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-->I enjoy working with smart, pleasant people to build interesting, useful software. I have thirteen years of experience building web applications using a variety of technologies, and have a particular interest in social software.
Ruby, Rails, MySQL, PHP, Objective-C, Apache, Git, SVN, JavaScript, Prototype, HTML/CSS, Amazon AWS Stack (EC2, SQS, S3), Linux, MVC, OOP, Java/J2EE, Struts, Hibernate, Ant, CVS, XML, Tcl
My word and language-oriented social network, Wordie.org, was acquired by Wordnik.com in August 2009, and I joined Wordnik, where I'm responsible for running the public-facing portions of the web site. I oversaw the launch of a well-received new site design in October, and the integration of Wordie.org into Wordnik in November.
Designed and built Wordie.org, a collaborative social dictionary and the preeminent (and only!) social network for logophiles. Wordie runs on Rails 2.3, Apache, and MySQL, and is deployed using Git and Capistrano. The site has been covered by TechCrunch, Wired, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and many others.
Designed and built CalenTweeter.com, based on the Twitter API and currently in alpha, which features Tweet scheduling, management of multiple Twitter accounts, and Google Calendar integration. Built with Ruby 1.9 on Rails 2.3 using Twitter's OAuth API.
Co-founded and built Squirl.info (now defunct), a social cataloging site for collectors, in Ruby on Rails.
Designed and built TagsAhoy.com (now defunct), an experimental API-based tag search engine, in PHP.
For all of these sites I did all front and back end coding, database design, and html/javascript/css implementation. I was the sole developer of CalenTweeter, Wordie and TagsAhoy; Squirl was done in collaboration with Steve de Brun.
Other small open-source projects include BucketHead, a ruby gem for interacting with Amazon S3, and YellowCard, a comment moderation plugin for WordPress.
I work in Interactive News Technology, a small group of developers working in the New York Times newsroom to build tools and applications for and in conjunction with reporters and editors. We work on a mixture of deadline-oriented breaking news applications, longer term event-oriented apps for things like elections and the Olympics, and smart tools for things like the automated creation of maps and the display and annotation of source documents.
Built blog applications and enhancements in Rails for a startup blog network.
LibraryThing.com, a social cataloging site for bibliophiles, serves tens of thousands of visitors and hundreds of thousands of page views every day. I did most of the sysadmin and DBA work (Linux servers, MySQL replication) in addition to new development in PHP.
I designed the backend architecture of, and did a significant amount of the coding for, www.whoi.edu. Leading a team of developers I created a bespoke content management system to meet the unique needs of this 1,100 person research institution. This CMS underlies the entire WHOI web presence and supports data management and sharing for various scientific applications. Built with Java/J2EE, Struts, Hibernate, Oracle, Ant, CVS and Tomcat.
Built and maintained an enterprise-wide content management system and web site used by over 40 Thermo Electron business units worldwide. Work done primarily in Tcl and JSP, using Vignette V/5 and Oracle.
Consultant for the professional services division of an enterprise CMS software vendor, leading teams of 2 to 10 developers from initial requirements gathering through post-launch and maintenance. Work done primarily in Tcl and JSP, using Vignette V/5 and Oracle.
Engagements included The Wall Street Journal, JPMorganChase, Verizon, and BET.
Developer for a Spanish and Portuguese-language portal site.
Designed and built database-backed sites for the Columbia Journalism Review, the Pulitzer Prizes, and the duPont Awards.
Reporter for the News Review, an English-language newspaper in Santiago, Chile.
Planned and completed a 14,000 mile bicycling expedition through thirteen countries, raising money for north-south development organizations through an organization I co-founded with my later partner in Squirl (see above).
MS, Graduate School of Journalism, concentration in New Media
BA, Latin American History, minor in Environmental Studies