Company Director For StormTide Digital Studios Inc.
British Columbia, Canada
- Current
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- Policy Advocate at Neutrality.ca
- Senior Web Applications Architect at StreamFlow
- Owner at StormTide Digital Studios Inc
- Past
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- Author - Pro PHP at Apress
- Senior Architect / Team Lead at DIGIFONICA
- CTO at Clickalyzer Inc
- Application Architect at Online Automation Inc
- Technology Partner at Customcdrs.com LLC
- Consultant Developer at West Point Media Inc
- Web Developer at 99dogs.com NYC
- Education
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- Camosun College
- Self Taught
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Kevin McArthur’s Summary
Kevin McArthur is an opensource developer in Duncan B.C. He is a self-taught entrepreneur and has been running a very successful PHP application development studio for over 8 years.
His company, StormTide Digital Studios, has worked with industry in the US and Canada to provide scaling solutions for web statistics, VoIP and print automation. An avid IRC user, he helps to administer one of the largest PHP support organizations, PHP EFnet.
Kevin's contributions to opensource projects including the Zend Framework have made him a well known authority in the industry. He has written several articles for PHPRiot.com on topics such as Reflection, SPL, OOP and PostgreSQL.
Outside of the PHP world, Kevin is also the inventor of a push-technology platform for .NET called Stream.
You may contact me directly at Kevin AT stormtide DOT ca.
Kevin McArthur’s Specialties:
Project Planning and Management, Scalable Systems Design, Contracting, Corporate Administration, Canadian Privacy Law, Business Ethics, Programming, Development, Design, Web, PHP, PostgreSQL + plpgsql + GiST, C#, SOAP, AJAX, SIP + RTP, SOAP + WSDL, MVC + Patterns, ZFW, Zend Framework
Kevin McArthur’s Experience
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Policy Advocate
Neutrality.ca
(Privately Held; Government Relations industry)
June 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Net Neutrality is a serious issue in Canada and affects telecommunications policy and fair competition. In june I launched the site http://www.neutrality.ca and since then it has garnered significant support. Please get involved and visit the site.
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Senior Web Applications Architect
StreamFlow
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)
March 2006 — Present (2 years 5 months)
For StreamFlow I am currently working on the design and architecture for StreamFlow Flyer a database to print automation web application.
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Owner
StormTide Digital Studios Inc
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
December 1998 — Present (9 years 8 months)
Federally Incorporated from a prorietorship in 2003, StormTide Digital Studios Inc has been profitable in the web development services industry since founding. A proven strategy of overseas market development and prudent liability management has enabled our business to adapt to changing market conditions. Currently, StormTide is doing research and development into next generation ajax technologies.
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Author - Pro PHP
Apress
(Publishing industry)
August 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 8 months)
In press March 24, 2008. See www.amazon.com/Pro-PHP-Patterns-Frameworks-Testing/dp/1590598199
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Senior Architect / Team Lead
DIGIFONICA
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
April 2005 — November 2005 (8 months)
DIGIFONICA is a leading provider of B2B VoIP Services. For Digifonica I was responsible for business analysis, system architecture and scaling as well as project development and management. Key technologies involved in this position include SOAP+WSDL, PHP+SimpleTest, PgSQL-plpgsql and GiST, SIP+RTP, DNS (ENUM, TSIG), AJAX, JavaScript Syndication and System Scaling.
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CTO
Clickalyzer Inc
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 2003 — May 2004 (1 year 3 months)
Clickalyzer is a unique statistical tracking and analysis dotcom for small business websites. For Clickalyzer I was contracted to fill the role of CTO/Application Architect for the expansion of their system. This meant designing a scaling application able to handle several hundred request per second and record the data to postgresql databases. At the height of this contract I was managing 5 direct employees and numerous joint ventures.
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Application Architect
Online Automation Inc
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
December 2003 — January 2004 (2 months)
For this company I architected a contact list cleaning application that is capable of doing 50 thousand lookups on the FTC Do Not Call list in a matter of seconds. This required the planning of a custom binary database (high performance hash table) specially built for indexing phone records by country, area, exchange and account components.
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Technology Partner
Customcdrs.com LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
February 2001 — March 2003 (2 years 2 months)
For this position my company partnered with customcdrs to provide an online cd-rom design and printing service with a key to complete system automation. This project entailed a lot of c and php hybridization as well as a massive amount of image processing programming.
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Consultant Developer
West Point Media Inc
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
June 2002 — January 2003 (8 months)
For West Point Media, I was one of two developers contracted to design a complete solution for a web development firm. This included setting up CVS, networking, local development servers and managing their Sun Cobalt RAQ server. Once this infrastructure was set up and the staff was trained on how to use it, I was then assigned to work on one of their projects, "regshop.com" a domain registration reseller using Tucows OpenSRS, CURL and PHP.
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Web Developer
99dogs.com NYC
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
October 2000 — January 2001 (4 months)
99dogs.com is an online custom apparel retailer. For 99dogs I was responsible for JavaScript, PHP and Visual Basic development relating to their online apparel (genie) systems.
Kevin McArthur’s Education
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Camosun College
Electronics Engineering September 1999 — October 2000
I was originally studying Electronics Engineering at Camosun College as a career shift away from the web development business I had started after high-school. Unfortunatly slightly after the end of my first year, I received an offer from a new york dotcom company that I could not refuse. I never went back to Electronics but maintain it as an active hobby.
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Self Taught
Programming and Business
I have been active in the web development world since I was a teenager, and I have been running my own web development business for over 8 years now. During the course of this business, I have aquired many programming languages from design languages like html/css to php web application development and C# application design. I have lots of business experience managing people and dealing with the requirements of running a federally incorporated company. Sometimes education comes in many forms.
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