Zach[ary] Young

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

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Education

Old Dominion University

Connections

139 connections

Industry

Internet

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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. Has also undertaken projects in Perl, Bash, C/C++, Coldfusion, and .NET. Strong proficiency at the command line in Linux and Unix.

Zach[ary] Young’s Specialties:

PHP Applications, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), Semantic Web, XHTML/CSS

Zach[ary] Young’s Experience

Senior Web Developer

Launch Interactive

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 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 2007 — June 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 2005 — January 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 2005 — November 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 2003 — May 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 , 2001 — 2005

Graduated Cum Laude from the Honor's College.