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Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Owner of social network for auto enthusiasts. Architect / Product Manager / Everything.Work includes:- Developing innovative ideas tailored to auto enthusiasts.- Managing advertisers, vendors, site sponsors.- Coding, architecture, server administration.Technical:- Site running on colo servers and AWS.- Software stack includes Apache, Lighttpd, MySQL, Sphinx, Memcached, ffmpeg.- Site framework written in PHP5. Front end consists of HTML5 and jQuery.

Victoria, British Columbia, Ca

- Designed and developed multi-tenant game economy and purchase management service. RESTful APIs, event emission, full-text search, continuous integration and deployment, real-time graphing of economy activity, currency and exchange rate management. Infrastructure on AWS. Google Play, Apple IAP, Steam, and other payment platforms. Node.js, PHP, C#. Dependencies on RabbitMQ, Nginx, ElasticSearch, StatsD, Graphite, Mongo, MySQL (NDB, Aurora), various AWS offerings.- Developed, managed customer support tooling. User activity/history (by way of data contracts from supported games), risk assessment (iovation), customer support (zendesk), multilingual (transifex). Python, PHP.- Game development, focus on payment systems and analytics events. Unity, C#.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- Architected and developed multi-tenant search based on ElasticSearch and Gearman.- Technical lead for Mashery's Client I/O Docs.- Developed Mashery's NodeJS Open Source implementation of I/O Docs.- Developed Portal/CMS used by Mashery clients.- Developed json-rpc and RESTful APIs for managing client services/APIs through Mashery.- Refactored features of the CMS.

New York, Us

Developer / Architect working with PHP5, MySQL, jQuery.HowStuffWorks.com- Front and backend development for delivery engine and content management system serving well over 100m page views a month.- Assisted in converting legacy framework powering delivery engine to Zend Framework.- Implemented Solr/Lucene for site wide search, indexing nearly a million records.- Implemented social feature site wide relying on FaceBook connect and home grown authentication system. Social features included bookmarking favorite articles, score logging and ranking for quiz feature, etc.- Designed flexible cache expiration feature in CMS to tag articles with specific expiration requirements to reduce manual cache clearing on Akamai.- Designed dynamic JS/CSS bundling and minification system for use in ZF.- Implemented Omniture page level tagging and click tracking to assist with page analytics.Videos @ HowStuffWorks.com (videos.howstuffworks.com)- Technical lead for video implementation. Team consisted of 5 engineers.MobilTravelGuide (now Forbes/Startle)- Technical lead for migrating legacy platform to HowStuffWorks ZF based delivery engine. Team consisted of 5 engineers.Consumer Guide Auto (http://consumerguideauto.howstuffworks.com)- Implemented faceted search using Solr/Lucene for car model lookup.Network sites @ Discovery.com- Assisted in architecting delivery platform for handling various network sites, including tlc.discovery.com.- Designed article system using OOCSS, and built CMS functionality to allow marketing teams to fully control skinning of network sites.

- Developing PHP5/JS MVC framework & server software for use internally / upcoming product. Server software includes: video conversion queue server w/ xml-rpc (Python), a targeted Ad server (Python, MySQL, w/ PHP front-end), web analytics + statistics server (Python, MySQL, w/ PHP front-end).- Assisting design/development of a server management control panel for *nix systems. Includes processes to handle config for BIND, Apache, MySQL, Dovecot, Postfix, and other typical LAMP applications. Python based.- Designed, developed several PHP4 MVC frameworks for use within client/in-house projects. Included custom database abstraction layer, modularized templating engine (like Smarty), extensive caching support, error reporting / statistics, complete content management system.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

- Developed and managed DB2 data aquisition processes for customer reporting, which included Java and Shell scripting, DB2 SQL.- Lead, planned, and developed customer & machine search tools in Java/JSP, polling numerous DB2 servers.- Developed team efficiency applications in PHP and MySQL.

Santa Clara, California, Us

- Designed and developed extensions for an Intel SIG Portal to handle ACL for internal documents. PHP / MySQL development.- Created automated newsletter process for existing SIG members and administration interface within portal system. PHP / MySQL development.- Performed security audits for internal PHP based portal.

- Developed open-source PHP applications focusing in project management and development. Included issue and task tracking tools.- Designed and developed an e-commerce system for open-source portals. Included inventory tracking and control, multi-currency and real-time conversion support, product options for detailed purchasing (ie computer systems), modularized shipping costs / rates (Fedex, USPS, UPS, etc), modularized payment support (Authorize, Verisign, Linkpoint, etc), discounts via groups or coupon codes, user product rating and reviews, and other features. - Performed security audits on sites running open-source portals / content management systems. Developed patches and security modules to prevent security issues from being exploited.