Emmett "Corky" Kaericher

Current

• Contract/Freelance Consultant at aDedicated.com

Past

• Senior Web Developer at Ziff Davis Enterprise
• PHP Consultant F/T at Lexis Nexis at Modis
• Software Developer at AlertSite.com

• Software Developer at Project Breakout
• Lead Developer at World Ave
• Lead Developer at SAIC onsite at NASA
• Information Technology Consultant at Federal Highway Administration

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Education

• World College
• University of Virginia

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Websites

• My Resume Page

Emmett "Corky" Kaericher’s Summary

I have nearly 20 years of professional technology experience with nearly a dozen years dedicated to software development using exclusively open source tools and languages such as Perl, PHP, MySQL, Linux, Apache, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, XML, SOAP, and much more. Also commercial tools such as Oracle, and Microsoft products but only to a lessor degree than open source which has always been my area of specialization.

Emmett "Corky" Kaericher’s Specialties:

PHP programming

Emmett "Corky" Kaericher’s Experience

• Contract/Freelance Consultant

  aDedicated.com

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2001 — Present (8 years 11 months)

  Custom technology, software application and web services software development firm.

• Senior Web Developer

  Ziff Davis Enterprise

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

  August 2008 — November 2008 (4 months)

  Lead web developer

• PHP Consultant F/T at Lexis Nexis

  Modis

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; MPS; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2008 — August 2008 (5 months)

  Responsible for the design, development, testing, maintenance, and support of high performance, scalable, innovative web based applications.

• Software Developer

  AlertSite.com

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

  January 2008 — April 2008 (4 months)

  Perl/MySQL/XML/SOAP/HTML/JavaScript/CSS - Internet Applications Software Developer

• Software Developer

  Project Breakout

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)

  October 2007 — January 2008 (4 months)

  LAMP PHP MySQL HTML CSS XML - Software Developer

• Lead Developer

  World Ave

  (Internet industry)

  July 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 3 months)

• Lead Developer

  SAIC onsite at NASA

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  May 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 3 months)

• Information Technology Consultant

  Federal Highway Administration

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)

  February 1997 — December 1997 (11 months)

  Reported to the director of H.R. and then presidentially appointed Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater serving as a business analyst and IT consultant to the a Federal HR group serving thousands of employees with HR services. Consulted as a business analyst between Federal IT groups and the HR groups. Also served on teams and committees which implemented several early web technologies and interoffice intranet services throughout FHWA, DOT, NITSA and the Coast Guard

Emmett "Corky" Kaericher’s Education

• World College

  BCis , Computer Information Science , 2008 — 2008

  Activities and Societies:

  Completing my degree online, begun at U.Va. way back in 1986, expecting to finish this summer with a Bachelors of Computer Information Science.

• University of Virginia

  Business Communications 1986 — 1987

Additional Information

Emmett "Corky" Kaericher’s Websites:

• My Resume Page

Emmett "Corky" Kaericher’s Interests:

Motorsports (I drag race, and ride motorcycles), south Florida life - beaches, fishing, boating, the glades, the keys... but also winter sports, although it's been a while since I did any of those since moving to Fl. I once lived in Aspen and worked at a ski resort for a season back in 1990

Emmett "Corky" Kaericher’s Groups:

Moose Lodge Member - Hollywood, FL
Mensa/Mensa Top Hat Society - (No longer paying dues.)

•    GXS Alumni
•    South Florida Online

Emmett "Corky" Kaericher’s Honors:

GE Information Services has a software patent on some code for which I was the Author and listed on the patent as the "Inventor"

Won a Hammer award from President Clinton while at FHWA for my contributions to his Education Initiative via a website I created to promote educational information for elementary school children looking forward to Government employment options.

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