
Developer / Systems Administrator
Lawrence, Kansas Area

Developer / Systems Administrator
Lawrence, Kansas Area
I've worked in the software professionally since 2000 and I put up my first website built in HTML back in 1997. My jobs have varied from development to management jobs for small companies (under 20 people), medium companies (under 500 employees), to a large Fortune 500 company. At heart am I am a developer and a tinkerer.
Management, software development, Python, Django, website development, HTML, CSS, XML, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and systems administration.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
2007 — Present (2 years)
Software development with emphasis in Python, Django, and data exchange formats. My duties have ranged from supporting our internal and external clients and handing most of our data imports for the last few years. I've recently worked on our javascript widget API along with working on an API for EllingtonCMS.
(Internet industry)
October 2002 — November 2007 (5 years 2 months)
Fast Freedom was an Internet provider which focused on wireless, dialup, DSL, web hosting, and website development. My job was to handle day to day operations and management which included customer service, web development, and client relations. We wrote our own CMS and shopping cart systems in PHP and later in Django. We also created one of the areas largest hyper-local website portals completely in Django.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)
May 2000 — October 2002 (2 years 6 months)
We wrote and launched hookup.com which was the world’s largest online truck and trailer auction. We hosted private auctions for over a dozen trucking companies including: International, Mack Trucks, and Peterbilt. I managed our web team on both internal and external projects, managed windows based web and database servers, and wrote quite a bit of the code.
1995 — 2001
Django