed product development team and software architecture for commercially-sold digital asset management systems for news content archival, newsroom assignment, web publishing workflow. Supervised development team of five developers working in C, ASP/VBScript, and VB6.Responsible for architecture, implementation of industry-leading mobile/handheld content management system, one of the first commercial systems marketed to the newspaper market.

Principal developer for text import/export filters, lexical scanner (C/lex). Collaborated with Win32/VB6 developers consuming API and filter DLLs.Developer for commercial web, desktop applications for newspaper news, photo, library use.Documentation, software packaging for Mac, PC, server application deployments for clients.User-interface and graphic design for core software products and documentation.

Ba, Communication, Computer Science (Minor)

Activities and Societies: Volunteer coach on nationally award winning Speech and Debate team. Applied areas of study: computational.

Communication

Activities and Societies: Captain of University debate team (numerous awards in national competition). Maud May Babcock Scholar in Speech.