Jim Gourgoutis

Current

Front-end Engineer at Yahoo! Inc.

Past

Client Engineer at StubHub.com
Senior Web Engineer at Live365, Inc.
Web Production Engineer at Listen.com

2 more...

Education

University of Pittsburgh

Recommended

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Connections

85 connections

Industry

Internet

Jim Gourgoutis’s Summary

Responsible, detail- and results-oriented professional with extensive experience in engineering and production of large scale, database-driven web systems and applications. Passionate about clean web site infrastructure and evangelizes web sites as homogeneous systems -- both of which ensure a high-quality, consistent user experience with excellent presentational power and flexibility. Interested in web-development/engineering teams at genre-defining internet organizations, focused on creating and maintaining exciting, feature-rich, standards-compliant, Web 2.0 applications that change how people use the Web. The ideal position will leverage my proven skills in writing both back-end/server-side code and client-side UI presentation/functionality, encourage self-direction and hands-on learning through continued and meaningful challenges, and offer excellent growth potential.

Jim Gourgoutis’s Specialties:

* Server-side web scripting languages (Mason, PHP, JSP, etc.)
* Javascript (AJAX & YUI)
* PERL
* Clean, hand-coded, cross-browser-compatible (X)HTML & CSS
* CSS syndication architecture
* Bugzilla, PVCS Tracker, & TeamTrack bug reporting/tracking applications
* UNIX/Linux/Windows/Macintosh
* CVS and MS Visual SourceSafe revision management tools
* Apache web-server configuration
* Working knowledge of SQL & Quest Software's "Toad" DB utility
* Hands-on experience with XML/XSLT