Relevant Experience:



Senior Systems Developer – 2009-current

IndieFlix, Inc

• Sole developer of the IndieFlix suite of film-oriented web sites, including the IndieFlix Store, IndieFlix Theater, Film Festival in a Box, and Festivals Online websites.  All products were developed with a mix of Python, Django, Javascript, jQuery, HTML and CSS.  The deployment environment is Apache and MySQL, with NginX and Varnish used as caching front-ends.  The streaming storage back-end is Amazon S3 and Cloudfront.
• Developed and deployed a rapid video encoder using Amazon EC2 that accelerated their in-house encoding scheme from 12 films a day to 720 films a day.  Developed a collection of tools to automatically detect the feature film, distinct from trailers and add-ons, from a DVD image.
• Integrated the IndieFlix website with the following APIs: Facebook, Twitter, Constant Contact, Amazon AWS, Authorize.Net, Google Calendar, Wordpress, Feedburner, iCal.
• Developed an automated back-end invoice management system to replace a manual system, reducing errors and improving warehouse productivity. Tied invoice clearance to our accounting package, further reducing manual labor.

Freelance Developer – 2009

• Developed a tree-walking module in PHP linking WordPress post categories to a collection of specialized pages for the Seattle Metropolitan Credit Union’s marketing site, 7 Principles.
• Wrote a web-based teaching tool, with Django, for a web security company that took assembly language in one panel and displayed the opcodes or compiler errors in another panel in real time.
• Developed, designed, and deployed a brochure WordPress CMS on WAMP site for
  the Retired Public Employees of Washington.
• Developed, designed and deployed the WordPress theme for iGameRadio.com

Senior UI Developer — 2001 – 2009

Isilon Systems, Inc

• As sole developer of the Isilon Web User Interface from 2001-2006, I wrote the DHTML/Javascript browser-based command and control application as well as the Python-to-C interface for the Isilon appliance, and the Python/Django application server. The Isilon IQ, with my UI, led to Isilon’s 2006 IPO with a value of over $100 million.
• From 2006-2009, I developed rich web interfaces for related Isilon products including the SmartConnect DNS distributor,  SnapshotIQ software, and Isilon SmartQuotas, using Prototype/Scriptaculous and Ext-JS on a standard LAMP platform.
• Developed a test-driven development program for UI development with FireWATIR, WebUnit, and Cucumber.
• Maintained the Apache webserver and Python language base components of the Isilon IQ Appliance.

Systems Software Developer — 1998 – 2000

F5 Networks

• Merged previously separate C++ GUI and C console libraries for low-level appliance interface, effectively halving maintenance time and doubling resources.
• Created Perl-based health-check code using off-the-shelf libraries to administer back-end services and automate quality of service systems.
• Wrote and maintained Perl/Curses boot-up system for four generations of F5 appliances.

Systems Software Developer — 1994 – 1998

CompuServe Information Services Internet Consulting Division

• Managed over sixty corporate and small-business websites simultaneously using an in-house, Perl-based monitoring system. I developed a collating web-management toolkit, compiling all relevant information about a web server farm into a single set of documents for ease-of-monitoring, reducing management time by 80%.
• Implemented a secure pull-technology distribution server system for testing and updating corporate websites off-line in Python, generating $140,000 a year. Innovated the first commercial use of OraPerl, allowing customer Pacific Power to use an Oracle-based database directly on the web.
• Launched the first multi-homed commercial web service in 1994 on Linux and SunOS 4.1.3.
• Designed and implemented in Perl, C++ and Oracle a new customer registration toolkit for Internet appliances, generating 40,000 new accounts.

Webmaster — 1994 – 1996

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

• Conceived, designed and implemented a complete end-to-end solution for translating NCMECs BBS-based missing-children image library into an on-line database with search engine, automatic banner generation, and administrative console, using Apache, MySQL, Perl, HTML, CSS, and Linux.