CTO and Developer at Smashwords / Community Manager & Lead Developer, Tux Paint @ Tux4Kids
Sacramento, California Area
- Current
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- CTO and Developer at Smashwords
- Lead Developer, Tux Paint at Tux4Kids
- Vice President at Linux Users' Group of Davis
- Owner, Lead Developer at Bill's Games (Sole Proprietorship)
- Lead software developer at New Breed Software
- Past
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- Software Applications Developer at LimeLife
- Consultant at biznerds
- Software Engineer at Superscape
- Acquisitions Editor (Linux), Oracle Technology Network at Oracle
- Software Developer at Penultimate, Inc.
- Web Developer at nerdbooks.com
- Web Developer at MCI/Worldcom
- Instructor at Advanced Open Source Solutions
- Web Developer at Wine Society of the World
- Web designer, Instructor at Sonoma County Administration Center
- Lead programmer, Web designer at Smart Wine
- Education
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- Sonoma State University
- San Marin High School
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- Industry
- Computer Software
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Bill Kendrick’s Summary
Software developer and designer, focused on developing casual video games and educational software. Able to work alone, or with artists and other designers and engineers, to quickly produce fun games and applications with sensible user interfaces. Strong C background, with experience on various PC platforms, PDAs and cellphones.
Bill Kendrick’s Specialties:
Linux, Open Source, C programming, Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL), mobile development (BREW and J2ME) programming, game design and development, web design, PHP programming, MySQL database, Perl programming, project management
Bill Kendrick’s Experience
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CTO and Developer
Smashwords
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Digital publishing startup. Stay tuned!
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Lead Developer, Tux Paint
Tux4Kids
(Computer Games industry)
July 2002 — Present (7 years 5 months)
Created and currently maintain, manage the project, and handle PR for the Tux Paint project. Also created the original code for the TuxMath project.
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Vice President
Linux Users' Group of Davis
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 1999 — Present (10 years 11 months)
I am a co-founder of the 400+ member Linux Users' Group of Davis. The organization holds regular meetings with guest speakers and presentations, does community outreach, and holds other events, classes and workshops. Throughout the group's history, I have consistently acted either an elected officer (President or Vice President) or an appointed officer (Librarian, Public Relations Officer and/or Webmaster). Our group has received numerous kudos from members, presenters and other user groups, both for our community participation and Linux and Open Source advocacy, as well as for the website, which I created and maintain PHP-driven content.
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Owner, Lead Developer
Bill's Games (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Games industry)
1998 — Present (11 years )
An online gaming site with casual games that work on any web browser.
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Lead software developer
New Breed Software
(Computer Software industry)
January 1997 — Present (12 years 11 months)
I design and develop Open Source software -- mostly video games -- for a variety of platforms. A number of projects have grown beyond my ownership, and I either participate in, or lead the development and management of the application.
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Software Applications Developer
LimeLife
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)
March 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 4 months)
BREW, J2ME and occasionally PHP software developer for a company that creates games and lifestyle applications for women.
As one of two engineers on "Top Chef: The Mobile Game," I worked closely with artists, designers, producers and the QA team to help bring the game from initial design through to final candidate approval and porting in a short timeframe. I used my mobile expertise to help manage resources required from the artist, and help with scalability of the app across a variety of handsets.
I ported a Java-based layout and scripting system to C, and was instrumental in porting "InStyle" and "People" mobile magazine applications from the J2ME platform to BREW.
I created a "content widget" (basically a fancy PHP-based RSS news feed reader) with "send story to cellphone" feature. -
Consultant
biznerds
(Computer Software industry)
2003 — 2007 (4 years )
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Software Engineer
Superscape
(Public Company; Computer Games industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year )
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Acquisitions Editor (Linux), Oracle Technology Network
Oracle
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year )
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Software Developer
Penultimate, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2003 — March 2006 (2 years 5 months)
Developing games for BREW wireless devices.
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Web Developer
nerdbooks.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2003 — November 2003 (9 months)
Maintained, improved, and expanded web-based, database-driven tools for managing book store inventory (including reporting tools, publisher title and pricing upload system, and front-end customer interface).
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Web Developer
MCI/Worldcom
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
August 2000 — February 2003 (2 years 7 months)
I maintained a number of internal and customer websites for the government markets division of Worldcom in Sacramento, and developed web-based software for use internally and externally.
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Instructor
Advanced Open Source Solutions
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Higher Education industry)
May 2000 — August 2000 (4 months)
Co-designed and co-taught a crash course on Linux, Open Source, C programming and related topics.
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Web Developer
Wine Society of the World
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Food & Beverages industry)
June 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 4 months)
Sole web software developer for a wine news and retail site.
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Web designer, Instructor
Sonoma County Administration Center
(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
August 1997 — June 1998 (11 months)
Designed and built an internal website to replace aging WordPerfect- and mainframe-based documentation repositories. Trained coworkers on building and maintaining new documents using the system.
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Lead programmer, Web designer
Smart Wine
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
March 1995 — August 1997 (2 years 6 months)
Developed and co-designed website search engine, interactive web-based chat, wine rating and recommendation system, and other components of the on-line web magazine. Helped manage and maintain articles and site content.
Bill Kendrick’s Education
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Sonoma State University
BS , Computer Science , September 1993 — May 1998
- Activities and Societies:
- Computer Science Club
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San Marin High School
Additional Information
Bill Kendrick’s Websites:
Bill Kendrick’s Interests:
Video games, programming, Linux, Open Source, biking, television
Bill Kendrick’s Groups:
Linux Users' Group of Davis, Silicon Valley Linux Users Group, Vintage Computer Festival, Tux4Kids
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Community Leadership Summit
Bill Kendrick’s Honors:
* MacBreak Weekly "Pick of the Week" for "Tux Paint", November 2007
* SoftGo 5/5 rating for "Tux Paint", April 2007
* Softpedia "Excellent" editors review and "5/5 Pick" award for "Tux Paint", May 2006
* GameSpot 7.7/10 rating for "Word Nerd", September 2005
* Shareware Junkies "Best Macintosh Program of 2004" award for "Tux Paint", January 2005
* 3rd place award in SDL Game Programming Contest for "Vectoroids", January 2002
* Ultimate WebTV Search "Hot50" ranking for BillsGames.com, May 2000
* Ask Jeeves "Silver Platter" award for BillsGames.com, July 1999
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