HOLFORD INDUSTRIES
CONSULTING AND DEVELOPMENT FOR WWW
CONSULTING AND DEVELOPMENT FOR WWW
SPECIALIZATION
HI provides efficient and cost-effective web solutions for clients ranging from non-profits to major media organizations. HI brings ten years of web development experience to each project, and takes advantage of common, open-source technologies, intelligent administrative interfaces, and well-tested development methods to empower each client to take control of a web presence with minimal technical experience.
SKILLS
Languages PHP, JSP, JHTML; HTML, XHTML, XML; CSS2; SQL variants; Java; JavaScript; Unix scripting; AppleScript; Perl
Administration Unix including Redhat through 9.0, Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Cobalt RaQ 550; MySQL, PostgresQL, Oracle SQL Server, Informix SQL; Apache Web Server, ATG Dynamo, Netscape Web Server, iPlanet, Jakarta Tomcat
EXPERIENCE
Helen Marie, Inc.
Brooklyn, New York
September 2004 – Present
Technical Director
Developed projects for clients ranging from HBO and MTV to small businesses with an emphasis on dynamic content, community building, and user administration; clients are empowered to maintain their site content through simple, powerful, forms-based administration areas
@radical.media, Inc.
New York, New York
October 1999 – September 2004
Technical Lead, Emerging Media Group
Developed award-winning web applications for top-tier clients including Nike, Metallica, George Harrison, Johnson & Johnson, Errol Morris, Rockwell Group, and The Innocence Project (see URL list)
iXL, Inc.
New York, New York
April 1999 – October 1999
Senior Web Author
Produced web applications for clients including Sotheby's, Sony, Mike Milken, ABC, and GE
Authoring Team Leader for Sotheby's auction engine; Lead Author for Taste for Living, Inc.
Pointed Communications
Boston, Massachusetts
April 1998 – February 1999
Web Developer
Lead designer and producer for clients including MIT and Harvard University
Specialized in academic and small business design
Harvard School of Public Health, Dept. of Biostatistics
Boston, Massachusetts
June 1996 – March 1998
Technical Administrator
Web development and design for the Harvard medical community's first-ever web site. Introduced Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript
Technical support for Biostatistics faculty, including LaTeX coding, PC hardware / Windows support
EDUCATION
Masters Student in Jazz Piano Performance at NYU
BA in Philosophy, Brown University, May, 1996
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Suphala
- PHP 5, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, Compliant XHTML
- With Helen Marie, designed, developed, and deployed in our open-source fraHMwork
- Single-page user experience that allows instantaneous access of site content in two panes
- Big fun with Dojo for Ajax
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Active Citizen Project / The People's Platform
http://www.thepeoplesplatform.com/
http://www.thepeopleselection.com/
- PHP 5, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, Compliant XHTML
- With Helen Marie, designed, developed, and deployed two web sites sharing code library and database
- Constructed back end on our open-source fraHMwork
- Big fun with Dojo for Ajax
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FLUX MTV
Last seen at www.flux.com
- Java, Web Services, XML, JHTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS
- As part of a two-person team, developed classes for sending Web Services queries and parsing the results, caching layer for efficient results retrieval, and front-end presentation through JHTML and Dynamo Servlet Beans
- Integration with MTV's environment and Java libraries
- JavaScript / DOM forms integration for quick retrieval of user information
- JavaScript / CSS to write browser-aware PNG backgrounds
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National Black Programming Consortium
- PHP, XHTML, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS 2
- Customized content management system based on the Helen Marie open-source fraHMwork
- Integration with PEAR Log, DataObject, DB, and Auth classes
- Standards- and accessibility-compliant XHTML, CSS2
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Studio Red
- PHP, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS 2
- Standards- and accessibility-compliant XHTML, CSS2
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Listen Up! 2.0
- PHP, XHTML, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS 2
- Extensive content and media management system
- Standards- and accessibility-compliant XHTML, CSS2
- Media storage cooordinated with Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org)
- Sole developer of 45,000+ physical source lines of object-oriented PHP 5 (generated using David A. Wheeler's SLOCCount), extensively integrated with the PEAR library
- Cobalt server setup, configuration, and maintenance
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Metallica's “Some Kind Of Monster”
http://www.somekindofmonster.com/
- PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS
- Scripting and data collection for high-traffic web site
- Administrative site allowing Metallica staff to download volunteer database as ready-to-use Excel spreadsheets generated on the fly
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Robert Keeley Electronics
- PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS
- Includes full site administration area for live updates of products, product information, product collections, and images through simple forms-based interface
- Uploading features to maintain various kinds of data: images, PDF documents, MP3 files
- Developed on a tight budget using highly-efficient hybrid of object-oriented and procedural PHP
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Nike's The Road To Paris (online 2001)
Legacy site URL available on request
- JSP, HTML, JavaScript
- First site ever to pass Nike's internal quality assurance testing on first pass
- Industrial Design Excellence Bronze Award, 2002
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George Harrison
http://www.georgeharrison.com/
- HTML, Perl, JavaScript
- Efficient data collection, postcard mailing scripts for extremely high-traffic site
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The Innocence Project
http://www.innocenceproject.org/
- PHP, XML, HTML, JavaScript
- Custom developed administrative backend for client for easy updates to the site's databases and HTML
- On-the-fly charts based on forms-based data entry
- Industrial Design Excellence Bronze Award, 2002