Derek Gathright (913) 226-6363 drgath@gmail.com US MO 64105 Kansas City 200 Main Street, Unit 514 To obtain a leadership position in the field of Web Development Tweenky.com US www.tweenky.com Tweenky is an experimental micro-blogging web client that supports various services such as Twitter and Identi.ca. Tweenky has been has been featured on blogs such as TechCrunch and Go2Web2.0. It is being built using a combination of Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3), jQuery, PHP, Linux, Apache, and MySQL. July 2008 Present Catholic Content, LLC US KS Overland Park www.mycatholicvoice.com Architected & developed social media website mycatholicvoice.com. Evaluated and assessed software needs for development tools and web services. Interviewed & hired additional in-house development resources and managed development tasks with outsourced & contract resources. Developed multimedia transcoding queue and delivery platform for audio, video, images, documents, and downloads. Developed REST API interface for interaction with MyCatholicVoice data. Designed relational database schema. Wrote specifications for development projects. Managed advertising platform and designed ad delivery network. Established working partnerships with companies such as Rackspace, Limelight Networks, Scribd, & Burst Media. Configured & managed development/production servers running on Red Hat Enterprise Edition 4, Ubuntu, and Windows. Mycatholicvoice.com was built using the following technologies; Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, SQS), Linux, Apache, LigHTTPD, MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP5, Kohana PHP framework, Code Igniter PHP framework, FFMpeg, jQuery, & ADODB. March 2007 Present Gragg Advertising US MO Kansas City www.graggadv.com Develop internal/client web projects & interactive marketing campaigns. Traffic analysis reports for client websites & email campaigns. Utilize SEO strategies to design search engine optimized websites. Maintain & troubleshoot employee computer systems and Linux servers. Develop API clients to transfer data between Gragg and affiliate systems. Technologies used; Linux, Apache, PHP5, Javascript, HTML, CSS, & MySQL. June 2006 July 2007 Nuvio US KS Overland Park www.nuvio.com Manage Nuvio’s corporate website and 200+ partner websites. Acted as technical contact for Nuvio's engineering department. Developed user interfaces for Voice over IP services and company intranet. Designed, developed, & managed API interface for remote interaction with between partners and the Nuvio system. Technologies used; Javascript, HTML, CSS, XML, CVS, MySQL & PostgreSQL database systems. January 2005 June 2006 UNI Computers US KS Lawrence www.unicomputers.com Sell company products and services. Design custom IT solutions for home, business, and educational environments. Research and education of new products and technologies. June 2004 June 2005 University of Kansas Network and Telecom Services US KS Lawrence nts.ku.edu Troubleshoot and repair customer’s hardware and software problems. Set up data networks, phone systems, and cable TV networks. June 2003 June 2004 www.ku.edu University of Kansas Bachelors of Arts 1999-2004 Communication Studies History