Blake Schwendiman

Current

Talented Man of Mystery at Squidoo
Contract Developer at Google

Past

Senior Software Developer at Smead Manufacturing
Software Developer at Records Managment Automation Group
Software Lead at GoDaddy

Software Developer at Vantage Point
Contract Software Developer at Vantagepoint Networks
Software Developer at Brooks Internet Software
Software Developer at Ag Decisions

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Education

Arizona State University
BYU Idaho

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Blake Schwendiman’s Summary

I am a published author, a blogger and a professional software developer. I have a great deal of software development experience, primarily in web development using PHP. My published books are all PHP technical development books.

I am also a Google gadget developer with experience developing many kinds of gadgets for my own needs and for outside companies. I have a great deal of experience with the Google APIs, particularly with mapping and geo-coding. I am interested in being contacted about development of gadgets for companies of all sizes.

Blake Schwendiman’s Specialties:

web development, hosting, large-scale web applications, facebook connect integration, twitter/twitter search integration

Blake Schwendiman’s Experience

Talented Man of Mystery

Squidoo

(Privately Held; Consumer Goods industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

PHP, jQuery/Javascript, Ajax developer currently focused on integrations between Squidoo and social networking sites, e-commerce sites and other third-party web data.
Contract Developer

Google

(Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

April 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

Javascript dev focusing on Google gadgets and gadget ads.

From time to time I get to do really cool projects for Google. This has been ongoing for a few years and hope it continues as my schedule allows.
Senior Software Developer

Smead Manufacturing

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

October 2007 — February 2008 (5 months)
Software Developer

Records Managment Automation Group

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

August 2003 — September 2007 (4 years 2 months)

Senior software developer.
Software Lead

GoDaddy

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

November 2002 — August 2003 (10 months)

Software development team lead. Manager of projects including mail, spam filtering and web statistics.
Software Developer

Vantage Point

(Internet industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years )
Contract Software Developer

Vantagepoint Networks

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

September 1998 — 2000 (2 years )

Contract developer for VantagePoint. Developed ASP/COM+ solutions for mathematical optimization of agricultural problems.
Software Developer

Brooks Internet Software

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

August 1997 — 1998 (1 year )
Software Developer

Ag Decisions

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

January 1996 — August 1997 (1 year 8 months)

Blake Schwendiman’s Education

Arizona State University

BS , Computer Science , 1991 — 1994
BYU Idaho

Accounting 1988 — 1989

Additional Information

Blake Schwendiman’s Websites:

Blake Schwendiman’s Interests:

PHP, jQuery, Ajax, business, marketing, software development, Delphi, C++, MySQL

Blake Schwendiman’s Groups:

TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
Technology Outsourcing– Professionals/ Software Developers/ Freelancers/ Programmers/ Entrepreneurs
Widgets & Gadgets
Vyllij Customer Relationship Management
Facebook Connect Developers
iPhone & Android Applications: Marketing & Outsourcing
United States - Technology Leaders (C-Level, PM's, Directors, & Architects ONLY)
Twilio Developers Network