Aaron Longwell

Current

Consultant at Churchill Downs Incorporated
Drupal Architect at Platinum Lounge
Founder at New Media Logic

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Past

Consultant at CBS Television Network
Consultant at Exclusive Resorts
Consultant at Me.dium

Multimedia Developer and Team Leader at XACT Radio / XACT Media
Webmaster, Web Developer at KVDUradio at the University of Denver

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

New Media Logic

Aaron Longwell’s Summary

Experienced web software architect and engineer. Clear communicator of programming concepts and designs with non-technical personnel. Primarily focused on emerging, highly-efficient frameworks like Ruby on Rails and the Drupal Content Management System. Specialist in driving productive results from small software teams.

Aaron Longwell’s Experience

Consultant

Churchill Downs Incorporated

(Sports industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

Adviser, trainer, programmer and architect for a wide variety of Drupal-based web site projects including Twinspires.com, Arlingtonpark.com and Kentuckyderby.com.
Drupal Architect

Platinum Lounge

(Internet industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Adviser, programmer and architect for a popular Drupal-powered social network centered around an upcoming feature film.
Founder

New Media Logic

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2002 — Present (7 years 2 months)

Provider of enterprise software consulting services. Creator of Tempo, a project management application for service professionals.
Consultant

CBS Television Network

(Broadcast Media industry)

June 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Drupal expert on a project to build FansOnly.com, a social network and news portal for sports fans. Responsibilities included: training development staff on Drupal development strategies and techniques; creating a high performance architecture for customizable pages in Drupal; designing a caching framework to improve performance of user-customizable pages; communicating development strategies with executive-level personnel.
Consultant

Exclusive Resorts

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Hospitality industry)

November 2003 — May 2008 (4 years 7 months)

Lead application developer for Exclusive Resorts' Real Estate Database, an enterprise software tool that facilitates financial forecasting and business planning for real estate investments in the world's largest private residence club. Real Estate Database is based on a J2EE architecture using Struts, Spring Framework and Hibernate and is deployed with SQL Server.
Consultant

Me.dium

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 2 months)

Led development of a Drupal-powered web site for users to register and manage their profiles for Me.dium's innovative social networking and chat plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer. Trained a staff of 3 others on Drupal design methodology and best practices. Integrated the Drupal site with a variety of other enterprise systems including a Jabber backend, internal Postgres databases and users address books on other online social networking and mail service sites.
Multimedia Developer and Team Leader

XACT Radio / XACT Media

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

September 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 2 months)

Team leader for the multimedia content development team. Developed marketing materials for promotions with major national marketers. Created an Internet radio client application for XACT Radio's Custom Radio service in Macromedia Director. Created a web-based music management application for playlist scheduling of the radio service.
Webmaster, Web Developer

KVDUradio at the University of Denver

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

September 1999 — June 2001 (1 year 10 months)

Web designer, web programmer and technology manager for a start-up nonprofit Internet radio station. Designed the online and print identity including a new logo. Developed software tools for music management and playlist reporting. Developed technology systems for ripping, encoding and cataloging audio assets. On-air personality and celebrity interviewer.