Parnell Alexander Springmeyer

• Python 2.x and 3.x
  
  • [Framework] Pylons
    
• PHP 5.3.x
  
  • [Framework] KohanaPHP
    
• Scheme (Racket)
  
• Erlang
  
• Objective-C
  
• Javascript
  

• XHTML
  
• RDF
  
  • RDFS
    
  • RDFa
    
• Topic Maps
  
• XML
  
• XSLT
  

• Emacs
  
• Mercurial (hg)
  
• Subversion (svn)
  
• Chrome
  

• Mac OS X
  
• FreeBSD
  
• Linux
  

June 2010 - Present

Best Blogs

Erica Douglass ([http://erica.biz]) contacted me about an early
stage startup she was working on. Best Blogs provides a syndicated
and aggregated list of the best blogs on the internet; it also
provides tools for blog owners and is planned to provide a
recommendation engine for users and blogs that they may like.

Erica hired me to re-build the application from scratch using
Python.

December 2008 - June 2010

Kohana

KohanaPHP is a thriving open-source web application framework
built on the PHP programming language.

I had core commit access and played a key role in a few of the
core features, much of the core documentation, bugfixing, and
authored many 3rd party developer approved modules.

My participation with this project has been put on hold as I am
currently working with the Python/Pylons web application stack.

April 2010 - June 2010

Raster Media

Raster Media approached me with a security sensitive project named
Life Cellar that was intending to be a "home away from home" for
your important documents in the event an emergency happened.

I designed, engineered, and built the first iteration of the web
application. The requirements called for:

• dynamic form building using AJAX
  
• secure encryption of data
  
• share documents or document repositories with contacts
  
• administrative impersonation of users for assistance
  
• &c…
  

  
  

This project took six weeks for its first iteration.

January 1010 - March 2010

Vivid Web Graphics

Sean Ansari (sole proprietor of Vivid Web Graphics) approached me
with a project for a client of his that needed a writer's
marketplace with a twist. That twist was to provide randomized
internet marketing copy-writing to buyers by dividing a buyer's
order into a randomized set of jobs that any writer signed up on
the site could pick from and work on. The project was named Sqrib.

The project used a crude URL page scraper to (try) and verify
content was posted by writers on the specified web address and a
copy protection service was also used to check for original work.

This project took a total of ten weeks for its first complete
iteration.

January 2009 - July 2009

Raster Media

I was employed at Raster Media (prior to my being contracted by
them, as noted above) for six months and was responsible for two
major projects, assistance and maintenance on a few small projects
and a big client project Western Veterinary Conference, as well
as the design and setup of their entire development infrastructure
and pipeline.

The projects I worked on (that are on the web):

• En-Auctions
  
• Western Veterinary Conference
  

May 2008 - December 2008

BOOMj.com, Beyond Commerce

I was employed at BOOMj.com (now BeyondCommerce.com) and was
responsible for these projects:

• National geolocated adserver (PHP/Python) software and client widget
  
• Custom order processing and confirmation system (PHP)
  
• Subversion Synchronization System (Python/Subversion)
  
• Feed and video scraping client (PHP)
  
• Custom search page/engine (PHP)
  
• Two million+ image resizing and archival tool (PHP)
  

May 2007 - May 2008

UNLV Tickets

I was employed at the Thomas and Mack Center entertainment venue
and worked on a number of their small projects:

• National Finals Rodeo
  
• World Cup Las Vegas
  
• Score Las Vegas
  
• UNLV Rebel Athletic Fund
  
• USA Judo Las Vegas