Brev Patterson
Frontend Engineer & Web Developer

http://brev.name
http://www.linkedin.com/in/brevitae
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408-548-7610
Sunnyvale, CA, United States

Text version last updated: Feb 2010



CAREER


Yahoo!
Lead Engineer
Jul 2007 - Present
Sunnyvale, CA
Engineering Manager, Lead Engineer, Lead Frontend Engineer, Hiring
Manager, and Scrum Master for Yahoo! Local Search, Upcoming, and Yahoo!
Neighbors. These sites serve several million users per day.

Backcountry.com
Lead Engineer
Aug 2002 - Jul 2007
Park City, UT
Team Lead and Lead Engineer for a scalable platform of seven online retail
stores. Each month these sites handled millions of dollars in sales, and
several hundred thousand users.

Red Hat
Senior Web Developer
Feb 2001 - Jun 2002
Reston, VA
Built a turnkey e-commerce software suite that received favorable reviews
in the trade press. Created a wiki-based web application that powered the
corporate intranet. Developed enterprise web solutions for clients such as
Compaq, Canon, and McGraw-Hill.

Mediabang!
Web Developer
Jul 1999 - Feb 2001
Salt Lake City, UT
Created dynamic websites for clients such as the Sundance Film Festival,
Franklin Covey, Brewvies, and the Utah Highway Patrol.

XMission
Support Engineer
Apr 1995 - Jul 1997
Salt Lake City, UT
Customer support for Utah's first and largest Internet Service Provider.
Developed web-based statistics monitoring to watch the health of routers and
servers. Created a CD-ROM installer for new user connectivity software.

Starnet
Junior Software Developer
Dec 1994 - Apr 1995
Salt Lake City, UT
Developed client software and user interfaces for an early video server
system. Captured embedded data in video streams for statistics generation.



SKILLS


Fresh Skills

Backend:
CPAN, CGI, Kohana, MVC, MySQL, PEAR, Perl, PHP, OOP, Shell, SQL, Unicode

Frontend:
AJAX, Cookies, DOM, Javascript, YUI

Markup:
Accessibility, Atom, CSS, HTML, Microformats, RDF, RDFa, RSS, SEO, Web
Standards, XML, XSLT

Operating Systems:
FreeBSD, Linux, OS/X, Windows

Process:
Agile, Scrum, Scrum Mastering, Waterfall

Source Control:
CVS, Git, Subversion

Studio:
Audio Production, Google Docs, Graphic Design, Illustrator, Microsoft
Office, Music Recording, Photography, Photoshop, Typography

Web Services:
Apache, HTTP, JSON, OAuth, OpenID, REST, SOA


Rusty Skills

Backend:
Assembly Language, Barcoding, BASIC, Cisco IOS, C/C++, Credit Card
Processing, GPG, Interchange, Lisp, Pascal, PGP, Sessions, SOAP, Visual Basic

Databases:
Access, Oracle, PostgreSQL

Frontend:
3D Graphics, Actionscript, Flash, jQuery, Konfabulator, Prototype JS,
Scriptaculous, Yahoo! Widgets

Integrations:
Amazon Stores, Amazon Web Services, Commission Junction, CRM, E-bay
Stores, Google Checkout, Google Base, UPS, USPS, Volusion

Operating Systems:
MS-DOS, OS/2, Solaris

Product:
Affiliate Marketing, E-commerce, Web Analytics

System Administration:
Bind, DNS, IIS, Networking, Network Architecture, NFS, Red Hat Network,
RPM, SNMP, sTunnel



EFFORT


School

2005
Visual Communication & Design (BS)
Anthropology Minor
Weber State University
Ogden, UT

2002
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Red Hat
Washington, DC

1995
Summer Computing Institute (SCI)
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT


Groups

2005
AIGA
American Institute of Graphic Arts
Salt Lake City, UT Chapter

2001
Interchange
Interchange Development Group
Open-Source Web Application Server Project

1994
Lapse
Lapse BBS ANSi Art Scene Group
Artist, Musician, and Coder


Awards

2004
Provost and Ogden Blue Awards
Annual Student Art Exhibition
Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery

2004
Poetry Publication
Metaphor, Spring, Volume 23
Weber State University

2003
Foundations Today Art Exhibition
Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery


Resume

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