Chief Technology Officer Obama for America Chicago, Il April 2011 - Present
Obama for America is the relection campaign for President Barack Obama.
Customer in Residence Rackspace Hosting San Antonio, TX October 2009 - April 2010
Rackspace is an IT hosting company with a focus on cloud.
- Worked with professional services department to help clients find the right solution.
- Worked with executive staff to help define better customer experience
- Represented Rackspace at conferences and small events.
Chief Technology Officer skinnyCorp, LLC Chicago, Il August 2005 - October 2009
skinnyCorp is the parent company of the Threadless.com.
- Acted as technology leader for a company of ~60 people with revenue of ~20-30M
- Worked in a close team to design, execute and manage community websites
- Lead the technology to support Threadless.com growth.
- Grew Threadless.com from 2 barely functioning servers to over 45 devices.
- Helped bridge the gap between the internet and reality with 2 retail stores.
- Spoke about our technology at various events and conference, representing skinnyCorp and the Threadless vision.
- Managed a small team of engineers to handle the day to day maintenance and projects.
Summer Intern Squidoo June 2005 - August 2005
Squidoo is a community website that allows users to create pages for subjects of interest.
- Worked with Seth Godin and an amazing team to help build an design the initial version of Squidoo.
- Helped define initial vision and technology for Squidoo before core staff was hired
Web Programmer Cramer and Krasselt Chicago, Il October 2004 - July 2005
Cramer And Krasselt is an industry leading medium sized advertising agency.
- Lead technologist and technical liaison to account management and creative staff.
- Lead architect for client web applications. Worked with clients Airtran.com, Careerbuilder.com, and Barton Beers. (PHP, MYSQL, LINUX)
- Lead engineer on full life cycle of Super Bowl viral campaign, Yeknominc.com. (PHP, MYSQL, LINUX)
- Managed legacy operations for client web application management. (Perl, Navitaire SkyLights, JAVA)
Security and Software Engineer World Book Publishing Chicago, Il June 2001 - October 2004
World Book Publishing is a leading publisher of encyclopedias and children's learning material.
- Lead development staff and managed offshore engineering team. Worked to develop and maintain World Book Publishing's client facing web presence. Helped usher in new technology and standards - moving from AIX, DB2 on IBM hardware to Solaris, Oracle on Sun Hardware. Introduced open source technology and solution. (Solaris, JAVA, DB2, AIX, XML)
- Wrote desktop content management utilities to aid in management of XML content by non-technical staff. (C#, PHP)
- Developed practices to insure content accessibility and data portability. (JAVA, XML, XSLT, C#, DB2)
- Helped develop a solid software security plan. Worked with system engineers to architect a secure production environment. Deployed production servers using open source software to meet budget constraints. (LINUX, NMAP, NESSUS, SOLARIS, AIX)
Application Development:
Python,
PHP,
Ruby,
C#,
Platforms:
Unix (Linux, Solaris, AIX),
OSX,
Databases:
MySQL,
NoSQL,
LotsOfSQL,
System Software:
Apache,
Lighttpd,
Tornado,
Varnish,
nginx,
PHP,
Python,
Memcached,
Ejabberd,
Qmail,
Postfix,
Courier-IMAPd,
Endeca,
Cloud Infrastructure:
Rackspace Cloud,
Slicehost,
AWS (S3, ec2, EBS, SimpleDB),
Zerigo DNS,
Google App Engine,
Security:
PGP,
Nessus,
NMap,
ACiD/Snort,
Portsentry,
IPF,
Linux Firewalling,
General Linux security,
Markup Languages:
HTML,
XHTML,
CSS,
XML,
XSLT,
Markdown,