Joseph Erickson

Current

• Member at Ananda Web Development, LLC
• IT Tech Specialist III at FirstEnergy Corp.

Past

• JavaScript Programmer at The Human Creativity Project
• Web Consultant at Mature Services, Inc.
• Web Software Engineer and Organizer at PodCamp Ohio

• Test Engineer at Datavantage Corp.
• Systems Programmer at Interactive Media Group

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Education

• Kent State University

Recommended

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Connections

32 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My RSS feed

Joseph Erickson’s Summary

I’ve been building web sites for about ten years now and along the way I’ve figured out what works and what doesn’t. I’m a programmer by profession, but I’ve always been a jack of all trades online; server administration, web page design, information architecture, etc. If it involves web pages in any way, I’ve probably done it.

Joseph Erickson’s Specialties:

Java, J2EE, Python, Jython, Django, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, web design principles, XML, AJAX with YUI!, RSS, Web Services, Ruby, JRuby
Linux server and client administration.
Agile Development practices and Scrum project management
SQL databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL, HBSQL and SQLite.
Design Patterns, Agile development using Scrum and TDD, Unit testing using JUnit and Python unittest, Functional testing using Selenium and HP LoadRunner.

Joseph Erickson’s Experience

• Member

  Ananda Web Development, LLC

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Web development and consulting for non-profits in the Akron area. Using Open Source software to keep costs down while still giving non-profits what they need in an IT solution.

• IT Tech Specialist III

  FirstEnergy Corp.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FE; Utilities industry)

  April 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)

  Web site development for internal and external customers.
  Part of team to introduce and configure content management system for FirstEnergy web sites.
  Tech lead on redesign of www.firstenergycorp.com.

• JavaScript Programmer

  The Human Creativity Project

  (Online Media industry)

  June 2004 — June 2009 (5 years 1 month)

  Doing JavaScript and YUI implementation for front end system.

• Web Consultant

  Mature Services, Inc.

  (Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  August 2008 — December 2008 (5 months)

  Consulting on web site enhancements
  Form programming on current site

• Web Software Engineer and Organizer

  PodCamp Ohio

  (Events Services industry)

  December 2007 — May 2008 (6 months)

  Designed and developed registration system for podcampohio.com written in PHP using the CodeIgniter framework
  Helped organize sessions and speakers
  Lead speaker relations at the even

• Test Engineer

  Datavantage Corp.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MCRS; Computer Software industry)

  September 2003 — April 2005 (1 year 8 months)

  Created detailed test plans for Quality Assurance testers.
  Developed automated tests in IBM Rational RobotJ using Java and XML.
  Installed and maintained Linux and OpenBSD servers for Quality Assurance intranet using phpWiki and MySQL database.
  Administered Linux test machines for Point Of Sale system testing.
  Used PostgreSQL, SQL Anywhere and Oracle 9i.
  Taught Java and RobotJ automation to small group of non-programmer testers.

• Systems Programmer

  Interactive Media Group

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — August 2003 (3 years 8 months)

  Worked directly with non-technical clients to design and implement internet based applications for clients' internet and intranet sites.
  Developed e-commerce, order management, supply chain and customer service applications.
  Programmed applications in Perl and JSP/Servlets.
  Used MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.
  Deployed applications on Linux web servers running Apache web servers with mod_perl and Tomcat JSP/Servlet engine.
  Held technology seminars for management, sales and other non-technical staff to keep them up to date on developments in the programming department.

Joseph Erickson’s Education

• Kent State University

  BA , Computer Science, Aerospace , 1996 — 2001

Additional Information

Joseph Erickson’s Websites:

• My Website
• My RSS feed

Joseph Erickson’s Interests:

Open Source, Community Building, Chess, Watercolor Painting, Agile Project Management

Joseph Erickson’s Groups:

•    PodCamp Ohio
•    NE Ohio IT Professionals
•    Linked Akron
•    NEO - Home Based Business Network