Phillip Pollard -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 W Main St - Rear * Lansdale, PA 19446 * 215.412.3056 * phil@crescendo.net Objective: A position as a developer and/or systems administrator that allows for the contribution and further development of creative skills and the application of new technologies. Skills: Languages: Perl (CGI, DBI, OO, strict), HTML (HTML, DHTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript), SQL, Shell Script (sh, bash), Java, C, PHP, Action Script, XML/XSLT, JSP, ASP Authoring applications: Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, Director, Flash, SoundForge, Deck, ProTools, DeBabelizer, Streamline, Astound Platform OS: Linux (Kernel: 1.9.100-2.6.x; Distributions: Mandriva (Mandrake), RedHat, LFS, Debian, Unbutu, CentOS, DSL, SuSE, Yellow Dog, Slackware, etc), MacOS (6.0-10.4.7), Windows (3.x Ð XP), Solaris (2.6-2.8), Dos (3.0-6.22), Familiar: AIX, HP/UX, Digital UNIX, Vax/VMS Other Applications: Databases: Oracle, MsSQL Sybase, Postgres, MySQL, msSQL Unix Admin: httpd, sendmail, postfix, named, etc Version Control: cvs, pcvs Work Experience: Mar 2005 Ð May 2006 Chief Technical Officer Diamond Visuals, Inc. - Co-designed and implemented club visualizations systems. Specifically specializing in embedded systems that produced real-time visualizations based upon analysis of audio input that included the usage of static images, S-Video, composite, and cable TV (NTSC/PAL/SECAM) inputs, and internally-rendered 2D and 3D graphics - Solely responsible for building embedded OS for high availability application. This included security lockout measures, product upgrades via encrypted CD, minimal disc access, and other product dictated constraints. Application was designed to run 24/7 in a hot equipment closet with limited RAM, CPU, and storage resources. - Solely responsible for maintaining system infrastructure, development environment, code repository, and QA procedures. Additionally designed and developed database-driven E-commerce website including external credit authorization interfacing. Apr 2002 Ð Mar 2005 Lead Fulfillment Developer Health Market Science - Functioned as a fulfillment developer to fulfill customer contracts from internal and custom coded data products with multiple overlaid deadlines. As lead developer, responsibilities included the screening, hiring, training and mentoring of client developers. - Oversaw the growth of the client delivery group as lead developer while production volume increased 500% and the average revenue value of each project increased 10-fold. - Constructed a versioned and structured instance of the company data to be used for statistical analysis and consistent customer deliveries. Authored the delivery toolset for data manipulation and product fulfillment. Additionally documented and standardized existing tools. - Designed and implemented QA toolsets and procedures resulting in a 40% drop in identified data deficiencies delivered to customers. Maintained historic quality metrics for trend analysis. Was solely responsible for quality verification between major product releases. - Collected and drafted requirements for several company-wide projects include project tracking and management, future releases of our core data management software, customer interfacing websites, and QA tools and processes. Apr 2001 Ð Apr 2002 Sole Proprietor (consulting) Crescendo Communications (1996 Ð present) - General technical consulting including web-design, web application design, network design, system administration, financial transaction systems and systems recovery. - Maintain and host more than 35 domains. Author and maintain applications as required. - Clients in this period include: Diversified Consulting, Efirms.com, Check Recovery Systems, etc Sep 2000 Ð Apr 2001 User Interface Engineer and Programmer Safeguard Global Services, Inc. - Served as sole visual and UI designer for Service View product as well as all other product including requirements gathering, specification, design, implementation, testing, and production. Position required frequent coordination with marketing and technical staffs. - Produced the Service View product interface with a mix of technologies as dictated by requirements. (XHTML, Flash, JavaScript, JSP on BEA Weblogic (J2EE) and Oracle) Utilized templating to simultaneously prototype and author interface changes in HTML and JSP. - Additionally created company Inventory Tracking system and maintained company website. Sep 1999 Ð Jun 2000 Systems Administrator CdNow, Inc. - Functioned in the capacity of Systems Administrator. Additional areas of focus were operator training and systems monitoring. - Developed an internal monitoring system, resulting in a drop in duplicate and unnecessary notifications as well as response time improvement. - Systems maintained included more than 90 live servers, mostly Sun "big iron" (Ultra 2 - E10K). Jan 1998 Ð Sep 1999 Media Engineer Science Applications International Corporation - Responsible for authoring and quality control of all media deliverables of all division projects and many subcontracts. Deliverable formats included video production, audio production, web-site design, interactive CD authoring, web application design, and presentation enhancing. - Additionally functioned as secondary Systems Administrator on divisional and project tasks. - Several contracts required Department of Defense Collateral Secret and Top Secret SCI clearances. (Work examples may not be available for classified projects.) Non-Employment Positions: Sep 2005 Ð present Director (member of the board of directors), Seated musician Bucks County Symphony Orchestra Jan 2000 Ð present Seated musician Bucks County Community Wind Ensemble Education: James Madison University (Harrisonburg, Virginia) Bachelor of Science, Media Arts and Design (1997) Naples American High School (Naples, Italy) High School Diploma (1993) References are available upon request.