Daniel Cousineau

Current

Sr. Software Applications Developer at Department of IT, Division of Student Affairs, Texas A&M University

Past

Project Manager at Net Perspective
Web Developer at Systek Computing Technologies
IT Assistant at Texas Real Estate Center

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Education

Texas A&M University

Recommended

5 people have recommended Daniel

Connections

87 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

My Blog

Daniel Cousineau’s Summary

I'm a Web Developer who's primary focus is in the LAMP software stack (PHP), however I have experience in a multitude of other languages ranging from C to C++, C#, Java, and Python.

I keep up to date with the latest news and developments concerning PHP, as well as follow blogs that teach me scalability and optimization techniques. Just because I don't have the money or privilege to work on high performance architectures does not mean I can't continue to learn and apply the techniques to everything I do.

I firmly support open source whether it be releasing as many tools as I can under the MIT license or contributing to open source applications where possible.

Daniel Cousineau’s Specialties:

Currently I work with PHP, MVC Frameworks, MySQL, Apache (standard LAMP). I've been looking for every excuse I can to use Python and am devouring LISP books (again looking for projects to practice and learn LISP on).

In the past I've done work in ASP 2.0, MSSQL, VisualBasic, C++ (mainly GNU tools), C#, and Java.

Daniel Cousineau’s Experience

Sr. Software Applications Developer

Department of IT, Division of Student Affairs, Texas A&M University

(Higher Education industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)
Project Manager

Net Perspective

(Internet industry)

January 2008 — January 2009 (1 year 1 month)

Manage software projects. Updated internal MVC framework, eventually replaced it and adopted the Zend Framework and Doctrine (ORM). Also introduced source control (SVN) and automated the deployment process with Phing and DBDeploy.

Developed several ecommerce sites from the ground up using PayPal as the credit card processor, including sites that used PayPal's new recurring payment features.
Web Developer

Systek Computing Technologies

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

March 2007 — December 2007 (10 months)

Develop in PHP and MySQL using MVC practices to produce back ends for clients. Work with a team consisting of a Web Design person, Flash person, and another Developer.
IT Assistant

Texas Real Estate Center

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Real Estate industry)

February 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 2 months)

Maintain website and intranet in ASP 2.0 (VBScript) and MSSQL server.

Daniel Cousineau’s Education

Texas A&M University

BS , Computer Science , 2005 — 2009

Minor in Business Administration

Activities and Societies:

Fish Camp, KANM Student Radio

Additional Information

Daniel Cousineau’s Websites:

My Blog

Daniel Cousineau’s Interests:

Programming (Python, PHP, Common LISP), The Internets, music (progressive rock/metal), sci-fi and fantasy novels (eagerly awaiting George RR Martin's latest book)