
Blog Networks, Programming, Finance, and IT
Greater New York City Area

Blog Networks, Programming, Finance, and IT
Greater New York City Area
Recent college graduate with plenty of coursework, internship experience, and entrepreneurial spirit. Wants to learn more about finance and e-business.
Web development, web services, Oracle, mySQL and other databases, modelling, systems, client-server software, algorithms, a slew of programming languages, including C, C#, C++, Java, ML, PHP, SQL, XML, and Perl. Also, foreign languages; English, Spanish, Chinese, and Latin.
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
June 2004 — Present (4 years)
I run the popular blog network found on http://elliottback.com and elsewhere. I'm currently in the middle of developing new profitable properties, while at the same time continuing to add content and new design themes to existing sites. Now with over 10,000,000 visitors served.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MS; Banking industry)
August 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 6 months)
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 2 months)
Instruct object oriented programming (OOP) and Java language fundamentals in section class and office hours. Proctor, write, and grade examinations and assignments. Utilize automated solutions to strictly enforce academic integrity. Actively involved with course administration.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZN; Computer Software industry)
May 2005 — August 2005 (4 months)
Scoped, designed, implemented, and deployed a large metrics project. Modeled high-volume logical and physical Oracle databases. Delivered an ETL demon, the database instance, and a fault-tolerant metrics web service. Created cost-savings reports and perl scripts that demonstrate software efficiency.
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Graphic Design industry)
May 2004 — September 2004 (5 months)
Completed more than a dozen Faculty Innovation Grants projects. Used W3C valid CSS, (X)HTML, and XML with database-driven interfaces in PHP, mySQL, and Zope. Added Flash for spice and flair.
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2004 — September 2004 (5 months)
Wrote PHP, SQL queries, and regular expressions to synchronize databases, perform intelligent searches, and customize a 30,000 line open-source project. Created a custom web-proxy to the Library gateway.
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2003 — August 2003 (4 months)
Implemented a modern relational database upgrade by migrating old 16-bit dBase code to the latest version, normalizing database tables, writing queries, and creating an extensive GUI. Optimized run and start times.
BS, Computer Science, English, 2002 — 2006
HS Diploma, 1998 — 2002