<h1>Cooper Quintin</h1>
<p>Tel: (510) 827-5382 / E-mail:
cooperq@cooperq.com
<a href="
https://github.com/cooperq">
https://github.com/cooperq</a></p>
<h2>Skills</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fluent and extremely comfortable with Python, Ruby, Bash, Javascript (Client and Node.js) and PHP</li>
<li>Experienced advocate of software engineering best practices, E.G.: agile, test driven development,
MVC, Object Orientation Patterns</li>
<li>7 years experience with system administration tasks specifically related to LAMP stack systems.
Very comfortable with Linux, Apache and Mysql tuning and administration.</li>
<li>Security and Anonymity best practices </li>
<li>Penetration testing and security auditing</li>
<li>Can read Perl, C/C++ and Java</li>
<li>Nagios system monitoring</li>
<li>Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Backbone, Express.JS, Padrino, Django</li>
</ul>
<h2>Current Position</h2>
<h3>Radical Designs Director of Technology / Co-Owner 2009 – Current</h3>
<p>Responsible for leading a team of up to 5 other programmers, making major technology
decisions for the company, designing, estimating, architecting and maintaining
small and large software projects. Responsible for overseeing all software projects
from start to finish and assuring that best practices are used to write quality
software and assure team and customer satisfaction. </p>
<h2>Open Source and Other Projects</h2>
<h3>Ethersheet
https://ethersheet.org</h3>
<p>Designed and built an open source collaborative online collaborative spreadsheet</p>
<h3>REvent
http://revent.radicaldesigns.org/</h3>
<p>Contributed to the development of REvent, an open source tool to facilitate
distributed national days of action for organizers. Written in Ruby and Javascript.</p>
<h3>Hackmeet
https://hackmeet.org</h3>
<p>Co-Organizer of hackmeet. The goal of hackmeet is to bring together activists and
techies/hackers to facilitate a discussion about the intersection of activism
and technology. Additionally hackmeet organizes regular security trainings
around the bay area.</p>
<h2>Talks</h2>
<p>### Your Cell Phone is Covered In Spiders: Pragmatic Mobile Security
HOPE Number Nine, New York, NY, 2012
### Test Driven Development For Beginners,
Dev Summit, Oakland CA, 2012
### Encrypt All The Things! A Primer on Full Disk Encryption
Cryptoparty, Oakland CA, 2012
### Lockpicking
Hackmeet 2012, San Francisco, CA</p>
<h2>Awards</h2>
<p>Information Security Coalliton - 2013 Technology Grants Round 2 Winner</p>
<h2>Contract Work 2007-2009</h2>
<h3>Adbusters Magazine</h3>
<p>Debugging and feature implementation for the Adbusters website running on a LAMP stack. PHP programming and lite system administration on CentOS 5. Implemented version control using GIT and implemented 3 tier system for development, testing and production environments. Custom module development.</p>
<h3>Greenpeace</h3>
<p>Debugged and added features to Greenpeace's custom CRM software</p>
<h3>BleacherReport.com</h3>
<p>Wrote custom software and maintained existing software using Ruby On Rails, PHP and the Facebook API Maintained Security and Usability on 5 servers for all employees of the company. Implemented version control with subversion and Capistrano. Set up Nagios monitoring. Optimized existing database queries.</p>
<h3>Jaxtr.com</h3>
<p>Set up MySQL cluster and Nagios system on an 8 node network for a VOIP services company. Performed general maintenance on the servers as well as Bash scripting and security auditing. Also, wrote custom plugins for Nagios.</p>
<h2>Past Positions</h2>
<h3>Host For Web Level 3 Tech Support</h3>
<p>2006-2007
Front line tech support of over 100 Linux servers serving over 3000 clients. Duties included: technical support, fixing servers, writing scripts to solve problems, configuring servers and auditing system security.</p>
<h3>Phoenix IT Tech Support</h3>
<p>2005-2006
In-home, tech support for windows users. Removing viruses, spyware. Installing software, hardware. Fine tuning computers to run faster. Education of users on computer security and maintainance techniques and methods.</p>
<h2>References</h2>
<p>Furnished upon request.</p>
