Ross Patterson

Current

Consultant at Building Ecology
Consultant at Topia
Consultant at The Tech Museum of Innovation

Plone 4.0 Framework Tream Member at Plone Foundation
Consultant at OmniVision
Consultant at Rocky View Schools
Consultant at Burning Man
Consultant at Oxfam America
Consultant at Chromocell Corporation
Software Developer at Jazkarta
Consultant at UC Santa Cruz

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Past

Consultant at Oregon College of Art & Craft
Consultant at PretaWeb
Consultant at Ambisonia

Consultant at AlarmPoint Systems
Consultant at Secution
Software Developer at The Groupery
Consultant at glassCanopy Marketing
Software Developer at Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
Software Architect at Gadoz
Programmer/Analyst at Physical Planning & Construction, UC Santa Cruz

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Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Ross Patterson’s Summary

I very much enjoy elegant pragmatism and pragmatic elegance and I
think building web applications is one of the best ways to express
that union, so that's what I do!

If you're looking for a team member with expert experience with
Python, Zope, and Plone, contact me:

me@rpatterson.net
831-338-9197

Ross Patterson’s Specialties:

Python, Zope, Plone, zc.buildout, zope.testing, zope.testbrowser, JMeter, JavaScript, AJAX, DOM, XSLT, Xpath, Emacs, svn, bzr, git, cvs, Apache, Squid, Varnish, Pound, LDAP

Ross Patterson’s Experience

Consultant

Building Ecology

(Environmental Services industry)

February 2009 — Present (10 months)

Consulting for an internet newsletter
Consultant

Topia

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

February 2009 — Present (10 months)

Consulting and development on a content harvesting and categorizing system
Consultant

The Tech Museum of Innovation

(Non-Profit; Museums and Institutions industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )

Development and consulting for a social networking and content management application
Plone 4.0 Framework Tream Member

Plone Foundation

(Non-Profit; Internet industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year )

Responsible for feature evaluation and general guidance on architectural decisions. The Framework Team reviews and suggests features for inclusion in releases.
Consultant

OmniVision

(Public Company; Semiconductors industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Development and consulting for internal intranets, document management systems, and collaboration sites
Consultant

Rocky View Schools

(Education Management industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Performance optimization, version upgrade, and deployment improvements
Consultant

Burning Man

(Privately Held; Civic & Social Organization industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Consulting and development of the media gallery management and moderation system
Consultant

Oxfam America

(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Consulting and development for the public facing site with press materials, publications, campaigns, and photography
Consultant

Chromocell Corporation

(Privately Held; Biotechnology industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

Development and consulting for internal intranets, extranets, and document management systems
Software Developer

Jazkarta

(Computer Software industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

* Plone.tv - A Plone video sharing site
* Dimensional Insight - A public company site
* Undisclosed Startup - A clearinghouse for internet content in a specific domain
* Humanities Research Network - A research collaboration portal
* Various Plone upgrade assessments and migrations
* Various Plone performance assessments and optimization
Consultant

UC Santa Cruz

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )

* Various Plone upgrades
* Internal Services Catalog - A quick zope.formlib project
* CMFCapitalProjects - Maintenance for a construction project management application
Consultant

Oregon College of Art & Craft

(Non-Profit; Higher Education industry)

November 2008 — January 2009 (3 months)

Consulting for setting up a university intranet
Consultant

PretaWeb

(Computer Software industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

Make buildouts for and upgrade/migrate two Plone sites
Consultant

Ambisonia

(Computer Software industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

Develop a buildout for a Plone site with customizations and provide training
Consultant

AlarmPoint Systems

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 9 months)

Consulting and development for a company intranet and public facing support site
Consultant

Secution

(Computer Software industry)

2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

Consulting and development on the membership components of a real estate application
Software Developer

The Groupery

(Computer Software industry)

2006 — 2007 (1 year )

Resident Plone expert for a startup developing social networking and online payments for schools
Consultant

glassCanopy Marketing

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

Plone consulting and training for the principal developing a simple public site for a university
Software Developer

Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education

(Computer Software industry)

2005 — 2006 (1 year )

Start the Hewlett funded OERCommons project, a clearinghouse for metadata related to open educational content
Software Architect

Gadoz

(Computer Software industry)

2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

* Develop requirements and specifications with clients
* Design and develop applications for clients
* Implement a new hosting infrastructure and manage the migration
* Deliver hosted applications to clients
Programmer/Analyst

Physical Planning & Construction, UC Santa Cruz

(Construction industry)

March 1999 — January 2005 (5 years 11 months)

Manage IT infrastructure and develop in house applications including CMFCapitalProjects, a construction management application.