Thomas J. Webb

• Created, maintained, and repeatedly updated for almost a decade, the industry's largest, most comprehensive website, www.vanderstahl.com. PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Flash/Actionscript skills were used as well as a good sense for time prioritizing and design. Search engine optimization skills were used to drive traffic to this high-revenue firm.
• Calibrated countless medical device packaging machines, as well as thermocouples used to calibrate.
• Not satisfied with existent softwares, developed in-house software used to calibrate and maintain machines, MaintenanceCast and CalibrateCast. This software has become so usable and feature-rich that it is now sold and also offered free to customers of medical packaging machinery.
  update: I have added new capabilities to this software. It now is a core feature of a new medical machine offered by Van der Stahl Scientific. I have worked closely with the engineers in Japan to ensure that this machine works with their new machine.
• Used business and Japanese language skills to be diplomat to company's biggest supplier, a Japanese company. Went to Japan several times alone to meet with Fuji business leaders as well as several other times accompanying and guiding other Van der Stähl employees.

Self-taught through on-line sources, books and experience creating and maintaining software. Willing to learn any new language or skill. Fast learner.

Programming Languages:

• C/C++
• PHP
• Perl
• Ruby & RoR
• JavaScript & Actionscript (Flash)
• QT (C++ multi-platform GUI toolkit)
• regexp
• SQL

Operating Systems, Environments and Misc.

• Microsoft Windows/Visual Studio
• UNIX (Linux, FreeBSD, Darwin, Solaris x86) and GNU tools (autoconf, gcc, etc.)
• Mac OS X
• Apache server configuration (Incl. mod_rewrite)
• Cygwin
• XML, CSS, HTML, XHTML, DOM
• Excel, including macros
• Both Microsoft Office Suite and Apple iWorks

Multimedia

• Use of recording software, including Cubase and Abelton Live, as well as a range of commandline (Windows, Linux or Mac OS X) converters. I'm very particular about sound quality.
• Photoshop, Illustrator, I own my own Wacom Intuos
• Dreamweaver

• Japanese Language (passed JLPT Level 3 and am preparing to take 2 this year) can speak fluently as well as perform translation
• Strong math and science skills
• Marketing experience, especially in highly technical fields
• Calliagraphy (blackletter, gothic, italic, etc.)
• Music composition/performance (drums, synthesizer)
• Writing (articles, technical manuals)
• Can understand complex ethical issues

• Van der Stähl Scientific, Inc. - Medical Packaging Company. Most comprehensive website in the industry, complete with training courses and segregated engineer's-only area. Uses php and is biult primarily in Dreamweaver, and many, many high-quality photos edited in photoshop.
• Band-Collab.net - Innovative web-based technologies for musicians. Created in php based on drupal. Since drupal is not very good technology (at least not for this purpose), I'm redoing the whole thing from scratch in Ruby on Rails.
• ASCII-Tag Generator - Cool tool for guitarists, surprisingly popular (I get comments about it all the time). Also see Japanese version.
• Thomas J. Webb's Ecology Blog - My personal blog. Based on wordpress, with php customizations by myself (such as the multi-language feature and the displaying of week days based on their original Norse diety names). Also shows off my writing skills (at least some of the posts anyway..) and my bizarre sense of humor.

• GearWheel php
• Runic keyboard
• (Please inquire for more code that I'm unable to post here)