chief evangelist, partner | planet argon
Portland, Oregon Area
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- chief evangelist, partner at planet argon
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- Lead Developer at Command Prompt
- Software Programmer at First Contact
- IT Support Specialist at Imark Communications
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Robby Russell’s Summary
Robby Russell founded Planet Argon in 2002. His experience includes nine years as a professional web developer, and (soon) as a published technical writer. Robby’s current project is a Ruby on Rails book, titled Programming Rails, to be published by the leading technical book publisher, O’Reilly Media. This project, in part, stemmed from his Rails related blog, robbyonrails.com.
Outside of the studio, Robby enjoys writing and playing music, hiking, and traveling.
Robby Russell’s Experience
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chief evangelist, partner
planet argon
(Partnership; Internet industry)
August 2002 — Present (7 years 4 months)
Oversight of business operations, team leader, marketing, sales, developer, project coordinator, and dishwasher.
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Lead Developer
Command Prompt
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2003 — July 2004 (1 year 3 months)
Custom System/Web Application Development (Perl, PHP, limited-Python, LXP), Project lead and management, PostgreSQL Administration, Consultant, Linux administration, support, consultation, installation and repair
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Software Programmer
First Contact
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
April 2001 — May 2003 (2 years 2 months)
Setup and maintained corporate Intranet for 200 employees using cost-effective open source solutions.
Programmed dynamic websites in both ASP/ASP.NET and PHP using MSSQL (including stored procedures), PostgreSQL, and MySQL database back ends on IIS and Apache servers.
Direct Liaison to a Web Seminar company. Developed and maintained upwards of 500 registration websites for this client.
Received Teamwork award in 2001. -
IT Support Specialist
Imark Communications
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
July 2000 — April 2001 (10 months)
Set up and integrated Linux based solutions into Netware/Microsoft NT based Server/Desktop environment. Such services included DNS, Web, SQL, Postfix/Sendmail, FTP, Samba, ATalk, DHCP, etc.
Administration of Novell Netware, Windows NT/2000, and Linux Servers (users, file systems, services, etc.)
Provided quality desktop and phone technical support to 200 internal and external users.
Received Rookie of the Year award in 2000.
