Employment and Affiliations
Sunset Photography
2004 - 2012
- Provided training on the use of both in-house and 3rd party software.
- Designed and Maintained Website.
- Provided Network and System administration.
- Developed small software tools for productivity and task automation.
Self Employment / Independent Contractor
1999 - 2010
Providing software programming, web development, computer graphics, and other IT services to various clients.
Southern Mississippi Linux Users Group
2003 - Present
SMLUG is a volunteer collaborative support group consisting of local network administrators, system technicians, programmers, and enthusiasts who meet regularly to share information about Linux/Unix as well as other IT topics. We periodically also review and present new technical literature from publishers and hold events to introduce others to Linux.
MS Secretary of State
2002 - 2003
Performed various clerical duties such as record filing, reception, and general computer maintenance.
PKF Mark III Construction
Summers of 2004 - 2006
During the summer semesters spent out of school, I was employed as a general laborer on marine construction projects.
Notable Projects
Coranto
2005
Contributed modular features and capabilities for this open source web content management system, focused primarily on improvements to content editing.
- Provided user-friendly embedded Rich Editing features, similar to those found in Word Processing software, via the web-based interface.
- My flexible, library-agnostic design allowed compatibility with virtually any 3rd-party rich editing library.
Gulf Coast Information Systems
2006
Performed contract graphic design for the clients of this local website hosting company.
Coast Counties Medical Society
2001-2002
Designed internal website for organization members
SUIT, LLC
2001-2002
Website in development for an office space design and efficiency consultant firm based in Duluth, MN.
JA Gadget
(Personal Project, 2004)
An experiment to gain a more intimate understanding of Win32 API, this is an interactive “bot” that adds tournament sessions and other features to online FPS games by monitoring the game as it is running and injecting data when prompted.
Mapping/Modeling
(Personal Projects, 1998-2003)
3D models, maps and other work for various computer games and other 3D applications, usually as 3rd party contributions.
Education
Professional Certifications
- A+ - acquired in December, 2008
- Linux+ - acquired in October, 2008
MS Gulf Coast Community College
- Received degree in Computer Programming Technology (December, 2008).
- Graduated with 3.7 GPA.
- Honored on President's List for Academic Achievement
- Provided teaching materials used to teach the Perl programming language.
Biloxi High School
- Graduated with High Honors
- Named in Who's Who of American High School Students and American High School English Students
- Proof Editor on the newspaper staff and website
- Member of Mu Alpha Theta, mathematics honors society
- Received Academic Awards for Telecom. and Networking, Mathematics, History, Sociology and Entrepreneurship
- Presidential Classroom Scholar; attended week-long Entrepreneurship, E-Commerce, and Public Policy program in Washington D.C
Mississippi State University
As part of the MSU software design curriculum, served a key role in an engineering team and collaborated closely with biology department researchers in the planning, design and development of software now used for peptide distribution analysis in post-genomic research.