Robert Swarthout
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | AJAX, Business, C/C++, Computer Engineering, Database Administration, Databases, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Facebook platform, Flash, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, Leadership, Perl, PHP, Software Engineering, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Web Development |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Berry College |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | SwapaDVD, LLC |
| Position: | Vice President of Operations, Co-Founder |
| Time period: | November 2007 - February 2008 |
| Description: | Website: http://www.swapadvd.com
- Launched 11/27/2007 - Senior Developer, Managed 4 developers, 1 customer service specialist - Sister site to PaperBackSwap (see below) - As of February 2008 the site attracts 10,000 unique US visitors per month - Technology Summary: Fedora Core 5, PHP 5, MySQL 5.0, DHTML, Javascript, Sphinx Search, Memcache, XML, JSON, AJAX |
| Employer: | SwapaCD, LLC |
| Position: | Vice President of Operations, Co-Founder |
| Time period: | August 2006 - February 2008 |
| Description: | Website: http://www.swapacd.com
- Launched 8/7/2006 - Senior Developer, Managed 4 Developers, 2 customer service specialists - Sister site to PaperBackSwap (see below) - As of February 2008 the site attracts 12,000 unique US visitors per month - Technology Summary: Redhat Enterprise 4, Fedora Core 5, PHP 5, MySQL 5.0, DHTML, Javascript, Sphinx Search, Memcache, XML, JSON, AJAX |
| Employer: | National Book Swap, LLC |
| Position: | VP of Operations |
| Time period: | November 2003 - February 2008 |
| Employer: | PaperBackSwap, LLC |
| Position: | Vice President of Operations, Co-Founder |
| Time period: | November 2003 - February 2008 |
| Description: | Website: http://www.paperbackswap.com
- Launched 9/1/2004 - Sole developer for the first 1.5 years - Senior Developer, Managed 4 developers, 2 customer service specialists - Conceptualized and designed the business process for the system - Main contributer in taking the business from $0 in revenue to $2,100,000 annually (currently growing at a rate of 62% a year) - Managed a team of 4 engineers, 2 customer service specialists and a couple hundred volunteers - As of February 2008, PaperBackSwap attracts 82,000 unique visitors a month in the USA - Daily page views are in excess of 1,200,000 in February 2008 - Registered users of the service are in excess of 115,000 - Built a redundant infrastructure to manage traffic to the sites - Put into place February 2007 - 2 LVS servers / hot-failover (traffic routers for load balancing) - 4 Web servers - 2 NFS / hot-failover - 4 MySQL Database servers (1 master, 2 slaves, 1 Sphinx Search) - 1 Development server - 2 Backup servers (backing up ~1.5 TB of data) - 1 Misc server to compile data sets - 24 AMPs of power consumption as of February 2008 - Full gigabit ethernet, average day would be around a constant load of 7 Mbit, system handled a blast of traffic from yahoo.com in early October 2007 when traffic was 6x normal load brining it to 32 Mbit for several hours (traffic is growing at a rate of 40% a year) - Technology Summary: Redhat Enterprise 2-4, Fedora Core 5, PHP 4-5, MySQL 4.23-5.0, DHTML, Javascript, Sphinx Search, Memcache, XML, JSON, AJAX |
| Employer: | National Book Swap, LLC |
| Position: | Founder and Developer |
| Time period: | August 2002 - May 2004 |
| Description: | Main Website: http://www.nationalbookswap.com
- Designed a website that allowed college students to sell textbooks to one another cutting the overpriced bookstores right out of the equation - Had 13 of the major southeastern schools using the system for the Fall 2003 and Spring 2004 semesters - Worked great when it was free but failed to get much traction when moved to a pay-for-use service - This business morphed into PaperBackSwap (see above) - Technology Summary: Redhat Enterprise 2, PHP 4, MySQL 4.23, HTML, Javascript |
| Employer: | Campbell School of Business (CSOB) |
| Position: | Webmaster and User Support |
| Time period: | August 2000 - May 2004 |
| Description: | Website: http://campbell.berry.edu
- Designed and operated Internet website for CSOB (PHP, MySQL) - Constructed in-house web-based intranet document archival system (still in use today) - Diagnosed and repaired desktop/laptop system for CSOB faculty/staff - Technology Summary: OpenBSD, PHP 4, MySQL 3.23, HTML, Javascript |
EDUCATION
| University: | Berry College |
| Time period: | 2000 - 2004 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, BSc |
