Gideon Kimbrell

Current

• Director at Expert Branders
• Software Engineer at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
• Owner at SYRAGON LLC

• Partner at Express Medicine
• Co-Owner at Kiwi Drug

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Past

• CTO at Jettis
• Senior Engineer at Security Mentor
• Lead Web Software Engineer at Andiamo Systems

• Architect at Securicy Ventures
• Lead Software Engineer at Johnson & Johnson
• Senior Software Engineer at MOLI
• CTO at MedCenter Canada
• Web Software Engineer at InterFund Financial
• Web Developer at deviantART, Inc.
• Web Developer at Webpro

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Education

• Southern Adventist University
• Flathead Valley Community College
• Harcourt Learning Direct

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Gideon Kimbrell’s Summary

I have my own IT consulting & software development business.

I'm an expert LAMP developer / software engineer with 7+ years of experience in the web development and engineering field (PHP, MySQL, OOP, etc).

My specialty is being the architect of several enterprise-class high-volume high-availability service-oriented architectures. I'm very structured in my approach to development and understanding of software layers, bottlenecks, run-time complexities and best practices. I focus on separation of business logic and presentation logic and am an expert with software design patterns.

I am expert-level with Drupal, Alfresco and other name-brand CMS's, and have also engineered entire CMS frameworks myself. I have used Drupal to store and manage documentation, requirements and specifications, and Alfresco to manage raw data content (such as media files) with its replication capabilities. I also built an entire CRM/CMS from the ground up for MedCenter Canada, which was the basis for the paperless system I created for them, managing millions of paperless faxes and other medical documents.

A previous position was lead software engineer for a Johnson & Johnson company. During this 1-year contract I designed, prototyped, developed and re-factored a Web 2.0 Gen-2 product architecture designed to transform health-care for diabetics and be used by millions of people. I'm an engineer with experience building systems to large scale, and have used various topologies such as data pods, clusters and shards.

I have management experience and am very familiar with the software development life cycle (SDLC), being expert with different approaches such as Waterfall and Agile.

Gideon Kimbrell’s Specialties:

Syragon LLC provides high-integrity web-based paperless EMR solutions for clinics, pharmacies, doctors and other types of health-system users. Our experience within the medical field is broad and ranges from pharmaceutical business (MedCenter Canada), medical devices and high-touch care (Johnson & Johnson) to online drugstores (Express Medicine).

We'll create the entire solution custom for you, and with your interests and costs in mind.

Gideon Kimbrell’s Experience

• Director

  Expert Branders

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  November 2009 — Present (1 month)

• Software Engineer

  St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

  (Non-Profit; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  Senior Software Engineer for St Jude’s Children Hospital. Developed new features and architecture for POND (pediatric oncology networked database). This is a distributed non-profit open-source system servicing many locations around the world. High focus on security, encryption, etc.

• Owner

  SYRAGON LLC

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  Syragon LLC provides high-integrity web-based paperless EMR solutions for clinics, pharmacies, doctors and other types of health-system users. Our experience within the medical field is broad and ranges from pharmaceutical business (MedCenter Canada), medical devices and high-touch care ([Name Withheld], a subsidiary of a major Fortune 500 healthcare company) to online drugstores (Express Medicine).

• Partner

  Express Medicine

  (Pharmaceuticals industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

  Syragon LLC is the sole supplier of IT services for Express Medicine. Express Medicine has been developed to provide consumers around the world access to popular top quality pharmaceuticals at the most competitive prices.
  
  We created for this international group the following:
  
  * EMR Web Based Application
  * Dynamic & Synchronized Website
  * Paperless System
  * Least-Cost Routing Algorithms
  * CMS/CRM
  * SEM/SEO

• Co-Owner

  Kiwi Drug

  (Pharmaceuticals industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  Syragon LLC is the sole supplier of IT services for Kiwi Drug. Kiwi Drug is a startup company based in New Zealand which provides access to many vertical products in the OTC product space.
  
  We created for this international group the following:
  
  * Dynamic & Synchronized Website
  * CMS/CRM
  * SEM/SEO
  * E-Commerce

• CTO

  Jettis

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  April 2009 — November 2009 (8 months)

  CTO at Jettis Technologies a transaction processing provider. As the CTO I execute on high level strategies for the IT and development departments to improve profitability and align the company with corporate strategies. I designed and successfully implemented a V2 platform (from Perl to Java+LAMP), migrating many complex business processes and over-seeing management of development efforts, choosing the right software stack and building the system to large scale and in a manner that was packaged, marketable and could be white-labelled. Improved many inefficiencies in development practices and introduced an agile development process bring to an end many years of stale and disappointing promises. Positioned the company in a strong competitive advantage with state of the art fraud prevention services and strengthened the core offering of the company through technology. Managed a team of 10-15 managers and engineers, local and remote, working with multiple datacenters handling millions of transactions daily, billions of database records and rapidly developing new products and features. Yearly budget over $1.5M.

• Senior Engineer

  Security Mentor

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2009 — May 2009 (3 months)

  Senior Software Engineer for Security Mentor, a start-up company in California focused on security training for high-integrity sectors such as financial, health and government (department of defense). PCI compliance training, HIPAA compliance training, etc.

• Lead Web Software Engineer

  Andiamo Systems

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  January 2008 — May 2009 (1 year 5 months)

  Senior Software Engineer for Andiamo Systems, a leader in word-of-mouth brand measurement/monitoring. My responsibility was to take a first-phase poorly designed set of systems (software, database, etc) and take the business to the next level of Web 2.0 and high-availability SOA architecture. I single-handedly designed their entire consumer-facing portal, created an advanced PHP framework and multi-lingual template engine, and completely redesigned their system architecture with database partitioning to facilitate scalability and quick growth. I also had a large role in product development, with a high level of autonomy when it came to product design and specifications; meaning my expertise was greatly trusted.

• Architect

  Securicy Ventures

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2008 — February 2009 (4 months)

  Consultant architect for Securicy Ventures and partner Mobile Thunder. Rapid application development team creating utilities, games and more for iPhone and Android-based mobile devices. I directed server-side architecture and infrastructure in high-volume types of environments. Interfaced with multiple third-party providers, Leveraged technologies such as geo-coding (latitude/longitude), map plotting, game play API’s, GPS services, etc. For high-write applications used database partitioning and in high-read applications used master-to-master architecture in MySQL.

• Lead Software Engineer

  Johnson & Johnson

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

  December 2007 — November 2008 (1 year )

  Lead Software Engineer / Systems Architect for SymCare/inTouch, a new subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. I was the first engineer on the team, and with the management team we established general requirements and I created a high-availability international software solution which included database design, software frameworks, build processes, content management, source control, etc. The architecture was designed from the beginning to scale well and horizontal application database partitioning was chosen. I worked single-handedly to build the foundation for this next-generation project for 3 months, after which we brought on more developers which I interviewed and trained. I was also responsible for planning, documentation, and making presentations to the team and deciding on operational directions in terms of software and database design. Java, LAMP, Corticon Rules Engine, Fusion Charts, ActiveMQ, J2MEE for Mobile, jQuery, ETL tools, memCache, PHP Unit, Trac, etc.

• Senior Software Engineer

  MOLI

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 4 months)

  Senior Application Developer / Architect for CoVibe Tech a subsidiary of Mainstream Holdings providing services to sister-subsidiary MOLI. The parent company, Mainstream Holdings was started by the former CEO of E-Trade, Christos Cotsakos. MOLI was an online networking site pushing the next wave of Web 2.0 / 3.0 behavioural targeting with AJAX, MySQL virtual clustering with segregated multi-data-center collocation all clustered through the LAMP (PHP5) application; the development of which I was integral to. I created a unique multi-lingual Object-oriented cached template management engine which separated business logic from presentation layer completely. Project lead & back-end architect. Architecture was service-oriented with a large focus on contingency planning, failover/redundancy, high-availability and cost-efficient horizontal scaling. Responsible for data model design, data-access layer development, creating PHP frameworks, the financial system, and managing a few projects.

• CTO

  MedCenter Canada

  (Pharmaceuticals industry)

  July 2003 — August 2006 (3 years 2 months)

  I was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for MedCenter Canada Inc., international pharmaceutical company. From daily board room meetings I created goals, plans and strategies for the IT group to meet business directives and improve profitability. Managed a team of web developers and system support personnel. Developed autonomous, high-availability paper-less system for automated faxing, OCR, event hander/reminder system for customers, multi-fulfillment management system and least-cost routing algorithm for orders to international suppliers. Designed systems to increase profitability tremendously by using complex cost analysis algorithms.
  
  I created:
  
  * EMR Web Based Application
  * Dynamic & Synchronized Website
  * Paperless System
  * Least-Cost Routing Algorithms
  * CMS/CRM
  * SEM/SEO

• Web Software Engineer

  InterFund Financial

  (Banking industry)

  January 2003 — August 2004 (1 year 8 months)

  (Contract) Software Engineer for InterFund Financial, a merchant provider and payment solutions expert based out of the USA. Developed payment gateway systems, API’s, processing routines, merchant management tools, batch settlement jobs, reporting and low-level communication with networks such as Visa and MasterCard. Gained a lot of experience working with financial data, security, encryption and low level socket communication with Visa/MC networks. Large amounts of data were always present.

• Web Developer

  deviantART, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2003 — June 2004 (1 year 4 months)

  (Contract) PHP Developer for deviantART Inc., the largest online community at the time. Developed many front-end site systems, new content and dynamic user areas, advanced search capabilities, and optimization of existing code. Network/server administration, developed server health monitoring system, trouble-ticket system, etc; high volume, high visibility. Worked on the back-end with setting up MySQL replication slaves, had scalability issues we addressed with rolling tables, memcache and other methodologies. Developed several completely new sections of the site from back-end to front-end. I was also a gallery director for a period of a few months.

• Web Developer

  Webpro

  (Public Company; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2001 — September 2003 (2 years 1 month)

  PHP Programmer/Web Designer. Began employment while attending Southern Adventist University in Tennessee. I then worked on contract basis designing and developing websites, graphics, and databases. Working with shopping cart systems, payment gateways, back-end server programming and related protocols.

Gideon Kimbrell’s Education

• Southern Adventist University

  Software Engineering 2000 — 2003

• Flathead Valley Community College

  Computer Science 1999 — 2000

• Harcourt Learning Direct

  High School ,

  GPA 4.0, international honor roll 2 years in a row.

Additional Information

Gideon Kimbrell’s Interests:

Business, Software engineering, Snowboarding, Surfing, Programming, Digital Art, Trance, Travel, Sushi, Languages, Culture (Asian, Italian), supercars such as the Koenigsegg, archery, digital and abstract art, archeology, physics, philosophy, psychology. -Java, Visual Basic / VB Script -Adv. PHP 5 (Objects, Templates) -MySQL, Oracle, SQL, Replication -High Volume 3-Tier Systems -Low-level UNIX, Linux Kernel -ASP/ .NET -Perl/CGI/Python -HTML 4.0/DHTML/XML/SOAP -JavaScript/CSS/DOM/ActiveX -AJAX (Web 2.0/3.0) -Ruby on Rails -RDBMS/ODBC/Load Balancing -Redundant Real-time Backup -Object Oriented Design -Complex Data Structures/Types -Discrete Mathematics -Booleans, Complex Algorithms -Runtime complexities -Network / system topologies -Performance tuning (bottlenecks) -Rule engines -Data mining -Data model design -Unit test coding -Singleton & factory patterns -MVC and MVC with SOA -Coding standards -PHPDoc Commenting -Class inheritance structures

Gideon Kimbrell’s Honors:

Brainbench Certified

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