Alex Stanford

Talented entrepreneur and Internet visionary with a variety of managerial and technical expertise.

Languages
* PHP
* SQL
* (X)HTML
* CSS
* JavaScript & AJAX

Operating Systems
* Windows
* Windows Server
* Linux
* BSD

Databases
* MySQL

Libraries, Frameworks, APIs
* jQuery
* SiteSense
* BoxSir
* FlowPlayer
* EdgeCast Web Services

Version Control
* Git Distributed Revision Control System
* Subversion (SVN) Centralized Revision Control System
* GitHub
* Beanstalk
* SpringLoops

Graphic Design
* Logos, Identity & Branding
* Web Design

Front-End Web Development
* Information Architecture
* Web Standards
* User Experience
* Website Optimization

eCommerce
* NetSuite
* BigCommerce

Information Security
* Penetration Testing
* Cryptography
* Web Application Auditing
* DoS & DDoS Mitigation
* Network Security

Networking
* Network Engineering
* IPv4 & IPv6
* Binary Math
* Cabling & Wiring
* LAN & WAN Routing
* DNS

Web Hosting
* Multimedia Streaming (CDN)
* cPanel & WHM
* WHMCS
* ISPConfig
* DirectAdmin
* Plesk
* Apache
* NGiNX
* IIS

Hardware
* Computer Repair
* System Building
* Troubleshooting & Diagnostic

Marketing
* Social Media
* Copywriting
* SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
* SEM (Search Engine Marketing)
* Telemarketing

Project Management
* Business Process Automation & Optimization
* Human Resources
* Open Source Software

Customer Service
* Call Center Management
* Customer Retention
* Customer Loyalty

Legal & Financial
* Investment Advising
* Bootstrapping
* Business Formation
* Contract Writing
* Contract Negotiation
* Copyright Law
* Overhead Reduction

• Volunteer Experience

  • Representative

    Ron Paul Campaign of 2012

    • Politics
    November 2011 – present (4 months)

    * Public speaking
    * Debating
    * Phoning supporters
    * Rallying
    * Polling

• Volunteer Interests

  • Causes I care about:

    • Animal Welfare
    • Civil Rights and Social Action
    • Economic Empowerment
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Human Rights
    • Politics
    • Poverty Alleviation
    • Science and Technology
    • Open Source Software
    • Liberty
    • Privacy

  • Organizations I support:

    • Electronic Frontier Foundation
    • Demand Progress
    • Hello Somebody
    • The Humane Society of the United States
    • Wikimedia Foundation
    • The Apache Software Foundation
    • GNU Project
    • Software Freedom Law Center
    • Free Software Foundation
    • The Tor Project
    • Mozilla Corporation
    • The Linux Foundation

• SiteSense

  • August 2009 to Present
  Team Members: Alex Stanford

  SiteSense is a simple but powerful, secure and high-performance web platform. At the foundation of the platform is a content management and blog publishing system. SiteSense is easily extendable making it capable of being the starting point for any web application. The framework is constantly scrutinized for security purposes and is written in PHP & MySQL utilizing the latest best practices.

• BoxSir

  • April 2011 to Present
  Team Members: Alex Stanford

  BoxSir is an innovative, fully customizable, standalone and lightweight web-based image viewer that's written in JavaScript. BoxSir sets itself apart from the crowd by forgoing fancy animations in favor of optimization, reliability and functionality. Using BoxSir, web developers can showcase images in all major browsers without navigating users away from the current page.

• OpenCourseWare

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • User Interface Design and Implementation (6.831)
  • Principles of Digital Communications I (6.450)
  • Principles of Digital Communications II (6.451)
  • Fundamentals of Probability (6.436J)
  • Performance Engineering of Software Systems (6.172)
  • Introduction to Copyright Law (6.912)

• Stanford Engineering Everywhere

  Stanford University

  • Programming Methodology (CS106A)
  • Programming Abstractions (CS106B)
  • Programming Paradigms (CS107)

• English

  (Native or bilingual proficiency)

• Spanish

  (Elementary proficiency)

1. SiteSense
2. PHP
3. MySQL
4. Front-end Development
5. Graphic Design
6. Web Standards
7. Web Design
8. FreeBSD
9. Linux server administration
10. Software Engineering
11. Software Development
12. Security
13. Network Security
14. Open Source Software
15. Open Source Development
16. Advanced CSS
17. XHTML
18. JavaScript
19. jQuery
20. Customer Service
21. Customer Satisfaction
22. Customer Retention
23. Customer Loyalty
24. Customer Engagement
25. NetSuite
26. Penetration Testing
27. Cryptography
28. System Building
29. Computer Repair
30. Copywriting
31. Social Media Marketing
32. Information Architecture
33. SEO
34. User Experience
35. Logo Design
36. Windows 7
37. Windows XP Professional
38. Technology Investment
39. Contract Negotiation
40. Contract Writing
41. Business Process
42. Business Strategy
43. Business Management
44. Small Business
45. Online Content Creation
46. Online Marketing
47. Online Publishing
48. Online Sales
49. Online Communities
50. Business Formation

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Websites:

• Personal Website
• Company Website

Interests:

Technology, Internet, Engineering, Physics, Programming, Computer Science, Graphic Design, Psychology, Sociology, Open Source Software, Information Security, Billiards, Basketball, Football, Economics

Groups and Associations:

• 
  CSS Designers & Developers
• 
  JAX Chamber
• 
  Jacksonville Business Exchange
• 
  Jacksonville Business Journal
• 
  Linked Local Jacksonville, FL
• 
  Links to Jacksonville
• 
  Networking in Jacksonville
• 
  TopLinked IT (Information Technology) Professionals
• 
  WSG
• 
  Web Standards
• 
  Web Standards Design + Development
• 
  web standards development/ xhtml / css / seo