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YouTube / |
Web Developer, 09/07 - 04/10 Maintained the watch page, viewed well over 2 billion times a day Spearheaded campaign to drop IE6 support (see also) Implemented measures to reduce front-end latency by more than 50% Worked in a loving environment |
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FireFTP |
Creator of project, self-employed, 07/04 - present The free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox Charityware that's been downloaded more than 15 million times A small testament to the open source movement |
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The Rock Hard Times |
Creator of project, self-employed, 09/06 - present A comprehensive, user-editable site for all things music Only the most rockin' music database ever invented |
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Mozdev Group |
Software Engineer, 01/06 - 08/06 Worked with a tightly integrated team developing custom browser distributions and plugins based on the world-class Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird projects Developed in C++, XUL, Javascript, XBL, and related Mozilla technologies Learned cross-platform software developing techniques (Windows, Linux) Clients included: Earthlink, Linspire, Angelsoft |
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Rho Trading and Securities |
Software Engineer, 02/05 - 12/05 Co-developed an in-house trading application written in C#/C++ Wrote many GUI applications that perform various tasks on the trading platform Wrote library using an API to connect to a trading exchange Acquired knowledge of working on a large-scale, multi-threaded .NET project |
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B.A. in Computer Science 4.0 GPA, Summa Cum Laude Minor in Physics Ball State University, Muncie, IN 2002-2004 |
| Languages | Javascript, XUL, HTML/XML, PHP, Python, Cheetah, C#, C/C++, Java |
| Systems | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (Ubuntu, Debian), FreeBSD |
| Spoken Languages | Croatian (Fluent), Spanish (Proficient) |
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During summers, help take care of children from an orphanage in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina Proceeds from the FireFTP project go towards helping out this particular orphanage Worked in Trsteno, Croatia to help restore an arboretum destroyed by a fire Worked at Habitat for Humanity Helped out at Free Geek, an organization dedicated to recycling and refurbishing used computer systems |
| Musician | Tamburica player (for Croatian musical ensemble in Chicago) |
| Photographer | Work showcased on personal website |