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Chris Brinker
Web Application Developer
Seeking a web development position in which I can continue designing, developing and deploying useful web applications and tools. I have high levels of proficiency in many skill areas including project management, requirements acquisition, interpersonal communication and server administration. I look forward to sharing with my teammates my years of experience in the technology sector.
Computer Skill Summary
| Platforms | Mac OSX, Linux/Debian/Red Hat, FreeBSD, Windows 9x/NT/2000/2003/XP |
| Languages | PHP, Coldfusion, Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, C/C++, Common Lisp, BASIC |
| Web Servers | Apache httpd, CherryPy, lighttpd, ColdFusion 4+, JBoss, JRun |
| Frameworks | CakePHP, Ruby on Rails, Django, Dojo, Prototype, Fusebox |
| Client Side | CSS 1.0+, HTML 4.0+, Javascript, XHTML 1.0+, XML 1.0+, XSLT |
| Tools | Bake, SVN, Trac, Rake, Ant, Maven, Make, jUnit, CVS, XP, TDD |
| IDEs | TextMate, Vim, GNU Screen, Homesite, Eclipse, Zend, Dreamweaver, XMLSpy |
| Browsers | Safari, Firefox, Opera 5+, Netscape 2+, MSIE 4+, Omni Web |
| RDBMS | MySQL, MS SQL Server 2000, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2 |
Professional Summary
Technical Consultant
Digital Domain - Venice, California (www.d2.com)
Digital Special Effects Studio. Specializing in feature length films and commercials
- Researched, Documented and Implemented features into many existing in-house maintenance scripts and web application tools.
- Introduced a php based web development framework (www.cakephp.org) to speed up development time and to ease maintainability of existing and new intranet development.
- Administrated the existing MySQL database system including designing a replication scheme for fail-over purposes.
Contract Web Development
Intertrans Inc. - Long Beach, California (www.intertrans.com)
An established startup company that provided end to end internet transaction processing for Credit Card, ACH and Web phone payment methods.
- Designed, prototyped and implemented a Rails/SQL Server workflow system that managed web applications as well as visually charted business logic/processes.
- Built a Fusebox based Organization Application sub-system that integrated into the legacy IMS to streamline the customer/lead acquisition process.
- Introduced and implemented Source Control (svn) and Issue Ticketing (trac) systems to existing development team to provide better communication and organization.
- Helped test, manage, and maintain the 1.3 million lines of code that the main legacy transaction system (reporting/help desk/processing/syncronization) had evolved into.
Project Manager/Lead Web Developer
Autolookout - Dyer, Indiana (www.autolookout.net)
A startup company providing turnkey automotive reselling solutions to customers ranging from large national independent auto auctions to small local automobile dealerships
- Helped secure more than a dozen national client accounts; by designing, developing, and deploying a custom Java based data transmission system, which has since been ported into a perl system.
- Increased productivity and code reuse to a team high by: implementing the Fusebox paradigm into the teams using ColdFusion technology and Ruby on Rails for all other web applications.
- Saved licensing fees, down time, and viral infestations by moving the company away from the MS Win/ColdFusion/MS Access product stack into their equivalent more stable open source counterparts Linux/Apache/Ruby on Rails/PostgreSQL. (www.rubyonrails.com)
OMS Computer Programmer
OneStar Long Distance - Evansville, Indiana (www.onestarld.com)
A medium sized Telecom, which required project development ranging from customer facing Online order fulfillment through Intranet based workflow management.
- Migration from existing Oracle RDBMS to PostgreSQL in order to save the company costly licensing and DBA fees.
- Design and implementation of a VoIP auto-provisioning web application system as well as a series of order processing/automation scripts.
- Implemented a reusable framework/templating system into existing website to ease maintenance. Which in turn also allowed us the use of in house CMS to allow minor copy updates to be completed by the PR department.
- Team Lead for the creation and successful launch of a MLM website which was used via an extensive marketing campaign to boost wireless sales.
Head Web Developer
Doppler Express - Griffith, Indiana (www.dopplerexpress.com)
A small town ISP that wanted to diversify its offerings to include development, design, hosting and e-commerce solutions.
- Designed, developed, and deployed 16 custom individualized web sites with feature sets ranging from simple marketing sites to Shopping Carts, Content Management Systems, and Internationalization.
Educational Summary
Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems (BSCIS)
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (www.purdue.edu)
- Awarded Purdue University Undergraduate Research Grant
Published Works
Undergraduate Research Grant
Teaching Database Modeling Within the Constructs of an Undergraduate Research Grant
Authors: Professor Barbara J. Nicolai, Chris Brinker, Brett Stauner