Web Developer
Greater Seattle Area
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- Web Development Engineer at Smith & Tinker, Inc.
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- Volunteer Webmaster at Green Lake United Methodist Church
- System Administrator at Marchex
- Software Engineer at WhitePages.com, Inc.
- Database Developer at Big Fish Games
- Web Development Engineer (contract) at Amazon.com
- Support Engineer at Omni Group
- Web Developer at Loudeye Technologies, Inc.
- Web Programmer at Trados
- Internet Programmer at CMi Worldwide
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Brian Wisti’s Summary
Geek by preference and profession. Particularly comfortable in UNIX-like environments using Perl, Python, and Ruby. Professional experience revolves around multi-tiered Inter/Intranet development with a slight emphasis on the server side of applications. Always looking for new aspects of development to explore.
Brian Wisti’s Specialties:
Perl,Python,Ruby,PHP
Brian Wisti’s Experience
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Web Development Engineer
Smith & Tinker, Inc.
(Internet industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Using Python, Perl, Ruby, Rails, and Yahoo YUI to develop internal tools.
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Volunteer Webmaster
Green Lake United Methodist Church
(Religious Institutions industry)
January 2008 — August 2009 (1 year 8 months)
* Provide technical support for church staff as needed.
* Evaluate and implement solutions to increase usefulness of Green Lake UMC Web site.
* Converted previous HTML 3.2-based design of Web site to one using XHTML 1.0, CSS, and Yahoo YUI toolkit
* Evaluated available solutions to simplify updating of site content for non-technical staff and members. Selected and installed PHP WordPress blog application along with plugins for contact forms and scheduled events. -
System Administrator
Marchex
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; MCHX; Internet industry)
December 2007 — January 2008 (2 months)
* Maintained corporate systems, including deployment of software packages, monitoring and handling critical alerts, and hardware upgrades.
* Configured and installed plugins for Nagios monitoring application. Updated the Java code for an existing JMX query plugin to provide credentials for password-protected JVMs. -
Software Engineer
WhitePages.com, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
November 2006 — October 2007 (1 year )
* Worked on Premium project to enable contacting found people via email without exposing individuals to spammers with internal Perl framework.
* Maintained internal browser-based reporting tools and created new ones as needed. These HTML views were generated with Perl and XSLT, adding CSS and JavaScript for styling and AJAX interactivity where practical.
* Assisted in maintenance of JavaScript / Flash ads and XSLT files for public-facing Web pages -
Database Developer
Big Fish Games
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2006 — October 2006 (9 months)
* Developed utilities as needed for IT department
* Wrote "My Big Fish Games" calculation script using Perl and MySQL stored procedures. This tool determined new affiliates based on nightly transactions and calculated commissions and statistics through the hierarchy of the membership tree. Nightly transaction data was extracted from MYSQL, SQL-Server, and CSV files. Basic functionality was confirmed with Test::More before handing off to QA. -
Web Development Engineer (contract)
Amazon.com
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AMZN; Internet industry)
August 2004 — May 2005 (10 months)
* Worked on Amazon.com.s SellerCentral® tool for merchants using mod_perl and HTML::Mason along with internal Perl database interface.
* Contributed to Promotion Manager front-end using Perl and HTML::Mason
* Worked on Promotion Department Intranet using Mason
* Found and fixed bugs in legacy non-Perl code for Global Hardline Systems
* Used Python and Perl to parse legacy code and search for potential code errors related to tickets being handled at the time. -
Support Engineer
Omni Group
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2002 — April 2004 (1 year 7 months)
* Provided email-based support for users of OmniWeb, a Web browser for the OS X platform.
* Assisted in the QA process by verifying and reporting bugs, then confirming whether a given bug has been fixed.
* Reported feature requests submitted by customers. -
Web Developer
Loudeye Technologies, Inc.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2001 — November 2001 (8 months)
* Implemented designs and content provided for the company Web site.
* Established and documented a standard set of procedures for site development.
* Utilized PHP 4 scripts to construct static site pages and menu images.
* Wrote Perl and Python scripts to automate repetitive tasks on Windows and Linux machines.
* Handled bulk email campaigns for label relations team. -
Web Programmer
Trados
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Translation and Localization industry)
May 2000 — January 2001 (9 months)
* Used Perl and MySQL on Slackware Linux to create a threaded message board for the Trados community Web site. Forum code relied on mod_perl, LWP, DBI, and XML. Tested functionality with Test::More.
* Created Perl scripts to simplify daily project builds.
* Used Perl and Python on Slackware Linux to develop a translation service for the Trados community Web site.
* This application was initially developed in Python, but need to be transferred to Perl due to limitations in the Python 1.6 regular expression engine. -
Internet Programmer
CMi Worldwide
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
October 1999 — April 2000 (7 months)
* Part of the team that developed a personalized portal for owners of the CMi iceBox Internet Appliance.
* Designed and implemented online customer registration system
* Developed administrative interface to customer data
Portal, registration, and administrative interface were programmed in Perl on a Solaris system, using Oracle 8 for the database layer.
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Brian Wisti’s Interests:
programming,ruby,perl,python,technology,drawing,knitting
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