Curriculum Vitae  

Geoff Chirgwin

PO Box 90
Port Costa, CA 94569
(617) 504-1946

I like beautiful things. I like making things. I like solving problems with my intuition.
My aim is to continue progressing in the development of technically, aesthetically, and socially compelling client-server environments.
I often bridge the gap between engineering technicians and visual designers, with a wide range of demonstrated skills.

2006-present independent consultant
work for a variety of companies, non-profits and (celebrity geek) startups, including The Nature Conservancy, Rupture, Allurent, Brightcove, LocaModa, Kroogi, Clover, and Sony Music
some demonstrations and source code resulting from past work are available
open source projects, including pdqm.us, nl2xml, and NightXML

2008-2010 Noteflight
 Developer of music notation software

2004-2005 Ruckus Network
 Senior Software Engineer

2002-2003 CrunchTime! Information Systems, Inc.
 Web Applications Developer
 Work on thin-client software for the food and beverage industry

2002 EduPrep, LLC
 Technology Strategist
 Assessed the technological state of the enterprise and developed technological roadmap moving forward
 Worked with contractors and partners to form technical solutions

2001 Chiliad Publishing
 Software Engineer working with cutting-edge information retrieval technology
 Worked in a rapid application development team that executed on the whim of CEO vision

1999-2000 Dataware Technologies, Inc. (later LeadingSide, of which portions were acquired by OpenText)
 Technical Consultant specializing in Web-based user interfaces
 Designed and developed collaborative intranet for software developers.
 Consulting work in the information retrieval/knowledge management space

1998 Founded seiso
 A collection of professionals specializing in information design.
 Responsible for all facets of business, including:
- Managing small Web development team
- Client contact
- Database development, migration, & maintenance.

1998 Principle Profits Asset Management, Inc.
  Sales & Marketing work
- Client development
- Established initial Web presence

1997 Co-founded Natural America
 Import/export brokerage start-up
 Spent Fall 1997 living and working in Seoul, S. Korea
 Learned valuable lessons in business and entrepreneurship.

1996-7 Agency assignments
 Northfield Mount Hermon School OIT, Northfield, MA

Operating Systems/Environments
UNIX-like (mainly Linux, Solaris, and HPUX), MacOS 9-X.n, Windows NT/9x/2000/XP/Vista/7/etc

Development
Language/platform agnostic experience with (in no meaningful order) Python, JSP, Struts, Tiles, JSTL, XML, XSLT, HTML/DHTML/CSS, Ajax/XMLHttpRequest, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Perl, WML, JavaScript, ActionScript, Adobe Flex, TCL, Jakarta Slide/Webdav, Python, C, C++, Objective C, MS ASP, AppleScript, SQL, PLSQL, MySQL, Oracle, PostGreSQL, MS SQL Server, VBScript, VBA, SGML, CGI, ADO, MS Access, Miva Script(HTMLScript), Scheme, Lisp, Sybase (ASA), dBase, MS DevStudio/InterDev, Xcode, InstallShield, CVS, SourceSafe, Subversion, Perforce

Design
Experienced mainly in design for the screen, but also some experience for print; experienced with offset pre-press.
Experience with PhotoShop, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, GIMP, Freehand, CorelDraw, GIF Builder, GIF Construction Set, MS Publisher, MS Office Suite, FrontPage.
Experienced with digital audio manipulation, encoding, tagging, and streaming.
Exposure to Director, AutoCad, Extreme 3-D, and Quark X-Press.
Work on design automation using open source technologies such as ImageMagick, AutoTrace, and Ming.

Administration
Setup, configuration, and maintenance of: Apache, Rails, Tomcat (Jakarta), Orion, BEA Weblogic, PHP application server, FileMaker, Allaire's Coldfusion and JRun application servers, MySQL, RealServer, PostGreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Windows environments (including networks), Linux/GNU systems and networks, MS IIS, Netscape Servers (Enterprise/SuiteSpot, Directory(LDAP)), AppleTalk networks, Lotus Notes

Qualifications
  Independently driven while able to take direction well and work cooperatively.
  Communicate effectively with a wide range of personalities.
  Adept at rapidly mastering new computing tools.
  Work well meeting deadlines.
  Experience with information retrieval systems.
  Experience developing applications for mobile devices (mainly browser based, specifically WebKit).

2008-2010 University of Indiana-- Bloomington, IN
Master of Science in Human Computer Interaction / Music
  Capstone (Thesis) topic: "Quil: An experimental system for online recognition of handwritten music notation"
- presentation slides, videos of talk and demonstations, paper (~4MB PDF), poster (~1MB PDF)
  Research focused on handwriting recognition for music notation, under under the advisement of Christopher Raphael, Donald Byrd, and Larry Yaeger, with other studies and work ranging from audio signal processing to information visualization to robotics and real-time sensor systems
Associate Instructor of mathematics and computer programming courses; research programmer in Schools of Music and Optometry

1993-1996 University of Massachusetts-- Amherst, MA
Bachelor of Music (Cum Laude) focusing in composition
Minor in Philosophy
 Active in numerous musical ensembles as an organizer, composer, arranger, and performer.
 Wrote, produced, & directed Firewater TK, an opera in two acts.
- organize 26-person ensemble and four-person staff; sucessfully applied for grant monies

Travel
Extensively in North America, Europe, Scandinavia, East Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean

Cadets of Bergen County
 Former seven-year member of this world class musical organization
 Performed at 1994 World Cup Opening and 1996 Olympic Closing ceremonies
 Two-time World Championship winners
 Learned valuable skills during formative years, including discipline, leadership, and teamwork

Additional
Running marathons (including Amsterdam, Mount Desert Island, Hartford, Falmouth), adventure racing (including Jay Challenge), bicycling (including solo self-supported tours from Boston to Bloomington, Indiana and Bloomington to Akron, Ohio), music composition and organizing new music performance (founding member of Working Composers), trumpet performance, alpine mountaineering (Raineer, Athabasca), kayaking, snowboarding, and painting acrylics on scrap wood.
Experienced trumpet teacher, including Capital Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps, 2004-5
Writing and recording pop songs under the band guise MeatMachine