Freelance Software Developer at
Argentina
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- Open Source Software Developer at Self employed
- Past
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- Partner at AddThree Inc
- Technology Director at Don't Blink Media, Inc
- Senior Software Engineer at nanoMaterials Discovery Corporation
- Owner, Systems and Software Engineer at ePersonals Inc.
- Systems and Software Engineer at Combimatrix
- Education
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- University of Connecticut
- University of Massachusetts Boston
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Norman Clarke’s Summary
Experience: I have founded several moderately successful startups and also worked for a few that provided... ummm... more "learning opportunities" than profit. I've always worked for smaller companies because that's what I love to do.
Goals: To finally hit that home run out of the park. To always be working on something interesting and never lose the love for what I do. Also, to get paid for doing that.
Norman Clarke’s Specialties:
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Lua, Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Java, J2EE, PHP, Apache, JBoss, XHTML/CSS etc. Figuring out how to glue together disparate technologies in creative and functional ways.
Norman Clarke’s Experience
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Open Source Software Developer
Self employed
(Computer Software industry)
July 2009 — Present (5 months)
I am currently following my dream of working exclusively on open source software for one year, though I also am accepting some shorter-term freelance positions during my sabbatical.
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Partner
AddThree Inc
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 2007 — July 2009 (1 year 11 months)
I am a partner and owner of AddThree Inc, a Performance Marketing Agency with offices in Seattle WA, San Jose CA and Buenos Aires, Argentina. AddThree offers professional consultation and management services for organic and paid search marketing.
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Technology Director
Don't Blink Media, Inc
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
May 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 5 months)
Responsible for all development initiatives and oversight of the Don't Blink development team.
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Senior Software Engineer
nanoMaterials Discovery Corporation
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Nanotechnology industry)
January 2005 — September 2005 (9 months)
Database development, systems architecture, web site development, and data analysis software for a nanotechnology company focused on fuel cell and battery matrials research.
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Owner, Systems and Software Engineer
ePersonals Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2002 — January 2005 (2 years 7 months)
Starting from zero, I conceived, designed, implemented, managed and sold the ePersonals online personal site with 3 other friends. It was one of the greatest learning experiences of my life to date. I did all of the architectural work, the database development, systems administration, and a significant chunk of the software development as well.
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Systems and Software Engineer
Combimatrix
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; CBMX; Computer Software industry)
June 2000 — July 2002 (2 years 2 months)
I was brought in to develop the database layer of the applications Combimatrix was working on at the time, and also do some network and systems administration on the side. I got to work on some interesting stuff, including a cobbled-together but blazing fast cluster of machines running Mosix for some CPU-intensive gene sequence analysis software. At Combi I also ended up learning a lot about Java programming and began moving away from hardware and databases, and more towards software development.
Norman Clarke’s Education
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University of Connecticut
Linguistics September 1998 — May 1999
Spent one year in the graduate linguistics program before deciding it wasn't for me and started a career in programming. It was a productive year however and find myself using the knowledge I picked up there from time to time.
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University of Massachusetts Boston
BA , Hispanic Studies, Linguistics , 1990 — 1995
The Spanish department at UMass Boston offered me the chance to pursue several independent studies during my BA, including being one of 5 students to participate in an experimental linguistics course taught by Noam Chomsky at MIT. Although I graduated with a degree in Hispanic Studies I pursued a great deal of coursework in Linguistics with my advisor Esther Torrego, and after graduation went on to work towards a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. I was somewhat of a professional student and took many classes in German, philosophy and music.
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Norman Clarke’s Interests:
Foreign languages, travel, open source software, baseball, backpacking, photography and Brazilian music. I live in Argentina and speak English, Spanish, and Portuguese fluently, as well as decent German.
Norman Clarke’s Groups:
Lista Ruby Argentina
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