VP of Engineering at BTS
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Vice President of Engineering at Berkeley Transportation Systems
- Author at Pearson Education
- Past
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- VP, Chief Technologist at Clear Ink
- Owner at Leon Atkinson (Sole Proprietorship)
- Chief Technologist at Clear Ink Corporation
- Programmer at Quantal International
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Leon Atkinson’s Summary
I am an expert programmer with leadership skills. I've been coding in PHP and MySQL since the v2.0 days. I wrote the first book about PHP. I ramped up my management skills while I helped a digital marketing company go from 10 to 50 in about 18 months. I know the Internet in and out. I know the culture, and I know Open Source. I've hung out with marketers, so I know about that, too. I'm an entrepreneur that knows that the biggest risk might be taking the "safe" bet.
Leon Atkinson’s Specialties:
PHP, MySQL, Marketing
Leon Atkinson’s Experience
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Vice President of Engineering
Berkeley Transportation Systems
(Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
February 2009 — Present (10 months)
I recently joined BTS to help make grow the team.
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Author
Pearson Education
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PSO; Publishing industry)
July 1998 — Present (11 years 5 months)
I wrote Core PHP Programming for the Prentice Hall PTR imprint. The first edition was published in May 1999. 2nd and 3rd editions were published in 2000 and 2003, respectively. I also wrote Core MySQL, published in 2001.
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VP, Chief Technologist
Clear Ink
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
August 2003 — February 2009 (5 years 7 months)
I was hired full time by Conversive Electrions dba Clear Ink as the Chief Technologist. About a year later, business was booming and I began building a team of technologists.
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Owner
Leon Atkinson (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)
October 2000 — August 2003 (2 years 11 months)
During this part of my career, I worked independently for several companies, most notably NTT/Verio for whom I built ecommerce sites. I designed and implemented a solution for selling domains and shared hosting plans for the U.S. market that we later duplicated for the U.K. I also worked independently for Conversive Electrons and many different sites.
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Chief Technologist
Clear Ink Corporation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1997 — October 2000 (3 years 8 months)
I was hired as a programmer, the first real programmer at the company who knew more than just HTML. I quickly worked my way to Technical Lead and then Chief Technologist around the time we merged with a traditional ad agency.
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Programmer
Quantal International
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years )
