DAEVID VINCENT
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DAEVID-2241
daevid@daevid.com

Redmond, WA
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Objective
To develop internal tools, back-ends and customer facing web products & services implementing databases and other internet enabled technologies, specifically utilizing Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP/jQuery/AJAX. If it can be built with LAMP, I can build it.

Having mastered PHP however, I am particularly interested in Android applications and would welcome a pivot onto that path. I am currently learning and developing my own app in Java and I would strongly entertain any opportunities which would allow me to further learn and improve my knowledge and skill set in this area.

I prefer to be the team lead, manager or director and have many years' experience doing so, but I'm equally comfortable as an autonomous developer who requires minimal supervision or management.

Interview
If your idea of an interview is to ask me to code a bubble-sort, tell you why man-hole covers are round, or design an elevator control system, then we probably aren't going to be a good match. At this stage of my career, my experience and references should speak for themselves. I am more than happy to bring code examples and explain logic flow however.
Skills
  • Excellent ability to find solutions & solve problems using logical, modular and common sense methods
  • Automation and optimization are two of my specialties
  • Self-starter and motivated requiring minimal supervision
  • Organized with strong attention to detail
  • Team player as well as team leader
  • Strong communication, written and documentation skills
  • Ability to meet deadlines and multitask in a fast paced environment
  • Project planning and project management
  • Patent No. US 8,244,589 B2: Personalized audio controlled shopping information service for a mobile device
  • Databases: Relational (SQL), NoSQL, and Flatfile. MySQL, MongoDB, ODBC and JDBC, Lasso & FileMaker Pro 4 CDML, schema architectures
  • Languages: PHP Guru, Model-View-Controller (MVC), Regular Expressions (regex), JavaScript, jQuery, Object Oriented Programming (OO/OOP), DHTML, CSS, bash shell scripting, XML, XSD, JSON REST, Java/AWT, J++ (precursor to C#), Ruby/Rails, Perl, CGI, WildTangent WebDriver API, C, Pascal, BASIC
  • Software: Zend Studio/Eclipse, Revision Control Systems: Git & Subversion (SVN), PhotoShop, Microsoft Office suite, Outlook, Visio, Apache
  • Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows (all versions), Linux (Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, CentOS)
  • Protocols: HTTP/S, SSL, SOAP, AJAX, SSH, FTP, Telnet, NNTP, IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, IRC, TCP/IP, NFS, SAMBA (SMB), Ethernet, WiFi, vCalendar, Unix Signals, DBUS
  • Hardware: Network (NIC), Video, Audio, Hard Drive, Mouse, Keyboard, USB, Serial, Printers, Accessories, Firewalls, Routers, Switches, Bridges, WiFi
Experience
ComputeNext
Kirkland, WA 98033
06/02/2014-Present
CPO / CTO / Solution Architect
  • Horizontal move to "Chief Product Officer, Cloud Kiosk" on 05/17/2016 to focus on our fastest growing product line offering (for Microsoft CSP Tier 1 partners) which I sparked creation of back in October
  • Promoted to Chief Technology Officer on 12/23/2014
  • Helped to reduce engineering burn-rate from $350,000/mo to under $200,000/mo
  • Leverage nearly two decades of "startup experience" to guide operations and suggest improvements
  • Responded to and drafted RFIs, RFPs, SOWs, Commercials
  • Collaborated with international teams and sales prospects across multiple timezones
  • Acted as Program Manager and liaison between B2B customers and engineering team of 55 developers in Chennai, India to determine features and deliverables
  • Personally in charge of the "Branded Cloud Marketplace" and "Cloud Kiosk" product lines
  • Project managed several initiatives including the UI performance effort to reduce page load times from 10s to 2s, the UI re-design stressing proper MVC architecture in Magento and the conversion from Team Foundation Server (TFS) to Git
  • Implemented VirtualBox VM development environments
  • Document various processes in Confluence wiki and JIRA issue tracker as well as instantiated mandatory PHPDoc for all methods & classes
  • Mentor junior developers
  • Lead effort in Localization (I18N) and Globalization (G10N)
  • Product is multi-tenant and extensively uses REST JSON API
  • Familiarity with OpenStack, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Docker containers
  • Other Skills include Word, Excel, Power Point for enterprise presentation to peers, management and customers. Excellent communication
  • Wil remain on the Advisory Board
SCTR Services
Seattle, WA 98101
03/21/2011-02/27/2014
Senior Software Developer
  • Implemented a shared library architecture. Prior to my joining all code was copied to new projects
  • Completely re-wrote the back end database connections to use singleton classes. Similar to above all RDBMS interfaces were forks of copied code
  • Instantiated a base class with magic getters() and setters() which most all other classes derive from. Also converted other classes to use proper OOP including proper exception try/catch/throw
  • Our sites received in excess of 30,000 hits per second, so extensive use of both a primary local HD cache as well as pooled memcached were wedged into our RDBMS connection class and template rendering class.
  • Refactored and debugged code to reduce excessive cache entries as well as convert some SQL to "wide" versions to speed up frequent queries
  • Wrote and maintained two Roku channels, complete with authentication and bi-directional XML API
  • Architected a full XML API in use by our Roku channels as well as internal and external resources. Output to various formats including JSON, XML, CSV
  • Added BitPay's Bitcoin payment processing
  • Apache's re-write rules were a key component of our many sites, all of which had to match up for SEO purposes. I coordinated this effort
  • Convinced management to use MySQL replication master/slaves and wired in seamlessly to our existing RDBMS connection class, thereby drastically reducing the load to our existing hardware
  • Improved back-end tool to use a dynamic menu system for administration, authentication, as well as developed many of the supporting pages therein including MRTG graphs and other reports
  • Wrote an automated crontab to retrieve current currency values and convert our reports to USD
  • Created and maintained the mobile version of our main property sites (using "skins" to easily rebrand)
  • Routinely created niche sites (over 20 of them) to upsell our main site
  • jQuery, DHTML, CSS and AJAX for all admin, niche, mobile and main sites to reduce server load and give a better UX overall
  • Instituted Subversion revision control system including pre/post commit hooks as prior to my arrival all development was done on a shared "dev" server
  • Similarly, set up and switched all developers to VirtualBox VMs that mimic our PROD servers (including an optional "slave" RDBMS VM). I maintained them and posted new versions periodically
  • Also wrote several Bash scripts including one "svnu" to update all VMs for all projects
  • Most active Wiki contributor, adding and updating various pages to share knowledge with other team members and outline various procedural instructions
  • Documented all code functions, methods and classes in PHPDoc format, as there was virtually no documentation before I started
  • Built routine to detect shared accounts based upon GeoIP, login times and frequency
  • Taught CTO and lead developer many tips, tricks and good programming techniques I've learned over my years of experience
  • Successfully and efficiently worked from my home office for 3 years. Team was spread around the world.
Panasonic Avionics
Bothell, WA 98021
11/13/2008-03/11/2011
MTS IV, Software (Lead)
  • Hired on 11/13/08 for a six month contract, but was offered a full time position after only two months. Officially brought on full time on 03/23/09.
  • Lead the re-design of the internal "DART" tool to the new version.
  • Converted existing "DART" from an old "cgi-bin" style to a more modern Model/View/Controller (MVC) style architecture.
  • Optimized and automated pages for security, consistency and ease of use.
  • Contribute to system maintenance tasks such as backups and mySQL optimization.
  • Mentor existing developers in good software design practices.
  • Worked with substantial database sets (Hundreds of tables per DB and nearly 2 Billion rows over 100 GB)
  • Extensive use of jQuery, dynamically generated table portlets and output to Excel spreadsheets, XML and JSON
  • Implemented APIs in PHP as a queriable web service and also implemented JSON RPC calls to other internal department's services
  • Surrogate managed and mentored various team members as Lead
  • Mild exposure to Python
YouSport, Inc.
Seattle, WA 98111
04/21/2008-10/15/2008
(Employee #10)
Director of Technology/Architecture
  • Promoted from Sr. Software Engineer to Director of Technology/Architecture in six weeks after joining the company.
  • Manage all developers and testers, including writing specifications and reporting directly to the CEO.
  • Develop a media and social network site using the PHP/Symfony framework and extensive use of MVC architecture.
  • Redesigned the embarrassing old site (prior to my involvement) to a new and vastly improved version in under three months.
  • Reduced over 110 CSS sheets down to two efficient ones.
  • Used AJAX to significantly reduce the number of SQL queries on a given page in addition to providing a smoother user experience (UX).
  • Optimize mySQL queries to be as efficient as possible as the ORM adds significant overhead.
  • Migrated Subversion, Wiki, Trac, and all testing in-house, saving the company thousands each month on service fees.
  • Unified development, UAT (test), and Production environments.
  • Implemented VMWare Servers for UAT and all developers now use VMWare Workstation.
  • Created daily automated backup scripts with redundant and remote storage points for all major servers using 'scp'.
  • Reduced the update of production servers from a process to a single script.
  • Setup mySQL cluster for master and slave databases.
  • Created an administration portal with custom tools to monitor user reports and statistics.
  • Installed and configured Nagios to alert when servers are offline.
  • Oversee all internal and external servers including bash scripts, 3rd party tools, backups, installation and daily maintenance.
  • Work with the VP of UX to implement SEO.
  • Documented all processes on the wiki to avoid tribal knowledge scenarios.
Symcell Corporation
Seattle, WA 98119
11/2007-Present
Entrepreneur
Chief Executive Officer
Lead Software Engineer/Architect
Lockdown Networks, Inc.
Seattle, WA 98119
11/2002-03/18/2008
(Founding Employee #4)
(Lead) Senior Software Engineer/Architect
Product Development Manager
  • Exclusive use of (LAMP) Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP in developing enterprise network security solutions for (VA) Vulnerability Assessment and (NAC) Network Access Control.
  • Initially contracted to create a web based Graphical User Interface (GUI) to our scanning/auditing engine.
  • Hired as full-time employee with title of Senior Programmer in March 2003
  • Promoted to Product Development Manager in July, 2003.
  • Solely designed and coded an in house CRM system entitled CRiMson (user: test, pw: test1234)
  • Actively maintained and added features to Roach(u:test/p:test), our in-house change-request system that I built.
  • Significantly contributed to the Lockdown 2.x product.
  • Lead developer and architect for v3.0 product which was released in September, 2004 and still the foundation for current versions.
  • Acting GUI Team manager, responsible for triage of change-requests, hiring new team members & training.
  • Responsible for architecture overhaul and cleanup resulting in better efficency and speed of product line.
  • Currently lead GUI/RDBMS Senior Software Engineer for 4.0.
  • Developed XML API for third party interfaces to the Lockdown family of products.
  • Extensive use of cascading style sheets (CSS) and DHTML.
  • Exposure to Ruby, Active Record, DBUS, (HA) High Availability mySQL failover clustering, distributed networking and master/slave architectures
Leszynski Group (formerly Innovative Solutions, Inc.)
Bellevue, WA 98004
02/2002-03/2002
Technical Writer (Contract)
Microsoft contracted ISI to design three Tablet PC applications. I was responsible for designing the graphical user interfact (GUI) for "Noteworthy", keeping a Microsoft media player look and feel. Specifically, I Drafted technical design, requirements and specifications for:
WildTangent, Inc.
Redmond, WA 98052
08/1998-10/2001
Minister of Content (Founding Employee #2)
Prior to November of 1998, WildTangent developed state of the art websites exploiting Microsoft's Chromeffects as well as ASP, DHTML, JAVA, J++, Active-X, Direct-X 6+, SQL Server 6.5 and IIS 4. The company was charged with setting up and maintaining Microsoft's Chromeffects Developers Network (CDN). After the cancellation of Chromeffects in November '98, WildTangent continued to develop its own 3D graphical web technology using DirectX and now has over 30 million installed base.

  • Hired to manage a small team of web architects, programmers and graphic artists.
  • Created most of the original underlying database integration using PHP and mySQL running on Linux served by Apache with OpenSSL for secure transactions and mod_auth_mysql for database authentication of users/passwords.
  • Designed and coded a great deal of products from screen-savers to tools to complex 3D and 2D games. This involved writing AI, game physics, file parsers, HUDs and required optimization of code to increase frame-rates while minimizing both CPU and memory footprints.

Here are a few working examples of the Intranet (using PHP/mySQL) I did.
Here are some screenshots of games I worked on (all were written in Java/J++):
Some working examples of the content I've written and designed can be seen here:
Imagine Media, Inc.
Brisbane, CA
07/1996-07/1998
Webmaster/Web Director/Editor
  • Elected by my piers to become Web Director encompassing all Imagine Media's web properties
  • I conceived two different revisions of the boot Magazine's site. This site consistently sustained an average of 80,000 hits per day. This includes all of the organization, maintenance, page design code, layouts and implementation of new software such as forums, Java chat rooms and writing custom Perl and JavaScript programs. These have included an automatic bootWire posting form for our news editors and another form to assist in the threading and responding to the Letters to the Editor column.
  • I coded and maintained the smaller www.freeissues.com site during it's launch.
  • In addition, I assisted in the maintenance and updating of the PC Gamer and the main Imagine Media web sites.
  • Wrote reviews for the print edition as well as online news stories and answered reader's questions for both MaximumPC and the MaximumLinux print magazines. Even after I relocated to WildTangent, I continued to freelance write for both magazines.
  • This was a site called "bootMail" that never came to fruition because the project was dropped (consequently no links work in this example).
  • Just before I left, I laid the foundation for the new MaximumPC site (using the Apache Server and PHP to generate the site in a modular fashion).
  • Informix Datablade was used to render all news items once per day to alleviate over-loading the database servers.
Self Employed
Seattle, WA
01/1992-Present
System Administrator/Webmaster
Administer a Linux server that offers among other services: Web Page design, Virtual hosting, FTP, IRC, SSH, DNS, Listservers, SMTP, IMAP & POP3, SSL.
Freelance projects:
The Matrix Audio Facility (formerly TheMatrix.com)
Rochester, NY / San Francisco, CA / Seattle, WA
03/1992-01/2002
Owner/Sound Engineer/Producer
  • Solely responsible for every aspect in the daily operation of this business, including the management of personnel and funds, scheduling of all appointments, set-up and maintenance of computers & electronic equipment.
  • Extensive use of Programming, Desk Top Publishing, Sequencing, Sampling, MIDI, SMPTE, Digital Signal Processing, Computer Generated Animations, 1/2" Video, Voice-Overs, Multi-Track (Analogue & Digital) Recording and Mixing.
  • Instructed and consulted clients and employees in the use of all equipment and software, as well as recommended purchases for their particular use based upon their immediate and future needs.
  • Wrote several soundtracks and won several CD competitions.
  • Foley, recording and soundtrack work for several published game titles including Valve Software's "Death Match Classic Quake Mod for Halflife", Sierra's "Gunman", Vicarious Vision's "Synnergist" & "DarkAngel" plus countless WildTangent games.
  • Sold the domain name "TheMatrix.com" to Warner Brothers in January 2002.
Forte Technologies, Inc.
Rochester, NY
10/1995-07/1996
Webmaster/Technical Support
  • Sole webmaster for the company's entire www.ForteVR.com site.
  • Responsible for page design, layout, HTML/Perl/cgi-bin programming, VRML, graphics & animations, online registration to data base automation, order forms, contests, updating, as well as incorporating the latest JAVA applets and scripts
  • I moved product registration and RMA issuing to an online web-enabled database process, thereby reducing the department's work-load by 35%
  • Implemented secure (https) online ordering which increased vendor orders by 10%
  • Performed as First and Second line Technical Support Engineer
  • Helped current and potential customers (consumer as well as corporate) solve problems and make informed decisions about the complete product line
  • RMA dispensing and tracking
  • Beta testing new internal drivers and products
  • Testing of new 3rd party software and hardware
Vicarious Visions
Pittsford, NY
1992-1993
Audio Engineer
  • Instrumental in the development of "Synnergist", a PC-based CD-ROM full-motion-video computer adventure game
  • Coordinated actors/characters
  • Assisted in the brain-storming of design, game play, and pseudo-code
  • Responsible for all audio including recording voices, sound effects and musical themes
  • Contributed to their second title "DarkAngel"
TAD (Temporary Placement Agency)
Rochester, NY
1992-1993
Various Titles
  • Edgemere
    • Installed 10BaseT Networks for Griffith Oil throughout NY State
    • Preparation of computers, printers, hubs, cabling and other related networking components
  • Eastman Kodak Company
    • Transferred hand drawn diagrams and flow-charts into VISIO v3.0 files
  • Comstock Michigan Fruit
    • Operated a technical Help Desk software package via telephone and Novell networks
    • Answered telephone problems and assisted users of various software packages including Word, Word Perfect, Lotus, and Super Base
  • WARD'S Natural Science
    • Worked extensively with PageMaker v4.2 & v5.0, as well as Quark X Press v3.31 on the Power Macintosh platform to develop their 1995 catalog.
Classic Video/Beta Video Corporation
East Rochester, NY
1988-1994
Salesperson
  • Responsible for managing and training employees, opening and closing both store locations, assisting customers in their selections, cashier and organizing inventory.
  • Conceived & Designed forms, letters and promotions.
Other
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 (OOP). My code is clean, efficient, clever, well designed, documented and easily maintainable. I pride myself in this and view coding as an art form.
Education
Finger Lakes Community College
Canandaigua, NY
1990-1991
Audio Engineer
Candidate for Associates Degree in Music/Sound Recording/Engineering.
Monroe Community College
Rochester, NY
1987-1990
Computer Science
Associates Degree in Computer Science with Music Minor
Penfield Senior High School
Penfield, NY
1983-1987
Computer Concentration Major with Architecture Minor
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