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Experience

TerraPass
Front-end Developer (Contractor)
San Francisco, California
3/2008 – 7/2008

Aided the engineering team at an environmental services company in the Ajax-oriented redesign of its online carbon footprint calculator.

• Handled all the front-end development for the Ajax utility, working closely with the backend Java developers.
• Worked with interaction designer and graphic designer to realize their wireframes and mock-ups.
• Refactored existing front-end code to use jQuery, eliminating dependencies on multiple distinct JS libraries.

Achewood
Web Developer (Contractor)
San Carlos, California
10/2007 – 2/2008

Performed a major architectural overhaul of a popular online comic strip, developing a simple ecommerce system to improve the site’s scalability and reduce its maintenance costs.

• Designed the database schema and coded the logic for the new online store which serves over 14,000 regular customers.
• Created the web admin application that allows the site administrators to manage the product catalog and inventory.
• Improved PayPal integration, automating stock level adjustments and fulfillment notifications via the IPN interface.
• Reimplemented the markup to be semantic and standards-compliant.

CocoLuna
Web Developer (Co–technical Lead)
San Francisco, California
2005 – 2007

Served as the primary developer at a self-funded online retail company specializing in upscale imported European children’s clothing. Worked closely with the four other founding members to design the ecommerce site, admin tool, and SQL data model.

• Developed the online store from the ground up, implementing it as an XML+XSL site with client-side transformation.
• Designed the database schema with the other technical lead, and coded the stored procedures and trigger functions.
• Incorporated a site-wide “add to rack” feature into the store that invokes drag-and-drop and sortable dragging UI behaviors along with asynchronous POSTs to save changes to the server.
• Created the system to be forward-compatible with long-term plans to experiment with variable pricing.
• Reduced server load by helping devise a site versioning scheme that has allowed us to limit requests for embedded page resources by sending effectively infinite Expires header values.
• Assisted in managing the release cycle and administering the servers.

Redline Networks (acquired by Juniper Networks)
Web Developer
Campbell, California
2000 – 2005

Handled all web-development responsibilities for the IT and R&D groups at a venture-funded network hardware company.

• Designed and implemented the data, logic, and UI layers of the corporate intranet which included basic CRM and document management features and served over 100 employees.
• Created the web interface to our command-line server load testing utility, making it suitable for field use by the sales engineering team.
• Devised a demo automation tool that remotely configured multiple network devices, ran load tests, and displayed the results as graphs for use during sales calls, dramatically improving lead conversion.

Semio Corporation
Software Engineer / Knowledge Engineer
San Mateo, California
1999 – 2000

Worked in the professional services division of a knowledge management (text-mining) software company, and later transferred into the engineering group.

• Developed the second-generation web front-end for the flagship product using Active Server Pages.
• Designed and coded the extranet for business partners, and collaborated with external developers on product integration efforts.
• Managed client accounts—including Pillsbury, Genencor, and State Farm—and communicated customer needs to the engineering team as well as to executives.
• Led internal technical training for new hires, and conducted certification training for business partners.

Education

Stanford University
M.A. Philosophy
B.S. Symbolic Systems
B.A. Philosophy
Stanford, California
1994 – 1999

Conferred the Masters of Arts with a special concentration in Symbolic Systems which included coursework in modal logic, computational linguistics, and statistical natural language processing.

Symbolic Systems is an interdisciplinary program that brings together topics from cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction.