Objective: A position where I can enjoy writing code.

Technology Experience

Work Experience

Links to most of my work can be found at <http://www.darkrainfall.org/>.

Independent Developer (2000-Present)

• Currently designing a new programming language with the hope of solving some limitations of existing languages.
• Leading the development of a tool for simplifing use of the CMake buildsystem for large projects.
• Wrote a partial emulator for the original IBM PC, a work in progress.

PHP Columnist (2009)

• Wrote the article "Writing Custom PHP Extensions", published in the July 2009 issue of php|architect magazine.

PHP Source Code Developer (2008-Present, Volunteer)

• Proposed and implemented the "nowdoc" feature in PHP, new with version 5.3.
• Led the effort to convert PHP's source code repository from CVS to Subversion, completed July 2009.
• Outlined and contributed comprehensive documentation for the Zend engine.

Database Manager, Senior Programmer, Website Developer (2005-2007)

SkyTag Software, Inc.

• (http://www.skytag.com)

• Engineered a World Wide Web-based interface for internal and customer management of software licenses.
• Learned cryptographic techniques for serial number generation.
• Interfaced the customer database with e-commerce provider Kagi (no longer in use).
• Directed the upgrade path for the File Buddy application from classic Mac OS to Mac OS X.
• Created visually appealing disk images for software distribution.

Independent Contractor (2001-2002)

Daniel Rubein

• Modified version 3.1 of the GNU C preprocessor (http://gcc.gnu.org) to accept PHP code without errors.

References

References are available upon request.