Robert Baxter Portland, OR, 97201

Software, Design, Engineering 503 902 1112

OBJECTIVE
TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Seeking meaningful future-focused
collaboration: suitable small to medium Emphasizing simplicity and the ideal of true
sized projects and ongoing work with quality. General technical depth and versatility.
progressive technologists, designers and Wide-range work and design background: visual, audio
partners. Intent on quality as a and textual pursuits to web and system stack code
continuous process; whole-cloth, craft; work/shop process to organization and
evolving design; code and architecture administrivia. Resilient labor and communication
saliency; security realism. ethics.

EXPERIENCE SKILLSETS
FREELANCE 2013-2018 ᚋ Full-stack web development. Front-end
architecture: information, interaction,
Implemented mobile security design for
layout, nuanced styling. Server-side
gobuquity.com. Designed and wrote
engineering, deployment and maintenance.
multicast/mobile connection system for
algebraicthinking.org. Re-architected and ᚋ Modern, responsive interface/experience
implemented a-dec-inspire-me.com site. composition: Rich, dynamic HTML5, CSS3,
Integrated eBay Trading API with small-scale JavaScript. Fluid, pixel-perfect
second-use ERP SaaS. Accessibility and implementation. Cross-browser/device and
localization, projects and tooling for responsive methods. Degradability,
viadelivers.com. Technologies: Vanilla js, accessibility, standards compliance, forward-
Node, Selenium/PhantomJS, Meteor.js, Web Audio compatibility. Preference for mobile-first,
API; Django, Flask; NGINX, uWSGI, Rackspace, offline-first strategies and minimal, vanilla
AWS; Air, Tamarin, RTMFP; WCAG. js.
LEARNING.COM 2012-2013
ᚋ Reliable, scalable, portable back-end
Implemented JavaScript version of Flash-based solutions: Toolchain-agnostic approach.
lesson application, with emphasis on iOS-Safari Concurrent and distributed concerns.
media playback. Enhanced and adopted Preference for client-side processing and
maintainership of Flash/ActionScript codebase RESTful APIs, Unix toolchain, Python, and
including swf and Adobe Air applications. server frameworks.
Performed proof-of-concept work, porting legacy
ᚋ ECMA/JavaScript (JQuery, libraries, plugins,
Flash content to native iOS app, utilizing
APIs, frameworks, ES5 toward ES6/7), JSON,
Apple dev toolchain and Adobe Native
XML, REST. XHTML–HTML5, CSS2–3, browser and
Extensions.
OS compatibility. Flash, ActionScript.
CISCO.COM 2012 Objective-C, iOS toolchain. Java, Android.
Senior Web Interface Developer. Delivered PhoneGap/Cordova.
widgets for site transition to Adobe CQ WCM.
Contributed Java introspection class to improve ᚋ Python (Flask, Django), Node, PHP, Perl. SQL,
integration with unstable offshore backend API. NoSQL, DBA. DVCS. RegEx fluency. OS and
Heavy use of JSP/JSTL, JCR, Eclipse, Maven, Server adminstration. Tool evaluation.
Git. Testing strategy. Cloud deployment,
availability, scaling.
FREELANCE 2011-2012
ᚋ ANSI/ISO C, Scheme, Java, Bash, Haskell,
Projects for foodchannel.com, kinco.com,
Prolog. Objective-C, C#. Max/MSP, puredata,
cloudfeet.com, metaltoad.com and others.
CSound.
JavaScript focus.
LO-FI ART 2010-2011
OTHER ASSETS
Various projects; Django/Python and
JavaScript focus. Clients including ᚋ Exacting attention to detail; love of craftship.
sasquatchfestifal.com, hagertypriceguide.com, Intuitive design approach. Organized and highly
bikecommutechallenge.com, sqrly.com, self-motivating.
gling.com, and IETF. ᚋ Visual arts background and keen graphical
RED-I STUDIOS 2006-2010 sensibility. Passion for simplicity, elegance,
Worked on titan.ja.org, a Flash/Action- and design saliency.
Script business simulation game. ᚋ Solid, articulate reasoning and problem solving.
Designed and implemented e-card mailing Broad communication skills.
application, PHP back-end and admin
interface for jellypebble.com and
pogosweeps.net INTERESTS
Arts, Culture, History, Cognitive and
Evolutionary Sciences. Ecology, Food, Water,
EDUCATION
Walking. Music, Paints, Pencil, Paper, Text.
Bachelor of Science, Computing Science
SOFTWARE
The Evergreen State College, WA, 2009
CS foundations, with focus on music/media Interaction design, visual composition, layout
programming. and text manipulation, music authoring, web-
audio, data and workflow management.