David Benjamin Billingham

LimeWire LLC

Helped transition to newly designed website using advanced knowledge of Apache Web Server. Created a full fledged Multivariate test suite allowing breakthrough designs to be tested in a live environment while ensuring random sampling and accurate results. Created a dynamic sales tax feature using AJAX & JQuery.

The New York Times

Initiated, designed and created the Send to Phone application. Redesigned, Re-factored and Re-architected the Email This Article application. Streamlined the user experience for the Travel application. Completed the development of the Netflix API integration to the Movies application. Closed out many bugs and closed some major CSRF and XSS venerability's.

LiveAuctioneers LLC

Managed a small team of developers. Determined and enforced the technical standards of the development and systems team. Quickly assembled, designed and delivered a high quality online inventory management application (Took2). Designed and implemented a sharded database schema in MySQL for high traffic growth and failover. Continued to invent and produce creative uses of the eBay API. Conceptualized and created the reusable core PHP objects used to control the separate modules.

Created custom CRM and inventory management web applications to allow clients to manage their online auctions. Conceptualized, designed, built and maintained scalable vertical search engine for high traffic site with millions of archived auction items using Solr/Lucene. Managed full MySQL database upgrades, designs, redesigns & scaling.

Lucent Technologies

Created and maintained Access databases integrated with the website and wireless devices used for installation, repair and maintenance of switching stations. Upgraded old system of Excel File Databases to use new Access System. Started program for the installers to receive hand held Internet devices and designed the WML to be used. Designed system for managers to leave voice messages on the Internet for others to hear.

Public Works Dept.

Created and maintained the Access databases to track the placement of concrete and benchmarks. Designed a system to predict the estimated time when concrete would need to be replaced dependent on time, type and location.