Sean Murphy

Current

Web Application Developer at (Self Employed)

Past

Software Developer at MindComet Corporation
Contract Web Developer at (Self-Employed)

Education

Crooms Academy of Information Technology

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Industry

Computer Software

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Sean Murphy’s Summary

Seasoned software developer focused on creating sound technical solutions based on modern web architectures. Has an unfading passion for excellence. Relentlessly promotes craftsmanship in every aspect of software development. Provides superior strategic and technical guidance to meet client and business goals. Always interested in learning new things, and sharing them with others. Strong desire to work on complex, high-volume systems, or be challenged to learn new technologies.

Sean Murphy’s Specialties:

Web application architecture, Scalability, Optimization, MySQL, CouchDB, Usability, ExpressionEngine, CodeIgniter, PHP, Ajax, Regular Expressions, Hard problem solving

Sean Murphy’s Experience

Web Application Developer

(Self Employed)

(Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years)

* Built the open source LongURL web service for expanding shortened URLs (LongURL.org). Also released a Firefox extension, Greasemonkey script, and jQuery plugin that use the REST web service.

* Created Trionym, an application for naming businesses/websites and simultaneously finding available domains.

* Developed the 2.0 release of ComicMix's online Javascript comic book reader (Comicmix.com)

* Wrote a complex ExpressionEngine module for managing an online testing application.

* Advanced ExpressionEngine CMS consulting & development including custom modules and plugins

* Handled various system administration tasks such as installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of web servers, load balancers, message brokers, database servers, and monitoring applications
Software Developer

MindComet Corporation

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

June 2007 — February 2008 (9 months)

* Key member of team that completely rebuilt SPEEDtv.com--a mission-critical project part of a multi-million dollar retainer.

* Spearheaded MySQL database and application optimization for the high-traffic SPEEDtv website.

* Evaluated and successfully evangelized tools and systems that were implemented as company standards at MindComet.

* Successfully lobbied for internally developed software to be released as open source code

* Mentored less experienced developers and helped to enforce coding standards despite challenging project constraints.

* Collaborated with project managers and designers to translate client requests into appropriate technical solutions.

* Effectively gave client presentations and participated in training sessions for non-technical client personnel.
Contract Web Developer

(Self-Employed)

(Computer Software industry)

May 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 2 months)

* Worked remotely with several companies across the country, typically web development agencies.

* Quickly adapted to new tools and methodologies for developing web applications to meet agency development standards.

* Designed and developed custom content management systems for client websites using the CodeIgniter MVC framework.

* Collaborated with a small team to create a PHP/MySQL application for managing volunteers at marathon races nationwide.

* Adapted existing software to create innovative, cutting-edge Ajax solutions for client while keeping costs low.

* Worked to resolve bugs and develop new features for ClearHealth--an open source web application for managing small health care practices.

* Handled system administration tasks such as installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of Linux servers, web servers, database applications, email servers, FTP servers, and more

Sean Murphy’s Education

Crooms Academy of Information Technology

2002 — 2006

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Sean Murphy’s Interests:

open source software, distributed/virtual companies, integrated web services, messaging systems, erlang, scalable architectures, web standards, fine art, travel, truth