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Portland, OR, US

Seattle, WA, US

Investing in St. Louis to create community spaces, commercial opportunities, and housing.

Meals on Us PDX is a non-profit focused on providing meals to those in need. Currently we rent two commercial kitchen spaces and provide over 1000 meals a day to homeless shelters in the Portland area.As Chairman of the Board of Directors, I help set direction and coordinate decision making for the organization.

Seattle, WA, US

Redwood City, CA, US

In this role I help drive Sensu product direction by engaging with the observability community, primarily by listening, and also by producing technical content, and contributing to open-source code within our ecosystem.

San Francisco, CA, US

My mission is to help Twitter have the best technical documentation in the world. Along the way, I'll be building open source tooling and sharing experiences, to help other developers achieve the same and more.

Portland, Oregon, US

ML4ALL is an annual conference series focused on machine learning. We strive to make machine learning accessible to the average developer, while creating a welcoming, inclusive, and diverse environment for all attendees.See http://ml4all.org for more information.

Wilmington, Delaware, US

Committer on the Apache Lucene.Net project at the Apache Software Foundation.

.NET Fringe is a series of conferences focusing on.NET and Open Source.We've produced the following conferences:.NET Fringe 2015: Portland, Oregon, 350 attendeeshttp://dotnetfringe.org

NodePDX is a series of Node.js and JavaScript focused community conferences in Portland, Oregon. For 2012 the conference drew 150 people to hear presentations from 12 notable speakers and participate in a hackathon. The talks were all streamed live online and recordings are publicly available.

Write the Docs is a series of conferences and local meetups focused on documentation systems, tech writing theory, and information delivery.We've produced the following conferences: WTD NA 2013: Portland, Oregon, 250 attendeeshttp://conf.writethedocs.org/na/2013/index.html WTD NA 2014: Portland, Oregon, 350.

JSConf.cn is a series of Node.js and JavaScript focused community conferences in China. Our conferences draw hundreds of people from both China and international open source tech communities. Presentations are delivered by a mix of notable local and international speakers, in both English and Chinese language. We also coordinate related events like.

San Francisco, CA, US

As Lead Data Engineer, I designed and built a custom data analytics pipeline focused on mobile gaming. Using a fun mixture of hand-rolled cloud-based pipeline tooling, keen.io (Cassandra/Storm as a service), Periscope (data dashboarding), and Amazon Redshift.

Riak On! is a Riak Database as a Service (DBaaS) hosting provider. I built it, primarily focusing on the backend, but also creating the company marketing site and the web application console.

Part of a small team working on building the AppFog and PHPFog products. My contributions have been general improvements to the development process and infrastructure, and backend work on the system.Tech used: Cloud Foundry, Ruby on Rails, Chef, Vagrant, Blueprint, Fabric, Jenkins, Azure, AWS (all of it!)... etc.

Lubec is a lo-fi shoegazing pop band from Portland, Oregon, who are signed to the Acme Thunderer label.

Working with a small team of developers to create the next most awesome thing ever for the e-Discovery industry.

Portland, Oregon, US

Lead a small group of developers working on internal systems to support Powell's multi-site retail operations.

Montauk Ghost was an indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, formed by Matt Brown, co-founder of the Bladen County Records label. As bassist, I performed with Montauk Ghost for live performances, as well as in the studio for our debut album.

At this position, I was responsible for the bi-monthly layout, design, proofreading, and editing of an English language magazine for ESL students. The magazine is distributed to over 500 high schools and universities in Hebei province. The layout was done in Adobe Pagemaker, and the graphics in Adobe Photoshop. I initially did this work in the New Times.

At this position, I taught English as a Second Language to students from 5 to 45 years of age. Many of my students were businessmen, graduate and post-graduate college students. During the summer of 2005 I taught a two month seminar which had over 200 students, all of whom were high-school English teachers from Hebei province and were required to attend my.

Dearborn, Michigan, US

At this position, I worked as part of a small team of technicians who dealt with every facet of computer and networking technology in the automobile assembly plant. This included everything from basic desktop support for users of simple PCs, to programming specially designed technology for data collection, to process control in the automation systems, to.

At this position, I began as an instrument repairman. After the owner of the shop became so ill from his heart condition that he needed to stay in the hospital permanently, I took over management of the store and staff. I was the primary salesperson, did all the ordering and receiving, handled the rentals, and took care of the daily finances of payouts and.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

At this position, I handled incoming support requests at a Network Operations Center (NOC) from technicians in the field working with installation and repair of cable modems. This involved troubleshooting many types of computer systems, many types of network situations, and often involved deep troubleshooting of our Wide Area Network (WAN). Coordinated.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

This position was a short-term contract to migrate a large A.G. Edwards stock trading office from an aging network/computer systems to modern systems. This involved a lot of upgrades to the network (switches, cabling, etc) as well as installing and configuring hundreds of workstations. I led a team of 12 people, and was responsible for training.

St. Louis, Missouri, US

At this position, I learned how to build musical instruments in a high-volume violin shop (Knilling Violins). I was responsible for quality control and training, as well as building the instruments.

Bern, CH

This was a software development contract. I wrote customized programs for a news clipping service in Visual Basic 6 and VBA, working with the MS Office COM API. A large part of the work was bulk processing of digital video and audio files, as well as a customized search engine built from scratch. The company needed to archive, track, and retrieve large.

As the Senior Administrative Assistant to the Director of Education, I was responsible for researching the art in the museum collection in order to create source materials for the education department staff and museum visitors, coordinating and planning events, and handling many of the incoming questions relating to the activities of the Education.

As a Marketing Contractor, I prepared a proposal for a mid-sized janitorial services company, in order to bid for a large contract with a local university. During the two months I worked on this project, I coordinating with the owners of the company to build a business proposal and presentation plan to expand their market reach to larger organizations. The.

I founded this software development company at age 14 to develop and market "shareware" software. I built a suite of integrated tools for telecommunications, graphics editing, music production, and networked real-time gaming in C/C++ for the DOC/PC evironment. The software was distributed through venues such as BBSes, FidoNet, and Usenet forums. Though.