Chris Kite's Resumé

Christopher M. Kite


Summary:

  • Web Developer at Vertive, Inc.
  • Expert programmer with skills in PHP, C, Java, and Linux system administration.

Education:

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin
GPA of 3.6 on a 4.0 scale

Courses taken include:

Object Oriented Programming
Operating Systems (Honors)
Network Security and Privacy
Algorithms

Automata Theory (Honors)
Applied Number Theory
Information Assurance and Security
Algorithms and Data Structures (Honors)

Experience:

Web Developer, May 2008 to Present
Vertive, Inc.
  • Developed advanced backend functionality with PHP and MySQL.
  • Wrote custom PHP website development framework.
  • Created applications for the Facebook platform.

Research Assistant, May 2006 to May 2008
Center for Information Assurance and Security, UT Austin
  • Worked on software to be used on Navy submarines
  • Developed encrypted partition management and disk scrubbing utility for Linux.
  • Created benchmarking tools to gauge encrypted device performance.
  • Rewrote linux kernel hard-disk encryption module to take advantage of parallelism on multi-processor systems
  • Programs were written in C and Perl.

System Administrator, January 2005 to May 2007
Biomedical Informatics Laboratory, UT Austin
  • Assisted students with programming and software questions.
  • Administered several Mac OS X and Linux workstations.
  • Maintained and developed Oracle databases.
  • Created web applications in PHP and Ruby on Rails.
  • Software used includes Apache, NFS, Samba, SSH Server, VNC Server, Oracle, MATLAB, Drupal, and Mac OS X Administration Utilities

Web Developer, December 2006 to May 2008
Vesper Web Design, Austin, Texas
  • Worked closely with clients to create online marketing strategy.
  • Created rich web applications with PHP and MySQL.
  • Setup and maintained e-commerce features, such as shopping carts.
  • Web design with standards compliant XHTML and CSS.