Brev Patterson Hybrid Expert | Web Design & Development brevpatterson@gmail.com http://www.brevpatterson.com 1099 S. West Temple #A208 Salt Lake City, UT 84101 +1-801-649-6544 -------------------------------------------------- EXPERIENCE Employment | Accomplishments | Duties -------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Inc. Lead Frontend Engineer Sunnyvale | CA Jul.2007 | Now * Cutting-edge client engineering (XHTML, Javascript, CSS, AJAX, JSON, etc.) for Yahoo! Local projects, with a focus on standards compliance and web accessibility. Backcountry.com Frontend Team Lead Park City | UT Aug.2002 | Jul.2007 * Managed a six-person team responsible for all front-end, user interface, and search optimization activities. Team was focused on increasing conversion rates, supporting web standards (XHTML/CSS/Accessibility), and investigating new technologies (AJAX, etc.) * Integrated third-party web applications for site searches, web analytics, affiliate marketing, bug tracking, credit card processing, and content delivery. * Integrated product catalog, order fulfillment, and inventory management systems with Amazon, Google, and E-bay, sales of each growing by over 1000% within two years. * Installed and configured T1 lines, switches, web servers, database servers, routers, workstations, load balancers, backup systems, alert monitoring systems, shipping stations, feed servers, nameservers, firewalls, and wireless access points. * Designed site layouts, administrative user interfaces, logos, and marketing materials, all focused on increasing sales conversion rates and facilitating an excellent online shopping experience. * Developed hundreds of web application modules, including both front-end features (shopping cart, navigation, product display, discounting, image swatches) and administrative tools (order fulfillment, inventory management, user management, pricing, reporting). Designed the user interfaces and visual characteristics of these modules, as well as for the modules of other developers. * Helped grow company e-commerce web presence from a single static website of 2002, to the current load-balanced set of seven dynamically database-driven theme sites. These sites run on over thirty servers that reside in three separate locations and are fully redundant, restorable, and synchronized. * Integrated secure real-time UPS and USPS shipping services into warehouse inventory flow, including: bar-coding, zone pick-listing, and automatic update of product weights and shipping tracking numbers. * Created feed interfaces for partner sites such as AltaVista, MSN, Google, and Yahoo!, as well as real-time marketing tools for partner affiliate advertisers. Red Hat Sr. Design Engineer Washington D.C. Feb.2001 | Jun.2002 * Designed and developed a dynamic knowledge management system that powers the worldwide company intranet. * Built a turnkey software suite that facilitates the setup and launch of complex online e-commerce sites within minutes. This product received favorable reviews in the trade press. * Lead graphic designer and core developer for Interchange, an open-source web application server. Managed team of developers that built the project community website. * Developed custom enterprise web solutions for clients such as Compaq, Canon, and McGraw-Hill. Mediabang! Web Engineer & Designer Salt Lake City | Utah Jul.1999 | Feb.2001 * Designed and developed dynamic database-driven websites for clients such as Franklin Covey, Utah Highway Patrol, Brewvies, and Dog On A Bike Films. * Created logos, promotional materials, and digital audio/video segments for multiple clients, including the Sundance Film Festival. XMission Jr. System Admin & Support Engineer Salt Lake City | Utah Apr.1995 | Jul.1997 * Designed page layouts, managed content, and wrote statistical reporting applications for websites. * Supported multi-platform customer connectivity via on-site visits, emails, and telephone calls. * Wrote installation software for new customers (downloadable and CD-ROM versions.) * Administered multiple systems including routers, modem banks, web servers, game servers, and office workstations. Starnet Software Engineer Salt Lake City | Utah Dec.1994 | Apr.1995 * Designed graphical user interfaces for video server software. * Wrote programs and drivers in C++ / Assembly to capture data embedded in television signals, display the video, and create statistics based on the data. -------------------------------------------------- SKILLS Abilities | Languages | Knowledge -------------------------------------------------- * 3D Graphics * Access DB * Accessibility * ActionScript * Affiliate Marketing * AJAX * Amazon Stores Integration * Amazon Web Services * Anti-Virus/Spyware * Apache * Assembly Language * Bar-coding * BASIC * Blogger * BSD * C / C++ * CGI * Cisco IOS * Clustering * Content Delivery Networks * Cookies / Sessions * CPAN * Credit Card Processing * CRM * CSS * Customer Service * CVS * Database Administration * Delimited Data Files * Dynamic HTML * Digital Audio / Music * Digital Video * DNS * E-bay Stores Integration * E-commerce * Encryption * Ethernet * Excel * Firewalls * Flash * FTP * GDBM * Gimp * GnuPG * Google AdSense * Google AdWords * Google Checkout Integration * Graphic Design * HTML 4.0 * HTTPS / SSL * Intranets * IIS * Illustrator * InDesign * Interchange * JavaScript * JSON * Konfabulator Widgets * Linux * Lisp * Load Balancing * Mac OS/X * Microformats * MS-DOS * MVC Frameworks * MySQL * Network Architecture * Network Security * NFS * OpenOffice.org * Oracle * OS/2 * Pascal * Perl * PGP * Photography * Photoshop * PostgreSQL * Project Management * Prototype.js * Quark * RAID * Red Hat Network * Reporting / Graphing * REST * RPC * RPM / SRPM / Yum * RSS / Atom * Scriptaculous * Search Marketing * Semantics * SEO * SNMP * SOAP * Solaris * SQL * SSH / SCP / SFTP * Stunnel * System Administration * TCP/IP * UPS Ship/API Integration * USPS Ship Integration * Visual BASIC * Volusion * Web Analytics * Wiki * Windows * Wireless Networking * Word * WordPress * XHTML / Web Standards * XML * XSLT * Yahoo! UI Library -------------------------------------------------- DISTINCTION Education | Awards | Organizations -------------------------------------------------- * [2005] Bachelor of Science, Weber State University, Ogden, UT. Major: Visual Communication and Design, Minor: Anthropology. * [2005] American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Member, Salt Lake City Chapter. * [2004] Annual Student Art Exhibition, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Ogden, UT. Provost and Ogden Blue Awards. * [2004] "Red Light Retrospect" Poetry Publication, Metaphor, Spring, Volume 23. Weber State University, Ogden, UT. * [2003] Foundations Today Art Exhibition, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Ogden, UT. * [2002] Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), Washington D.C. * [2001] Joined Open-source Development Team of Interchange Web Application Server. * [1995] Summer Computing Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Thank you for your consideration END