Resume

Elliott Thomas Foster

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Education


The University of Texas at Dallas

B.S., Computer Science
Richardson, Texas
May 2007

Relevant Experience


New Media Broadcasting Company

Head of Web Development
Glendale, CA
July 2005 - Present
A startup company platforming a new user interface that connects art, technology, and commerce together.

Accomplishments

  • Deployed Varnish reverse proxy and static file cache for MashCast Drupal system.
  • Deployed Apache Solr faceted search for MashCast Drupal system.
  • Deployed memcached and MySQL master-slave servers for scalability of the MashCast Drupal system.
  • Wrote data synchronization code to keep information from a multi-site network and a desktop client server in sync
  • Wrote code to manage, re-format, and display uploaded files such as images, videos, and audio
  • Created a profile based search module
  • Wrote a horoscopes module that populates its current astrological sign information via RSS feeds
  • Worked with “themers” (HTML/CSS experts) to ensure the output from Drupal modules was easy to handle at the theme layer

Responsibilities

  • Write Drupal modules using PHP with MySQL
  • Manage the release process from automated daily builds to release candidate to production release
  • Create monitoring suites using Nagios
  • Implement automated workflows for release process using C++ and Java programs and shell scripts

Relevant Computer Skills


  • Proficient in PHP, Java, and C++ programming languages
  • Extremely experienced in UNIX environment and shell scripting
  • Efficient with XML, HTML, and MySQL
  • Good working knowledge of and experience with Python and JavaScript with jQuery
  • Comfortable working with Microsoft Windows 9x, 2000, XP, Vista; Debian Linux; Red Hat Linux; Sun Solaris; Mac OS X

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