Zach[ary] Young

Zach[ary] Young

Senior Web Developer at Launch Interactive

Norfolk, Virginia Area

Current
  • Senior Web Developer at Launch Interactive
Past
  • Web Development Group Lead at Dominion Enterprises
  • Web Programmer at Dominion Enterprises
  • HTML Programmer at Dominion Enterprises
  • Drum Instructor at Kelley Music
Education
  • Old Dominion University
Connections
92 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Zach[ary] Young’s Summary

Web developer/lead with strong experience creating large, scalable applications in a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) environment in solo and team settings. Have also undertaken projects in Perl, Bash, C/C++, and Coldfusion. Strong proficiency at the command line in Linux and Unix.

Zach[ary] Young’s Specialties:

Semantic Web, XHTML/CSS, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Information Retrieval


Zach[ary] Young’s Experience

  • Senior Web Developer

    Launch Interactive

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    June 2007Present (1 year 5 months)

    -Provided technical direction on projects
    -Developed and maintained applications in PHP4/5, .NET, and Perl.

  • Web Development Group Lead

    Dominion Enterprises

    (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2007June 2007 (6 months)

    -Supervised a team of five developers (contractors and employees) to create web applications for clients.
    -Worked with developers on creating a subtractive role-based access control engine.
    -Led a team to develop a second generation CRM application in PHP5 (previous generation was in Java.)

  • Web Programmer

    Dominion Enterprises

    (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 2005January 2007 (1 year 3 months)

    -Developed a heavily modified version of an open-source eCommerce solution for vehicle dealers.
    -Co-authored a suite of health check tools in Bash for VWS' Coldfusion servers.
    -Created new back end and front end modules for use with vehicle dealer web sites.
    -Assisted in the migration of over 100 RV dealers' web sites acquired through an acquisition from Arizona to new servers in Virginia.

  • HTML Programmer

    Dominion Enterprises

    (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2005November 2005 (7 months)

    -Maintained the front end of several large web sites and migrated a majority of pages to a full div based CSS layout.

  • Drum Instructor

    Kelley Music

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

    August 2003May 2005 (1 year 10 months)

    -Taught children and adults how to play drums in private lessons.
    -Learned effective methods for mentoring and coaching both concrete and abstract concepts.


Zach[ary] Young’s Education

  • Old Dominion University

    Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, Computer Science and Philosophy, 20012005

    Graduated Cum Laude from the Honor's College.


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Zach[ary] Young’s Interests:

Language, Music, Photography, Semantic Web, Philosophy

Zach[ary] Young’s Groups:

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), WSUUG (Web Standards and Usability User Group), Free Software Foundation (FSF)

  •    Web Standards and Usablity User Group

Zach[ary] Young’s Contact Settings

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  • job inquiries
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
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