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Christopher Davis - Resume

Experience

Performance Media Group

Fort Worth, TX

Web Engineer — December 2012 - Present

  • Build high-performance, responsive websites with WordPress
  • Custom internal web application development and deployment
  • Serve in a DevOps capacity for the office, helping with deployment and cloud hosting solutions for clients and internal projects

Performance Media Group

Fort Worth, TX

Lead SEO Engineer — December 2010 - December 2012

  • Design, Plan & Implement SEO campaigns for various clients (from small to fortune 500)
  • Develop and maintain WordPress plugins for public release and private client use
  • Communicate daily with clients and other vendors

ClassicalGuitar.org

Anywhere

Writer, Editor, Code Monkey — 2008 - Present

  • Maintain and monitor site-wide SEO implementation
  • Deliver weekly articles to more than 1000 subscribers and 12,000 monthly visitors
  • Maintain and update all website design and code

Austin Peay State University

Clarksville, TN

Graduate Assistant — 2008 - 2010

  • Managed and monitored the Music Deparment's listening library
  • Taught an undergrad group guitar class
  • Assisted professors with various research/administrative tasks

Other Experience

  • Many custom (and some publicly released) WordPress plugins
  • Freelance web development and SEO
  • Guitar instruction and lessons

Education

Austin Peay State University

Clarksville, TN

Master of Music — 2010

Drake University

Des Moines, IA

Bachelor of Music Business & Performance — 2008

Skills

PHP
WordPress
  • Theme Developement
  • Plugin Development
  • Deploying WordPress on cloud or dedicated hosting solutions
Python
  • Web scraping
  • Web development (Flask, Django)
  • Desktop application development with wxPython
  • XML-RPC client development and usage
SEO
  • Content development
  • On-page optimization
  • Information architecture
Social Media
  • Planning and executing social media campaigns
  • Effective use of on-page social media elements (like buttons, etc.)
  • Effective usage of the major social platforms
Version Control
  • Git
  • SVN
Other
  • Light SysAdmin tasks: server setup (nginx, php-fpm, python WSGI), EC2, Rackspace
  • html/html5
  • JavaScript (and jQuery)
  • CSS/CSS3
  • Responsive design implementation
  • Generally speaking, I'm not a "Front End" guy. That is, I'm not a designer. I can turn just about any design into a site, however.

Awards

References available on request. Contact me via email: chris [AT] ClassicalGuitar.org.