Web Specialist
Greater Seattle Area
- Current
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- Founder at Glacier Media
- Past
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- Systems Engineer & Lead Developer at Capacity Provisioning
- Freelance Web Developer (Self-employed)
- Web Developer at OlyPen
- Systems Administrator (Intern) at Clallam County PUD
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Ryan Christensen’s Summary
Technically minded, and a seasoned web professional with attention to detail. Having worked professionally with the web and IT/IS since early 2000 I have extensive experience in web development/design and managing other Internet technologies/services in mission critical environments.
Ryan Christensen’s Specialties:
• Extensive history managing servers and services in production and mission critical environments
• Experiencing building and maintaining fault tolerant web hosting infrastructures, including web-based control panels and provisioning systems
• Solid experience managing all parts of a project life cycle
• Expert grasp of XHTML, CSS, and related front-end technologies.
• Extensive history in web application development (primarily PHP/Ruby/Rails)
Ryan Christensen’s Experience
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Founder
Glacier Media
(Internet industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Through Glacier Media I help businesses of all sizes with a range of web, IT, and consulting services. This includes visual design, strategic web marketing, guidance through the confusing world of search engine placement, community management, and much more.
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Systems Engineer & Lead Developer
Capacity Provisioning
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — July 2007 (2 years 7 months)
Employment started at Centric Technologies as co-founder prior to a February 2006 acquisition by Capacity Provisioning.
• CPI acquired Centric (below) and its client base
• Manage web projects through all stages of development
• Web development tasks ranged from custom CMS development to full shopping cart creation, completely with live credit-card processing
• Successfully led initiative building a fault-tolerant hosting infrastructure
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Freelance Web Developer
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 3 months)
Specialized in ongoing website maintenance and development services on a contract or per-project basis. Gave onsite training sessions to assist in self-maintenance of websites.
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Web Developer
OlyPen
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2001 — August 2003 (2 years 6 months)
Started in customer service, eventually was promoted to a position focusing strictly on web services, independently leading web service, sales and production.
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Systems Administrator (Intern)
Clallam County PUD
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 1 month)
Involved in the setup day to day management of several Linux servers powering the company intranet, internal DNS, mail delivery, as well as the hosting and management of the publicly facing website.
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Ryan Christensen’s Groups:
Clallam County Technology Cluster, Port Angeles BizBuilders group
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