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

92 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• My Portfolio

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 2007 — Present (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 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.

Additional Information

Zach[ary] Young’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My Portfolio

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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