Clinton R. Nixon

Current

• Senior developer at Viget Labs

Past

• Owner and author at CRN Games
• Senior developer at Lulu.com
• Assistant Vice-President, Information Technology at ShowMaster Systems

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Education

• University of Maryland University College

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website

Clinton R. Nixon’s Summary

My experience has been a constant education on software development best practices. Every time I feel like I've learned something interesting, I find a new handhold to climb further up.

My goals are to work as a software developer and designer in an environment that prioritizes quality. I fully believe in the General Principle of Software Quality: improving quality improves the development schedule and reduces development costs. My corollary is that improving quality improves developer morale and joy.

Clinton R. Nixon’s Specialties:

dealing with legacy code, software archeology, believing in JavaScript as not just a toy, test-driven development, independent creators

Clinton R. Nixon’s Experience

• Senior developer

  Viget Labs

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

  August 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)

• Owner and author

  CRN Games

  (Entertainment industry)

  January 2000 — July 2008 (8 years 7 months)

  Developer and publisher of fine role-playing games. Also, provider of technology for role-playing publishers and enthusiasts.

• Senior developer

  Lulu.com

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2005 — July 2007 (1 year 11 months)

• Assistant Vice-President, Information Technology

  ShowMaster Systems

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Events Services industry)

  July 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 2 months)

  Responsible for all development and systems, in addition to direct customer support.

Clinton R. Nixon’s Education

• University of Maryland University College

  Bachelor's, Computer and Information Science, 2006 — 2008

Additional Information

Clinton R. Nixon’s Websites:

• My Website

Clinton R. Nixon’s Groups:

IEEE, ACM, Refresh the Triangle, Raleigh.rb

•    Refresh - Promoting design, technology,and usability.
•    Triangle Tweetup
•    FOSS Professionals
•    Web Standards Design + Development

Clinton R. Nixon’s Honors:

Speaker at O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2008, "Extending Rails: Understanding and Building Plugins", http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2321

Speaker at O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2007, "Untangling the Web: Dealing with Legacy PHP Code", http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2007/view/e_sess/12772

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