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Programmer

Nick Mudge

Nick Mudge
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  • Folsom,  CA 95630 United States

Professional Status
Available soon

Job/Career Open to opportunities

Summary

8 years of programming experience. 5 years experience of managing and developing on Linux and Unix.

Experience includes PHP, Javascript, Clojure, Lisp, Java, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, C, Javascript, Git, Mercurial, Emacs, HTML, CSS, Javascript libraires.

Favorite technologies are Linux, C and Lisp. Pefers a functional style of programming, but uses the right tool for the job.

More than 5 years of experience programming with databases including MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite and MongoDB.

2 1/2 years experience researching, writing and editing for a technology news website (www.govetech.net).

Excellent communication, learning, research and writing skills. Largely self-taught in programming. Fast learner. Likes to learn new things.

Interested in a telecommute/remote job.

Professional Experience

Programmer

Calmetrics - Sacramento, CA - United States(Since March 2009)

  • Created new web pages and programmed functionality for the website inductiveautomation.com (Java, Linux, Amazon EC2, Wicket)
  • Programmed significant parts of a custom Customer Relationship Management system, including an employee time entry system and export to QuickBooks. (Java, Python, MySQL)
  • Developed an application to exchange data between QuickBooks and a custom Customer Relationship Management system using Java Web Services. (Java, XML, Web Services, MySQL, Python)
  • Created and programming new windows and functionality for a computer system that helps a nut company process and handle their nuts and inventory. (Python, MySQL)
  • Created and maintained Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) or GUIs for operators of machines for an olive oil mill. (Python, SQL Server, Java Framework called FactoryPMI)
  • Created and maintained an inventory system for tracking and tracing olive oil in a physical tank farm. (Python, SQL Server, Java Framework called FactoryPMI)
  • Upgraded a clients HMI system to using the Ignition Java Framework and redesigned visual elements of the system to give it a significant facelift.
  • Wrote a new module for the Ignition Java Framework which allows bulk operations to be performed on objects used in the framework. (Java)
  • Wrote a CSV parser and text manipulator. (Ruby)
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Programmer

Minnick Web Services - Sacramento, CA - United States(Full-time - May 2007 - February 2009)

  • Programmed about 90 percent of the redesign of www.gamasutra.com. (Wrote the backend code and the frontend javascript code, and some of the HTML and CSS.)
  • Maintained, installed, configured and modified new eBook registration web pages. (PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ubuntu)
  • Programmed eCreator, a tool that automatically creates new eBook registration web pages for new eBooks. (PHP, MySQL, shell scripting, cron, Ubuntu)
  • Programmed interactive web-based RFP selection and submission system. http://sm.ebookhost.net/sin/onlinerfp/ (HTML, Javascript)
  • Customized and maintained mygdc.gdconf.com, a social networking website for the Game Developers Conference. Work included adding search functionality and integrating login with event registration website. (XML, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Smarty, Linux)
  • Reprogrammed the jobs section of www.gamasutra.com with added functionality (being able to sort jobs and associate jobs with events). (PHP, XML, cron, Linux, MySQL, Smarty)
  • Programmed Intel Visual Computing microsite. (PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQL)
  • Troubleshooted Movable Type blog system performance problem. Found what was slow and proposed solution. (Perl, Unix, Sqlite)
  • Added various functionality including search and sorting to Schedule Builder, a web application to interactively schedule sessions occurring at a conference. (PHP, MySQL, AJAX, Javascript, CSS, HTML, JSON)
  • Built from scratch the comment system for feature articles and news items on www.gamasutra.com (PHP, MySQL, Javascript, CSS, HTML, Smarty)
  • Modified and added functionality to calendar/events plugin in WordPress for http://ubmtechnology.com (PHP, MySQL, HTML, XML, RSS)
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Designer

Church of Scientology Western U.S. - Los Angeles, CA - United States(November 2006 - May 2007)

  • Designed and edited promotional materials (flyers, postcards, banners etc.) and promotional emails. Used Photoshop and InDesign.
  • Wrote a Javascript program to automate page layout creation in InDesign.
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News Editor

eRepublic - Sacramento, CA - United States(January 2004 - June 2006)

  • Researched, wrote and/or edited technology news stories daily for http://www.govtech.com/ Compiled a daily and several weekly newsletters.
  • Programmed a script that generated and formatted newsletters. It pulled in content from www.govtech.com. (PHP, HTML)
  • Wrote a web crawler that searches for and reports new technology-related press releases from government websites. (This automated some of the research to find technology news.) (Python)
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Side Projects

None - Sacramento, CA - United States(Since January 2007)

  • (2011) Developing a job board website in Clojure for blueparen.com
  • (2011) Created http://blueparen.com for interviewing creators of programming technologies and tools.
  • (2010) Installed and configured Ruby on Rails for a website and implemented basic website functionality. (Ruby, Ruby on Rails)
  • (2008 - 2009) Designed a simple CPU using a hardware description language (HDL) and a hardware simulator.
  • (2009) Created SimpleCache, a file-based caching system that is used to cache dynamically generated web content, as from a database and/or heavy processing. http://nickmudge.info/index.php?post=109 (PHP)
  • (2008 - 2009): Rewrote the blog system that I use for my blog at http://nickmudge.info/ (PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML)
  • (2008): Beginnings of a boot loader in x86 machine code. http://nickmudge.info/index.php?post=100 (x86 instruction set, C, Assembly)
  • (2008): Recursive Decent Arithmetic Parser - Beginnings of a programming language parser. It parses arithmetic expressions. http://nickmudge.info/index.php?post=97 (C)
  • (2007) Newsconomy - A del.icio.us-like bookmarking website for storing, trading and organizing website bookmarks. http://newsconomy.com (PHP, XML, MySQL, CSS, HTML)
  • (2007) Wrote from scratch the blog software system for my blog at http://nickmudge.info (Python)
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