Chris Bennett

Past

Web Developer at Eventful, Inc.
Student Intern at UC San Diego

Education

University of California, San Diego

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Chris Bennett’s Summary

Standards-driven web application development –– currently focused on creating social networking applications utilizing the Django framework.

While my core competencies are front-end development and back-end engineering, I can also do some information architecture and graphic design work. And in a pinch, Flash.

Chris Bennett’s Specialties:

Python, Django, Java, Struts (yuck), Lucene, Flash, ActionScript, SQL, Perl, PHP (yuck), C#, RDF, JavaScript - jQuery, MooTools, information architecture, various flavors of UNIX, Linux administration, network design, network administration, Windows Server administration (yuck), some Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, Flash Communication Server hacking, NetworkX, social network analysis

Chris Bennett’s Experience

Web Developer

Eventful, Inc.

(Internet industry)

November 2005 — November 2008 (3 years 1 month)

As an intern from Nov 2005 - Sept 2006, I mucked around in REST API interfaces, content spidering, Perl log analysis, and various other random tasks. Most notably, I rewrote the Lucene search backend that is still in use today. Also, I designed and coded a Flash-based traffic acquisition campaign for the Demand product.

After Sept 2006, I took a year off from school and the Flash campaign became my full time responsibility in both technical and product management perspectives. As MySpace often came up with new ways to break the widget code, I continued to evolve solutions with various ActionScript, CSS, and HTML hackery.

During this time period, I also spearheaded an initial SEO campaign, integrating sitemaps, content, and URL optimization.
Student Intern

UC San Diego

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

2004 — 2006 (2 years)

I learned more about Java, RDF, Semantic Web, data ontologies, Oracle, security best-practices, and various topics in Information Science that I never would have thought possible.

Chris Bennett’s Education

University of California, San Diego

B.A. , Communication, Computer Science , 2004 — 2009

Academically, I am focused on studying electronic collaboration methods, new media and methods of social network analysis. I am developing solutions to reduce these bleeding-edge concepts in these areas of specialization to practice.

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Chris Bennett’s Interests:

technical analysis, social network analysis, graph theory, python, django, web applications, sailing, skiing, running, biking, cooking, electronica music, business, finance