Chief Technology Officer skinnyCorp, LLC Chicago, IL 2005 - 2009
skinnyCorp is the parent company of the Threadless.com.

• Acted as technology leader for a company of ~60 people with revenue of ~20-30M
• Worked in a close team to design, execute and manage community websites.
• Lead the technology to support Threadless.com's growth.
• Grew Threadless.com from 2 barely functioning servers to over 45 devices.
• Helped bridge the gap between the internet and reality with 2 retail stores.
• Spoke about our technology at various events and conference, representing skinnyCorp and the Threadless vision.
• Managed a small team of engineers to handle the day to day maintenance and projects.

Web Programmer CRAMER AND KRASSELT Chicago, IL 2004 - 2005
Cramer And Krasselt is an industry leading medium sized advertising agency.

• Lead technologist and technical liaison to account management and creative staff.
• Lead Architect for client web applications. Worked with clients Airtran.com, Careerbuilder.com, and Barton Beers. (PHP, MYSQL, LINUX)
• Lead engineer on full life cycle of Super Bowl viral campaign, Yeknominc.com. (PHP, MYSQL, LINUX)
• Managed legacy operations for client web application management. (Perl, Navitaire SkyLights, JAVA)

Security and Software Engineer WORLD BOOK PUBLISHING Chicago, IL 2001 - 2004
World Book Publishing is a leading publisher of encyclopedias and children's learning material.

• Lead development staff and managed offshore engineering team. Worked to develop and maintain World Book Publishing's client facing web presence. Helped usher in new technology and standards - moving from AIX, DB2 on IBM hardware to Solaris, Oracle on Sun Hardware. Introduced open source technology and solution. (Solaris, JAVA, DB2, AIX, XML)
• Wrote desktop content management utilities to aid in management of XML content by non-technical staff. (C#, PHP)
• Developed practices to insure content accessibility and data portability. (JAVA, XML, XSLT, C#, DB2)
• Helped develop a solid software security plan. Worked with system engineers to architect a secure production environment. Deployed production servers using open source software to meet budget constraints. (LINUX, NMAP, NESSUS, SOLARIS, AIX)

Founder NATA2.COM Chicago, IL 1997 - 2008
NaTa2.com is a small hosting company I started in 1997 to host small web applications and projects.

• Provision, configure, manage and servers and network equipment. Use open source applications to enable a secure high bandwidth infrastructure. Manage user and group access and system usage. Manage email services and web-based mail software. Manage and monitor security and intrusion detection systems. Facilitate and monitor forensics on cracked boxes. ( Apache, Qmail, Postfix, Proftpd, PHP4/5, Ruby on Rails, Courier-IMAPd, Jakarta/Tomcat, VpopMail, RESIN, Sendmail, UW-IMAPd, QPOPPER, Snort, ACiD )
• Wrote hosting management, client invoicing and account management software to enable seamless management of the server infrastructure. (PHP, Mysql, Perl, Bash)
• Develop content management system using PHP and MYSQL. Integrate third party CMS tools into novice friendly client infrastructure. Developed and manage blog software. Engineer web applications that are able to withstand slashdottings and other ultra high bandwidth occurrences. Rapididly develop web applications to fulfill specific needs as they come up. (PHP, Ruby on Rails, Mysql, XML, Xslt, Movable Type, Wordpress, Postnuke, MamboCMS )

Application Development: Python and Django, PHP, Ruby, C#

Platforms: Unix (Linux, Solaris, AIX), OSX

Databases: MySQL

System Software: Apache, Lighttpd, Tornado, Varnish, nginx, PHP, Python, Memcached, Ejabberd, Qmail, Postfix, Courier-IMAPd, Endeca

Cloud Infrastructure: Rackspace Cloud, Slicehost, AWS (S3, ec2, EBS, SimpleDB), Zerigo DNS

Security: PGP, Nessus, NMap, ACiD, Snort, Portsentry, IPF, Linux Firewalling, General Linux security

Markup Languages: HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT

Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science and Philosophy.
Cornell College, Mt Vernon, Iowa
2001

2002 PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA : Net Vision Honorary Mention