Joe Golden
T r i a n g u l u s

Recent Work

Migrated 5000+ videos and associated metadata to the Amazon Cloud and created a new website for LCATV, a community access TV station located in Colchester, VT.
Integrated TV schedules with Castus playback system.
Built encoder for LCATV programs to transcode to web playback quality.
Scripted nightly uploads to Amazon cloud storage of multi gigabyte video files via aws command line interface.
Generated viewer reports from Amazon streaming logs that show who watched what program when, for how long and from what location.

New website build with information architecture overhaul: ruralmigrantministry.org/
Multilingual English/Spanish.
Numerous meetings with RMM staff to plan and discuss site structure for clear communication of the RMM mission and successes.

Older Work

New website build with focus on easy access to union contracts and good images to help clearly communicate the union message: unitednurses.info.
Civicrm integration to track membership and union support.
Customized safe staffing form for union to monitor safe staffing levels at UVM Medical Center.

Migrated hundreds of pieces of content and taxonomy into Drupal from Ektron.
Trained city staff on the day to day working and updating of a Drupal site.
Trained city staff on the Drupal menu and taxonomy systems to help get the site information architecute on a solid footing.

Drupal project manager coordinating theming, module development, views development with a three person development team, external designers and Solutions staff of six people.
Configured local development server and scripted mirroring from live server for fast, safe and efficient development work.
Developed custom connections diagrams with Perl and Dot to graphically show connections between pieces of content.

Developed proof of concept video delivery in Drupal from the Amazon S3 Cloud for Orca Media programs.
Configured two Linux Servers with associated Drobo 16TB storage device for archiving of Orca’s government meetings.
Integration through Samba with base Microsoft Orca network and Linux playback server.

Deployment and modification of Pegevent Module for Lake Champlain Access TV (LCATV) in Colchester, VT for airtime scheduling in their Drupal website.

Founded Triangulus to focus on Drupal web development and online communications.

Designed a custom Drupal module to provide highly specialized scheduling and playback integration services for CCTV, The Center for Media and Democracy, in Burlington, VT.
Integrated Drupal program archiving and scheduling elements with MaestroVision playback system databases, resulting in more efficient workflow for CCTV staff.
Provided custom views, templates and reports to meet specific needs of CCTV post production staff and upstream reporting requirements.
Coding primarily in PHP for custom module development interfacing with multiple MySQL databases. Report generation and maintenance tasks coded in Perl.

Designed a Drupal taxonomy to accomodate multiple interoperable vocabularies for authors and book types.
Integrated and customized user profiles and user tagging of content.
Implemented detailed SEO recommendations to improve search engine rankings.
Worked closely with the Bear-Code Russian design team to help them understand how to integrate database elements into their designs.

Founded Green Mountain Linux as a consulting firm specializing in Linux and Open Source solutions.

Front line Japanese Language Support person responsible for rapid problem analysis and solution or escalation within an organized highly responsive trouble ticket system.
Personally responsible for monitoring a global network of 50 HP-Unix machines providing global fax over internet services to Asia, Europe and the USA.
Perl scripting to monitor remote machine health, status, and throughput with a goal of rapid failure detection.
Compiling useful analysis information on queuing, machine function, network communications, and general troubleshooting.

Fine art printing production manager and Iris printer maintenance technician.
Overseeing smooth operation and maintenance of $200,000 worth of fine art printing machinery.
Responsible for regular nightly runs of high quality fine art images.

Teacher of Math, Physics and English at Soy Secondary School in very rural area in the Rift Valley near Eldoret.
FSI 3+ (rough fluency) Swahili language rating at end of service.

Designed 900 square foot house with 20 sides and massive central chimney.
Constructed house with super insulation, earth tube air preheater and recycled and local materials.

BS in Mathematics with a Computer Science Option.
Coursework in OS design, structured programming methodology, assembly language, and higher level mathematics.
Three year crew team member.
Progressive student network organizer with other campuses in New England.
Four years Japanese language study.