Geoff Moller

Application Developer, Team Lead - Los Angeles, CA

Summary

Geoff Moller is a flexible and talented engineer and manager - he has strong communication skills and a burning desire to produce outstanding product. Geoff specializes in Rich Internet Applications and enjoys developing applications which delight users and help them make more informed decisions. Geoff currently leads the frontend engineering efforts for advertise.myspace.com.

Specialties

• Engineering Leadership
• RIA Development

Team / Process Skills

• Lead small teams
• SCM, Build Management
• Process Agnostic - I deliver and bring out the best in those I work with
• Team productivity and morale in high-pressure situation
• Mentor junior programmers

Technical Skills

_{followed by years experience: (*) indicates active skill, used in last 6 month}

• Complex Asynchronous UI development, best practices for state management and event driven interfaces
• High Performance Web Pages
• Web Standards and Accessibility, semantic code, validation, optimization
• Strategic, conceptual & analytical thinking

Advanced

• JavaScript - OO, Data structures, XMLHttpRequest, AJAX, Libraries [Dojo, Prototype, YUI, etc)
• XHTML (7*)
• DOM 1,2 (7*)
• CSS 2.0+ (Best practices + hacks, browser quirk expert) (7*)
• DHTML (7*)
• XML, XSLT (6)
• Standards Compliant Code (6)

Proficient

• Actionscript 3 (1*)
• Flex 2 Framework (1*)
• Cairngorm (1*)
• UNIX Shell (5*)
• Version Control (7*)
• Regular Expressions (6*)
• Design Patterns (mostly UI-related: MVC, Singleton, Facade, Factory, Observer, etc) (3*)
• HTTP (6*)

Familiar

• Django, Rails, Symfony
• Python, Ruby
• Java
• PureMVC
• Ant
• Apache
• SQL
• Database Design & Normalization

Experience

• Fox Interactive Media : Beverly Hills, CA
  Technical Manager: 3,2007 - Present

  • Leads the frontend development of advertise.myspace.com and associated applications
  • Engineering management for a team of six: Code Reviews, Mentoring, Brown Bags
  • RIA Development

• Clickstar, Inc : Santa Monica, CA
  Senior Web Developer: 11, 2006 - 3, 2007

  RIA Development

• Yahoo!, Inc : Santa Monica, CA
  Web Developer: 8, 2005 - 10, 2006

  Led the frontend development of finance.myspace.com and associated applications: finance.yahoo.com

  Key Projects:

  • http://finance.yahoo.com/charts
  • http://finance.yahoo.com/badges

• schematic : Culver City, CA
  Interface Engineer: 5, 2004 - 7, 2005

  RIA Development http://www.schematic.com

• rpinteractive : Santa Monica, CA
  Senior HTML Programmer, Web Application Developer: 6, 2002 - 5, 2004

  http://www.rpa.com Asynchronous UI Development, XSL/XSLT, Application Development
  Honda Motorcyles http://powersports.honda.com

• Treadmill Central : Los Angeles, CA
  Freelance Web Programmer: 6, 2001 - 7, 2002

  UI Programming, ASP.NET http://www.treadmillscentral.com

• babystyle : Los Angeles, CA
  HTML Programmer: 4, 2000 - 5, 2001

  UI Programming http://www.estyle.com