douglashunter

Douglas Hunter
6 Sharon Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
917.582.2324
douglashunter@gmail.com


Expert technologist looking for an opportunity to solve interesting
problems with a diverse group of colleagues who share a passion for
engaging with their work and each other.  Takes instruction well,
learns quickly and plays well with others.


Work Experience

2007 - Current
Freelance Computer Programmer

- (Oblong.com) Architected, built and deployed oblong.com using a
   front-end caching reverse proxy on apache2 built with the event
   MPM, mod_proxy and mod_cache.  Integrated backend apache 1.3
   mod_perl site with existing work-flow and intranet tools for
   publishing dynamic content.  Handily survived the Slashdottings.

- (allAfrica.com) Built and deployed a successful commenting and
   comment moderation system for allAfrica.com that drove up site
   traffic, increased user registrations and pages visited per site
   visit.

- (Open Source) Maintained XML::Comma, an open source information
   management platform available at http://xml-comma.org.  Added
   features, fixed bugs, refactored existing code.  Preserved
   backwards compatibility.

2007 - Current
Freelance Charcutier

- Struck a deal with a local farmer to process and cure his
   non-productive sows.

- Held community workshops to teach basic and advanced meat
   processing, curing and fresh sausage making techniques.

2006 - 2007
Line Cook, Blue Hill - http://bluehillnyc.com

- Meat Station: Kept inventory, ordered, prepared (portioned, cured,
   processed sous-vide, butchered) and cooked meats for à la carte and
   tasting menus.

- Pastry: Prepped, cooked and plated desert menu, including soufflés,
   ice creams and sorbets, cakes and fruits.

- Garde Manger: Prepped and plated all cold preparations for à la
   carte and tasting menus.  Kept inventory of perishable items and
   made menu recommendations and staff meals that led to 99% produce
   usage.

- Intern: Started at the bottom, picking herbs and pitting cherries.
   Was promoted to Garde Manger and a paid employee before my
   internship was over.  Received quickest promotion to the hot line
   of any intern at the restaurant.

2004 - 2006
Senior Programmer, allAfrica.com

- Wrote, deployed and maintained internal and external communication
   tools for progressive political and nonprofit organizations
   including Media Matters for America (http://mediamatters.org), the
   Democracy Alliance (http://www.democracyalliance.org), and
   allAfrica.com (http://allafrica.com).

- Developed Gadgets (http://gadgets.xml-comma.org), a communications
   platform that intentionally blurs the lines between Wiki, Blog,
   Mailing List Manager and Bulletin Board.

2001 - 2004
Founding Partner, Plus Three LLP - http://plusthree.com

- Co-founded Plus Three, a still profitable and growing technology
   startup specializing in delivering reliable, scalable and secure
   internet solutions to U.S. political and nonprofit organizations.

- Built, deployed and maintained the technology for a massively
   successful online fund raising effort for the Democratic party and
   John Kerry for President.

- Helped John Kerry set single day, single month and election cycle
   records for online fundraising by a candidate.  Delivered a
   fundraising system to the DNC that outraised the RNC for the first
   time since the mid-1970s.

- Wrote thousands of lines of high-performance Perl code (and a
   little C where it was needed), complying with web and mail RFCs, as
   well as FEC regulations.

1997 - 2001
Director of Technology, Bigfoot Communications - http://bigfoot.com

- Managed team of eight systems administrators responsible for
   heterogeneous server farm of 75 machines.

- Planned and executed migration of 75 computers between data centers
   with zero down time.

1996 - 1997
Technical Support, Seanet Corporation - http://www.seanet.com

- Handled high volume of phone support calls for local internet
   service provider with no customer service complaints.

- Taught self Perl and wrote scripts to automate boring tasks and
   report on system health.


Education

February 06 - July 06
Institute of Culinary Education - http://www.iceculinary.com

- Graduated from ICE's intensive six-month culinary education program
   with top marks.

1994 - 1996
University of Washington - http://washington.edu

- Studied English literature and psychology.

1993 - 1994
Shoreline Community College - http://www.shoreline.edu/

- Completed Running Start program.


Sundry

- Organized the 2009 Vendys, New York's street food vendor awards, at
   the Queens Museum of Art.  Headed bar operations and coordinated
   with Queens Museum of Art and Parks Department to ensure logistical
   and legal requirements were met.  Managed sound for three bands and
   multiple speakers.

- Organized Africa Source (Namibia, 2001), Asia Source (Bangalore, 2004)
   and Africa Source II (Uganda, 2006).  Negotiated with local
   governments to supply power and internet access, built out physical
   power grids, designed and taught computer programming courseware,
   facilitated a tone of appreciation and support.

- Acknowledged in Mark Dominus' "Higher Order Perl" as having stood
   out for contributing a "particularly large amount of concrete
   material" during the advance chapter feedback.

- Primary author of Net::SMTP::IMPP on the CPAN.  Contributer of
   upstream bug reports and patches to open source projects.

- Avid runner and yoga practitioner.

- Fermenter of foods.