Jason Stirk

Web Application Developer, Achernar Solutions

New South Wales, Australia

Current
  • Owner at Achernar Solutions (Self-employed)
Past
  • Owner at Griffin Multimedia
  • Web Application Developer at o'neill software Pty Ltd
  • Developer / Systems Administrator at Grigor Investments Pty. Ltd.
  • System Administrator at v-App Pty Ltd / IDCS Pty Ltd
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Industry
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Jason Stirk’s Summary

Web Application Developer across a variety of different projects, ranging from specialist Intranet applications integrating multiple sites and languages, to public social applications.

Recent work has been primarily in Ruby on Rails and MySQL, however also experienced in a range of development technologies including PHP, Visual Basic, MySQL, MSSQL, Perl. Extensive experience in Linux Server Administration, especially in the context of shared hosting providers, and incident response after major hardware failures or intrusions.

Interested in social applications, interface design, usability and accessibility, and emerging technologies such as Semantic Web, social graphs, Virtual Worlds (eg. Second Life) and Microformat use.

Jason Stirk’s Specialties:

Ruby on Rails
PHP
Standards orientated HTML and CSS
MySQL
XML-RPC
Linux Administration (inc. apache, bind, sendmail, dovecot, etc.)
Network management and PC support


Jason Stirk’s Experience

  • Owner

    Achernar Solutions (Self-employed)

    (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

    October 2007Present (8 months)

    Ruby, and Ruby on Rails consulting and development; Web application consultation and development; Linux server management and administration; Linux incident response and recovery; network design and implementation; CSS and HTML design

  • Owner

    Griffin Multimedia

    (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    June 2002January 2008 (5 years 8 months)

    Web design and development; product development; Linux and Windows server management; client liaison and support; project management; managing accounts; network management at educational institutions; incident response and server recovery (Linux); network design; CSS and HTML design; graphic design;

  • Web Application Developer

    o'neill software Pty Ltd

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    October 2005January 2007 (1 year 4 months)

    PHP and Ruby on Rails development, application design, CSS and HTML development, Linux and Windows 2K server administration; MSSQL, MySQL integration;

  • Developer / Systems Administrator

    Grigor Investments Pty. Ltd.

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Legal Services industry)

    March 2003January 2006 (2 years 11 months)

    Design and development of a PHP, Ruby on Rails applications; Linux and Windows server administration; network administration; CSS, HTML design; graphic design and branding; project documentation and training; Visual Basic development and web-application integration;

  • System Administrator

    v-App Pty Ltd / IDCS Pty Ltd

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    July 2002December 2003 (1 year 6 months)

    Linux and Windows Server administration at small ISP; customer technical support; network installation and configuration; incident response; business planning.


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Jason Stirk’s Interests:

Ruby, web standards, linux and OSS, emerging technologies, semantic web, outdoors

Jason Stirk’s Groups:

Australian Web Industry Association

  •    FOSS Professionals member

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