Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (May 2005)
Minors: Business Administration and Management Information Systems
Ashland University, Ashland OH

Experience

Editor, Mindspring, Council of Smaller Enterprises (January 2008 - present)
Write a column and provide resources on using Internet technologies to advance the interests of business. (http://www.cosemindspring.com/technology/internet-technologies)

Chief Information Officer, Insivia (August 2007 - present)
Responsible for directing the growth of Insivia’s web-based software, which is the core of all client services. Also direct the planning and purchasing of all internal and client technical infrastructure. Implemented systems to allow Insivia to operate virtually without the requirement of a central office.

Ingenuity Festival (July 2007)
Coordinated the integration of mobile devices including text and picture messaging for a crowd of 150,000 festival attendees over four days. Also helped developed systems to track demographic information from the festival attendees utilizing hand held devices. (www.ingenuitycleveland.com) (xhtml, Javascript, CSS, PHP, MySQL)

Cuyahoga Community College (September 2006)
Taught two seminars. One on the concepts of software development including object oriented programming, UML and the software development life cycle. The other on the syntax and capabilities of Javascript.

Software Architect, Insivia (November 2005 - July 2007)
Communicated with clients to create and maintain customized software solutions. Led development of new object oriented software code base, which is now the basis for all client implementations. Structured departmental guidelines including communication policies, coding practices, client relation software and concurrent versioning systems for growing development team. Maintain production servers and backup processes. (www.insivia.com) (xhtml, Javascript, CSS, RSS, xml, Bash, PHP, Python, ASP, VBScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, SOAP)

Web Developer, Integrated Marketing Technologies (May 2005 - October 2005)
Developed and maintained data driven solutions that provide food service marketing services for nationwide food manufactures, including Sara Lee Coffee & Tea, Brown Forman, McCain and Hershey. (www.imtco.com) (xhtml, Javascript, CSS, PHP, MySQL, xml)

Alliant Health (2004)
Contributed towards developing Windows platform network application to help in the processing of patient visits and Medicare and insurance filing. (C#, xml and schema, Actionscript)

Bay Corporation, AUEagleBank.com, American Marketing Association (2004)
Provided a data solution to conduct a survey of their clients. (xhtml, Javascript, CSS, PHP, MySQL)

The Financial Education Company (2004)
Consulted on website expansion. Performed website restructuring. (www.fin-ed.org) (html, Javascript, CSS)

Textreme Discounts (2003)
Designed website to buy and sell used textbooks from students on multiple campuses. Managed business-wide inventory, pricing and sales. (xhtml, Javascript, CSS, PHP, MySQL)

Web Developer, Ashland Area Chamber of Commerce (2002 - 2005)
Served on technology committee. Developed a database driven portal system where local businesses can manage content and market their organization. Website is designed to be a searchable database where information can be found on all that Ashland County has to offer. (xhtml, Javascript, CSS, Bash, PHP, OpenBase, MySQL)

Criado Law Group (2002 - 2004)
Designed database driven web system which allows legal companies in the Austin, Texas area to refer cases to other legal companies and track case progress as well as referral fees and payments. (html, Javascript, CSS, PHP, MySQL)

College of Business and Economics, Ashland University (2002 - 2003)
Presented lectures at MBA web development seminars focusing on extending website capabilities through advanced technologies, namely Javascript and server side technologies.

Web Design Assistant, Information Technology, Ashland University (2001 - 2005)
Worked individually and as a part of a team on many projects involving the Ashland University website. This includes seasonal and special event pages (Artic Blast, 125th Anniversary) and primary web pages (campus calendar (calendar.ashland.edu), Public Relations (www3.ashland.edu/newsroom), several of the new website templates, the DCTA). Developed a data-driven online game with Flash, PHP and MSSQL. (www.ashland.edu, www.exploreashland.com) (html, Javascript, CSS, PHP, ASP, VBScript, ADO, MSSQL, SOAP, Actionscript)

Silhouette Photography (2001 - 2002, 2004)
Developed web sales front (2001 - 2002) as well as xml based internal website (2004) to manage business transactions. Utilized data access pages to bring xml data into a web interface. (html, Javascript, CSS, PHP, MySQL, xml, schema and DTD)

Certifications & Skills

CIW Certified Master Designer
Foundations (1D0-510): July 13, 2004
Site Designer (1D0-420): December 1, 2004
E-Commerce Designer (1D0-425): April 5, 2005

Eagle Scout
Troop 48: December 3, 2000

Languages

Web
xhtml, PHP (including PDFLIB, FPDF and Smarty), Javascript (AJAX, DHTML, DOM), CSS, Python, Actionscript, ASP, VBScript

Object Oriented
PHP (4 and 5), Python, Java, C/C++, C#

General
SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, OpenBase), Bash, Perl, Python, VBA, VB, TI Basic, PocketC, Lisp, xml (SOAP, RSS, ATOM, RDF), DTD, Schema

Server Administration

Linux and Unix
Debian, Ubuntu Server, Red Hat Enterprise, Fedora, FreeBSD, SUSE Enterprise

Apache, Bind, Courier-IMAP, Cpanel, Cron, Exim, MyDNS, MySQL, OpenSSL, PHP/PEAR, Plesk, Postfix, PostgreSQL, Qmail, Samba, Sendmail, Spamassassin, Subversion, ssmtp, vsftp, Zope/Plone

Window Server 2003
Apache, Adobe Contribute, IIS6, MSSQL, PHP, MySQL