+1–310–795–0167 sm on irc.freenode.net simonkwmichael on AIM Marina del Rey, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Skills & technologies
Unix, GNU/Linux, Windows & Mac OS systems administration & support (20 years) - Website & web app development & hosting (17) - Free/open source software project management (12) - Wiki building & engine design (12) - Technical writing & documentation management (11) Python (12 years) - Zope (11) - Plone (7) - C (6) - PHP (4) - Squeak Smalltalk (4) - Postgresql/Mysql (4) - Haskell (3) - Ruby/Rails (1) - Emacs Lisp, Scheme/Racket, Perl, IO
Experience
2007-present: Consultant, Joyful Systems
refactoring, upgrades, development and maintenance of kcrw.com & related systems (plone, zope, zeo, apache, squid, php, javascript, postgres, mysql, filemaker, gnu/linux systems administration)
built a team and solved critical performance problems with KCRW’s plone setup, rescuing their multi-year investment
helped design, build and integrate a new state-of-the-art media player/promo management system for kcrw.com
provide design review, support and technical liaison for other projects/contractors
provide support and training for KCRW web team
set up a staff wiki, code revision control; analyzed, documented and refined content management and development processes
2006–2007: Web developer, Bitscribe
Built and maintained diverse rails and php enterprise apps within a high-throughput agile team:
a warehouse inventory tracking system
a complete operations management system for a large window manufacturer
a project management and dubbing/casting application for a leading movie dubbing service
a personalized stress-reduction service
ordering and fulfillment back end for wearefamily2006.com
recruitment extra/intranet features for Bitscribe
1996–2006: Consultant, Joyful Systems
1991–1996: Software engineer, Retix/Sonoma Systems
