Developer Software Engineer

Alison Barrett web developer ******@****.**

Languages Professional Experience

- PHP 5 Code Wrangler, Automattic

- MySQL San Francisco, CA (remote) 2012 present

- HTML 5 / XHTML 1.0 Strict - On the WordPress.com VIP team, supported clients'

- CSS 2.1 / CSS 3 developers in creating and maintaining their sites,

- Javascript including those for CNN, TIME, TechCrunch, and more

- XML & JSON - Created and improved internal tools to facilitate

development for both Automattic employees and our VIP

- D ni

partners

WordPress Experience - Developed numerous enhancements for the

WordPress.com blogging platform

- Vanilla WordPress

Software Engineer, The Nerdery

- WordPress Multisite

Minneapolis, MN 2011 2012

- BuddyPress

- bbPress - As member of the WordPress Committee, helped roll out

new WordPress development standards to the

Other Experience development department

- Developed NerdPress, an internal site for the WordPress

- Custom WordPress user authentication integration

committee with multiple tools and resources

- Subversion

- Gave presentations to Sales and Project Management to

- OAuth

improve the way the company ran WordPress projects

- WordPress + Magento integration

- Completed Lead Developer training and led almost a dozen

- Various WordPress plugins

projects in my first year at the company

- Various jQuery plugins

- Architected multiple WordPress sites costing more than

$250,000 each

Skills, Talents, Passions

Web Developer, Barrett Creative

- Very, very quick learner

Minneapolis, MN 2008 2011

- Insatiable thirst for knowledge

- Developed a theme framework to make client site

- Love problem-solving, including code I didn t write

development more efficient

- In love with WordPress and open-source philosophy

- Designed and built custom websites for numerous clients,

- True passion for web development: I don t stop working

start to finish, exclusively in WordPress

when I get home from work

- Tripled revenue from 2008 to 2010

Geek Cred Web Developer / Motion Graphics, Brave New Media

Minneapolis, MN 2005 2011

- Web development blog: Aliso the Geek (alisothegeek.com)

- Numerous plugins in WordPress plugin directory - Built, secured and maintained a large corporate intranet

(WordPress.org username: aliso) site on WordPress Multisite

- Very familiar with WordPress development guidelines - Designed and animated graphics for educational, training,

and internal corporate videos

- Created WordPress parent theme/framework: Bolts

- Won Telly Award (silver) for motion graphics in the 27TH

- Wrote WordPress Sugar (extension) for Espresso

Annual Telly Awards

- Graduate of the Big Nerd Ranch: Beginning iOS

- Certified SCUBA diver

References

- Hoping for Garrus, will settle for Kaidan

Kurt Schmidt, The Nerdery

- The tables at my wedding reception were named after

Associate Director of Development

zones in World of Warcraft

********@*******.***

Education Jennifer Brown, Brave New Media

Art Institutes International Minnesota Project Coordinator

A.A.S. in Interactive Media Design 2007 ***************@*****.***

Please see the interactive version of this r sum for more details: alisothegeek.com/resume/

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