Douglas Clifton

Current

Web Developer at The Chronicle of Higher Education
Intranet Developer at Reprographic Technologies

Past

Web Developer at Digital Web Magazine
Lead Programmer at Innovative Ideas
Co-owner at C2 Consultants

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Education

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo Valley Community College

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Douglas Clifton’s Summary

10+ years experience in Web Development in numerous industries and applications.

Douglas Clifton’s Specialties:

HTML/XHTML, XML/RSS/REST/SOAP, PHP, Perl, Linux, Shell scripting/cron, HTTP, Apache, JavaScript, jQuery, DOM, Ajax, CSS, Design, Database, SQL/MySQL.

Douglas Clifton’s Experience

Web Developer

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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

June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Intranet Developer

Reprographic Technologies

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Printing industry)

December 2005 — Present (3 years 8 months)

As a freelance contractor I designed and developed several custom intranet applications that are now key to the day-to-day operations of this organization.
Web Developer

Digital Web Magazine

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

Back and front end volunteer web developer for the magazine.
Lead Programmer

Innovative Ideas

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

July 1997 — December 2002 (5 years 6 months)

Managed a team of programmers in the development of numerous user-interface and backend server Web-based applications. We built a network architecture and provided solutions to deal with large volumes of traffic. I maintained the low-level interface to host machines via mod_perl and installed and configured clusters of Web, database and content servers and worked extensively with Perl/CGI/C/C++/PHP/HTML and MySQL/DB2, which required detailed schema design and coding of SQL queries. I also served as liaison to vendors and hosting companies, software developers, e-commerce and other outside service providers. I trained and supervised staff and contributed to the phenomenal growth of this start-up business, reaching over $78 MM in annual sales.
Co-owner

C2 Consultants

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1993 — September 1995 (2 years 8 months)

Created a successful computer consulting business providing information systems services to the health care industry. Developed long-term contractual relationships with area hospitals to design, develop, and install desktop and network operating systems. We built Intranet systems and application macros specializing in custom forms, reporting, patient records, billing, and databases. Trained staff in the use of systems. Provided follow-up customer services including system maintenance and troubleshooting.

Douglas Clifton’s Education

Western Michigan University

BS , Computer Science , 1992 — 1996

Initially, I was enrolled in the Engineering Graphics program, but quickly switched to Computer Science with a minor in math. Although at the time the curriculum was focused on such things as VAX/VMS and Pascal, my own interests were with Unix systems such as Sun and NeXT, and toolkits therein including C, Awk, Perl and shell scripting. This was when Linux and the Web were just coming into fruition.
Kalamazoo Valley Community College

AAS , CAD , 1991 — 1993

A two-year associates degree, which included coursework in CAD, drafting and engineering drawing, illustration, Photoshop and related software.

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Douglas Clifton’s Interests:

PHP, MySQL, XHTML, HTML, XML, XSLT, HTTP, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, Perl, open-source, Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, OSX, RSS, OPML, Metadata, Microformats, Standards, Accessibility, Semantics, Internet, Web, History, Browsers, Firefox, Programming, C