John St. Germain

Current

• Photographer (Self-employed)
• Sr Web Developer at Houston Chronicle

Past

• Sr Developer at Tech-X, Inc.

Education

• Texas Tech University

Recommended

2 people have recommended John

Connections

56 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website

John St. Germain’s Summary

I am the senior web developer and responsible for most of the database driven web applications on Chron.com. I'm also the primary entertainment application developer; the most recent addition, a multi section event calendar. I'm primarily a Javascript and Perl programmer, but have also developed with Ruby, and PHP.

John St. Germain’s Specialties:

Perl, "AJAX" techniques, Javascript, DHTML, XML, PHP, server side and client side scripting, database applications, dynamic content, memory/file/off-site caching. Site admin and developer for a Drupal installation (http://eccentric-light.com) and for an upcoming entertainment project.

John St. Germain’s Experience

• Photographer

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Photography industry)

  March 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)

  Film and Theatrical Production stills, events, and fine art: Abstract/conceptual, landscape, macro, low key & dramatic light portraiture.

• Sr Web Developer

  Houston Chronicle

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

  March 2003 — Present (5 years 9 months)

• Sr Developer

  Tech-X, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; International Trade and Development industry)

  November 1999 — January 2003 (3 years 3 months)

  Mentor junior programmers and assist and lead development of sales quotation and invoice systems for electronic supply industry. DBA for MySQL databases and Oracle integration lead.

John St. Germain’s Education

• Texas Tech University

  1987 — 1991

Additional Information

John St. Germain’s Websites:

• My Website

John St. Germain’s Interests:

photography, painting, web development, snow skiing, tennis, golf

John St. Germain’s Groups:

Delta Sigma Phi

John St. Germain’s Honors:

2007 Houston Chronicle Jesse Award for Alternative Story Forms: Houston Gardening Channel

John St. Germain’s Contact Settings

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