Chris Edgemon

5540 Farquhar Ln
Dallas, TX 75209

(214) 232-5273

Web developer interested in the semantic web, statistics, open government, ecological economics.

Experience

Pegasus News

August 2009 – June 2010

Dallas, TX

Developer

Helped lead a complete redesign of PegasusNews.com refocusing the site on events and entertainment
Transitioned the back-end platform to enable syndicating the website across multiple cities.
Led the introduction of unit and functional testing to the website.
Took over and updated a deal-sharing website; helped integrate deal sharing model into PegasusNews.com.

Millwork Solutions

March 2009 – July 2009

Dallas, TX

Web Developer

Created websites for family of companies across the country.
Upgraded ecommerce websites to Magento web application.

Delhi International Arts Festival

October 2008 – Decemeber 2008

Delhi, India

Assistant Director

Developed website for Delhi's only multi-venue literary and arts festival.
Organized a weeklong series of events.
Acted as host and coordinator for more than 40 authors from India and abroad.

AccuRadio.com

October 2005 – September 2008

Chicago, IL

Application Developer

Developed internal traffic-monitoring web application using logfile analysis.
Created desktop application using wxPython for processing and cataloguing music files.
Responsible for various additional utilities including library synchronization, podcast tracker, report generator.

Skills

Languages: Python, Ruby, PHP, Javascript, Scala
Frameworks: Django, jQuery, microframeworks, Ruby on Rails
Misc: HTML, HTTP, GIS, SQL, NoSQL, Linux

Education

Columbia University

New York City, NY

2001 – 2005

B.A. in Neuroscience & Behavior
Research assistant for Metcalfe lab in Metacognition and Memory

References

Don Livingston, CTO, Pegasus News
Jeremy Dunck, Developer, RadioTime.com
Dan McSwain, New Media, Obama for America & change.gov