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Charlie Gordon
http://cwgordon.com/contact

Objective

Seeking work in all aspects of Drupal, including rapid website development, module development, module porting, automated testing, Drupal training, and emergency troubleshooting.

Technical skills

Languages:

• Expert in: PHP, Drupal, Javascript, jQuery, SQL, CSS
• Familiar with: Java

Databases:

• MySQL
• PgSQL

Drupal experience

• Expertise in all aspects of the Drupal core and of popular contributed modules in both 5.x and 6.x:
  • automated testing system
  • menu system
  • filtering system
  • caching layer
  • theming system
  • database abstraction Layer
  • common security vulnerabilities
  • triggers-actions (workflow)
  • user access system
  • node system
  • cck
  • views
  • panels
  • organic groups
• Member of the Drupal security team.
• Emergency troubleshooter.
• Co-administrator for Drupal's participation in Google Summer of Code.
• Mentor for Google Summer of Code. Mentoring a project to improve Drupal's search scoring mechanism this year.
• Administrator for Drupal's DROP training program.
• Teacher for Drupal Dojo training lessons.
• Presented at DrupalCon 2008 Boston.
• Attending and presenting at DrupalCon 2008 Szeged.
• Maintainer of the Drupal wiki modules, including wikitools, talk, PEAR wiki filter, and flexifilter.
• Contributor of patches to core, particularly in the areas of automated testing and usability improvements.
• Developer and maintainer of several attractive sites, including http://drop.cwgordon.com/ and http://bosporus-star.com/.

Education

Columbia Preparatory School (New York, NY)
2004 - Present

• Winner of the computer science department award for 2008 for work on Drupal.
• Continues to maintain an A average.

References available upon request.