Accomplishments

May 19, 2010

Below, an extensive list of my experience and accomplishments. This page was designed to allow prospective employers to do additional research beyond that in a typical curriculum vitae.

This is also designed to exhibit the tried-and-true properties of the systems I've designed and deployed.

PHP-Based Forum System

Currently live on YouN00b.com, the forum system I've constructed features these elements:

Multiple categories
Paginated topic and post listings
Administrator and Moderator Controls and Panels, with features such as:

IP-Based user tracking and banning
Hacker detection
Simultanious sessions and IP monitoring for prevention of cross-site scripting and cookie-theft attacks
Post removal and editing, topic locking, topic stickying
Dupe detection not reliant on IP address
Topic moving

RSS and HTML-based feeds of recent activity
Keyword Search
Automatic Sitemap generation and update for Yahoo!, HTML for users, and sitemap.xml for all other engines.
Tokenized forms and double-post prevention. Aids in prevention of spam, and attempts to use automated posting techniques including macros.
Forum signatures and posts rendered through a secure BBCode interpreter to allow basic text formatting (links, images, bold, underline, etc)
To date, has handled over 43,000 posts and 2,400 topics.
Designed securely using regular expressions to filter script variables, and encoding of MySQL-related constructs.

Member Profiles / Social Networking

Currently live on YouN00b.com

Photo/Avatar galleries with comments, with provisions to prevent multiple uploads of the same object, instead applying one physical file to the profile, reducing filesize footprint.
Profile comments, custom fields (about me, messengers, hobbies, and so on).
Ability to purchase an ad-free account via donations, or by using site "points" called "YeN" (No relation to Currency) which are acquiried through contribution and interest earnings.
Feeds, Homepage, and Notifications similar to Facebook.
Live chat with moderation abilities.
Site, and indvidual statistics and leaderboards.
Bug tracker and feature request/rating scripts.

Server Information and Monitoring

Currently live on YouN00b.com, applies to all sites on the server

Site information, such as server hostname, SSL site, request ports, OS, PHP Version, Server Signature, Document Root
Physical space available, out of total space.
Processor count, brand/revision, and load per core.
System Uptime
Running Process Count
Memory Information, such as Free RAM, Paging Space, and Virtual Memory
Current Server Uptime (not system), Total Server Uptime (counting time between restarts)
Total Server Data Output, divided by Total Uptime for daily average.

Mail Exchange System

Currently live on YouN00b.com

Typical messaging elements, such as dropdown user selection, subject, message body, and reply/forward/delete.
Allows user to see the URL of images before viewing them, to prevent user's IPs or other information to be captured by other members. (Similar to E-Mail's "Click here to view images")
Sent assurance to verify that the message was delivered without system fault.
Compartimentalizes messages so that only the intended recipient can view the contents.
Allows external contact (from other sites) to select members, and also automated notifications.
To date, has delivered over 11,000 messages.

Administrator Control Panels

Currently live on YouN00b.com

Account activity monitoring (to view, in bulk, the last time members were logged into their accounts, by half-hour).
Both moderator and administrator activity logs to track what changes/actions were implemented by what member of the team.
Account administration, including:

Querying a User - Allows an admin to view information about an account to detect issues early, for example an average rating assigned, last ban date, last post, etc.
Profile Editing - Designed to remove offensive or otherwise disallowed elements from a member's profile.
Disable Account - Logs a user out of their account, and prevents them from logging back into the account.
Upgrade/Downgrade from Moderator status
IP Query, and Detect Duplicate Account - Designed to find accounts deemed "Dupes" or "Sock puppet" accounts that may pose a spamming risk, and allows the banning of IP addresses.

Site-wide messaging for distribution of important information, or general newsletters.
Sitemap generation and search engine pinging to keep sitemaps current.
Activity Monitor - Shows actions on a day-to-day basis, and allows review of each days actions.
Contact SysOp (myself) via text-messaging for critical issues.
Shutdown site - Also for critical issues.

Automated Task Management

Site performs the following tasks once a day:

Recalculates member's submission and post counts to actual, database-present, values
Calculates and adds member "interest"
Increments consecutive days for member reference.

Latitude/Longitude Mapping Software

Live, but not publicly available on ParkReference.com

Parses and optimizes output from Garmin-brand GPS units into maps capable of being: Panned, Zoomed, Rotated, and Captioned with length estimation.

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