Dan Katz

Current

Lead Web Developer at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Consultant at Electric Sage Designs LLC

Past

Web Developer at Simwell Productions (Sole Proprietorship)
Trainer & Customer Service Rep at Amazon.com
Teacher of English as a Foriegn Language at Ecuador

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Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

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Industry

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Dan Katz’s Summary

Lead web developer for large federal healthcare contractor delivering creative business solutions via cost-effective, web-based technologies. I know how to dramatically reduce IT overhead and increase employee productivity and happiness.

A true versatilist, I can move between business and technical roles with ease. With expertise in wiki deployment and adoption, I am a big advocate of "Enterprise 2.0".

Dan Katz’s Specialties:

Drupal, Confluence, Jira, standards-based web development, Linux (Redhat,Ubuntu), PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML, Javascript/JQuery

Dan Katz’s Experience

Lead Web Developer

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield

(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Insurance industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Lead web developer at the Carefirst Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program Operations Center in Washington DC. Working on enterprise-wide wiki deployment and adoption, business solutions, and Intranet development.
Consultant

Electric Sage Designs LLC

(Internet industry)

April 2003 — Present (6 years 4 months)

Trainer, consultant, nerd-herder, developer, open source integrator & chief troublemaker bringing Drupal, Wiki, & Web 2.0 joy to companies & organizations in the Washington DC area and beyond.
Web Developer
Simwell Productions (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

April 2000 — March 2003 (3 years)
Trainer & Customer Service Rep

Amazon.com

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AMZN; Retail industry)

July 1997 — July 1999 (2 years 1 month)
Teacher of English as a Foriegn Language

Ecuador

(Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Education Management industry)

January 1997 — July 1997 (7 months)

Taught English to Spanish speakers in Banos, Ecuador.

Dan Katz’s Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

BA , Biology & Environmental Studies , 1991 — 1995

Activities and Societies:

Wilderness Orientation, Recreation Department, Outdoor Education, Trip Leader

Additional Information

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Dan Katz’s Interests:

my wife and daughter, good food, telemark skiing, hiking/camping, sea kayaking, movies, music, open source, enterprise 2.0, social networks, linux, drupal, travel and languages