Jared Quinn

Current

Web Developer/Social Media Integration Specialist at Circul8

Past

Web Developer at Future Büro
Web Developer at News Magazines
UNIX System Administrator at University of Newcastle

Senior Web Developer (PHP) at 4Mation Technologies
Technical Developer at Collections Australia Network
Election Campaigner at Newcastle Greens
UNIX Administrator at Computer Sciences Corporation
UNIX Systems Admin at Pulse Mining Systems
UNIX Administrator at Aljan.Net

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Jared Quinn’s Summary

I'm a Web and UNIX Guru who has over 12 years experience in IT.. with a focus on Internet related services for my entire career!

I am passionate about Technology, and in particular Open Source software - having started using Linux way back in '94 and now days use it exclusively across my home network.

My career has been a flip flop between UNIX and Web Development but really I don't see them as much different. It's all about building something functional from small interacting blocks.

Hilights of my career include:

• Web Developer - taste.com.au (Australia's #1 food & recipe website)
• Web Developer - Collections Australia Network
• Unix Systems Administrator - Newcastle University

There's plenty more in my resume... Take a look.

Jared Quinn’s Specialties:

Solaris, Linux, Web Development, PHP, Perl, CSS, XHTML, HTML, Javascript, AJAX, UNIX Administration, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, IRIX, WordPress Development, Website Design, Website Layout

Jared Quinn’s Experience

Web Developer/Social Media Integration Specialist

Circul8

(Design industry)

October 2009 — Present (3 months)
Web Developer

Future Büro

(Design industry)

June 2009 — October 2009 (5 months)

Future Büro is a new creative studio built from an award winning team of ideas people with a passion for creating engaging digital content for screen based media.

While at Future Büro I worked on the following projects:

• Development of internal CMS framework
• The Lane (yet to be published)
• Back-end development of 4320:LA & 4320:SYD (http://4320la.com, http://4320syd.com)
• jQuery interface for Rayban Seasons campaign (internal communication)
Web Developer

News Magazines

(Public Company; NWS; Entertainment industry)

April 2009 — June 2009 (3 months)

Short term contract with News Magazines working on Australia's #1 Food & Recipe website - www.taste.com.au.

Both front and backend development using PHP, XHTML, CSS, MySQL, Javascript.

My major accomplishments within my short time at Taste include:

• Major development on a new CMS for contributing publications.
• Improved security on persistent logins
• Full login integration between Taste and it's phpBB driven forums.
UNIX System Administrator

University of Newcastle

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

July 2008 — November 2008 (5 months)

UNIX system administration of large environment consisting primarily of enterprise grade Solaris systems including the deployment and upkeep of a mission critical large scale web, email and authentication infrastructure.
Senior Web Developer (PHP)

4Mation Technologies

(Information Services industry)

August 2007 — February 2008 (7 months)

4Mation is a small, fast paced, rapidly growing web design company based in Sydney's CBD. Major clients include First State Super, Sydney Roosters and the ABC.

The primary focus of my role with 4Mation was as lead developer of a Maintenance Management and Scheduling system to be deployed internally across the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The system was developed using the CakePHP Framework, PHP and MySQL and heavily utilises AJAX and Javascript technologies and XHTML 1.1 and CSS 3.0 compliant code.

It is a comprehensive and complete web solution to cater for all of the ABC's maintenance and fault tracking requirements internationally and was designed and developed by two developers over the period of 6 months.
Technical Developer

Collections Australia Network

(Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2007 — July 2007 (5 months)

Collections Australia is an online portal designed to provide public access to small and medium sized collecting institutions across Australia. It is entirely government funded and was being managed by the Powerhouse Museum during my time with the project.

My major accomplishments during my contract with CAN include:

• Redevelopment of the Collection Item search for full text indexing, meta data separation and images.
• Integration of the above search facilities into an OpenSearch framework
• Enhanced Machine accessible content
• Implementation of RSS and Atom News syndication feeds
• Implementation of the hCalendar and hCard Microformats
• Development of XHTML/CSS based on designs supplied by our designer.
• Management of the hosting environment.

During my time there, CAN operated with a total of 3 staff members, of which only one is a technical role. Full ownership and responsibility for all technology and it's implementation are the basis of this role.

The environment consists of PHP, Linux, Apache, PostgresSQL, MySQL, Mailman, qmail.
Election Campaigner

Newcastle Greens

(Non-Profit; Political Organization industry)

October 2006 — March 2007 (6 months)

My ongoing involvement with The Greens led to an opportunity to take the first paid
position the Newcastle Greens ever offered. This position was created because of the political climate in Newcastle for the NSW State Election in March 2007. This is also the first campaign the Newcastle Greens have used IT systems, which became a focus of my role.

After Jan 2007, because of budget constraints the position was made part time
however I continued to volunteer additional time to the role.

Duties included:

• Co-ordinating Volunteers
• Training volunteers to use the IT systems in place.
• Assisting with organisation of fundraising and PR events
• Assisting with organisation of media conferences
• Managing Membership Database/Booking System
• Managing the Newcastle Greens web presence
• Assisting NSW Greens with IT
UNIX Administrator

Computer Sciences Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSC; Information Technology and Services industry)

2002 — 2005 (3 years )

Commencing in 2002 as a Senior UNIX (Solaris, Linux, AIX) Administrator on the
Newcastle UNIX Support team which is considered CSC's Australian Solaris Centre of Excellence.

In mid 2003 I was appointed a secondary role as the UNIX Security contact for this
support team. This role expanded into active involvement with both the Australian
and Global UNIX Security teams.

These security teams identified a requirement for better security auditing on our UNIX servers globally (CSC manages over 10,000 UNIX servers globally). I was appointed as the main developer for this project (Harden).

Harden incorporates a client side system for each of the UNIX variants supported by CSC and a server based component providing web based reporting and exemptions to security policy.
UNIX Systems Admin

Pulse Mining Systems

(Computer Software industry)

1998 — 2001 (3 years )
UNIX Administrator

Aljan.Net

(Computer Software industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )