Kurt Payne

Kurt Payne

Senior PHP Developer at GoDaddy.com

Location
Mesa, Arizona (Phoenix, Arizona Area)
Industry
Computer Software

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Kurt Payne's Overview

Current
  • Senior PHP Developer at GoDaddy.com
  • Lead Programmer at Firetank Software
Past
Education
  • Northern Michigan University
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Kurt Payne's Summary

I'm focused on developing web-based software, with a specialty in php5. I'm versed in LAMP, WAMP, and front-end development with xhtml/css/javascript with ajax and jquery.

I'm currently working with WordPress, making core contributions (when they're accepted!) and learning a lot about WP performance and plugins.

My activity on trac is logged under "kurtpayne"
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/search?q=kurtpayne

My activity on the codex is also logged under "kurtpayne"
http://codex.wordpress.org/Special:Contributions/Kurtpayne

Specialties

lamp, wamp, php5, gearman, web services, smarty, x-cart, web development, wordpress, wordpress plugins

Kurt Payne's Experience

Senior PHP Developer

GoDaddy.com

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry

April 2007Present (5 years 2 months) Gilbert, AZ

Present: Senior PHP Developer - Work to continually analyze and improve performance of php applications on 4GH hosting.

January 2011 - June 2011 - Senior PHP Developer - Create internal reporting tools to monitor Web-based email application clusters and other key performance indicators (KPIs) for the Workspace Applications team.

April 2007 - Dec 2010: Software Development Manager - manager and lead software engineer for an internal support application for all levels of customer support, development, and operations for hosting platform and products.

Lead Programmer

Firetank Software

April 2003Present (9 years 2 months)

Lead software developer for the FiretankSoftware.com line of products.

Software Developer

Data-Vision, Inc.

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

July 2004March 2007 (2 years 9 months)

I worked with a team of developers to use ASP 3.0 and Visual Basic 6.0 to develop website content management software for the lending industry. Maintained a positive SAS 70 audit report.

Technical Director

Viosport.com

June 2000July 2004 (4 years 2 months)

I was the lead developer and system administrator. I worked directly with clients to develop a video-on-demand system and several e-commerce websites. I provided direct support to our clients.

Kurt Payne's Education

Northern Michigan University

BA, Network Computing, Spanish

20002004

My major-related courses focused on web / network programming in java, c++, php, and perl perl. I also enjoyed a wide variety of classes in design, speech, drama, and anthropology.

I wrote several articles for the school paper (The North Wind). I graduated with honors as magna cum laude with a 3.76 GPA. I helped run several ACM programming contests.

Activities and Societies: ACM

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