updates 9/2012

css/style.css

@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ textarea:focus,
 
 .column-no-logo {
   padding-left: 0;
-  width: 47%;
+  width: 29%;
   margin-right: 6%;
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index.html

@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@
         <div class="wrap-ribbons">
             <a class="ribbon ribbon2" href="http://tspike.com/travel">travel <em>journal</em></a>
             <a class="ribbon ribbon3" href="http://tspike.com/photography">my <em>photos</em></a>
+            <a class="ribbon ribbon2" href="http://stackoverflow.com/users/826199/tres">stack<em>overflow</em></a>
+            <a class="ribbon ribbon3" href="http://github.com/tspike"><em>github</em></a>
         </div>
 
         <div class="wrap-title">
@@ -186,6 +188,32 @@ <h2 class="section-title">Experience</h2>
 
         <div class="column-row">
 
+          <div class="column column-no-logo">
+            <h3>Developer and traveler</h3>
+
+            <p class="subtitle">
+              Spike Software<br />
+              2011 &mdash; present
+            </p>
+            <div class="smaller-text">
+              <p>
+              I have been working for my own company, Spike Software, as a consultant and developer for the past year. I spent the summer working from the <a href="http://techstars.com">TechStars Boulder</a> office doing Ruby on Rails development and consulting for one of the incubator's companies. It was a fantastic learning experience and a lot of work.
+              </p>
+
+              <p>
+              I built <a href="http://secretsantagenerator.net">Secret Santa Generator</a>, a tool for organizing holiday gift swaps. It garnered over 10,000 unique visitors during its first few months in operation. I am currently in the process of monetizing the site and translating it from PHP to Ruby on Rails. As an exercise in test-driven design (TDD), I built <a href="http://skibum.tspike.com">"What's your ski bum name?"</a>. It is <a href="http://github.com/tspike/ski_name">open source on Github</a>.
+              </p>
+
+              <p>
+              In addition to my software projects, I spent a significant portion of this time period embarking on <a href="http://tspike.com/travel">an around-the-world-trip</a>, which took me to Peru, India, Nepal, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Japan, and New Zealand and allowed me the time and freedom to improve myself both as a person and a software developer.
+              </p>
+            </div>
+            <p class="reference">
+              references<br />
+              <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">Kelly James, CEO @ 27 Perry</a><br/>
+              <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">Joonas Bergius, CTO @ 27 Perry</a>
+            </p>
+          </div>
           <div class="column column-no-logo">
             <h3>Software Engineer</h3>
 
@@ -202,7 +230,7 @@ <h3>Software Engineer</h3>
               </p>
 
               <p>
-              I co-developed a networking library using C++ and Boost for reliably transmitting and decoding arbitrary objects asynchronously for use in safety critical emergency dispatching software deployed in some of the biggest cities in the US. It proved so useful we went on to use it in our flagship LiveAtom tool.
+              I co-developed a networking library using C++ and Boost for reliably transmitting and decoding arbitrary objects asynchronously for use in safety critical emergency dispatching software deployed in some of the biggest cities in the US. It proved useful enough that we went on to use it as the networking engine in the LiveAtom project.
               </p>
 
               <p>
@@ -301,27 +329,27 @@ <h2 class="section-title">My skills</h2>
         <div class="skills">
           <p>
             <b class="caption">Programming</b>
-            Python, C++, Java, Ruby<br />
+            Ruby, Python, C++, Java, C<br />
           </p>
           <p>
             <b class="caption">GUI toolkits</b>
             Qt, wxWidgets<br />
           </p>
           <p>
             <b class="caption">Front end</b>
-            XHTML, CSS, Photoshop, Javascript<br />
+            HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Javascript, Coffeescript<br />
           </p>
           <p>
             <b class="caption">Back end</b>
-            Rails, Boost.Asio, Java EE, CakePHP, Turbogears<br />
+            Rails, Boost.Asio, Java EE, CakePHP<br />
           </p>
           <p>
             <b class="caption">Databases</b>
-            MySQL, Sqlite<br />
+            Proficient with SQL. Familiar with NoSQL and REDIS.<br />
           </p>
           <p>
-            <b class="caption">Operating systems (for development)</b>
-            Linux, Windows<br />
+            <b class="caption">Development environment</b>
+            UNIX + vim + screen (preferred), competent with Windows and OSX<br />
           </p>
           <p>
             <b class="caption">Version control</b>
@@ -336,15 +364,13 @@ <h2 class="section-title">My skills</h2>
 
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         <h2 class="section-title">My e-mail is tres@this domain</h2>
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