elusivemind

Technical Skills:



Master Developer
Development of high-traffic, custom electronic commerce platforms for high-profile clients. These included online ticketing, membership and physical product purchases. Development also included web-based multimedia editing platforms utilizing flash and PHP technologies.

Developed Linux systems on Virtual Private Servers as well as on Amazon EC2 systems utilizing Elastic Block Storage and S3 technologies.


Senior Developer, Systems Administrator
Systems administration for a virtualized Linux environment utilizing VMWare ESX products and CentOS/Red Hat Enterprise. Research and construction of server infrastructure and operating system environment. Proficient in installation of operating systems and associated services including Apache, MySQL, PHP, PostgreSQL, and qMail.

Senior developer of LAMP applications. Proficient in PHP 4 and 5 in addition to MySQL 4, 5.0 and 5.1. Responsible for development of multiple custom applications to work within Expression Engine and Drupal environments.

Management and oversight of ecommerce solution used to sell magazines to the public.


Owner, Lead Developer, System Administrator, Everything
Developed a complete electronic commerce package (PowerMerchant) designed and geared to be scalable and customized to exact client needs.

Developed core development libraries that allow for the rapid development of projects within a unified framework.

Developed custom, user-friendly content management systems allowing a broad array of users to easily and quickly implement changes and updates to web site content in a non-destructive manner.

Constructed and maintained all company production servers on Linux and Macintosh OS X platforms utilizing a package of open source technologies including Apache Web Server, BIND, Qmail, ModSSL, PHP, Perl, MySQL and PostgreSQL. This included everything from selecting hardware to installation of software from source and through package-management applications.

Managed projects from concept through completion while coordinating the tasks of subordinate programmers and independent contractors.

Implemented security policies designed to prevent intrusion into sensitive data.



Pursuing a degree in Computer Science with an emphasis in Visual Basic, C# and Java programming. Graduation set for June, 2010.

Bachelor of Arts Degree in Speech Communications (degree transcript available upon request)

Journalism Major, Political Science Minor



Available upon request