Technical Yahoo! at Yahoo! Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Technical Yahoo! - Mail/OpenMail team at Yahoo!
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- Technical Yahoo! - Messenger/Web Messenger team at Yahoo!
- Conference Speaker at Education Without Borders International Conference
- Technical Yahoo! at Yahoo! Inc.
- Lead PHP Developer at WebGroupMedia, LLC.
- Lead Developer at iNET Interactive
- Education
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- Wichita State University
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Jeremy Johnstone’s Summary
My experience ranges from a project I alone developed averaging about 500-700k pageviews/day (at the time) all the way to architecting the PHP framework and coding a large chunk of a project with 100s millions/day. I am confident in being able to handle a project in PHP of virtually any scale and can easily help deliver high performance results.
In general, if it involves a computer, I can do it.
If it involves anything else, I can probably do it with minimal instruction.
This may sound a bit overly confident, but honestly, I have not found anything ever I can't do.
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Please take a look at this picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyjohnstone/957763033/
That was my car up until recently. If I am willing to do that to my car without any compensation from my employer, it should be a pretty clear indication I am not looking to jump ship on a dime and am loyal to the companies I work at. If you have something you think is appropriate to me and are willing to really sell it, then contact me. If you are just contacting in the hopes I will say yes immediately and you will land a fat commission check quickly without any work at all on your part, then I am not your person. I am not looking for a "job" (I have a good position in a company I love already), but am always interested in opportunities to further my career advancement. If you keep that frame of reference in mind when talking to me, things will go a lot better I can assure you. I hate to be direct, blunt, or even possibly rude, but your fellow brethren are giving recruiters a bad name in general. Sadly, all it takes is a few bad apples to ruin it for all.
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Jeremy Johnstone’s Specialties:
Programming Languages: PHP, Adobe Flex 2 & 3 (including experience w/ Adobe AIR), Actionscript 3 (and to a much lesser extent AS2), Javascript, C, C++, Perl
General: Photography (handle a large chunk of Yahoo!s PR headshots now as well as many corporate events), Evangelism (just look at my car for an example), and Community Outreach efforts (I've done extensive work with Yahoo's Yahoo! For Good team)
Jeremy Johnstone’s Experience
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Technical Yahoo! - Mail/OpenMail team
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (7 months)
Recently joined the newly created Yahoo! OpenMail team which is developing the company's initiatives in regards to opening up mail to 3rd party developers to be able to add modules into Mail integrating with other services to enhance the Yahoo! Mail experience for users. This project was demonstrated at CES by Jerry Yang and is considered one of the top priority projects for the company.
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Technical Yahoo! - Messenger/Web Messenger team
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
May 2007 — January 2008 (9 months)
Worked on the Yahoo! Web Messenger team developing in Flex 2/3, Javascript, and PHP. Coded and deployed SMS support into the Web Messenger product, developed numerous pieces for the myM project, as well as assisted with various parts of our two branded interfaces, the one for JetBlue's BetaBlue plane as well as the Starwars branded web messenger.
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Conference Speaker
Education Without Borders International Conference
(Government Agency; E-Learning industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
Was a speaker at the Education Without Borders conference held in Abu Dhabi, UAE in Feb. 2007.
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Technical Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; yhoo; Internet industry)
August 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 10 months)
Worked on a small team of engineers rewriting the Yahoo! AddressBook website (handles more requests per day than the Yahoo! homepage when you factor in API queries) from a proprietary internal language into PHP. This project involved development in PHP, designing UI in HTML/JS/CSS, building JSON based web APIs, and low level PHP extension work in C/C++.
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Lead PHP Developer
WebGroupMedia, LLC.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year)
Worked with a team of talented engineers developing the Cerberus Helpdesk product, one of the leading helpdesk software available used by over 16,000 companies (including several Fortune 500 companies). Also assisted in architectural discussions and basic implementation for other new projects within the company.
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Lead Developer
iNET Interactive
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
2003 — 2004 (1 year)
Built a interactive online billing system for a company selling advertising inventory across a network of more than a dozen high traffic websites handling millions of dollars in transactions per year. Following that, rewrote the popular Hotscripts.com website from the ground up in PHP from Perl.
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Jeremy Johnstone’s Interests:
Photography, Traveling, Scuba Diving, Sky Diving, Water Skiing
Jeremy Johnstone’s Groups:
ACLUG, SLUG, KCPUG, PHP
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Yahoo Employees and Alumni Group member
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