Sam Keen

Current

• A Technology Director and Developer at FINE Design Group
• principal at Page Indigo, LLC

Past

• 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

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Education

• Portland Community College

Recommended

1 person has recommended Sam

Connections

121 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• Portland PHP Users Group
• HTML5-PDX

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 and the HTML5 user group: http://groups.google.com/group/html5-pdx.

Sam Keen’s Specialties:

Java (J2EE)
OO PHP
Javascript
HTML
CSS

Sam Keen’s Experience

• A Technology Director and Developer

  FINE Design Group

  (Privately Held; Graphic Design industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  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.

• principal

  Page Indigo, LLC

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  My own software development freelancing company

• 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)

• 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

• Java Developer

  Nike, Inc.

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year )

• Programmer

  VTech

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

  2000 — 2003 (3 years )

Sam Keen’s Education

• Portland Community College

  Computer Information Systems 2000 — 2001

  No degree, about 60 units total

Additional Information

Sam Keen’s Websites:

• My Website
• Portland PHP Users Group
• HTML5-PDX

Sam Keen’s Groups:

PDXPHP - Portland's PHP user group, O'Reilly User Group Program

•    Zend Certified Engineers
•    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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