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Software Engineer at Xebidy Strategic Design

Queenstown, New Zealand / February 2009 - Present (1 year)

• Primary responsibility is developing new web applications for external clients.

• Team oriented development based on a standard LAMP stack, using Object Oriented PHP 5 and MySQL, with AJAX oriented development using JQuery.

• Silverstripe CMS is used as a base for most projects

• Development tools include Eclipse, Subversion and Trac

Software Applications Development Engineer at Yahoo!

Sunnyvale, California / September 2007 - April 2008 (8 months)

• Worked on the Yahoo! Help team

• Developed PHP 5/MySQL based applications

Java/PHP Developer at Clearwire

Saint Louis, Missouri / July 2005 - September 2007 (2 years 3 months)

• Primary responsibility was maintaining, enhancing, and deploying a PHP and Java web based billing and customer management system.

• Team based PHP 5 Development (LAMP stack) was done using MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SOAP, XML, and related technologies.

• Java development was done using Apache Tomcat to contain and deploy Axis based web services, and used common technologies such as Hibernate, Log4J, Junit, Javadocs, and related technologies.

• Development tools included Eclipse, CVS, and Apache Ant.

PHP/MySQL Developer at DirectPO

Columbia, Missouri / May 2004 - August 2004 (4 months)

• Developed customer facing textbook buyback system using Object Oriented PHP 5, MySQL, Apache, and Linux.

• Primary responsibility was designing and implementing database schema and connection classes.

• Used data objects to enhance database access simplicity for other developers.