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Name Daniel Quinn
Location Bussum, The Netherlands
Phone +31 6 3911 5894
Email corporate at danielquinn dot org

Objective

To expand my brain, explore the world, learn another language (or two), and roll awesome code in the process.

Employment History

Oxyor/MarketSims

Lead Web Developer, March 2011 - Present
I've been hired to build a community site focussing on training and certification in the field of banking and investments. With a directive to focus on extendability over scalability, I'm given free reign over technological choices and architecture and write all of the server-side code myself. Thankfully though, the design component is being handled by someone with more artistic skill.
  • Architected every model and relationship for the community project including product lines, currency, certifications, and testing.

Club Detailer

CTO, October 2007 - Present
A family business that I've been involved with since its inception years ago. The product is a vending machine that uses a series of sonic generators and pumps coupled with a PLC and a tiny headless computer, to do something I'm not allowed to talk about yet.
  • Built a custom embedded Linux system for an ARM-based headless computer.
  • Wrote a Python-based application that ran on top of the aforementioned embedded Linux platform and interfaced with a PLC over a serial connection to control the running of the machine.

Work [at] Play Social Media Labs

Senior Software Developer, February 2008 - November 2010
W@P is a small social networking software company based out of Vancouver. With an office of roughly 30 people, they've managed to produce high-capacity sites for non-profits and Fortune 50 companies alike. For those interested in name-dropping, some of their biggest clients include Mattel, MTV, Budweiser, and the Knowledge Network.
  • Served as mentor for various junior developers to help develop their skills
  • Managed teams of developers for multiple projects
  • Co-authored "Epic", a game statistics and leaderboard engine to serve as part of the greater Velocity software suite.
  • Co-wrote the gateway API server for the Rally/Epic application. Termed "Arcade", it utilises the Kohana framework to serve as a lightweight intermediary between Rally/Epic and the untrusted masses.
  • Served as development lead on a number of Drupal-based projects for high-profile clients.
  • Co-wrote a Perl-based automated remote data importing tool for a US government data repository using a variety of tools including OCR recognition with both Tesseract and OCROpus, and "screen-scraping" with Mechanize.
  • Co-wrote a deploy module for Drupal-based websites that made use of shared keys, Subversion and rsync to enable users to push code from one stage of testing to another, and eventually to production, all with a single button-click.
  • Was the lead developer for Velocity the name given to the combined powers of Rally, Epic and Arcade mentioned here.
  • Designed and directed a team to build a multi-platform virtual economy engine and server capable of managing digital items, awards, quests, trades, purchases, and levelling in eight formats, over three protocols. Termed "Rally", the software is scalable, extensible and awesome.

TheChange.com

CTO, November 2009 - May 2010
A company I co-founded, the site is meant to serve as a "platform for change", or a way for companies to reach out to the public (and other companies) to help make everyone involved develop a more sustainable way of doing business.

Riptown Media

Software Developer, November 2006 - September 2007
Riptown was the IT component to the larger Bodog entertainment empire. I wrote PHP software for their Battle of the Bands project as well as for the main Bodog Music site. We worked in an Agile programming environment on a one-week iteration cycle.
  • Rebuilt a high-traffic website by refactoring mountains of legacy code slowly over time.
  • Developed a comprehensive multi-lingual MVC framework
  • Wrote a deploy system in Perl that automated the deploy process including branching, syncronisaiton, backups and rollback.

Primus Telecommunications

Systems Analyst, July 2006 - October 2006
Primus Canada is a large telecommunications corporation struggling to siphon market share from the established giants. It's primary business is long distance phone service, a functionality managed through VoIP technology.
  • Maintained a series of 150+ servers including regular password changes, software upgrades and emergency diagnostics.
  • Custom scripting (Perl/Bash) for a variety of server-related tasks including password changes and monitoring.

Rydium Online Advertising

Network Admin & Web Development, January 2004 - July 2006
Rydium is a media representation company with approximately 300 websites in its network, selling targeted advertising to Fortune 500 companies across a network of various vertical markets.
  • Built on and repaired hundreds of lines of legacy code.
  • FreeBSD and Linux Administration of both an office LAN as well as a remote server cluster.
  • Custom firewall development and maintenance.
  • Cisco switch administration.
  • QoS network management.
  • Split DNS administration for approximately 60 domains on two different networks.
  • Mail hosting of 15+ domains and administration including spam blocking and greylisting.
  • Webserver maintenance for 10+ custom projects.
  • Project management and task delegation.
  • Managed a cluster of Unix machines in a remote facility hosting a variety of services including HTTP, DNS, SMTP and MySQL.
  • Designed a complete security schema for our network and built an advanced router for load balancing with Linux Virtual Server.
  • Near-mastery of Object-Oriented programming (PHP).
  • Advanced database design theory and complex queries in MySQL.
  • Reverse-engineered a large-scale and complex ad-serving solution while working around poorly written legacy code.
  • Built on and repaired hundreds of lines of legacy code.

Trytel Internet

Web Programming: Development Team Lead, November 2002 - October 2003
Trytel Internet is both a small ISP as well as a web development shop in Ottawa. Dealing with a variety of clients, we designed and built on-line products for large corporations like Merkley Supply and the Canadian Wood Council.
  • Acquired extensive experience with PHP and MySQL in a team environment.
  • Client communication and management.
  • Built a complete development environment using Apache, MySQL, PHP and Gentoo Linux.
  • Construction of a multi-lingual content management system.

Netgenetix Media Inc.

Db & Systems Admin, Web Programming & Design, April 2001 - September 2002
Netgenetix is a small web development shop that specialises in large numbers of simple sites rather than larger, monolithic projects. They're currently based in Vancouver, BC.
  • Built the company's only development environment using a Linux server solution
  • Built the company's entire intranet using Perl and MySQL

Moshpit Entertainment

Programming and Graphic Design, February 2000 - March 2001
Moshpit was a game development and service provider that pioneered the on-line gaming industry by creating a system that would allow gamers to wager real money on their own performance in an array of available games.
  • Helped to design (both visually and in Perl/JavaScript/HTML) a massive community website.
  • Advanced my knowledge of server software development in a Linux environment.

eConquest.com

Programming and Graphic Design, November 1999 - February 2000
eConquest was a small web development company based in Vancouver. Their technologies were primarily Microsoft-based and their client list included a variety of small and large companies.
  • Helped to design (both visually and in Perl/HTML) a number of small sites for various clients using Perl and ASP

Education

Kwantlen Community College: Russian History

January 2001 - December 2001
Russia from Lenin to Gorbachev. One course to learn more about something less technical.

Vancouver Film School: New Media Division

January 1998 - December 1999
Certificate of new media design.

Simon Fraser University: General Arts

January 1997 - December 1998
Attended courses in world religions, African history, macroeconomics, and political science.

Skills

Software Development

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