Engineer at Yahoo!
San Francisco Bay Area
- Past
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- Engineer at Yahoo!
- Web Developer, Owner at Outshine (Self-employed)
- Web Site Manager at Silicon Storage Technology
- Education
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- Sonoma State University
- Monterey Peninsula College
- Westmont College
- Carmel High School
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Tony Boyd’s Summary
I've been building Web sites since 1994. I've done freelancing and full-time employment. In that time I've built or contributed to yahoo.com, borland.com, actuate.com, publisherdatabase.com, agitar.com, narsad.org, ravenflow.com, and more. I've also put out about 40 Open Source products.
Update (Oct 21 2009): Recruiters please note that I'm looking for a nearby job with normal hours, as I have to pick up my kids from school in Campbell by 6 PM on many days. Thanks!
Tony Boyd’s Specialties:
PHP, Perl, DBI, SQL, MySQL, XMLHTTP, AJAX, JavaScript, DHTML, DOM, CSS, HTML, XHTML, XML, RSS, information architecture, usability, Linux, FreeBSD, Apache, public speaking.
Tony Boyd’s Experience
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Engineer
Yahoo!
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
July 2007 — July 2009 (2 years 1 month)
One of a few engineers building out the advertising/monetization system for mobile services at Yahoo! Lots of PHP, Apache, Linux, and MySQL. Some JavaScript, including the YUI Library. And I'm learning all about super-high-end Internet security and the best of best practices. Since the inventor of PHP works at Yahoo! I've been able to ask questions of the man himself. This is fun!
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Web Developer, Owner
Outshine (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)
November 2004 — July 2007 (2 years 9 months)
I build Web sites. Some sites I am building for myself, other sites I am building under contract. I do the initial site architecture, the mock-ups and sketches, the database design, then the proof-of-concept, the beta, the final deployment, and all the marketing and customer interaction post-launch. This has been a big period of learning for me, and I love it.
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Web Site Manager
Silicon Storage Technology
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; ssti; Internet industry)
November 2000 — November 2004 (4 years 1 month)
Hired and led a team of 4 on design and maintenance of the company's public Web site & intranet. Extensive work with MySQL, PHP, Apache; some Perl and Linux.
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Director, Usability & Web Site Design
Arzoo
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
May 2000 — November 2000 (7 months)
Led a team of 4 on design and maintenance of Arzoo's Web site. Extensive work with open source technologies such as Apache, CVS, and PHP. Personally built intranet site for UI team, including project tracking tool with email notification system. Also set up video production system, using VideoShop and EditDV.
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Webmaster
Actuate
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; actu; Internet industry)
November 1998 — May 2000 (1 year 7 months)
Overhauled the Web site design, replaced outdated navigation system with CSS navigation menus, developed Actuate's Web-based lead generation system that instantly routed customer data to the proper Sales Rep.
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Lead Web Developer
Borland
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; borl; Internet industry)
May 1996 — November 1998 (2 years 7 months)
Hands-on interface design and site architecture for this 15,000 page Web site (1.5 million hits/day); created online greeting cards, rotating ad banners, form processors, games, cookie-based personalization; developed Web launches for many products, quadrupling traffic to one product's home page; taught HTML, JavaScript, image optimization, and Perl to staff.
Tony Boyd’s Education
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Sonoma State University
English 1991 — 1993
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Monterey Peninsula College
English 1990 — 1991
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Westmont College
English 1989 — 1990
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Carmel High School
1985 — 1989
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Tony Boyd’s Interests:
poetry, computers, science fiction, board games, RPGs, PHP, databases, family, movies, stand-up comedy
Tony Boyd’s Groups:
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Borland Barbarians
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