Objective

I love learning. It is great working in an industry where technology evolves continuously. I enjoy making your websites.

Employment

Berstein-Rein Advertising

January, 2004 - present

Senior programmer, technical project lead, web systems administration. Use Java, ASP, Ruby, PHP, .NET to create database-driven web sites. Create web markup using HTML, javascript and CSS. Maintain web hosting environments on MS and *nix servers.

• Christopher Elbow Chocolates – Developed Ruby on Rails site that facilitates ecommerce, distribution from multiple locations, mailing list, innovative SEO and caching strategy. FedEx Soap API for shipping.
• Habitat Shoes – Developed Ruby on Rails site eccomerce with limited inventories, mailing list, functional organic SEO. USPS API for shipping.
• Beauty Brands – Developed Ruby on Rails site on IIS with SQL Server 2000 with CMS system that coordinates seasonal campaigns, monthly updates, mailing lists, SEO.
• Farmland Foods – Developed clasic ASP site using SQL Server 2000 with extensive CMS system that includes access to archived seasonal features. Extensive SEO work.
• Kasil Jeans – Developed Ruby on Rails site with MySQL with CMS system that creates cahed XML files and an authenticated catalog for vendors.
• Kansas City Life Group Benefits – Developed .NET 1.1 site using VB script, SQL Server 2000 with CMS system. I did the XHTML and CSS for this one too.
• Bernstein-Rein intranet – Developed Ruby on Rails site on Fedora with Postgresql. Migrated Coldfusion 4 and classic ASP systems using Access and SQL Server 6. Site contains news portal, events calendar, employee time reporting and 400-500 other features.
• Ruby Tuesday – Developed ASP classic site for a company that would not allow a database on the web server(!). Integrated APIS for third party products for location mapping, mailing list, etc.

Silpada Designs

September, 2003 - January 2004

Worked primarily as interface developer and programmer in many different capacities. Used Java servlets, JSP and/or Java application servers to create database-driven web sites. Developed Corprate Intranet, Sales lead generation web application, and other sales tools for distributedsales force.

Athenix Solutions

March, 2000 - May, 2003

Worked primarily as interface developer and programmer in many different capacities. Used Java servlets, JSP and/or Java application servers to create database-driven web sites. Developed normalized databases on multiple RDBMS. Utilized CSS and DOM 1 JavaScript to create forward-compatible Internet user interfaces.

• KU Workgroups Community Toolbox – Developed and maintained online data collection, reporting and charting tools utilizing the SilverStream application server and SQL Server 2000. Normalized data from legacy development time for system additions.
• Lynn Electric – Developed extranet site for employee and job-site management. Developed Dynamic Career Opportunities and Portfolio pages for public side of the web site.
• Cessna.com – Team developed a custom Java template-caching solution for high-traffic web site using Java Servlets and DB2. Also developed and maintained custom content management system for the client's marketing departments.

Education

Completed 124 credit hours studying computer science, philosophy, photography and engineering.

1995-1998, fall 1999 JCCC Overland Park, KS

• Studied and applied JAVA, Perl, UNIX shell scripting, C++, Object-Oriented Programming, Discrete Math and Data Structures
• Studied color and fine art black and white photography

1992-94, 1996, spring 1999 University of Kansas Lawrence, KS – Studied Engineering and Philosophy

Skills

Programming Languages

• Ruby
• Java
• VBScript
• Javascript
• C++
• Familiar with Perl, UNIX shell scripting.

Databases

• SQL Server
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• Oracle 9i
• DB2
• InstantDB

Other skills

• Win2K3 administration
• RMDBS administration