Bret Miller


At Bags End Web Design, Principal10/01 - Present
  • Extensive experience building and maintaining dynamic websites using PHP, MySQL and Wordpress
  • Object Oriented Programming experience with many MVC framework architectures
  • Expert Level knowledge of HTML, jQuery and CSS
  • Proven success at Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and search engine ranking
  • Strong MySQL database and SQL query language skills
  • Working knowledge of many Web Services (REST)
  • Proficient Linux command line shell skills and system administration
WORK EXPERIENCE
Blackstone Audio, PHP Developer Ashland, OR06/16 - Present
  • Develop and maintain the Magento 1.9 and Magento 2.4 ecommerce sites
Anvil Northwest, Webmaster Roseburg, OR02/15 - 07/19
  • System Administrator of 2 VPS servers running 40 websites
  • Develop websites and maintain existing ones
  • Completing a server migration from one web host to another
Passey Advertising, Webmaster Medford, OR09/11 - 08/16
  • System Administrator of 3 VPS servers running 25 websites
  • Develop websites and maintain existing ones
  • Designed and implemented an automated website backup system
  • Completed a server upgrade migration imposed by web host
  • Authored web hosting protocol
Fluorish, System Administrator, Lead Programmer, Webmaster Ashland, OR05/14 - 10/15
  • Took ownership of the project and became lead programmer
  • Launched the site January 2015
  • System Administrator of the Ubuntu Linux Server
  • Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the site
Musicvision, Webmaster New York, NY10/00 - 10/01
  • Webmaster of 9 high profile music websites including: *NSYNC, Mariah Carey, Matchbox Twenty, 311, Outkast, LFO, Good Charlotte, Buckcherry and Vertical Horizon
  • Webmaster of 3 high profile radio station websites including: 311, Outkast and Alanis Morissette
  • Responsible for all the day-to-day operations of the websites including site content, bulletin boards, chats, registration databases and webmaster@site.com email
  • Designed a unified, scalable registration database that allowed growth from 200,000 to 2 million records
Virtualscape, Tech Support, Webmaster New York, NY3/99 - 10/00
  • Maintained and authored new content for the company Website
  • Designed and developed the tech support's intranet site, a dynamic searchable knowledgebase
  • Set up, configured, and troubleshot websites and services for customers on NT and UNIX platforms
  • On a team of 15 administering over 650 servers: web servers, database servers, mail servers, chat servers, bulletin board servers and ecommerce servers
PCSNetworks, Network Analyst Emeryville, CA5/98 - 10/98
  • Authored RFPs and RFQs
  • Consulted with clients for their IT needs, transferred knowledge, and designed IT solutions
  • Conducted on-site audits of clients network infrastructure and then advised how to improve their computer networks
LANGUAGES
HTMLJavaScriptJquery
CSSSQLPHP
DHTMLAJAXXML
Mod_RewriteXHTMLColdfusion
ASPPerl/CGIWordpress
 
DATABASES
MySQLPostgreSQLMS SQL
MS Access  
 

PUBLICATIONS
Seshaiah, P., Miller, B., Myat, M.M. and Andrew, D.J. (2001) pasilla, the Drosophila homologue of the human Nova-1 and Nova-2 proteins, is required for normal secretion in the salivary gland. Developmental Biology 239: 309-322.

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in Biology, 1994, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD