Senior Software Engineer @ Developed custom, cross platform JavaScript web application framework that is used for learning and employee effectiveness programs. Using this custom HTML5/JS framework, my team and I have designed learning courses delivered to iPad (as both web and native applications) as well as PC/MAC. Also have worked with PHP and MySQL on custom intranet, social networking and LMS platforms for Fortune 500 companies. Our toolsets range from custom frameworks built on CodeIngiter (PHP Framework), Moodle (LMS), ExpressionEngine (CMS) and Wordpress. Daily non-development tasks include acting as a technical liaison in client sales/pitch meetings, working with client IT services to debug both environment and browser issues, project estimation and reviewing/overseeing core application code changes from my team. From February 2012 to Present (3 years 11 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaChief Technology Officer @ Providing technical leadership and managing software development of SparkStarter properties including: - PHP based MVC Application Architecture - Custom mySQL Database Structure to ensure quick responses over 10+ million record tables - HTML5 Desktop and Tablet web site - iOS and Android Applications http://www.sparkstarter.com From January 2013 to 2015 (2 years) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaCo-Founder @ Co-Founder and CTO of college media start-up. Grew from social media experiment into a large scale college media network. Working as sole developer, designer and server administrator for website that serves 3 million monthly page views to over 500,000 Twitter followers. Successful exit and sale in 2014. From May 2011 to December 2014 (3 years 8 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaSenior Web Developer @ Worked on development of new core platform and client specific packages. Focus was on front-end development (JSP), JavaBeans development and extension of Spring Controller. Platform was developed to be HTML5/CSS3 compliant with fallback support for legacy browsers. Also served Web Development UX/UI Lead, overseeing code-reviews and estimations of core application team’s work. From March 2011 to February 2012 (1 year) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaFront End Developer @ Development of widgets and site content for MyLT.com member area, within the framework of JIVE SBS platform. Page styling and significant CMS customization using CSS/HTML and JQuery in Java MVC template system. From May 2010 to March 2011 (11 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaLead Web Developer @ From June 2008 to May 2010 (2 years)

BA, Communications @ University of Wisconsin-Madison From 2004 to 2008 Zachary Kahn is skilled in: jQuery, Web Development, HTML, Website Development, Mobile Web Design, HTML 5, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, Java, MySQL, CSS, JSP, FTL, Flash