Christopher Laco

Christopher Laco

Webmaster at Summit Racing Equipment

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Current
Past
  • Hostmaster at Three Tech Associates
  • Web Developer at Meldrum & Fewsmith
  • PC Support Techician at University of Akron
Education
  • The University of Akron
  • The University of Akron
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Summary

VB6/COM/MTS Development. Test Driven Development in Perl (Test::More, Perl::Critic, Devel::Cover) and .NET (NUnit, TestDriven.NET). Core Assembly and ASP.NET Development using VB.NET/C#.NET. Server Maintenance and Setup in Windows NT4/2000/2003/2008 with IIS4/5/6/7, Apache/Lighttpd on FreeBSD with ModPerl, Catalyst and FastCGI. Firewalling and NAT using FreeBSD. MVC Development using ASP.NET MVC, Django(Python), Rails(Ruby), CakePHP and Catalyst(Perl). SQL Server 2000/MySql maint/development. Endeca system development/maint with SEO friendly urls.

Specialties:

Ecommerce to business systems integration. Shopping/Cart/Checkout development. Search systems based on data attributes (Endeca).

Experience

  • Module Author

    CPAN

    (Computer Software industry)

    November 2004 — Present (4 years 9 months)

    Author of Handel and other CPAN modules that can be found at: http://search.cpan.org/~claco/

  • Webmaster

    Summit Racing Equipment

    (Privately Held; Automotive industry)

    April 1998 — Present (11 years 4 months)

    Started when there was no online store. Developed bulk of commerce code that integrates with back end business system using VB, COM/MTS, VB.NET, C#.NET, IIS, SQL2K and custom sockets code. Also included TDD using NUnit, Interface based programming as well as core Assemblies, server maintenance of web based IIS/FreeBSD machines. Endeca system setup/main.

  • Hostmaster

    Three Tech Associates

    (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 1994 — January 2000 (6 years 1 month)

    Threetech was a home run business by my self and my partner. We developed websites for local companies and I also took care of the hosting out of my residence using FreeBSD for firewall and NAT, ASP, IIS4, NT4, IIS5, W2K, Apache, PHP, and mod_perl. Also took care of various connections; ISDN, DSL, Frame Relay.

  • Web Developer

    Meldrum & Fewsmith

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    January 1997 — April 1998 (1 year 4 months)

    Every day website developer. ASP, Searchlite Software 'Spinnaker', IIS. Dynamic sites using SQL and Paradox. Some graphics development using Photoshop. Built online instruction manual display/storage for dirtdevil.com. Works on sites for Cedar Point, Dorney Park, Sealy, Dirt Devil.

  • PC Support Techician

    University of Akron

    (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

    January 1995 — January 1996 (1 year 1 month)

    Did basic new computer setup and network troubleshooting for MacOS, Windows 3.1, Windows for WorkGroups 3.11 and Windows 95 machines on Banyon Vines network.

Education

  • The University of Akron

    Bachelor , Music Performance: Percussion , 1991 — 1996

    Activities and Societies:
    Steel drum band, Orchestra, Drum and Bugle Corps

  • The University of Akron

    Bachelor , Music Education K-12 , 1991 — 1996

    ~23 credit hours per semester for two degrees, and I survived. :-)

    Activities and Societies:
    Steel drum band, Orchestra, Drum and Bugle Corps

Additional Information

Websites:

Interests:

Programming, Programming, more Programming. FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Apache, Perl, TDD, LAMP, Catalyst, Shopping Carts, Checkout Systems, Ecommerce. Drum and Bugle Corps. Steel Drum.

Honors:

I actually won first place Individuals Solos at DCI in the multiples category with the first ever Steel Drum Solo there.