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James Christopher
Hardie
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| Contact
Information |
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914 E Main St.
Richmond, IN 47374
(765) 939-9301 x201
chris@summersault.com
( more ways to contact me )
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| Personal |
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Male, born in 1977, unmarried
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| Education |
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Graduated with a B.A. in Computer
Science, College Honors, and Departmental Honors from Earlham
College, Richmond, Indiana in 1999.
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| Key Strengths |
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- Entrepreneurial; always building, creating, orchestrating and innovating
- Experienced team leader and problem solver
- Excellent customer service vision and values
- Highly effective communicator
- 15+ years experience with web application development tools and related technologies
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| Professional
Experience |
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Summersault,
LLC
Principal and Co-founder
08-15-1997 to present
Started successful and profitable website development and consulting
business. As Principal, I manage and participate in most all
aspects of company operations and development. See company website at summersault.com
for more information.
Earlham College
Adjunct Course Instructor
04-02-2003 to
05-01-2006
Taught courses in Robotics and Software Engineering to upper class Computer Science students. Developed and administered course curricula, lectures, labs, exams and related materials. Counseled students on engineering best practices and related educational goals.
Earlham College Database Administrators
Group
11-01-1996 to 11-01-1999
Worked as a database administrator for the College's Oracle databases
and a software developer for WebDB,
the College's central web interface to the databases. In the spring
of 1999, performed a major redesign and implementation (both database
and software) of WebDB into a more powerful tool that the College
continued to extend and build on.
Earlham College Computer
Science Department
09-20-1995 to 01-10-1999
Worked as a system administrator, lab manager, and webmaster for
the department. Administered a cluster of Digital DECstations,
a cluster of NeXT stations, and a mix of FreeBSD, Sun/Solaris,
and Linux servers, along with several Macintosh and Windows labs.
Performed group management tasks, system and network configuration
and maintenance, user support, and disaster recovery tasks.
Amerisuites Hotels
06-06-1994 to 08-10-1995
Worked as a senior desk clerk and front desk manager at a property
in Indianapolis for this nationwide chain of all-suite hotels.
Organized desk operations, performed reservations, sales, marketing,
and customer care duties. Developed interpersonal skills, management
skills, and extensive knowledge of customer service procedures.
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| Specific Technical Skill Areas |
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Unless otherwise noted, I have expert experience in these areas:
Software Development
- Web application information architecture and blueprinting
- Complex database schema design
- Technical writing and documentation
- Designing high-availability applications (load balancing, mod_perl, etc.)
- Quality assurance (automated testing, peer review techniques, launch process design)
- Very proficient in PERL, SQL, HTML, Javascript, and UNIX Shell
scripting; capable of writing in C and PHP
System Administration
- Designing high-availability web application infrastructure (redundancy and failover, load balancing, replication, scaling)
- Administering UNIX systems, primarily Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. (I can also make a Windows box do what it's supposed to.)
- Network architecture and security (firewall design, intrusion detection, systems monitoring, encryption)
- Database system administration (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
- Anti-spam theory and techniques; author, The qmail Anti-Spam HOWTO, featured in various qmail guides and books
- qmail mail server software setup and administration (and related
packages like vpopmail, qmailadmin, ezmlm, mhonarc, etc)
- Apache web server software setup and administration
- End-user technical support systems design, especially in a web hosting context
Multimedia
- Effective graphic design principles
- Professional web design/development software, particularly Photoshop, Imageready and
Dreamweaver
- Video design, production and editing for short films and documentaries
- Podcast design, production and promotion
Consulting
- Small business creation and management
- Business finance
- Effective client communications
- Customer service effectiveness auditing
- Project management
- Group facilitation, public speaking and training
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| Other Affiliations |
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| Other
Experience |
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- Op-ed Writer and Page Editor for The
Earlham Word, 1997-1998
- Public Radio Station Disk Jockey and Training Director at
WECI Richmond, 1996-1998
- 40 hours of private pilot training in a Cessna 182, 1996-1997
- Amateur magician and juggler
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