Kurt Payne

Current

• Senior Software Engineer at GoDaddy.com
• Lead Programmer at Firetank Software

Past

• Software Developer at Data-Vision, Inc.
• Technical Director at Viosport.com

Education

• Northern Michigan University

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• My Company

Kurt Payne’s Summary

Developer focusing in web-based software with a specialty in e-commerce. Versed in asp3, php4 / php5, and xml/xhtml/css/javascript with strong familiarity with ajax and javascript OO frameworks and methodologies. Comfortable in both WAMP and LAMP environments.

Kurt Payne’s Specialties:

e-commerce, search engine optimization, javascript / ajax, regular expressions, wamp, lamp, php, linux, perl, cgi, xml, xhtml, prototype, javascript behaviours, scriptaculous, soap, yui

Kurt Payne’s Experience

• Senior Software Engineer

  GoDaddy.com

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  Senior software engineer for internal software used by 1,000+ employees to support shared hosting, virtual dedicated hosting, and dedicated hosting customers. Acted as a technical project manager and mentored a junior developer.

• Lead Programmer

  Firetank Software

  (Computer Software industry)

  April 2003 — Present (5 years 8 months)

  Lead software developer for the FiretankSoftware.com line of products.

• Software Developer

  Data-Vision, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2004 — March 2007 (2 years 9 months)

  I worked with a team of developers to use ASP 3.0 and Visual Basic 6.0 to develop website content management software for the lending industry. Maintained a positive SAS 70 audit report.

• Technical Director

  Viosport.com

  (Sporting Goods industry)

  June 2000 — July 2004 (4 years 2 months)

  I was the lead developer and system administrator. I worked directly with clients to develop a video-on-demand system and several e-commerce websites. I provided direct support to our clients.

Kurt Payne’s Education

• Northern Michigan University

  BA, Network Computing, Spanish, 2000 — 2004

  My major-related courses focused on web / network programming in java, c++, php, and perl perl. I also enjoyed a wide variety of classes in design, speech, drama, and anthropology.
  
  I wrote several articles for the school paper (The North Wind). I graduated with honors as magna cum laude with a 3.76 GPA. I helped run several ACM programming contests.

  Activities and Societies:

  ACM

Additional Information

Kurt Payne’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My Company

Kurt Payne’s Interests:

c#, asp.net, ajax, javascript, cms, web services, ecommerce, php, lamp, wamp, search engine optimization, css zen garden, prototype, yui, scriptaculous, web services, xml

Kurt Payne’s Honors:

Graduated high school with distinction, Graduated college magna cum laude, Employee of the month September 2000 at Viosport

Kurt Payne’s Contact Settings

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