Systems and Web Programmer
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Member of Technical Staff at Meraki
- Past
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- Senior Release Engineer at LiveOps
- Developer at The CUWiN Project
- Tech Lead Build, Release, and SCM at Mozilla Corporation
- Tech Lead Build, Release, and SCM at Mozilla Foundation
- Systems Programmer at National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- Programmer at Interactive Sites
- Programmer Intern at Interactive Sites
- Programmer Intern at Mount Vernon Net
- Assistant Network Engineer at Mesa Industrial Contractors
- Technical Support Consultant at AccessU.S.
- Education
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- Tulane University
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
- Websites
Chase Phillips’s Summary
Experience has made me a fast learner. Broad technical and planning ability. Self-managing and self-starting. Works well individually and with varied team sizes alike. Enjoys technical challenges and cross-project collaboration. Takes leadership initiatives as needed.
Goals include effective system creation, development, and deployment. Project and service quality through teamwork, vision, and technical excellence. Interact in and with open source development environments. Be a strong, valued contributor to a team composed of insightful and enjoyable people.
Chase Phillips’s Specialties:
Programming (Ruby, C), web (JavaScript), shell (Bash) languages. Subversion software revision management. SSL and x509 infrastructure. Linux systems. SQL syntax and PostgreSQL systems. Network design, implementation. Web (HTML) standards.
Chase Phillips’s Experience
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Member of Technical Staff
Meraki
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Changing the economics of Internet access for thousands of users. Creating and maintaining the systems needed to support that goal. Bringing Internet access to low-income neighborhoods. Building a free wireless network in San Francisco.
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Senior Release Engineer
LiveOps
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2006 — September 2006 (8 months)
Maintain service supporting live agents and customer phone calls. Create prototype web application to receive service update notifications and display changes in a user-friendly method. Service management through planning, development, and release cycles.
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Developer
The CUWiN Project
(Computer Software industry)
January 2002 — August 2006 (4 years 8 months)
Wrote and maintained network interface management system. Built and hosted network management service.
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Tech Lead Build, Release, and SCM
Mozilla Corporation
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2005 — February 2006 (5 months)
Bring high quality free software to millions of Internet end users. Support awesome communities of developers, testers, documentation authors, and marketers to further the Mozilla mission.
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Tech Lead Build, Release, and SCM
Mozilla Foundation
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 2 months)
Bring high quality free software to millions of Internet end users. Support awesome communities of developers, testers, documentation authors, and marketers to further the Mozilla mission.
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Systems Programmer
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2002 — September 2004 (2 years 9 months)
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Programmer
Interactive Sites
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 2001 — September 2001 (4 months)
Built web applications and maintained clients' Intranet systems.
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Programmer Intern
Interactive Sites
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 2000 — August 2000 (3 months)
Created, removed, and maintained databases for clients. Rewrote and optimized web applications for better response times.
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Programmer Intern
Mount Vernon Net
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
May 1999 — August 1999 (4 months)
Designed and built a client business directory system that used a web front-end to manage the data stored within its back-end tiers. Set up and maintained the database server that powered this system. Administered the system on which the business directory was housed. Assisted in technical support of Mount Vernon Net's user and client accounts.
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Assistant Network Engineer
Mesa Industrial Contractors
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1995 — May 1997 (1 year 7 months)
Created a gateway system for sending pager messages via a web front-end. Set up and maintained the network server responsible for the company's website and network activities.
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Technical Support Consultant
AccessU.S.
(Internet industry)
June 1995 — October 1995 (5 months)
Resolved connection difficulties to our Point-of-Presence sites that customers experienced. Assisted the company's administrators in servicing various parts of the network system.
Chase Phillips’s Education
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Tulane University
BSc, Computer Science; Minors in Math, Philosophy, 1997 — 2001
Located in beautiful New Orleans, Louisiana. First hurricane landfall in Q3 1998.
- Activities and Societies:
- Tulane University Dean's list. Edmund Campbell Ker Scholarship, 1997. Jared Siegel Memorial Scholarship, 2000.
Additional Information
Chase Phillips’s Websites:
Chase Phillips’s Interests:
Computing: human-computer interaction, wireless networking, self-constructing networks, system design, artificial intelligence. General: community activism, pets, motorcycling, music, and travel.
