Jason Gordon

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NOTE: This thing's outta date. I work as a Sr. Developer at 2Advanced Studios doing PHP, Python, C# .NET, MySQL, Kohana blah blah keyword keyword. Lots of work, lots of projects lots of challenge. It's a good gig.

Jason Gordon is a Technical Specialist with The Revere Group. He has been professionally developing web applications in various languages since 2002. Jason established himself early in his career creating asset management applications for large media and entertainment corporations. After developing a solid web application development foundation Jason moved into content management systems (CMS). For the last 3 years Jason has developed exhaustive expertise in the Drupal framework and now leads in development of various content management projects based on Drupal. Jason holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from California State University Long Beach and is active in his local PHP community.

Professional Experience

  • The Revere Group - Technical Specialist (2008-Current): Senior PHP developer specializing in Drupal development. Working for Mel Takata, currently in competition for best boss ever.
  • WorkHabit - Senior Software Engineer (Jan 2008-Jun 2008): Did a stint as a senior Drupal developer at WorkHabit. Revere offered a much better opportunity so I chose to move on.
  • Planetwide Media - Senior Software Engineer (Aug 2006 - Jan 2008): Built Hypercomics.com, a robust social network for comic book creators powered by drupal. Worked for Ralph Siebert, competing for best boss ever.
  • Kofax Imaging Products - Pro Services Consultant (Oct 2005 - Aug 2006): Worked in the document imaging industry building custom applications on top of Kofax products using MS technologies (VB, .NET, SQL Server etc.)
  • Avid Technologies (formerly NxN) - Application Engineer (Oct 2003 - Oct 2005): Worked in the Game and Film entertainment industry building custom applications on top of NxN's Alienbrain using MS tech and Java. Worked for Merten Stroetzel, the best boss ever (still the winner).

Noteworthy Projects 

DoctorOz.com
Lead themer and performance specialist for Zoco's Dr. Oz website. I developed all front end pieces of this application, many back end pieces and did all performance tuning. This is the hardest project I've worked on because it gets so much traffic, it's a drupal site, and drupal is REALLY hard to scale.

  • Learned an immense amount about performance tuning drupal including Boost cache, Authcache, Amazon EC2, Scalr, Peissler load testing and the list goes on.
  • Polished javascript skills, especially in the way of ajax forms processing.
  • Succeeded in bringing to life a drupal site that can handle 20,000 unique visitors per day, and potentially many many more. The site is listed as 1200th in the world  terms of magnitude of web traffic
Lead themer for ABC’s The View website. I primarily developed all front end pieces on this application. Working together with a back end developer we were able to implement and deliver this application in less than 2 months. The schedule was very tight but because our development process had become very refined, everything went incredibly smoothly.
  • Extended jquery skillset to create fairly complex ajax and jquery carousels.
  • Brought my x-browser HTML/CSS design skills to the next level.
  • Reused existing expertise in many common drupal areas to create this website in record time.

Image-Metrics.com
Working in both front end and back end developer roles I was able to completely own this clean and well structured Drupal site. By the time I’d begun working on this project my development processes were quite mature and as a result this project went very smoothly, was on time and on budget. It looks great and shows well.

  • Extended Drupal expertise in menu subsystem.
  • Managed all aspects of development including a 3 tiered deployment architecture, task and bug management systems and parallel development (graphics and code) coordination.
  • Improved theming/design skills.

Hypercomics.com
Lead developer of a full featured social network for comic book creators integrated with a Windows desktop application called Comic Book Creator. Responsible for application architecture design and implementation. Coordinated a team of 5 people including an artist, a designer, a Javascript engineer and a PHP engineer.

  • Developed solid expertise in the Drupal platform
  • Effectively coordinated a 5 person team to meet deadlines and deliver a bleeding edge system.
  • Considerably improved skills in web application performance optimization and hardware architecture.

Texas State Birth Certificate Management System
Consulting Engineer responsible for customization of a product intended to catalog all Texas State birth certificates. Successfully delivered a set of several .NET and VB 6.0 components for a system which augmented a mostly automated process of reading, scanning and ingesting birth certificate data into a database. The components were designed to eliminate as much manual data entry as possible.

  • Developed functional expertise in .NET windows application development.
  • Created a smart algorithm to stream line data entry by predicting the value(s) of certain pieces of data which improved the speed of the system by over 1000 percent.

Digital Asset Library
Design, development and delivery of a digital asset management system based on Avid’s Alienbrain object oriented database. The system was a medium scale search application designed specifically for archiving digital assets like 3D models, textures and the like. The interface was very clean and the system is still in use today (developed in 2003).

  • Developed a Java Server Pages framework using Java 1.2.
  • Improved skill with Apache web server and Apache Tomcat servlet container.

 

Skills Profile
Technical: PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Apache Web Server, Lighttpd Web Server, MySQL, SQL, Unix, Windows, MacOSX, XML, Java, Java Server Paches, Apache Tomcat, .NET, Visual Basic, C++, VBScript

Functional: Experienced software engineer, CMS expertise, client relations and customer service

Education
CSULB, Long Beach, CA, Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science, 2003

Certifications
Certified Document Imaging Architect (CDIA+)


Publications/Presentations

  • “Content Management Systems” Presentation at Orange County Multimedia Association meeting, Santa Ana CA, December 2007
  • Senior Instructor for “OC PHP Presents Drupal” training seminars