chrispederick.com
The personal web site of Chris Pederick and home of the Web Developer and User Agent Switcher browser extensions.
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Chris Pederick
Currently the director of front-end engineering at Bleacher Report.Employment
May 2009 – presentDirector of Front-end Engineering at Bleacher Report
October 2001 – May 2009Technical Architect at RazorfishArchitected and implemented a number of successful enterprise-scale web site launches and redesignsEqually adept managing and developing both the front-end and back-end of a web siteWorked directly with clients and managed teams of more than five developersA leader in the front-end development group advocating web standards both internally and to clients
July 1998 – September 2001Senior Developer at QuidnuncTechnical lead on a variety of projects with responsibilities including pre-sales, analysis, design, implementation, testing and trainingPart of the core team that opened the San Francisco office after transferring from London
July 1997 – September 1997Developer at ICL Advanced Technology CentreBuilt intelligent, autonomous agents using alpha-release IBM software to develop custom genetic algorithms in JavaPresented work to a number of multi-national insurance and banking companies
Experience
JavaScript
Detailed understanding of JavaScript including JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery and YUI, large-scale web site deployment and optimization techniques.
HTML & CSS
Over 10 years of experience writing HTML and CSS incorporating web standards and semantic markup.
Java
Expertise in architecting and developing using Java for a variety of e-commerce web sites serving millions of users.
PHP
Experience developing PHP for both clients and personal work.
Independent Work
Firefox Extension Author
Author of the
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Firefox extensions – two of the most popular extensions for the browser.
Speaker
Presented a
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Firefox Contest Winner
Winner of a grand prize in the inaugural
contest for the Web Developer extension in the “Best Upgraded Extension” category.
Magazine Interview
Interviewed by Om Malik for an
in Business 2.0 magazine.
Education
1995 – 1998BSc (Honors) degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Psychology from Nottingham University, England
Degree covered topics from object modeling and user interface design to cognitive psychology and neural networks.
The final year project was an artificial intelligence study in “evolving” pursuit and evasion strategies using genetic algorithms written in Java.
This resume is available at
chrispederick.com/resume/
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