yitznewton Resume

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Yitzchak Schaffer

I have been working with a consortial college library system since 2007. Having spent this time teaching myself web development, I would like to join a small web team, whether independent or part of a larger company. I have recently been experimenting with Scrum methodology, and would be particularly interested in continuing. As an introvert and self-starter, I excel in a quiet work environment as an autonomous part of a team. My development to this point has been mostly solo, and I am looking forward to working with and learning from other developers.

@yitznewton | [email protected]

Web Developer

• Four years' experience with PHP5
  • OOP
  • TDD (PHPUnit)
  • symfony1
  • experimental experience with symfony2
  • Kohana framework (a fork of CodeIgniter)
  • Silex
  • Drupal
  • Propel ORM
  • Doctrine ORM
• JavaScript
  • jQuery/jQuery UI
  • xui.js
  • JsTestDriver
• SQL
• git, Mercurial, Subversion
• GIMP (image editor)
• Perl
• Expect
• Apache Solr

Systems Administrator

• Four years' experience administering Ubuntu Linux webservers
  • Apache httpd
  • nginx + php-fpm (compiled)
  • Nagios
  • puppet

Mature Projects

• FreERMS - symfony 1.4 PHP framework: an electronic resource management solution for libraries

• EmeraldView - Kohana 2.3 PHP framework: a web frontend for the Greenstone Digital Library. Live example: http://www.tidhar.tourolib.org/

• facpubs - symfony 1.4 PHP framework: an index of publications by faculty of an academic institution. Live example: http://facpubs.tourolib.org/

Utility Projects

• iii-expect-perl: a Perl Expect console-scraping interface to the telnet/SSH client of a popular integrated library system; useful for automating procedures.

Employment

Touro College Libraries, New York, NY

• Systems Manager, 2009-present
• Systems Librarian, 2007-2009
• Technical Services Assistant (part time), 2002-2007

Duties

• Develop library web applications
• Maintain the library's Drupal-powered main website
• Administer Linux web applications server
• Co-administer integrated library system
• Research and recommend new technologies for adoption by the libraries
• Supervise one technical support/development assistant
• Plan and execute projects to digitize books selected by library administration
• Train library staff in the use of relevant systems

Education

• Master of Library Science: 2007, Queens College (CUNY)
• Bachelor of Arts, Sociology: 2003, Queens College (CUNY)

Other interests

• Hiking
• Personality typology
• Talmud
• Philosophy
• Musical theater
• Epic fantasy literature