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Robert Peake

Summary

Prior to the existence of the internet, Robert Peake wrote games in Hypercard and posted files to BBSes using xmodem. With the advent of the web, Robert began writing interactive educational software using the CGI interface in C. As interpreted languages became popular, he shifted to PHP and began writing about how to bring software design best practices to the web. His expertise ranges from providing technical guidance for web programming books from O'Reilly to having innovative new software featured on Slashdot.

 

Robert is, above all, a highly creative, innovative, big-picture thinker who values practicality, elegance, and keeping his word. 

 

He is also:

 

  • A hands-on technologist experienced in open source architecture and LAMP stack implementation at all levels.
  • An experienced manager capable of recruiting, building, and motivating top-caliber technical teams.
  • A strong contributor to the open source community through regular contributions to technical publications related to software design best practices as well as source code for a variety of open source web applications.

Work History

The David Allen Company

Ojai, CA, United States
Jan 2005 - Present

Chief Technology Officer 

Designed and implemented online productivity enhancement system from ground up
Key features include:

 

  • eCommerce, subscription membership, CRM, CMS, customer service
  • high-volume email delivery and newsletter management
  • online media delivery and corporate online learning system
  • Built on open source LAMP technology stack

 

Built a team of developers, engineers, and systems administration staff from scratch
Consulted with customers including top-tier investment banks and innovative technology companies
Maintained an outstanding track record of system security and uptime

TrustCommerce

Irvine, CA, United States
Jun 2004 - Dec 2004

Acting CTO (Consulting Basis) 

Architected a large-scale eCommerce solution for a leading national radio network

  • Designed to scale for extreme traffic spikes promoted by calls to action during national broadcasts
  • Praised by senior engineers and executive management alike

Refactored critical components of the company infrastructure using open source stack technologies
Redesigned CRM schema into a more efficient, normalized structure in PosgreSQL
Helped recruit and hire technical staff including engineers, system administrators, and project managers

Peake Professional Consulting

Los Angeles, CA, United States
Jan 2004 - Dec 2004

Owner And Lead Consultant 

Built content management, eCommerce, and corporate training sites; partnered with design and film production companies to develop buisness opportunities with Fortune-500 and cottage-industry clients.

MSIA (Large Church)

Los Angeles, CA, United States
2003 - 2004

Manager Of Information Systems 
  • Managed leading-edge online strategy and implementation for this large-scale religious organization
  • Overall IT manager for over a dozen web properties with thousands of pages, including tithing.org
  • Developed systems including membership, eCommerce, subscription services, audio/video delivery, catalog distribution, and marketing programs
  • Responsible for all staffing in Information Systems Team

 

MSIA

Los Angeles, CA, United States
2000 - 2003

Network Administrator, Web Developer, And Webcast Systems Manager 

Webcast Systems Manager

  • Built world-class live and on-demand streaming media infrastructure on top of Akamai servers
  • Built reporting systems to monitor system effectiveness and use as well as audience feedback mechanisms to improve experience

Web Developer

  • Built and maintained thousands of pages of content on dozens of sites
  • Upgraded and improved sites with dynamic, database-driven features
  • Integrated sites with email lists, internal database information, streaming media infrastructure, mail servers, and other applications

Web System Network Administrator

  • Responsible for uptime and availability of all web sites, web applications, integrated web components, and database backend
  • Responsible for availability and security of web server
  • Responsible for site-wide Network Administration of the inter-organizational WAN
  • Implemented industry-standard security and routing using Cisco routers and firewalls

TransBay.NET (Leading Early-Market Bay-Area ISP)

Berkeley, CA, United States
1998 - 1999

Asst. Systems Administrator 

UNIX-based systems management
Developed new business opportunities for the company

  • Developed a value-added reseller relationship with major hardware vendors
  • Negotiated with U.C. Berkeley about outsourcing their then extensive modem pool

 

UC Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, United States
1997 - 1998

"Tutor" (Undergraduate Educator), Self-Paced Computer Science Center 

Taught undergraduate students learning new programming languages such as Scheme/Lisp, Java, and C

Education

UC Berkeley

1996 - 1999
Berkeley, CA, United States
Bachelor of Arts , English

Graduated as both a Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholar and an Alumni Leadership Scholar.
Strong emphasis in Computer Science – coursework included:

  • CS 61A: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  • CS 61B: Data Structures and Advanced Programming in Java
  • CS 9E: Productive UNIX use
  • CS 24: How the Internet Works

Skills

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Organizational And Management Skills

(Expert)
5-6 Years Experience, ( Last Used <1 year ago )
  • Expert in David Allen's Getting Things Done (R) methodology
  • Evangelist of agile programming techniques
  • Strong leader experienced in building accountable teams
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Technical Skills

(Expert)
10+ Years Experience, ( Last Used <1 year ago )

Languages:     C/C++, PHP/Perl, Java/JavaScript, Lisp/Scheme, Shell Scripting
Operating Systems:     Linux (including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Debian and others), UNIX (Solaris/HP/BSD), Mac OS X, Windows NT/200x Server
Relational Databases:     MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL
Network Protocols:    Cisco IOS, TCP/IP Packet Debugging (Wireshark), HTTP (including cookies/sessions), SMTP, SNMP, DNS, PPTP, IPSec, SSL/SSH tunneling
System Scalability:    Radware WSD Load Balancers, RRDNS, Cacti/RRDTool monitoring, memcached, rsync
System Security:    CISP/PCI compliance, OWASP standards, Snort, Tripwire equivalent IDS, chkrootkit

Partial List of Publications

International PHP magazine

  • "Introducing Design Patterns: Practical, Reusable Solutions To Common Web Development Problems"
  • (2-part series)
  • "Farming PHP: An Introduction To PHP Web Server Farms"
  • "Geopositioning In PHP: Finding The Space Behind Cyberspace"
  • "PHP Cryptography: An Introduction Using Mcrypt"
  • "The Pleasures Of Ming: Dynamically Generating SWF Content In PHP"
  • "Optimizing, Staticizing, and Caching PHP: How To Get The Most Out Of Your Precious PHP Code"
  • "Contributing To Pear: An Insider's Look At The Process Behind The Packages"
  • "Queue It!: A Better Way To Send Mail Using PHP"
  • "Enterprise PHP Coding Standards: Bringing Quality Control To Business Critical PHP Applications"
  • "Inside The Zend Certified Engineer Exam: Bringing PHP To The Enterprise, One Test At A Time"
  • "Shopping For Carts: Choosing The PHP Shopping Cart That Is Right For Your Application"

Zend.com DevZone

  • "Recursion In PHP: Tapping Unharnessed Power"
  • "The Best Tool For The Job: OO versus Procedural Programming in PHP"

Sitepoint

  • "Get Seen The Easy Way: Simple, Practical Search Engine Promotion"

 

Open Source Software

PHP PEAR Repository

  • Lead Developer, Net_Monitor Network monitoring library
  • Contributing Developer, Payment_Process module for TrustCommerce payment gateway


Other Open Source Projects

  • Project K++, system for Flash-based computer-generated art, featured on Slashdot
  • Dialogs, early-stage precursor to forum-based educational systems like Blackboard, written in C
  • loopedArray class, PHPClasses library

 

Interests

Poetry

 

Robert Peake is an MFA candidate at Pacific University in Oregon, and an award-winning American poet.

 

Robert most recently received an honorable mention in the Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest. He was also a finalist in the 2007 James Hearst Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in Askew, California Quarterly, Cider Press Review, Fairfield Review, North American Review, the Beyond The Valley Of The Contemporary Poets 2004 anthology and Open Windows – an anthology of award-winning Southern California poets sponsored in part by the NEA.

He has been a featured reader at Beyond Baroque in Venice, The World Stage in Los Angeles and both The Bell Arts Factory and Artists’ Union Gallery in Ventura. He has given guest lectures on poetry at Mt. St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, The Ojai Center For The Arts, and The Brooks Institute.

Certifications

Zend Certified Engineer For PHP

(Zend)
2005 - Has no expiration

Verify

VisualCV Contest Winner Badge

 

"Robert’s clean and succinct VisualCV shows a balance of important content with valuable portfolio items. Robert includes all the information you need on a basic resume and takes it a step further with a presentation video, writing samples and additional work samples that round out a traditional resume. Anyone viewing his VisualCV quickly learns about Robert but can also take a deeper dive to get more information on his presentation style and expertise, making this a great job-seeking VisualCV."

 

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Web Systems

GTD Connect (Complete Execution)

GTD Corporate Connect Homepage

Robert built infrastructure for this business unit from the ground up, including architecture and impementation on a highly scalable web server farm and the selection and training of a high-performance team.

 

www.gtdconnect.com

MyConnect (Web 2.0 Design)

MyConnect (Web 2.0 Design)
  • Intuitive browsing experience
  • Open, modular layout
  • Flash-based interactive coaching
  • Customized content recommendations based on user profile
  • Widely cross-referenced media displayed in a variety of paradigms, including tags/topics, categories, via search, and in special features areas
  • A standards-compliant design which offers greater accessibility and compatibility across a wider range of browser types, including text-only browsers and the mobile web
  • Social networking
  • Elegant audio/video delivery
  • Authenticated podcasts
  • Extensive member forums
  • AJAX behavior for a more elegant UI experience

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www.davidco.com/media

Ojai Poetry Festival

Ojai Poetry Festival

Architecture, graphic design, and coding for a complete re-launch of the website, including newsletter, RSS, Facebook fan page, integrated online ticket sales and at-the-door ticket disbursal, author bios, and accessory pages -- all built in a modular, standards-compliant fashion.


www.ojaipoetryfestival.org

The David Allen Company Store (Robust, Integrated E-commerce)

The David Allen Company Store

An advanced, integrated e-commerce solution providing robust membership subscription, discount/coupon, seminar registration, and crm capabilities. An integrated online business platform processing over 40% of company revenues in a highly secure, stable manner.


www.davidco.com/store

Cookie Casa (Intuitive E-commerce)

Cookie Casa

A boutique e-commerce site with a fun layout and a highly intuitive back-end order management interface designed to help maximize baking time!

 

www.cookiecasa.com

GTD Times (Rapid Deployment)

GTD Times (Rapid Deployment)

Technical strategy and execution in one week's time. This multi-user blog site launched on a short cycle to capitalize on the extensive mindshare of David Allen's Getting Things Done (R) methodology in the blogosphere.

 

www.gtdtimes.com

International Live Webcasts (Global Media Scaling)

International Live Webcasts (Global Media Scaling)

Complete server-side architecture and integration with Akamai network to deliver rich media in real-time to hundreds of participants in dozens of countries worldwide.

 

www.msia.org/live

Technical Articles

Icon_word_16 Enterprise PHP Programming Standards

An article about PHP programming best practices designed to optimize performance for development teams.

Icon_word_16 Farming PHP

An article about scaling PHP web applications, written in early 2005.

Icon_word_16 PHP Cryptography Using MCrypt

An article about advanced cryptography in PHP using the mcrypt module.

Presentations

Object Oriented Versus Procedural Programming In PHP

A talk given by Robert Peake for LAMP SIG in Los Angeles about the pros and cons of object oriented versus procedural programming in PHP. Based on an article for Zend.com DevZone.

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