Jason Penney

Current

• Software Engineer at Pinpoint Global Communications
• WordPress Plugin and Theme Developer, Consultant at Independent (Self-Employed)
• Freelance Software Engineer/Web Consulting at Independent (Self-Employed)

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Industry

Computer Software

Jason Penney’s Summary

Knowledge of a wide range of Programming Languages. Study of Programing language design and organization leads to ability to pick up new languages quickly. Ability to think in code.

Active use in recent months: C#, PHP, Python, Javascript, jQuery

Proficient: C, C++, C#, Inform, Perl, PHP, jQuery
Comfortable: Java, Lisp, Pascal, Python, Scheme
Some Knowledge: Basic, Ruby, Rails


Application Knowledge:
Proficient: Apache, OpenOffice.org/StarOffice, Wordpress
Comfortable: Microsoft Office, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Mambo, Mediawiki
Some Knowledge: Oracle, Veritas Volume Manager

Jason Penney’s Specialties:

HTML, XHTML, CSS, jQuery, Perl, PHP, MySQL, Web Standards, WordPress, Object Oriented Programming, Programming Languages, Solaris, Linux, LAMP, ASP.NET, C#

Jason Penney’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  Pinpoint Global Communications

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

  September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  Software Engineer
  
  ASP.NET/C# web application development
  IT infrastructure

• WordPress Plugin and Theme Developer, Consultant

  Independent (Self-Employed)

  (Computer Software industry)

  June 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)

  I've written a number of WordPress plugins and themes. Most either commissioned, or for personal use. I've also offered support to people having cross browser issues with third-party themes.
  
  Publicly Released Open Source (GPL) Plugins:
  * ProgPress: A Progress Meter Plugin for WordPress
  * Use Google Libraries: A Plugin to Improve Script Loading Performance in WordPress
  ** 5/5 star rating
  ** almost 10,000 downloads (as of October 18, 2009, initial release November 2008)

• Freelance Software Engineer/Web Consulting

  Independent (Self-Employed)

  (Computer Software industry)

  1994 — Present (15 years )

  I've done a number of jobs setting up, upgrading, maintaining, migrating, etc. a numerous web sites and online communities.
  
  Highlights:
  * flashbake (Contributor) - an Open Source specialized sort of version control/archiving system for writers

Additional Information

Jason Penney’s Interests:

writing, sculpture, technology, new media, web standards

Jason Penney’s Groups:

•    Sun Alumni
•    Science Fiction readers, writers, and collectors
•    Scrivener Users Network