Virage, Inc., San Mateo California. April 2000 - December 2001:

Senior Web Developer, Database Administrator for the Virage Application Services (VAS) group. Designed, developed and maintained a custom internal workflow system that allowed the tracking of status of all the projects that go through VAS at the task (encoding, editorial, QA, Web Development and Deployment) level using Col—N ­sion/IIS/NT4 and Oracle 8i/Solaris/Sun. Generated reports regarding cost analysis and billing metrics. Also developed end-user web applications for companies such as RealNetworks (RealConference 2000), Applied Materials (Search for Internal Seminars including resource discovery on a multiple-LAN WAN), CNET, and Zuma Digital (Web-client based Video Search Engine written in DHTML and javascript for IE5).

Database Administrator, Application Developer for the Media Systems Division (MSD) Marketing group. Designed, developed and maintained a Tracking System for Realnetworks.com (MSD Marketing's website) which allowed end users' paths through the website to be tracked without compromising privacy (methodology was scrutinized and approved by the Legal Dept.). Generated reports regarding the best page paths resulting in the most product sales as well as the average lengths of time from free-product to paid-product downloads. This gave MSD marketing insight as to what pages (and subsequently, what Email campaigns) resulted in the most product sales. The Tracking System was primarily based in Cold Fusion/IIS/NT4 with additional shell scripting in Linux/Apache/MySQL to gather data from a multitude of platforms and sources throughout the company.

RealNetworks, Seattle Washington. March 1998 - December 1999:

Database Administrator, Application Developer for the Real Broadcast Network (RBN) group. Designed, developed and maintained an integrated network administration, content management, scheduling application and customized incident reporting system for live webcasting and on-demand hosting using Cold Fusion 3.11 (on Microsoft NT 4 Server using Microsoft IIS 2.0 webserver) using Microsoft SQL server 6.0. Later (February '98) the application's database was migrated to Sybase Adaptive Server 11.5. Also, in the spring of '98 a load balancing system for the application was created using F3's BigIP system so the application could scale to the rapidly rising demand for webcasting through RBN. In April '98, the Scheduling application was integrated with the company's financial and sales database system based on Onyx (on MS SQL server 6.0) and a Live Stream Verification system ("StreamCheck") was integrated into the broadcast monitoring tools based on data from content management and scheduling applications. In the Spring and Summer of '99, RealNetworks Consulting ported the network administration and scheduling application to Sun Solaris and Oracle 7.5 where it is being used to manage Enron's Broadband streaming Network. In August of '99, the company's financial and sales system migrated to ERP on Oracle 8.1 as was all the hooks into RBN's Scheduling application.

Also gained experience in digital A/V production using tools such as Adobe Premiere 4.2 (and later 5.0), Soundforge as well as RealProducer and RM tools for both RealVideo 5.0 and G2. Also developed dynamic G2 SMIL files based from database data using Cold Fusion.

RealNetworks, Seattle Washington. May 1997 - March 1998 :

Broadcast Operator/Tools Developer, RBN. Basic Broadcast and Network Operations/Maintenance using Windows NT, Red Hat Linux 5.2, and Sun Solaris Operating systems. Created tools for Network Administration which were integrated into a Broadcast Scheduling/Monitoring using Allaire Cold Fusion, Perl and C shell scripting.

Ryan*Shanklin, Ltd., Seattle Washington. January 1996 - May 1997:

Webmaster/System Administrator. Duties included overseeing production and HTML coding of websites (software used: WebEdit, various image manipulation programs including Photoshop 3.0), database structure design and incorporation into the websites (Access 97, Allaire's Cold Fusion 1.5), server installation, configuration, and maintenance ( NT server 3.51, O'Reilly's Website Pro, Metainfo's Sendmail w/POP3).

SeattleCafe.com, Seattle Washington. October 1995 - May 1999:

Most recently involved in live Real Video experimental broadcasts utilizing the Real Video server software and optimizing the audio/video mix for real-time streaming. Past Projects include live recording of improv music and noise/spoken word for the Seattle Arts Network. Developed and Maintained website using CERN/SunOs/Sun server.

Gorilla Film and Video, Seattle Washington March 1994 - September 1994:

Staff Video Editor, Chief Technician, Playback Engineer. Installed and operated Betacam SP composite video editing system utilizing Amiga based "Video Toaster" editing system with "lightwave 3-d" animation system both made by NewTek, Inc.. Also Technician/Editor/Sound Engineer on Remote Truck for three camera, live switched, music venue shoots. Betacam camera repair. Master Audio/SMPTE Timecode Playback Engineer for Film shoots.

Ironwood Studios, Seattle Washington November 1989 - March 1994:

Chief Technician, Staff Engineer. Complete audio wiring of second sound room (Studio B), assisted in acoustic design of studio/control room. Installed adjacent Betacam composite video editing suite with integral machine synchronization and video feeds for use as soundstage. Installed NewTek Video toaster system for use as video effects. Maintained and Repaired 24 track tape machines and associated ½ track machines (MCI/Sony JH series), as well as the consoles (Harrison MR-3 and MR-4 with PC Otari "DiskMix" Based VCA Fader and mute Automation) and outboard gear. Did session work as a staff engineer on a wide variety of music projects, as well as voice-overs, and audio post-production work for video (via SMPTE synchronization).

Washington State University, Pullman Washington. Fall 1982 - Spring 1988:

Certified into the Electrical Engineering Department in the Spring of 83. Did Work/Study in Technical Services within the Department. Completed 72 Credits before Departing.

Pullman High School, Pullman Washington. Fall 1978 - Spring 1982:

Graduated with Honors. Advanced Placement in Chemistry and Industrial Electronics.