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Summary:

* Movable Type developer, working in perl 
* Movable Type core and plugin development
* Various perl command-line tools for data migration and testing
* unit testing with perl and custom MT testing tools
* python / Django development with TypePad APIs

[Six Apart](http://sixapart.com) is well-known as the company responsible for Movable Type, Typepad, VOX, and 
one-time owners of several other blogging and social networking sites (i.e. LiveJournal). I joined Six Apart's 
Services arm (nee Apperceptive) as a Movable Type developer, and my role was to build custom solutions for our 
clients who were using Movable Type. This usually took the form of custom plugins that added new fuctionality to 
the core product, or modified and extended existing functionality. I spent nearly a year and half working on a 
team with our largest client, helping migrate their codebase and content from Movable Type 3.x to 4.x, including 
over 2 million blog entries, and 5000 blogs. Additionally I worked on the team through several subsequent 
feature releases, and wrote a number of plugins for the client that are used daily by their network of several 
thousand editors and 1.5 million users.

My duties with Six Apart were carried out as part of a team that consisted of 2 or three on-site (in NYC) 
employees and several remote employees, of which I was one. I have 2 years of experience working remotely with a 
project manager and a team of highly talented developers, coordinating our efforts over email, IRC, and phone, 
as well as the occasional WebEx session. I've honed my communication and documentation skills during this time 
as they were crucial to making sure that deliverables and timelines were met.

For a recent project, I took on the role of lead engineer for an event microsite for one of today's largest 
social network companies. Together with a designer, a front-end (javascript) developer, and Six Apart's ops 
team, we built the site around TypePad's Grid platform in an extremely shortened timeframe: several weeks from 
concept to launch. As lead engineer I made the decisions regarding platform and implementation (django, using 
the TypePad client libraries and several custom applications), and with our ops team developed an architecture 
that allowed us to scale the site well beyond the actual demands of the event. In the course of the project I 
also worked closely with SixApart API engineers to identify and correct issues that affected the application.