Jim Edlin - Resume
Overview
Full-stack web developer and user experience designer with deep
experience in site architecture, dynamic web application development
(PHP, CFML, SQL), and front-end development (javascript/AJAX/jQuery, HTML, CSS).
Work History
Kiva.org, San Francisco, CA
Senior Web Developer, February 2011 - present
Member of kiva.org web development team for nonprofit organization that funds micro-loans for
entrepreneurial borrowers worldwide.
Chug, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Contract Developer, August 2010 - December, 2010
Member of development team for
Chug.net
vertical automotive search engine startup. Primarily did javascript/jQuery
front end development. (Site UI was almost 100% javascript, making AJAX
calls for content served as JSON.) Extensive use of jQuery plug-ins for
dynamic graphs, filtering and sorting, and other user interactions.
Arizona Bay LLC, San Francisco, CA
Contract Architect/Developer, May 2010 - July, 2010
Maintained and enhanced e-commerce AJAX website and back end systems for
SmartRoam.net,
a Singapore telecom company offering VOIP-based local phone numbers in
57 countries that redirect to any other number of a customer's choice.
Development in PHP5 with CodeIgniter framework and MySQL.
The2ofYou.com, San Francisco, CA
Cofounder and CTO, 2009 - May, 2010
Sole technical co-founder of this startup developing a "counseling and relationship-strengthening" website for couples. (Concept: "Match.com helps you get together; The2ofYou.com helps you stay together.") Led site design, development and testing, managed infrastructure, managed offshore contract developers. Site was heavily AJAX in design, using Railo, Prototype/Scriptaculous, MySQL.Also, together with three other cofounders, collaborated in all the myriad activities involved in launching a startup.
Arizona Bay LLC, San Francisco, CA
Contract Architect/Developer, 2008 - 2009
Designed, developed and launched enhancements and updates to high-volume transactional web e-commerce system for JumpStart Automotive Media. Created consumer-facing AJAX car-selection configurator in MVC environment using Coldfuson MX7, MySQL, Javascript/Prototype and a bit of Java. Also created back-end AJAX AJAX management tool for this configurator, allowing extensive customization of appearance and operation by each of client's customers. Implemented framework for SOAP web service transactions between client's system and systems of client's B2B customers.
Tides, San Francisco, CA
Business Applications Architect, 2003 - 2008;
Technologist-in-Residence, 1998 - 2003;
Led numerous projects to define, choose, adopt, design and implement technology solutions for this network of nonprofit organizations (including Tides Foundation, Tides Center, Tides Shared Spaces, and others) to support its mission of"actively promoting change toward a healthy and just society." Acted as CTO for development and launch of eGrants internet donation-processing system (now merged into NetworkForGood.org). Also developed other e-commerce sites. Led design and development of extranets for Tides Foundation donors and Tides Center projects, including online reports derived from financial systems-of-record.
The HyperMedia Group, Inc., Emeryville, CA,
Co-CEO, 1992 - 1997;
Partner, 1987 - 1992
Co-founded and co-led interactive media custom development company through evolution from developing HyperCard stacks for Macintosh computers, then multimedia CD-ROMs for Mac, Windows and UNIX, to leading-edge Web sites. HMG developed 200+ interactive media development projects for clients such as Equitable Life, Microsoft, Simon & Schuster, and Wells Fargo, yielding work honored with dozens of industry awards such as New Media magazine's Invision.
Education
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
College of Communication Arts, BA (cum laude)
Technology Skills
Programming / Scripting / Web
Javascript / jQuery / Prototype — high intermediate
PHP — high intermediate
HTML — advanced
CSS — high intermediate
Cold Fusion / CFML — advanced
Ruby on Rails — beginner
Database
ANSI SQL — high intermediate
MS SQL Server 2000/2005 — high intermediate
MySQL — high intermediate
Oracle &mdash limited (9i)
Tools / Infrastructure
Pivotal Tracker — intermediate
Subversion — intermediate
Git — intermediate
CVS — basic
Apache — intermediate
Windows IIS —
intermediate
Eclipse / Aptana — intermediate
NetBeans — intermediate
General / Productivity
Photoshop / gimp — intermediate
MS Word / Pages — advanced
MS Excel / Numbers — high intermediate
MS PowerPoint / Keynote — intermediate