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    <header>
        <name>
            <firstname>Brev</firstname>
            <surname>Patterson</surname>
        </name>
        <address>
            <city>Sunnyvale</city>
            <state>CA</state>
            <province>37.371944,-122.026111</province>
            <country>United States</country>
        </address>
        <contact>
            <phone>408-548-7610</phone>
            <email>me@brev.name</email>
            <url>http://brev.name</url>
            <url>http://www.linkedin.com/in/brevitae</url>
        </contact>
    </header>
    <objective>
        <para>Frontend Engineer &amp; Web Developer</para>
    </objective>
    <history>
        <job>
            <jobtitle>Lead Engineer</jobtitle>
            <employer><link href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo!</link></employer>
            <location>
                <city>Sunnyvale</city>
                <state>CA</state>
                <country>37.371944,-122.026111</country>
            </location>
            <period>
                <from>
                    <date>
                        <month>July</month>
                        <year>2007</year>
                    </date>
                </from>
                <to>
                    <present />
                </to>
            </period>
            <description>
                <para>
                    Engineering Manager, Lead Engineer, Lead Frontend
                    Engineer, Hiring Manager, and Scrum Master for 
                    <link href="http://local.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Local Search</link>,
                    <link href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com">Upcoming</link>, and 
                    <link href="http://neighbors.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Neighbors</link>. 
                    These sites serve several million users per day.
                </para>
            </description>
        </job>
        <job>
            <jobtitle>Lead Engineer</jobtitle>
            <employer>
                <link href="http://www.backcountry.com">Backcountry.com</link>
            </employer>
            <location>
                <city>Park City</city>
                <state>UT</state>
                <country>40.659444,-111.499722</country>
            </location>
            <period>
                <from>
                    <date>
                        <month>August</month>
                        <year>2002</year>
                    </date>
                </from>
                <to>
                    <date>
                        <month>July</month>
                        <year>2007</year>
                    </date>
                </to>
            </period>
            <description>
                <para>
                    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.
                </para>
            </description>
        </job>
        <job>
            <jobtitle>Senior Web Developer</jobtitle>
            <employer><link href="http://www.redhat.com">Red Hat</link></employer>
            <location>
                <city>Reston</city>
                <state>VA</state>
                <country>38.954444,-77.346389</country>
            </location>
            <period>
                <from>
                    <date>
                        <month>February</month>
                        <year>2001</year>
                    </date>
                </from>
                <to>
                    <date>
                        <month>June</month>
                        <year>2002</year>
                    </date>
                </to>
            </period>
            <description>
                <para>
                    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 
                    <link href="http://www.compaq.com">Compaq</link>, 
                    <link href="http://www.canon.com">Canon</link>, and 
                    <link href="http://mcgraw-hill.com">McGraw-Hill</link>.
                </para>
            </description>
        </job>
        <job>
            <jobtitle>Web Developer</jobtitle>
            <employer>Mediabang!</employer>
            <location>
                <city>Salt Lake City</city>
                <state>UT</state>
                <country>40.75,-111.883333</country>
            </location>
            <period>
                <from>
                    <date>
                        <month>July</month>
                        <year>1999</year>
                    </date>
                </from>
                <to>
                    <date>
                        <month>February</month>
                        <year>2001</year>
                    </date>
                </to>
            </period>
            <description>
                <para>
                    Created dynamic websites for clients such as the 
                    <link href="http://www.sundance.org">Sundance Film Festival</link>, 
                    <link href="http://www.franklincovey.com">Franklin Covey</link>, 
                    <link href="http://www.brewvies.com">Brewvies</link>, and the 
                    <link href="http://publicsafety.utah.gov/highwaypatrol/index.html">Utah Highway Patrol</link>.
                </para>
            </description>
        </job>
        <job>
            <jobtitle>Support Engineer</jobtitle>
            <employer><link href="http://www.xmission.com">XMission</link></employer>
            <location>
                <city>Salt Lake City</city>
                <state>UT</state>
                <country>40.75,-111.883333</country>
            </location>
            <period>
                <from>
                    <date>
                        <month>April</month>
                        <year>1995</year>
                    </date>
                </from>
                <to>
                    <date>
                        <month>July</month>
                        <year>1997</year>
                    </date>
                </to>
            </period>
            <description>
                <para>
                    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.
                </para> 
            </description>
        </job>
        <job>
            <jobtitle>Junior Software Developer</jobtitle>
            <employer>Starnet</employer>
            <location>
                <city>Salt Lake City</city>
                <state>UT</state>
                <country>40.75,-111.883333</country>
            </location>
            <period>
                <from>
                    <date>
                        <month>December</month>
                        <year>1994</year>
                    </date>
                </from>
                <to>
                    <date>
                        <month>April</month>
                        <year>1995</year>
                    </date>
                </to>
            </period>
            <description>
                <para>
                    Developed client software and user interfaces for an early 
                    video server system.  Captured embedded data in video 
                    streams for statistics generation.
                </para>
            </description>
        </job>
    </history>
    <skillareas>
        <skillarea>
            <title>Fresh Skills</title>
            <skillset>
                <title>Backend</title>
                <skill>CPAN</skill>
                <skill>CGI</skill>
                <skill>Kohana</skill>
                <skill>MVC</skill>
                <skill>MySQL</skill>
                <skill>PEAR</skill>
                <skill>Perl</skill>
                <skill>PHP</skill>
                <skill>OOP</skill>
                <skill>Shell</skill>
                <skill>SQL</skill>
                <skill>Unicode</skill>
            </skillset>
            <skillset>
                <title>Frontend</title>
                <skill>AJAX</skill>
                <skill>Cookies</skill>
                <skill>DOM</skill>
                <skill>Javascript</skill>
                <skill>YUI</skill>
            </skillset>
            <skillset>
                <title>Markup</title>
                <skill>Accessibility</skill>
                <skill>Atom</skill>
                <skill>CSS</skill>
                <skill>HTML</skill>
                <skill>Microformats</skill>
                <skill>RDF</skill>
                <skill>RDFa</skill>
                <skill>RSS</skill>
                <skill>SEO</skill>
                <skill>Web Standards</skill>
                <skill>XML</skill>
                <skill>XSLT</skill>
            </skillset>
            <skillset>
                <title>Operating Systems</title>
                <skill>FreeBSD</skill>
                <skill>Linux</skill>
                <skill>OS/X</skill>
                <skill>Windows</skill>
            </skillset> 
            <skillset>
                <title>Process</title>
                <skill>Agile</skill>
                <skill>Scrum</skill>
                <skill>Scrum Mastering</skill>
                <skill>Waterfall</skill>
            </skillset> 
            <skillset>
                <title>Source Control</title>
                <skill>CVS</skill>
                <skill>Git</skill>
                <skill>Subversion</skill>
            </skillset> 
            <skillset>
                <title>Studio</title> 
                <skill>Audio Production</skill>
                <skill>Google Docs</skill>
                <skill>Graphic Design</skill>
                <skill>Illustrator</skill>
                <skill>Microsoft Office</skill>
                <skill>Music Recording</skill>
                <skill>Photography</skill>
                <skill>Photoshop</skill>
                <skill>Typography</skill>
            </skillset> 
            <skillset>
                <title>Web Services</title>
                <skill>Apache</skill>
                <skill>HTTP</skill>
                <skill>JSON</skill>
                <skill>OAuth</skill>
                <skill>OpenID</skill>
                <skill>REST</skill>
                <skill>SOA</skill>
            </skillset>
        </skillarea>
        <skillarea>
            <title>Rusty Skills</title>
            <skillset>
                <title>Backend</title>
                <skill>Assembly Language</skill>
                <skill>Barcoding</skill>
                <skill>BASIC</skill>
                <skill>Cisco IOS</skill>
                <skill>C/C++</skill>
                <skill>Credit Card Processing</skill>
                <skill>GPG</skill>
                <skill>Interchange</skill>
                <skill>Lisp</skill>
                <skill>Pascal</skill>
                <skill>PGP</skill>
                <skill>Sessions</skill>
                <skill>SOAP</skill>
                <skill>Visual Basic</skill>
            </skillset>
            <skillset>
                <title>Databases</title>
                <skill>Access</skill>
                <skill>Oracle</skill>
                <skill>PostgreSQL</skill>
            </skillset>
            <skillset>
                <title>Frontend</title>
                <skill>3D Graphics</skill>
                <skill>Actionscript</skill>
                <skill>Flash</skill>
                <skill>jQuery</skill>
                <skill>Konfabulator</skill>
                <skill>Prototype JS</skill>
                <skill>Scriptaculous</skill>
                <skill>Yahoo! Widgets</skill>
            </skillset>
            <skillset>
                <title>Integrations</title>
                <skill>Amazon Stores</skill>
                <skill>Amazon Web Services</skill>
                <skill>Commission Junction</skill>
                <skill>CRM</skill>
                <skill>E-bay Stores</skill>
                <skill>Google Checkout</skill>
                <skill>Google Base</skill>
                <skill>UPS</skill>
                <skill>USPS</skill>
                <skill>Volusion</skill>
            </skillset>
            <skillset>
                <title>Operating Systems</title>
                <skill>MS-DOS</skill>
                <skill>OS/2</skill>
                <skill>Solaris</skill>
            </skillset>
            <skillset>
                <title>Product</title>
                <skill>Affiliate Marketing</skill>
                <skill>E-commerce</skill>
                <skill>Web Analytics</skill>
            </skillset>
            <skillset> 
                <title>System Administration</title>
                <skill>Bind</skill>
                <skill>DNS</skill>
                <skill>IIS</skill>
                <skill>Networking</skill>
                <skill>Network Architecture</skill>
                <skill>NFS</skill>
                <skill>Red Hat Network</skill>
                <skill>RPM</skill>
                <skill>SNMP</skill>
                <skill>sTunnel</skill>
            </skillset>
        </skillarea>
    </skillareas> 
    <academics>
        <degrees>
            <degree>
                <level>BS</level>
                <major>Visual Communication &amp; Design</major>
                <minor>Anthropology</minor>
                <date>
                    <year>2005</year>
                </date>
                <institution>
                    <link href="http://www.weber.edu">Weber State University</link>
                </institution>
                <location>
                    <city>Ogden</city>
                    <state>UT</state>
                    <country>41.227778,-111.961111</country>
                </location>
            </degree>
            <degree>
                <level>RHCE</level>
                <major>Red Hat Certified Engineer</major>
                <date>
                    <year>2002</year>
                </date>
                <institution>
                    <link href="http://www.redhat.com">Red Hat</link>
                </institution>
                <location>
                    <city>Washington</city>
                    <state>DC</state>
                    <country>38.895111,-77.036667</country>
                </location>
            </degree>
            <degree>
                <level>SCI</level>
                <major>Summer Computing Institute</major>
                <date>
                    <year>1995</year>
                </date>
                <institution>
                    <link href="http://www.utah.edu">University of Utah</link>
                </institution>
                <location>
                    <city>Salt Lake City</city>
                    <state>UT</state>
                    <country>40.75,-111.883333</country>
                </location>
            </degree>
        </degrees>
    </academics>
    <memberships>
        <title></title>
        <membership>
            <title>American Institute of Graphic Arts</title>
            <organization>
                <link href="http://www.aiga.org">AIGA</link>
            </organization>
            <date>
                <year>2005</year>
            </date>
            <description>
                <para>Salt Lake City, UT Chapter</para>
            </description>
        </membership>
        <membership>
            <title>Interchange Development Group</title>
            <organization>
                <link href="http://www.icdevgroup.org">Interchange</link>
            </organization>
            <date>
                <year>2001</year>
            </date>
            <description>
                <para>Open-Source Web Application Server Project</para>
            </description>
        </membership>
        <membership>
            <title>Lapse BBS ANSi Art Scene Group</title>
            <organization>Lapse</organization>
            <date>
                <year>1994</year>
            </date>
            <description>
                <para>Artist, Musician, and Coder</para>
            </description>
        </membership>
    </memberships>
    <awards>
        <award>
            <title>Provost and Ogden Blue Awards</title> 
            <organization>
                <link href="http://dova.weber.edu">Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery</link>
            </organization>
            <date>
                <year>2004</year>
            </date>
            <description>
                <para>Annual Student Art Exhibition</para>
            </description>
        </award>
        <award>
            <title>Poetry Publication</title> 
            <organization>
                <link href="http://www.weber.edu">Weber State University</link>
            </organization>
            <date>
                <year>2004</year>
            </date>
            <description>
                <para>Metaphor, Spring, Volume 23</para>
            </description>
        </award>
        <award>
            <title>Foundations Today Art Exhibition</title>
            <organization>
                <link href="http://dova.weber.edu">Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery</link>
            </organization>
            <date>
                <year>2003</year>
            </date>
        </award>
    </awards>
    <lastModified>
        <date>
            <month>February</month>
            <year>2010</year>
        </date>
    </lastModified>
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