Resume/CV | Profile: Working with Rails
Jeremy Zoller Seitz currently lives and works in Switzerland. A programmer since the age of 11, he has acquired extensive experience in a variety of computer languages and operating systems. He specializes in open source software and Linux-based solutions.
In 1997, Jeremy co-founded StudioVR, which later became Atomic Fridge. The company launched a variety of online projects: 65 Games for Nickelodeon, Interactive Episodes for USA Networks, VR Photography, a Webby Award winning children's site, and more. A fab Internet World article was done on Atomic Fridge in 2000. The company stayed open until mid-2002, before giving in to a post-bubble economy. The founders and 8 employees can still be found collaborating with each other on projects today.
Jeremy had a 4-year run in the early 1990's as a network support engineer and programmer at the University of Pittsburgh -- first in the Department of Human Genetics, later at the department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and finally as a support manager for the Novell Netware network (over 100 servers at the time). Jeremy served as president of the Pittsburgh Netware User's Group for a while, and sometimes traveled to Utah to participate in product focus groups at the Novell campus.
Jeremy serves as a technical advisor, board member or regular consultant to a few small companies in New England, New York, Florida and Texas. When not coding, he enjoys traveling around Europe with his wife Valentina and daughter Ivana.
Jeremy is well versed in programming Perl, Ruby, PHP, Flash, SQL and shell scripting. Occasionally, he has written code in Java, C, Director and Cold Fusion. Jeremy is a strong believer in the practices of Agile Development, writing tests, using version control, and maintaining good documentation. He has worked with a variety of open source and commercial database platforms, designed networks and deployed high-traffic servers, and has built e-commerce solutions integrating credit card processing, paypal, and shipping/fulfillment systems.
In his spare time, Jeremy plays piano, takes lots of photographs, records location and studio sound, attempts small scale electronics projects, and has learned to juggle.
Through his hosting company somebox.com, he manages a custom-engineered cluster of linux servers (LAMP) running Apache, MySQL, PHP, Ruby on Rails, mod_perl, and a variety of other web services.
"Foz" is a nickname given to because I often have a fuzzy "programmer's beard," friends called me "Fuzzy OZ" and later "FOZ".
My hero as a child was Steve Wozniak "WOZ", who designed the Apple computer -- so of course I liked the nickname :)
