The Resume

The Standard Reverse-Chronological Resume depicting many of the things I’ve done for money, replete with irreverence and self-deprecating flippancy for your amusement.

Producer / Owner, Little Moving Pictures (2007-2009) [incorporated LLC Nov 2008]

  • Coordinated multiple simultaneous teams of ninja cameramen and capricious super-editors
  • Directed on-site documentaries lasting exactly 2 days of shooting to produce 5-7 minutes of edited video
  • Developed film business process to efficiently serve the “little format” niche
  • Produced over 50 separate short films for web format. Notably:
  • The Black Diamond Documentaries (36 there alone)
  • Promo video for R3Global (VMS)
  • Short spots for ESPN, industrial demos, product profiles, and lots more

Producer / Software Architect, Most Productions (2008), Oakland

  • Supervised technical development of R3Global’s VMS (Virtual Marketing System)
  • Managed overseas team of 2 developers and 1 graphic designer all working remotely in different time zones
  • Project estimate including video production: $45,000 / 3 months
  • Project delivery: $38,000 / 3 months

Sr System Administrator, Kapor Enterprises (2006-2007), San Francisco

  • Delegated and managed IT infrastructure for resident non-profits: Creative Commons, OSAF, LPFI…
  • Collaborated with resident nonprofits to produce usage documentation
  • Developed institutional process for Linux installations, email spam and virus filtering, and tons more…
  • Ruined hopes and dreams of OSAF programmers of being the first to beat Guitar Hero 3 on Expert.

Software Engineer, PGP (2005-2006), Palo Alto

  • Technology: Linux, OS X Server, PGP, Python, Ruby, Rails, C/C++, Asterisk, SIP
  • Coordinated needs of Engineering and IT departments to converge on actual need requirements for company internal process management, and developed task-tailored business logic to serve those needs.
  • i.e., found out what people were bitching about having to do a lot, and wrote apps to make it so they had far less tedious junk in their day.
  • Worked with Phil Zimmermann on zfone project

Network Administrator / Telephony Engineer, Vortex Media (2004-2005), Toronto

  • Technology:  Linux, Python, MySQL, Cisco, POTS, T1, Asterisk
  • advised this small telecommunications business outsourcing startup on optimal technology purchases
  • architected expert-routed telephony hub using Asterisk open-source telephony server and T1-POTS interfaces
  • crimped 521 pounds of Cat5e cable.

Programmer, Openflows.org (2001), Toronto

  • Technology:  Linux, Python, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS
  • consulted with non-profit agencies to produce your average turn-of-the-century LAMP web development.
  • worked primarily on best-practices guidelines development project
  • photographed high-rise spiders.

Streaming Radio Consultant, Freelance (1999-2001), Toronto

  • Technology:  Linux, shoutcast, icecast, mp3, HTML, CSS, studio recording equipment
  • Taught people how to use that new-and-shiny streaming radio stuff and set it up in their live venue, studio, etc.
  • Started like half a dozen really bad bands.

Programmer, Moberg Research (1998-1999)

  • Technology:  Linux, Perl, PostgreSQL, MaxDB, DesignWorks
  • Wrote Perl to translate proprietary customer records into SQL format
  • Tinkered with circuit designs of flagship hardware project, The Grateful Head.

References provided upon request.