Webmaster at Summit Racing Equipment
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
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- Module Author at CPAN
- Webmaster at Summit Racing Equipment
- Past
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- Hostmaster at Three Tech Associates
- Web Developer at Meldrum & Fewsmith
- PC Support Techician at University of Akron
- Education
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- The University of Akron
- The University of Akron
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Christopher Laco’s Summary
VB6/COM/MTS Development. Test Driven Development in Perl (Test::More, Perl::Critic, Devel::Cover) and .NET (NUnit, TestDriven.NET). Core Assembly and ASP.NET Development using VB.NET/C#.NET. Server Maintenance and Setup in Windows NT4/2000/2003 with IIS4/5/6, Apache on FreeBSD with ModPerl, Catalyst and FastCGI. Firewalling and NAT using FreeBSD.
Christopher Laco’s Specialties:
Ecommerce to business systems integration. Shopping/Cart/Checkout development. Search systems based on data attributes (Endeca).
Christopher Laco’s Experience
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Module Author
CPAN
(Computer Software industry)
November 2004 — Present (3 years 9 months)
Author of Handel and other CPAN modules that can be found at: http://search.cpan.org/~claco/
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Webmaster
Summit Racing Equipment
(Privately Held; Retail industry)
April 1998 — Present (10 years 4 months)
Started when there was no online store. Developed bulk of commerce code that integrates with back end business system using VB, COM/MTS, VB.NET, C#.NET, IIS, SQL2K and custom sockets code. Also included TDD using NUnit, Interface based programming as well as core Assemblies, server maintenance of web based IIS/FreeBSD machines.
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Hostmaster
Three Tech Associates
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1994 — January 2000 (6 years 1 month)
Threetech was a home run business by my self and my partner. We developed websites for local companies and I also took care of the hosting out of my residence using FreeBSD for firewall and NAT, ASP, IIS4, NT4, IIS5, W2K, Apache, PHP, and mod_perl. Also took care of various connections; ISDN, DSL, Frame Relay.
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Web Developer
Meldrum & Fewsmith
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 1997 — April 1998 (1 year 4 months)
Every day website developer. ASP, Searchlite Software 'Spinnaker', IIS. Dynamic sites using SQL and Paradox. Some graphics development using Photoshop. Built online instruction manual display/storage for dirtdevil.com. Works on sites for Cedar Point, Dorney Park, Sealy, Dirt Devil.
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PC Support Techician
University of Akron
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
January 1995 — January 1996 (1 year 1 month)
Did basic new computer setup and network troubleshooting for MacOS, Windows 3.1, Windows for WorkGroups 3.11 and Windows 95 machines on Banyon Vines network.
Christopher Laco’s Education
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The University of Akron
Bachelor, Music Performance: Percussion, 1991 — 1996
- Activities and Societies:
- Steel drum band, Orchestra, Drum and Bugle Corps
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The University of Akron
Bachelor, Music Education K-12, 1991 — 1996
~23 credit hours per semester for two degrees, and I survived. :-)
- Activities and Societies:
- Steel drum band, Orchestra, Drum and Bugle Corps
Additional Information
Christopher Laco’s Websites:
Christopher Laco’s Interests:
Programming, Programming, more Programming. FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Apache, Perl, TDD, LAMP, Catalyst, Shopping Carts, Checkout Systems, Ecommerce. Drum and Bugle Corps. Steel Drum.
Christopher Laco’s Groups:
Canton Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps. 1991-1996
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YAPC::NA 2008 - Chicago, IL member
Christopher Laco’s Honors:
I actually won first place Individuals Solos at DCI in the multiples category with the first ever Steel Drum Solo there.
Christopher Laco’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
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