Technology Director at FINE Design Group
Portland, Oregon Area
- Current
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- Technology Director at FINE Design Group
- principal at Page Indigo, LLC
- Past
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- CIO (co-founder) at Shizzow Inc
- Software Developer at Fyreball Inc
- Java Developer at The Regence Group
- Java Developer at Nike, Inc.
- Programmer at VTech
- Education
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- Portland Community College
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Sam Keen’s Summary
Software developer for the most part in the web space.
Primary languages I work with include PHP, Java, and javascript.
I am also active in the Portland developer community helping to plan events and I run the PHP usergroup: pdxphp.org.
Sam Keen’s Specialties:
Java (J2EE)
OO PHP
Javascript
HTML
CSS
Sam Keen’s Experience
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Technology Director
FINE Design Group
(Privately Held; Graphic Design industry)
November 2008 — Present (9 months)
As Technology Director, I assist in mentoring technology staff/contractors to assist them in their growth and well-being.
In conjunction with the other Technology Director, I oversee development to define and enforce a consistent development process and strategy which enables efficient project completion and quality.
I am also a key member of the development team. We build custom PHP websites based on a LAMP stack and often utilize the cakePHP framework. I'm involved in all aspects of development including but not limited to requirements gathering, php, mysql, server administration, html, and javascript, testing and maintenance. -
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Page Indigo, LLC
(Computer Software industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
My own software development freelancing company
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CIO (co-founder)
Shizzow Inc
(Computer Software industry)
June 2008 — November 2008 (6 months)
Spatially aware mobile culture web application
shizzow.com -
Software Developer
Fyreball Inc
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 2008 — July 2008 (5 months)
Web development (PHP and javascript)
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Java Developer
The Regence Group
(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Insurance industry)
February 2007 — February 2008 (1 year 1 month)
J2EE developer for myregence.com
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Java Developer
Nike, Inc.
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year)
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Programmer
VTech
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years)
Sam Keen’s Education
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Portland Community College
Computer Information Systems 2000 — 2001
No degree, about 60 units total
Additional Information
Sam Keen’s Websites:
Sam Keen’s Interests:
Running
Sam Keen’s Groups:
PDXPHP - Portland's PHP user group, O'Reilly User Group Program
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Zend Certified Engineers -
PDX Technology Professionals - Portland Oregon -
Portland Python -
Open Source Bridge
Sam Keen’s Honors:
zend certified engineer [http://www.zend.com/store/education/certification/authenticate.php?ClientCandidateID=ZEND003239&RegistrationID=214689974]
Sun Certified Programmer (java 1.4)
Sam Keen’s Contact Settings
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- job inquiries
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