Jesse

Sanford
jesse@berkeley.edu

Agile web engineering, project management, and cultural anthropology based in San Francisco.

Experience

Founder/Lead Developer, Circle Voting, Inc., New York, NY 2/102/11. Design and implement social ballot applications circlevoting.com and sfmayorvote.com, integrating with Facebook and Twitter. Enable individuals and organizations to offer endorsements and views on upcoming elections.

Director of Web Development, Beezwax, Inc., Oakland, CA 8/066/09. Land and deliver multiple six-figure Web 2.0 development contracts including ericksonstock.com. Hire and manage talented Ruby On Rails and Flash/Flex developers. Double company annual revenue. Promote best practices and elegant software design. Build Web 2.0 sites and applications for a diverse client base.

Information Technology Manager, NOW Legal Defense Fund, New York, New York 8/008/02. Automate office information technology infrastructure. Deploy Open Source solution to handle email marketing. Regularize and document complete system. Support staff of sixty in NY and DC. Oversee two assistants.

Director of Information Technology, Tower Media, New York, New York 9/998/00. Build IT infrastructure for successful online newsletter startup in financial services. Configure and maintain Linux and NT servers for office Intranet. Coordinate relationships with outside vendors. Manage web developers. Automate database integration and local maintenance functions. Oversee customer service and technical support staff.

Jenik Radon Fellow, State Audit Office and MicroLink AS, Tallinn, Estonia Summer 1999. Develop web-based database front end for 200-employee State Audit Office (SAO). Write strategic development plan for SAO Intranet. Analyze market potential for electronic commerce venture in the Baltic states, conduct market research, and write preliminary business plan for MicroLinks potential investors.

Head Student Consultant, Academic Information Systems, Columbia University 10/96 5/99. Hire, train, and manage staff of 45 computer consultants and help desk employees. Ensure quality of support in campus labs.

Education

University of CaliforniaBerkeley, Berkeley, CA August 2009present. PhD candidate in cultural anthropology; degree expected May 2012. May 2003. MA awarded in cultural anthropology.

Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, New York May 1999. BA awarded with honors in anthropology; GPA: 3.7.

Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire Class of 1995.

Technical Skills

Web Engineering Test-driven web application engineering in Ruby and JavaScript. Extensive knowledge of full stack: Rails, JQuery, SQL, CSS3 and HTML5. Active and considerate pair programmer.

Project Management Respond to client needs and changing priorities. Deliver multiple six-figure web contracts. Nurture happy, productive teams. Deploy agile, scrum and traditional project management techniques.

Systems Administration Deep experience with Ubuntu, Red Hat, Solaris and OS X. Apache and NginX web server administration. Qmail and postfix mail server administration. System integration with Ruby, perl, shell, regex.