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DARREN PETERSEN

Current Career Goal:


To join a well-managed group of Drupal developers who are working on interesting projects and
contributing to the Drupal community. This team of developers should use version control,
configuration management, unit testing, and have a sense of humor.

SKILLS
 2.5 years experience building sites with Drupal 5 & 6, including custom theming
and module development.
 Drupal development with Context, Features, Feeds, Data and Panels modules,
Date and Views APIs, and custom modules.
 Linux, Apache, MySQL configuration and server maintenance
 10 years development experience with PHP and MySQL.
 User interface design with (X)HTML, CSS, Javascript.
 jQuery, Ajax and XML/JSON skills, plus integration of web service APIs &
RESTful HTTP services.
 Application architecture and database design.
 MVC application development in PHP, Ruby, & Coldfusion using various
frameworks including CakePHP and Rails.
 Agile methods (Scrum), unit testing, and SVN/Git
 Web application security.

EXPERIENCE
2010-2011 ServerLogic Tigard, OR
Drupal Developer
Senior developer for a Drupal shop focused on public sector clients, including
higher education, libraries, and non-profit groups.

Developed solutions for conference management, openlayers mapping, online


business magazine, and document management sites.

Recent work includes http://blogs.mccombs.utexas.edu, http://texasenterprise.org

2009-2010 University of North Texas Denton, TX


IT Manager III
PHP web development, focused on Drupal site building and theming, training and
project management.

Led a team of site builders who implemented Drupal as a content management


solution for multiple academic and student service areas at UNT.

2005-2009 University of North Texas Denton, TX

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1010 KINGS ROW • DENTON, TX 76209• PHONE (940) 595-0995
Programmer/Computer Systems Manager

Lead developer responsible for multiple web applications, including university-wide


calendar, news, maps systems for internal and external communications, and built
features for marketing and recruitment sites.

Developed in PHP/Drupal and Coldfusion, using MySQL and MS SQL Server


databases. Also fixed security issues for a variety of web applications at UNT.

2006-2010 BrownCo Media, LLC Denton, TX


Owner
Web application development using PHP/MySQL, with a focus on Drupal and
CakePHP application framework.

LAMP server configuration and maintenance, including DNS and Postfix/MySQL


integration.

2003-2005 The Morrison Milling Company Denton, TX


Web Developer
Implemented and oversaw eCommerce project. Customized and extended
PHP/MySQL based store and built additional projects as needed.

1998-2001 East Hill Foursquare Church Gresham, OR


Network and desktop support
Built websites with Perl & PHP, managed Linux and Windows servers

EDUCATION
2010 Lullabot Training Washington, DC
Module Development Deep Dive

2007 University of North Texas Denton, TX


Bachelors of Music, Jazz Studies w/ concentration in Saxophone

INTERESTS
Primary tools:
Drupal
Linux, MySQL, PHP, XHTML, CSS
Javascript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON
Git, Subversion
Coldfusion, MS SQL Server

Some experience with:


Ruby/Rails, ActionScript/Flex, XML/XSLT, Visual Basic, C#, Java

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RESOURCES THAT I’VE FOUND USEFUL

Drupal companies and community members I follow:

Lullabot, Development Seed, Phase 3, 4 Kitchens, Node One, Metal Toad,


Dries Buytaert, Angie Byron, Jeff Eaton, Randy Fay, lots of others

Other web development, IA, UX and metrics resources:

http://www.alistapart.com

http://www.ajaxian.com

http://developer.yahoo.com – specifically, for Javascript best practices


according to Douglas Crockford

http://www.kaushik.net/avinash - web metrics and business intelligence

http://xkcd.com

Freeman, Elisabeth, et al. Head First Design Patterns. O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Hunt, Andrew and Thomas, David. The Pragmatic Programmer. Addison-


Wesley, 2000.

37Signals. Getting Real. Self-published by 37Signals, LLC.

McConnell, Steve. Code Complete. Redmond, WA:Microsoft Press

Wodtke, Christina and Govella, Austin. Information Architecture:


Blueprints for the Web. New Riders, 2009

Young, Indi. Mental Models: Aligning design strategy with human behavior.
Rosenfeld Media, February 2008.

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