Richard Lynch - Resume

Richard Lynch
6112 North Wolcott
Chicago, IL 60660-2324
773-531-1591

Objective:

Full-time, part-time, or contract employment developing dynamic web applications using PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL and related technologies in Chicago city limits or telecommuting.

Experience

23 years experience programming in PHP3, PHP4, PHP5, OOP, Lisp, C, and C++, and development with related technologies such as GD, libPDF, Ming, FDFToolkit, cURL, SMTP, cron, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, and Sybase on Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Solaris/OpenSolaris using methodoligies from cvs/svn to agile.

2008-2008 Peak 6 virtual stock trading with social networking components
PHP, Facebook, OpenSocial and Google Gadgets APIs
2008 Where Ive Been performance metrics analysis and web-scraping contract
PHP, MySQL, FusionCharts, Amazon AWS/EC2, Facebook APIs
2006-2008 Sagacity, Inc converted seven years of flat-file HTML and a year's backlog of email messages to a dynamic interative site in a high-traffic distributed application environment
PHP, MySQL, high traffic digital content network distributed server, IMAP, curl
1998-2008 Uncommon Ground created web presence for small coffeehouse which now enjoys 1,000,000 hits per month. Streamlined Bookings process immeasurably from paper tedium to Internet speed
PHP, PostgreSQL, libPDF, social networking
2006 National Systems improved ordering system for point-of-sale systems utilized by major restaurant chains
PHP, Mumps, SMS (text messaging)
2005-2006 Info.com expanded meta search engine content areas in high-traffic site
PHP, high traffic distributed servers, SOAP, REST, RPC, OCR, web scrape
2004-2005 JG Global Technologies worked on web-based medical claims application
PHP, FDF Toolkit, GD
2001-2004 Independent Contractor on a multitude of websites
PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, every major PHP shopping cart/forum/CMS
2000-2001 Zend as Customer Support Director
Implemented trouble ticket system for customer support in PHP & MySQL
Provided final tier support for enterprise customers
Presented Zend Engine talk at PHP Conference in Montreal
Answered technical queries at OSCON, PHP Conference, and LinuxWorld conferences
PHP, MySQL, phplib, trade shows
1999-2000 Ignition State Implemented Job Applicant screening system
ASP, SQL Server
1995-1999 Cognitive Arts as Senior Software Engineer built a number of customer software desktop applications
Lisp, C++ and JavaScript
1989-1995 Institute for the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University as Lead Analyst implemented various Artificial Intelligence projects for research and corporate use in
Lisp and C++
1985-1989 Holy Trinity High School taught computer science
TRS-80 BASIC, Pascal, Logo

Publication

1998-2008 Frequent contributor to the PHP mailing lists
JUN 2004 php|architect article "PHP | FDF"
FEB 2000 Founded first PHP User Group
1999,2001 PHP 4 Bible and MySQL/PHP Database Applications as Technical Editor

Education:

DePaul University completed all coursework for MS in Computer Science program, concentrating in Artificial Intelligence
University of Notre Dame BS in Honors Mathematics

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