Nick Whalen's Resume

Nick Whalen

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Monroe, WA
E-Mail: jobs _at_ stormsim.com

Education

Western Washington University
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Status: Not currently taking classes
Website: http://www.cs.wwu.edu/

Everett Community College
Associate of Science
Status: Completed, graduated with honors June 2004
Website: http://www.evcc.ctc.edu/

Employment

Danube Technologies - Bellevue, WA
Senior Systems Administrator/Web programmer
Employed: November 2006 to Present
Website: http://www.danube.com/
My work at Danube involves implementing and maintaining all of the company's UNIX and Windows servers as well as providing IT support to our employees and creating new technology solutions to further enhance employee productivity.

I also maintain Danube's Drupal-based website including coding custom modules for the CMS and doing routine upgrades to the site's look and feel via the templating system.

Gottathink - Bellingham, WA
Web Programmer (Contract Intern)
Employed: June 2006 to October 2006
Website: http://www.gottathink.com/
I developed unique Drupal-based solutions for our clients. My responsibilities included site conversions, layout/cutup of new sites, designing and implementing new Drupal modules to meet needs that current codebases did not solve as well as systems administration work and more generic PHP and AJAX work.

Perfect Space - Bellingham, WA
Web Programmer (Temporary, Part Time)
Employed: April 2006 to June 2006
Website: http://www.perfectspace.com/
I worked on several sites for Perfect Space's clients using PHP, MySQL and AJAX. My primary task was developing e-commerce structures which will integrate with the existing site design.

Western Washington University - Bellingham, WA
Systems Support Technician
Employed: March 2005 to March 2006
Website: http://www.cs.wwu.edu/
I assisted the systems administrators in maintaining the Computer Science Department's network. My duties included: imaging systems (including building the images), configuring servers, maintaining machines, writing scripts for the internal website and research for new management techinques.

Mindstorm Networks - Monroe, WA
Web Application Developer/Systems Administrator
Employed: April 2004 to Present
Website: http://www.stormsim.com
I develop web applications (e-commerce, customer management, site control, etc) in PHP and Perl as well as providing systems administration services as an independent consultant.

Projects

Domino
Personal Idea
Status: In Progress
Website: Forthcoming
Domino is the system formerly known as IcyAdmin however, since I've recently changed the project scope, the project has been renamed. It involves internet radio and video streams, however more details are not available at this time due to the confidential nature of this project.

This project is currently in the planning phase. Development has begun but only on minor areas which have plans that have been completed.

FAWCET
Web Application/Authentication Framework
Status: Internal Only
Website: No Current Site
FAWCET was a web application framework I started designing back in 2000 to help me build dynamic websites with increased speed. I have released this framework to open source, however the current implementation is internal only. The framework is currently undergoing massive restructuring and will be re-released when I stabilize the API. The source is available upon request (e-mail me), the license has also been switched to BSD from GPL.

Other projects I have worked on are listed here.

Skills

Platforms
Linux (CentOS, RHEL, Debian, Gentoo), MacOS X, Windows 2K / XP / 2K3 / 2K8 / Vista, Solaris
Languages
PHP, AJAX, Scheme, C\C++, Perl, SQL, Visual Basic .NET, VBScript, C# (currently learning)
Tools
Drupal, SDL, FMod, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Developer Studio, Open Office, KDevelop, Quanta, The Gimp, Photoshop, MySQL, SQL Server, Apache (with SSL), SAMBA, vi, GNOME, KDE, Enlighenment, LDAP, Kerberos