
Software developer at Western Commications, Inc.
Eugene, Oregon Area

Software developer at Western Commications, Inc.
Eugene, Oregon Area
Skills
* Seasoned OO Perl developer
* Seasoned Ajax developer
* Expert at writing parsers, both unstructured text and XML
* Perl test-driven development
* "Gang of Four" design patterns
Tools
* Firebug
* Photoshop CS3
* Illustrator CS3
* Flash CS3
* SVN
* VIM text editor
* GNU build tools
* GCC
* Adobe FLEX compiler
Client technology
* CSS
* XHTML
* Javascript
* Actionscript 3
* Adobe AIR
* JQuery
* ExtJS UI toolkit
* C and C++
Server technology
* Perl
* Python
* Java
* DOM, Expat and XPath
* Apache web server with mod_perl, mod_rewrite and mod_proxy
* Django MVC framework
* UNIX shell
* SQL
* Linux administration
* MySQL and PostgreSQL
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(Newspapers industry)
October 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)
Currently I work for The Bulletin, the daily newspaper in Bend, Oregon. Tasks include:
* Writing Ajax web applications with OO Perl or Django backend
* Designing, implementing and maintaining numerous XML interfaces
* Automating XML document creation and transformation
(Public Company; XRX; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2007 — June 2008 (8 months)
Tasks included: OO, test-driven Perl development on in-house web publishing system.
(Research industry)
July 2001 — January 2003 (1 year 7 months)
Tasks included: Investigative reporting for The Online Reporter, high-end newsletter geared toward management and investors. My beat was the digital media industry and I followed companies like AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann, Vivendi, EMI, Tivo, Napster, Real Networks and Microsoft.
(Privately Held; E-Learning industry)
September 2000 — January 2001 (5 months)
Tasks included: Design and implementation of an in- house web-based accounting system using object-oriented Perl and PostgreSQL. Design and implementation of a system to automate a web server log report using UNIX shell and Perl.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
March 1999 — August 2000 (1 year 6 months)
Tasks included: Configuring and administrating Linux servers for Sendmail, Apache and Samba. Many hours of shell script and Perl programming.
BS , journalism , 1995 — 1999