Daniel Higginbotham's Resume

Daniel Higginbotham
Newburyport, MA 01950 US	www.flyingmachinestudios.com

WHY I LOVE WEB SITES

Though the majority of the client work I do is programming, I choose to work with web sites because I love that web development engages every part of one's brain. Web development involves:

Aesthetics - design

Math - programming

Writing - content development

Logic - information architecture, programming

Science - psychology / marketing / statistics

OBJECTIVE

To provide my enthusiastic, productive self to other companies who share my absolute belief in the power of the Internet to effect change, whether that means increasing sales or increasing social awareness.

SKILLS

Web development and programming: LAMP, JavaScript, CSS, Ruby, Ruby on Rails (2.75 years experience), XHTML, XML

Server administration: Apache 1.3, Apache 2.0, Apache 2.2, Mongrel, moderate Linux experience

Programming using industry best practices like version control and testing

Online Marketing: SEO, PPC management, usability testing, online testing (creating valid, useful tests)

OPEN SOURCE

Created Palmist, a Handy Tool for finding and fixing MySQL bottlenecks in Rails http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/projects

Contributed to Ultrasphinx

WORK EXPERIENCE
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2008 - Present Senior Programmer	Zazengo
Developed XML API Helped conceive and develop Facebook game Implemented portions of Facebook game -
2007 - 2008 Lead Programmer	Really Simple, LLC.
Worked on designerpages.com (an RoR site) doing the following: Optimizing performance Creating new features Refactoring old code Updating code to use Rails 1.2, then Rails 2.1 Managed a contractor for a short period While employed by Really Simple, I've done the bulk of programming for designerpages.com . -
2006 - 2008 Lead Programmer \| Contractor	Health Workforce Solutions
Created a site for the administration and presentation of an "annotated link" database: http://www.healthws.net Used Rails Routing to record user-selected demographic information in Google Analytics Created a site to present Care Delivery Models and allow users to discuss them: http://www.caredeliverymodels.com Created a scalable tool for scraping job sites which allows the client to customize the scrape -
2005 - 2008 Lead Programmer \| Contractor	Net Man	Santa Fe, NM
Did programming and HTML/CSS for many sites, including: santafeartsandculture.org, the Arts and Culture portal for Santa Fe, one of the world's largest art markets rebecca2006.com fsbosantafe.com smsi.com holstengallery.com (ruby on rails) visionsdesigngroup.com (ruby on rails) -
2006 - 2007 Lead Programmer \| Contractor	Chimera, Inc
Created performance appraisal application in RoR, allowing supervisors and administrators from different companies to create appraisals for their employees. Makes extensive use of AJAX to give desktop-app feel. Makes use of Ruby/Ruby and Rails features like singleton classes, procs, and scoping. Also created a custom CMS/schedulable product site, kidsgymtarzana.com -
2006 - 2007 Lead Programmer \| Contractor	Ethos Media
Created a Ruby on Rails site for a national corporation: masterformat.com. Site has subscriber authenticated areas, subscriber content / file submission, an administrative backend, and will soon incorporate ecommerce. Site uses AJAX. HTML / CSS buildout -
2005 - 2006 Lead Programmer \| Contractor	JOOTS	Kaimuki, Hawaii
part-time Developed online marketing services Developed rapid-deployment process for web sites using the Typo3 Content Management System. Improved infrastructure and productivity by creating a dev credentials storage system using Ruby on Rails Worked on client sites: sustainhawaii.org starbuckshawaii.com jambahawaii.com pualanihawaii.com hawaiikaichurch.org joots.com -
2007 - 2007 Web Developer	New Hope International	Hawaii
Modified wordpress-mu to create a "myspace for pastors", http://www.mentoringleaders.com/community -
2004 - 2005 Online Marketing Manager, Programmer	Xynergy, INC	Santa Fe, NM
Online Marketing, PHP Programmer using MySQL, HTML Buildout Increased productivity by creating PHP script to automatically generate HTML forms to interact with database tables based on the tables structure. Improved infrastructure by creating a centralized database storing each clients online marketing information using PHP and MySQL. Ran online marketing campaigns; client DeVargas Center increased traffic 50%. Created content management system structure being implemented on Shirley MacLaines web site and the Albuquerque Convention Centers web site. Used this structure to implement content management system for the New Mexico Economic Development Department and Tsay Corporation. Client sites I worked on: shirleymaclaine.com nmfilm.com eldoradohotel.com hotelsantafe.com devargascenter.com sunstonepress.com casasdesantafe.com windsorbetts.com newmexico.org specialolympicsnewmexico.org nmadfed.org Kitchen Garden Seeds -
2004 - 2004 Office Manager / HTML dude / Programmer	Meridiansix	Santa Fe, NM
Implemented project management calendar. Created online task list and contact list using PHP and MySQL. Took designers' PSDs and built them into standards-compliant pages using CSS and XHTML. Implemented OScommerce for client web sites, including James Green MD and Plain Indian Ledger Arts. Client sites I worked on: i-swig.net taducontemporary.com plainsledgerart.org jamesgreenmd.com woytuk.com -
2000 - 2001 Web Developer	Jubilee Family Development Center	Lynchburg, VA
Created first commercial web sites using Dreamweaver and PHP for templating. -

Daniel Higginbotham's Resume (Last updated October 22nd 2008)