Brian Ross

Current

• Interactive Developer at Loomis Group
• Independent Web Development Consultant at Self Employed

Past

• Senior Developer at Method, Inc
• Senior Web Developer at LookSmart, Ltd.
• Voodoo Guru at VISIONN Creative Marketing

• Software Architect at nFocus Software
• Webmaster, Graphic Designer at Micro Data Base Systems
• Webmaster, Network Admin at Total Integration, Inc.
• Webmaster, Network Admin at Terraglyph Interactive, LLC

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Education

• Purdue University

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Brian Ross’s Summary

I have been designing, building, and maintaining websites and the interfaces that drive them since 1996. I am most fluent in PHP5 and the rest of the LAMP stack and enjoy leveraging frameworks such as Symfony and jQuery. More recently I've gotten into build scripts and deployment management, and am looking for opportunities to share what I know of how to build systems effectively and to lead teams in doing so.

Brian Ross’s Specialties:

Software architecture. Intuitive interfaces. Relational database schema design and object-relational mapping. Object oriented programming. PHP5/Symfony, jQuery, and MySQL. Elegant, semantic CSS/XHMTL.

Brian Ross’s Experience

• Interactive Developer

  Loomis Group

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  February 2009 — Present (6 months)

• Independent Web Development Consultant

  Self Employed

  (Internet industry)

  December 2004 — Present (4 years 8 months)

• Senior Developer

  Method, Inc

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

  August 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 5 months)

• Senior Web Developer

  LookSmart, Ltd.

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; LOOK; Internet industry)

  June 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 2 months)

  Multiple facets of web development and related project management, focus on frontend interfaces. PHP, Java, JSP, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, Prototype, script.aculo.us, Symfony, Cake, OOP, AJAX, Subversion

• Voodoo Guru

  VISIONN Creative Marketing

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  November 2004 — May 2006 (1 year 7 months)

  PHP, SQL, XHTML, CSS, FreeBSD/Apache/PHP/MySQL/Postfix Administration, specialized in PHP/MySQL driven websites with custom administration capabilities. Colocated server provision, installation, and administration.TaxLoopholes.com, wheelspecialists.com, extranet.molec.com (now Agilent), charros.com, homesiteinsight.com...

• Software Architect

  nFocus Software

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

  February 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 9 months)

  Classic ASP, Visual Basic 6, VB6 COM Objects, SQL Server, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript for building tracking and workflow applications on the web (and primarily targeted to IE/Windows users). KidTrax Time and Attendance Tracking used in Boys and Girls Clubs of America nationwide, DonorTrax, SurveyTrax Module

• Webmaster, Graphic Designer

  Micro Data Base Systems

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2000 — November 2002 (2 years 7 months)

  Internship that turned into a full time position. Served as webmaster and redeveloped pure HTML website and began implementing an online store to sell software and licensing for upcoming object database product. Designed a series of print advertisements for Cincinnati Bengals game day programs.

• Webmaster, Network Admin

  Total Integration, Inc.

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

  March 1997 — August 1998 (1 year 6 months)

  Performed duties of webmaster and administered network of Macintoshes, PCs, and UNIX-based variants including AIX. Created graphics and HTML for company website. Administered on-site email and FTP servers. Assisted team of 3 developers with product requirements assessments and UI design. Quality-control tested software products (plug-ins for Photoshop, Quark, and InDesign) and tracked bugs and defects.

• Webmaster, Network Admin

  Terraglyph Interactive, LLC

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  June 1996 — May 1997 (1 year)

  Created and implemented company’s first web site in August of 1996. Created beta testing tracking website. Developed solution to eliminate networking and server problems related to networking the audio department Macintoshes with the Windows NT based servers. Designed on-screen layout advertisements using graphics from the
  company’s off-the-shelf CD-ROM games.

Brian Ross’s Education

• Purdue University

  BS , Computer Technology, Industrial Design , 1998 — 2001

  BS, Computer Technology, MIS
  AS, Computer Technology
  AA, Industrial Design

  Activities and Societies:

  Ultimate Frisbee Club

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