In 1998, I founded the gaming company WildTangent as employee #2 out of 160 at our peak, and departed during our third round of layoffs after 9/11. In November of 2002 I became employee #4 of LockdownNetworks which specializes in enterprise-level vulnerability management & assessment and (NAC) Network Access Control.

My time was split at WildTangent between total administration of our Linux servers (including building the corporate Intranet) and coding 2D/3D games and tools in Microsoft's Visual J++ (their version of Java and the precursor to C#) using our WebDriver API. At Lockdown Networks I used LAMP technologies (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), Ruby and XML extensively to architect our product and several internal tools.

I embraced many roles at Lockdown Networks including Product Development Manager, Senior Software Engineer, Lead Developer and Software Architect. I soley built an in-house CRM system (CRiMson) and developed a wireless scanner solution. Additionally, I have made significant contributions to the custom change request system (Roach), vastly improved the 2.x series of product, and re-wrote the architecture and GUI for 3.0, all while managing a team of up to six other developers. Unfortunately, after more than six years, Lockdown closed doors in March '08.

I was then quickly recruited by the CFO & CEO of YouSport, Inc., a ten-person soccer related social network site. After only six weeks, I was promoted from Sr. Software Engineer to Director of Technology/Architecture. I not only managed the development and test teams, but I also continued to code in the Symfony MVC PHP framework, wrote bash scripts and maintained all servers. When the company (as most were) was going through some financial difficulties due to the banking/mortgage crisis, I volunteered a $35k pay-cut to help stretch our funding. Unfortunately, the stock market crashed in late September '08 and we were unable to secure funding in time.

Currently I work for Panasonic Avionics developing the ground-side application "DART" into which all of the In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) systems report. The database is 80GB and nearly 1B rows. I'm the lead developer for the re-write of the SaaS, and personally re-wrote the entire tool's architecture, improving it for both developers and customers alike.

I am extremely versatile and can perform many roles while multitasking. My strengths are in building tools, automation, interfaces, data mining and report generation using relational databases & PHP as well as Java & Object Oriented Programing. My code is clean, efficient, clever, well designed, documented and easily maintainable. I pride myself in this and view coding as an art form. Please see my online résumé for many working examples, screen-shots and a Word doc version:

Some of my other achievements worth calling attention to, are that I have owned, operated and administered several Linux/Apache servers since 1992, building all of my machines by hand, so I'm no stranger to hardware either. I also worked as an editor and webmaster for the industry changing "boot", "MaximumPC", "MaximumLinux" and "PCGamer" magazines for several years. Prior to that, I owned a digital recording studio called The Matrix (which I then sold that domain to Warner Brothers).

Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.

Daevid Vincent
425.985.1752
daevid@daevid.com