JAMES ANDREW LONG
1423 15th St. Apt 11 • Santa Monica, CA 90404 • 517.303.4512
zomie1@gmail.com
EXPERIENCE										 

Front End Engineer
August 2007 – Current
Yahoo! Inc, Santa Monica CA (www.yahoo.com)
•Working within in a high scaling LAMP environment on two different Yahoo! Properties - Shine (shine.yahoo.com) and Tech (tech.yahoo.com now in maintenance) focusing on Front End Technologies in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.
•Create user tools utilizing Flash and JavaScript to improve and engage a social user experience.  These tools include voting modules, user generated photo galleries, rich text editors, and several innovative blog authoring tools (won multiple hack day awards).
•Contributing and innovating on top of many internal and external Yahoo platforms such as YUI and Search, enhancing the platform for other users and yet provide our users a more stable experience. 
•Interact with the marketing, user design and experience, quality assurance, product, editorial and sales teams throughout the development process to ensure a well rounded timely release of products focused on its key demographic and are well maintained with continuous support from Engineering.

Associate Post Implementation Consultant
August 2005 – August 2007
Artemis Solutions Group, Lansing MI (www.artemis-solutions.com)		 
•Trained and managed both an offshore and onshore web development team to create websites around an ASP.NET based content management system. 
•Assisted Clients with technology based marketing concepts such as search engine optimization, mass email systems, and mobile marketing (personally developed concept).  
•Developed and managed a team around supporting existing client’s websites and web applications written in ASP, Cold Fusion, PHP, and ASP.NET with MySQL and MS SQL back ends.
•Project Examples include: Impact On-Hold (www.impactonhold.com), Michigan Employee Benefits Service (www.mebs.com), and the City of Southfield (www.cityofsouthfield.com)

Personal Development							           
•My Blog (www.zomie.com)
Personal blog where I detail out my recent experiences in the industry, code examples and exciting projects
•SYNhub (www.synhub.com login guest/guest) 
Web application under development to provide the next generation of RSS aggregation, allowing users to organize, categorize, and then forward on the article via blog, social bookmark, email, and SMS
•SMSthat (www.smsthat.com) 
Web application under development to allow for free text messaging and scheduled text messages 
	
SKILLS											
•HTML, JavaScript (ajax/dom), Cold Fusion, CSS, PHP, MySQL/MSSQL, and a basic knowledge of C++, ASP, and basic.
•Photoshop, Fireworks, and basic Flash/ActionScript 
•IIS, SQL Server, and Microsoft networking environments

EDUCATION
Michigan State University, East Lansing MI
Major: Telecommunication, Information Studies &  Media
Graduated:  August 2007       
GPA: 3.3/4.0       
Major GPA: 3.8/4.0

PORTFOLIO AND REFERENCES AVAILABLE AT ZOMIE.NET