Experience

• Consultant
  Freelance, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Portland.
  1996 to Present
  Designed sites and custom Web software solutions, and performed ad hoc Unix system administration, for various clients

• Technical Producer
  Ziff-Davis Television, San Francisco, California
  February to July 1998
  Responsible for solutions to a variety of technical issues relating to web content and integration of web and television content for this newly-launched cable TV channel and web site.

• System Administrator/Programmer/Web Producer
  The Cyborganic Corporation, San Francisco, California
  July 1996 to October 1997
  Developed custom production tools for and managed development of the Geek Cereal site. Implemented maintenance and updating of Cyborganic Gardens. Maintained and tuned web servers. Administered DNS, mailservers, and all other aspects of Cyborganic network infrastructure.

• Web Programmer
  California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
  September 1995 to May 1996
  Design of HTML documents and custom Web software solutions for the School of Music and the Student Affairs Office.

• System Support Specialist
  BIAF Computer Graphics, Austin, Texas
  May 1995 to August 1995
  Provided technical support for computer graphics and electronic publishing team. Dealt with pre-press, digital image processing, graphic design, and other issues.

• Network Administrator
  Carpac Publishing, Vinton, Iowa
  December 1994 to April 1995
  Managed and maintained local-area network, file servers and print servers for a newspaper publishing company.

• Graphic Designer
  Carpac Publishing, Vinton, Iowa
  September 1994 to March 1995
  Designed pages and advertising for newspapers using page layout and image-processing software.

• Computer Programmer
  University of Michigan Hospitals, Department of Radiology
  October 1992 to May 1994.
  Designed, updated and documented digital image-processing software. Programmed in FORTRAN, C, and AVS.

Skills

• Programming: Perl, PHP, Javascript, C, SQL, Tcl, Unix shell scripts, FORTRAN, Pascal.
• Unix: Extensive familiarity with BSDI, Irix 6.2, Linux, Solaris; experienced with system administration, development with CVS, shell scripting, user support, installations.
• Hardware: PC, Macintosh, and SGI systems, Cisco, Livingston and Ascend routers, variety of other networking gear and techniques (hubs, CSUs, wiring, etc).
• Internet services: virtual web hosting and httpd optimization, Unix network daemon configuration, email services, router configuration, DNS installation and administration.
• Web technologies: CSS, DHTML, XML, RSS, Apache, Perl DBI, mod_perl, mod_rewrite, and more.

Sites and Projects

• Homestreet
  Web application development for this Portland-area non-profit mental health provider.
• Apparent Systems
  System Administration and web application programming with Apparent Systems, which develops web solutions for the apparel industry (primary client: Adidas USA).
• KQED
  Developed custom database-driven site publishing system and other applications for four KQED programs: Digital West, Green Means, Independant View, and This Week in Northern California.
• TechTV
  Development and extension of registration and member-services web applications.
• Green Home
  Initial site architecture and buildout of complete ecommerce system for this environmental products startup.
• Xigo
  Consultation on network monitoring systems.
• SF Interactive
  A variety of web development and system admininstration for various SFI clients.
• Thrive Online
  Developed a wide range of back-end content management tools and CGI applications.
• Isyndicate
  Custom database/web programming for content aggregation; system administration.
• The Milarepa Fund
  Installation and administration of office network and server.
• Reel.com
  Unix System Adminstration Consulting
• ZDTV
  Built dynamic content delivery templates using Vignette StoryServer. Maintained and administered mailserver and web staging server. Developed CGI solutions for interactive and dynamically generated content, and built custom tools for production and data collection.
• Sun Microsystems Desktop Products microsite
  Developed CGI scripts and page-generation tools for the microsite.
• Bay Networks
  Developed a variety of CGI and backend applications for navigation, searching, data gathering, and document autogeneration on the Bay Networks site.
• Thinkfish online store
  Constructed online commerce system (shopping cart, transaction, fulfillment) using Cybercash, SSL, and Netscape Commerce Server.
• Commercial Real Estate Arena
  Maintained and updated an online CGI/Perl5 interface to an Oracle database of real estate data.
• Geek Cereal, The Couch, and the Cyborganic Gardens
  See above description of Cyborganic experience for these 3 sites.
• Territory of Blows
  Built a user-tracking CGI backend to store and tabulate user responses to an online quiz game.
• CalArts Student Affairs Office
  Created an online employment/scholarship database search engine with security measures.
• CalArts School of Music
  Webmaster and designer for an early version of this site. Also created CGI scripts for dynamic content delivery, such as a "random music loader" and user tracker.
• Detritus.net
  Creator and administrator of this art-oriented site.