Chris Pederick

Currently the director of front-end engineering at Bleacher Report.

Employment

May 2009 – present

Director of Front-end Engineering at Bleacher Report

October 2001 – May 2009

Technical Architect at Razorfish

  • Architected and implemented a number of successful enterprise-scale web site launches and redesigns
  • Equally adept managing and developing both the front-end and back-end of a web site
  • Worked directly with clients and managed teams of more than five developers
  • A leader in the front-end development group advocating web standards both internally and to clients

July 1998 – September 2001

Senior Developer at Quidnunc

  • Technical lead on a variety of projects with responsibilities including pre-sales, analysis, design, implementation, testing and training
  • Part of the core team that opened the San Francisco office after transferring from London

July 1997 – September 1997

Developer at ICL Advanced Technology Centre

  • Built intelligent, autonomous agents using alpha-release IBM software to develop custom genetic algorithms in Java
  • Presented work to a number of multi-national insurance and banking companies

Experience

JavaScript

Detailed understanding of JavaScript including JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery and YUI, large-scale web site deployment and optimization techniques.

HTML & CSS

Over 10 years of experience writing HTML and CSS incorporating web standards and semantic markup.

Java

Expertise in architecting and developing using Java for a variety of e-commerce web sites serving millions of users.

PHP

Experience developing PHP for both clients and personal work.

Independent Work

Firefox Extension Author

Author of the Web Developer and User Agent Switcher Firefox extensions – two of the most popular extensions for the browser.

Speaker

Presented a “Firefox Web Development” session at the Webmaster Jam Session 2008 conference and a “jQuery Migration” talk at Yelp.

Firefox Contest Winner

Winner of a grand prize in the inaugural Extend Firefox contest for the Web Developer extension in the “Best Upgraded Extension” category.

Magazine Interview

Interviewed by Om Malik for an article about the rise of Firefox in Business 2.0 magazine.

Education

1995 – 1998

BSc (Honors) degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Psychology from Nottingham University, England

Degree covered topics from object modeling and user interface design to cognitive psychology and neural networks. The final year project was an artificial intelligence study in “evolving” pursuit and evasion strategies using genetic algorithms written in Java.

This resume is available at chrispederick.com/resume/ marked up using microformats and iPhone compatible.