Objective

Working towards a career in web development with a focus on large scale user applications.

Education

Texas State Technical College

Sept. ’02 – Dec. ’03

Associate’s Degree in Network Security

  • Set up, secured, defended, and maintained networks
  • Wrote some of the initial Linux labs for attacks and defense class
  • Helped set-up networksecuritytech.com

Work Experience

Texas State Credit Company

Dec. ’03 – Feb. ’04

Web Application Developer

  • Wrote new web-based employee timeclock system (PHP, MySQL)
  • Began re-writing web-based store reporting system (PHP, Postgres)

Extraco Banks

Apr. ’04 – Dec. ’04

IT Support Specialist

  • Maintained networks for bank’s customers (15-150 computers)
  • Handled many different topologies, configurations, and OSes
  • Rewrote network documentation and DR plans for customers

JB Herrmann

Dec. ’04 – Jan. ’07

Web & Network Guru

  • Maintained network for small advertising agency
  • Responsible for all website and application development: PHP, Flash, 3rd party integration, etc
  • Wrote several in-house web applications for asset management, time tracking, and content management
  • Built several sites from the ground up. umhb.edu, citylightstheaters.com to name a couple

RVOS Insurance

Jan. ’07 – Present

IT Operations Manager

  • Maintain network of 150 systems and 20+ servers
  • Manager of web projects and development (PHP, MySQL)
  • Redeveloped internal ticket tracking systems and document management systems (PHP, MySQL, C#, MSSQL)
  • Rewritting and/or debugging unmaintaned applications (C#, VB6, VB.NET)
  • Converting old internal applications to web services

Netoteric

Nov. ’06 – Present

Owner / Web Guru

  • Host and maintain 50+ websites on dedicated server
  • Build and maintain websites for small businesses (focusing on Drupal)

Certifications

Zend PHP 5 Certified, March 2007
MySQL Certified Developer I, July 2007

etc

  • Test, develop, and submit bug reports for Drupal
  • Have helped with and contributed to usability studies for a university website
  • Software: vim, TextMate, Visual Studio, Flash CS3, Safari, Firefox, IE 6/7, Opera, Drupal, Zend Studio