Conrad Damon

208 Timothy Dr
San Carlos, CA 94070
conrad_damon@yahoo.com
Twitter, Skype: conraddamon

Who I Am:

I'm an easy-going guy, smart in a lot of ways (I learn quickly), not so smart in others (I'm an A's fan). Semi-geeky at most: while I like word games and trivia, I prefer sports over sci-fi, and I'm only a moderate gadget freak. At most jobs I've learned on the fly.

What I'm Looking For:
A role developing within and/or managing a small front-end team for a company with a compelling product and plan, among great people. My strength and experience are in developing webapps, but I'm open to something new in the right situation.

What I Do:

From 2004 to 2016 I was the primary developer of the Zimbra web client, which is a very large AJAX webmail application. It consists of over 500K lines of code. My involvement ranged from the big picture - code architecture and class hierarchies as well as performance work - to the extremely small picture, such as getting it to look right across browsers. The web client is built on a home-grown AJAX framework, since there weren't any available when we started. It includes a widget library (buttons, menus, etc), XHR management, and a bunch of utility code. Specialties of mine within the web client included keyboard shortcuts, accessibility, focus handling, autocomplete, and the detection of quoted content in an email body.

I was also the initial and primary developer of the Zimbra touch client, a mobile webapp built on top of the Sencha Touch framework.

Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo in October 2007, sold to VMware in February 2010, sold in July 2013 to a small social software company named Telligent, then sold to a former partner named Synacor which remains the current owner. My last role there was as UI Director within the Zimbra group. In addition to coding, I managed a team of five to ten developers.

Previous jobs include PHP and then Java work for Openwave Systems, and the development of public campus web services for Stanford. If you want more details about those, just ask.

Acronyms and Buzz Words:

Programming languages: JavaScript*, Java, Perl, PHP, C, C++
Technologies: AJAX*, DOM*, CSS*, HTML*, HTML5*, XML, HTTP, SQL
Tools: Ant, Eclipse, IDEA, Jetty, Apache, MySQL, Git
Libraries/frameworks: Sencha Touch*, ExtJS, jQuery, Angular

* relative and/or recent strengths

Education:

B.A. in English, Stanford University