- Résumé


Contact Information:



MichaelKellySutton 334 Grand St., Apt. #5
	  Brooklyn, NY 11211
	
Mobile Phone: (425)-359-2945
Email: michael.k.sutton@gmail.com
URL: http://michaelkellysutton.com


Professional Objective:

    
    	  To build the best web software that solves real problems. 
    	

Employment History:

    Founder
    HackCollege, LLC
    September2006-Present
    
    Brought HackCollege from a domain name and Wordpress install to the
    largest student-run empire on the Web. Worked with Microsoft, NBC
    Universal, Intel, Adobe, HP, AT&T and more to bring relevant,
    effective partnerships to life.
    
    
    Junior Software Engineer
    blip.tv
    June2010-Present
    
    Brainstormed, designed and implemented blip.tv's "Thumbnail Picker."
    The Thumbnail Picker was the first-of-its-kind realtime thumbnail
    selector and image manipulator for video files, all performed
    in-browser (all of them) using the HTML5 canvas element and some
    pixel-pushing. The most difficult part of the project required
    trading raw JPEG data between the flash video player and the page
    quickly. Upon release, many show producers tweeted, "Why hasn't
    anyone done this before?"
    
    Learned enough Perl to realize it's probably not the best language
    to choose in 2011. The web framework developed in-house made it a
    breeze and a pleasure to work with.
    
    Implemented the first HTML5 video player with advertising technology
    in the world, working with a yet-to-be-finalized specification and
    more edge cases shuttle launch. Okay, maybe not that many edge
    cases.
    
    Designed and implemented a static asset pipeline system similar to
    Rails 3.1 for the blip code base. The system uses the template files
    themselves to determine dependencies and inclusions through normal
    vanilla HTML script elements. Thus, the template files themselves
    dictate which JS and CSS files to concatenate and include without
    any special syntax or configuration. This allows us to bring our JS
    and CSS includes down from ~200 per page to 2. This static asset
    pipeline allows blip to treat JavaScript as a first-class language.
    
    
    Adjunct Professor
    Loyola Marymount University
    January2010-May2010
    
    On paper, I am not the professor of this class because LMU's
    computer system does not allow a current student to also be the
    professor on record for a class. That being said, I co-taught LMU's
    first Web video class in the film school.
    
    
    Intern
    Revision3
    May2008-August2008
    
    Snagged some on-camera time, worked on the now defunct Internet TV
    show popSiren, developed rough cut generating software saving 2
    hours per episode per show
    
    
    Intern
    Automatic Duck, Inc.
    May2006-August2006
    
    Designed and implemented product SDK, fixed bugs in production
    software, deployed new automated build system (SCons)
    
    
    Consultant
    Various Companies
    May2009-Present
    
    Consulting is a dirty word, but it best describes what I've done for
    Participant Media (*Syriana*, *An Inconvenient Truth* and *Good
    Night, and Good Luck*), Capture Your Flag and a few other projects
    just getting off the ground.
    

Education:

    BS in Computer Science, May 2010
    Loyola Marymount University
    
    BA in Film Production, May 2010
    Loyola Marymount University
    

CS Chops:

    Ruby/Rails Stack: 3 year experience (professional), jQuery Library:
    3 years experience (professional), JavaScript: 2 years experience
    (professional), Perl: 2 years experience (professional), Django/App
    Engine Framework: 6 months experience (professional), PHP and
    Wordpress: Casual experience, XML/XSLT parsing, validation and such:
    5 years experience (professional), *nix ninja skills: 3 years
    experience (academic/professional), Project lead experience
    (academic/professional), C/C++: 4 years experience
    (academic/professional), Java: 4 years experience
    (academic/professional).
  

Film/TV Talents:

    Adobe After Effects: 4 years experience (personal/professional),
    Apple Final Cut Pro: 3 years experience (professional/academic),
    Working knowledge of prompter software, Can read a prompter in a
    manner that would make a local news anchor proud.
  

Writing "Skills":

    Has not used the Microsoft Word spellchecker since 2005, Knows the
    difference between an en and em dash.
  

Publications:

    "Growing Up with the Real Time Internet". April, 2010; New York,
    NY http://ipp.io/05421

    "Establishing an Online Identity in the Internet Marketplace".
    April 24, 2009; Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
    http://onlineidentityworkshop.com

    "Blackboards or Backchannels: Social Technology in the Classroom
    of Tomorrow (Panel)". March 15, 2009; South by Southwest
    Interactive Conference; Austin, Texas
    http://www.webteacher.ws/2009/03/15/sxsw-blackboards-or-backchannels-the-techno-induced-classroom-of-tomorrow/

    "American Student 2.0 in Europe (Presentation)". November 7,
    2007; web2open Expo; Berlin, Germany


Copyright © 2010 by Michael Kelly Sutton. I hate to brag, but this
resume was written in XML using the open-source XML Resume library.
The PDF, HTML and text versions were then generated from this model.
Even my resume follows the MVC paradigm.