Brendan Avery Baldwin

Current

• Lead Technology Developer at The Point

Past

• Web Software Engineer at CashNetUSA
• Senior Web Developer at Fitch Ratings
• Software Development Consultant at Imagination Publishing

• Senior Web Consultant at Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C.
• Senior Web Developer at Deluxe Media Management
• Director of Information Systems at PC Pros Information Staffing

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Education

• Musicians Institute of Technology
• New Trier Township High School

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website
• My Resume
• My Portfolio

Brendan Avery Baldwin’s Summary

Mission Objectives:
* Seek out and join forces with other code ninjas to form agile Web 2.0 Voltron.
* Deliver devastatingly elegant JavaScript, Ruby, and XHTML/CSS scripting attacks with lazer-focused intensity.
* Generate bleeding-edge dynamic web products to usher in a golden age of total planetary happiness.

Brendan Avery Baldwin’s Specialties:

Recruiting, Staffing, Human Resources, Entertainment, Television, Film, Internet, New Media, Magazine Publishing, Financial, Investment

Brendan Avery Baldwin’s Experience

• Lead Technology Developer

  The Point

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  Architecting and developing a social-networking and action-organization application written from the ground-up in Rails. Lots of work on Rails internals and plugins development. Working with a small agile team of 5 other coders.

• Web Software Engineer

  CashNetUSA

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)

  July 2006 — January 2007 (7 months)

  Ruby on Rails developer with special emphasis on Front-end/AJAX/HTML/CSS goodness. It's my goal to optimize the user experience of our website and backend applications as well as build tools and libraries for the team as a whole.

• Senior Web Developer

  Fitch Ratings

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

  August 2005 — May 2006 (10 months)

  Worked on the FitchRatings.com website and internal ColdFusion applications. Lots of work with XML/XSLT, ColdFusion, and some Java. Tons of Javascript and CSS, and did some training/presentations on web-standards, scripting, and library architecture.

• Software Development Consultant

  Imagination Publishing

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year)

• Senior Web Consultant

  Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C.

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Capital Markets industry)

  April 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 4 months)

  Web Applications Architect/Consultant. Built ColdFusion recruiting and HR applications with SQL Server back-end. Lots of integration with Peoplesoft and there was some PHP work too. I did quite a bit of DHTML in this position and honed my ninja skills in terms of front-end DOM manipulation and AJAXian coding.

• Senior Web Developer

  Deluxe Media Management

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; RNK; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  November 1998 — November 2003 (5 years 1 month)

  Designed, developed, and maintained several B2B and public/consumer websites aimed at promoting motion picture and television properties. This included creating online storefronts for merchandise, metadata-rich asset-management systems for the studios to manage related materials, and a variety of support systems. This was done using technologies such as PHP, ColdFusion, JSP, ASP, Flash, Javascript, SQL-Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, WindowsNT, Apache, and IIS.

• Director of Information Systems

  PC Pros Information Staffing

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

  September 1996 — November 1999 (3 years 3 months)

  Designed, developed, and maintained internal applications and public-facing web sites for recruiting operations and client services for a 10+ year old staffing company. Started with client-server Visual Basic and SQL Server, migrating to ASP, and finally ColdFusion for rapid development. Installed and managed a network of 20+ servers and workstations (Windows NT). Managed two IT employees, who performed additional development and network support tasks.

Brendan Avery Baldwin’s Education

• Musicians Institute of Technology

  Doctor of Rock, Guitar/Bass, 1994 — 1995

• New Trier Township High School

  High School, 1989 — 1993

Additional Information

Brendan Avery Baldwin’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Resume
• My Portfolio

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