Resume

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Professional Experience

Lockerz Technical Lockerz – Pittsburgh, PA

07/2009 – Present

Building the next big thing – Lockerz.com! Go check it out

“Lockerz is the place to go to buy the coolest stuff at the lowest prices, watch exclusive video, discover new music, play the hottest games, hang out with your friends – and get rewarded for just about EVERYTHING you do on the site.”

Lead Software Engineer FirstString – Los Angeles, CA

04/2008 – 05/2009

• Created core company infrastructures, and oversaw all web product development.
• Organized specifications, planning, scrums, meetings, code reviews, and reported directly to the company President.
• Provided hiring suggestions to fill needed expertise.
• Deployed project management and version control tools to manage 10 mid-to-senior software developers and designers engaged in the core product, a social network.
• Created specifications in chart and written form. Continually documented code; and worked as a project manager, database architect, network administrator, and lead programmer.
• In 3 months, FirstString.com released as a web 2.0 beta. Within a year, the company established partnerships with “MySpace”, “Hilton Hotel”, “East Bay”, and is now in process of acquisition by a larger multi-million dollar company (NDA).

Core Skills – Ruby on Rails/REST, PHP 5 OOP/MVC, jQuery, AJAX, Multi-tier Linux Server Expertise and Administration, Database Architecture and Administration, MySQL 5, CSS, XHTML, XML, Project Management Skills, Web 2.0 Technology, Open Source Software, Entrepreneurial Knowledge.

Software Developer Social Platform – Los Angeles, CA

05/2005 – 01/2008

• Worked as a ground floor member to create a white label social networking solution.
• Supervised several developers providing guidance and support on various projects.
• Assisted in the design and implementation of high traffic web systems meeting critical requirements and deadlines in support of high profile music industry clients and their fan networks (e.g.: Madonna, Los Lonely Boys, Ray J, & many others…).
• Provided technical support to clients.
• Company was ultimately acquired by OneSite.com after 2 ½ years of development.

Core Skills: PHP4 and PHP5 OOP/MVC, Subversion, Linux, shell scripting, Perl, Database Architecture and Administration, MySQL 3/4/5, XML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, PEAR, XHTML, Smarty.

Computer Science Tutor West Virginia University – Morgantown, WV

01/2005 – 05/2005

• Tutored a class of 40 students of variable skill levels a few days a week.
• Worked one-on-one, as well as in groups, with students to help them understand concepts from their courses.
• Responsible for monitoring and recording attendance as well as coordinating student reschedules with other tutors.
• Worked flexibly with other session tutors to ensure all sessions had available staff each week.

Core Skills: Programming languages, Computer Applications, and Engineering Science.

Application Developer Red Beam Software – Colorado Springs, CO

09/2003 – 11/2004

• Worked on small scale projects while I was a full time student in college.
• Developed web site layouts, conducted HTML adjustments, PHP code re-factoring, and research.
• Used Perl programming coupled with Wave 59 Technology to assist in stock market analysis.

Research AssistantWest Virginia University – Morgantown, WV

01/2004 – 07/2004

• After receiving Dr. Donald Adjeroh’s highest grade in a CS course, he hired me to work under his direction applying computer science theory to cancer research being done at the University.

Application Developer (Intern) UUNET / MCI WorldCom – Ashburn, VA

06/1999 – 01/2001

• MCI became my entry into computer science. I spent time job shadowing and assisting professional developers through which I learned fundamentals of programming.

Core Skills: Unix knowledge, SSH, Red Hat Linux, and Perl.

Education

Computer Science West Virginia University – Morgantown, WV

08/2003 – 08/2005

Emphases – Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Design Patterns, Database Modeling, Database Design, Software Engineering, C++, Calculus

Technical Proficiencies

Languages

Ruby 1.8, PHP 3/4/5, Python 2.5, Perl 5, C++, C, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, XHTML Transitional / Strict 1.1, DHTML, CSS 1/2/3, XML, XPath, XSLT, XML-RPC, SOAP

Platforms

Ruby on Rails, Unix, Bash Scripting, (K)Ubuntu Linux Desktop, Debian, Django, Typhoon PHP MVC, CakePHP, KohanaPHP, CodeIgniter, jQuery1.3, AJAX, JSON, RSS, Windmill TDD, Firefox 1/2/3, Internet Explorer 6/7, Safari, Red Hat 9, Fedora Desktop, Mac OSX, Windows 97/98/XP/Vista

Tools

Subversion (SVN), GIT, CVS, Trac – ISCM & PM, RedMine ISCM & PM, dotProject – PM, PHP Bug Tracker, phpMyAdmin, jEdit IDE, Eclipse IDE, DBWrench, Open Office, MS Office Suite ( Word, Excel, PowerPoint ), Photoshop 7 & CS 3

Servers & Networks

Ubuntu Server 6/7/8/9, SSHD (OpenSSH), Apache 1/2 HTTPD Server, WEBrick, Mongrel, Phusion Passenger (mod_rails/mod_rack), MySQL 3/4/5, TCP/IP Application Layer, Oracle, FreeBSD

Theory, Paradigms & Best Practices

Object Oriented Programming (OOP), REST & RESTful Design, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Software as a Service (SaaS), Model View Client (MVC), Extreme Programming (XP), Test-Driven Development (TDD), Database Modeling, MySQL Administration, Subversion (SVN) Best Practices, PEAR CS Standards, PHP Doc, CSS Based Design, Document Object Model (DOM), Web 2.0, Web Standards, Unified Modeling Language (UML), Understanding of the Software Lifecycle, Understanding of Design Patterns