New subject: I'd love to contribue. Can anyone help me get started?

18 May 2016


      I'm a self employed programmer who's taking a bit of time off from his
current project as a way to gain some fresh perspective and I thought I'd
use that free time to help out a community I really appreciate. Wikipedia is
one of the best things the internet has to offer and it has certainly helped
me out a bunch of times, so it seemed like the place to volunteer. 
    	
    My problem is that is that I haven't done any sort of collaborative
opensource project before, (the closest I've come to opensource is writing
the compare plugin for Notepad++), and I'm not entirely sure what the best
way to go about it is. 
    
    I was wondering if someone there is willing to play the role of onboarding
manager. You know, show me the ropes, assign some good relevant tasks to get
a feel for things, the standard stuff. I'd really appreciate it, and I know
I can contribute a lot to the community once I get on my feet.
As for my skill set, while I don't have a lot of experience with PHP, I do
have a lot of experience with just about everything else. I've done game
development, mobile development, web development and even some good old
fashioned desktop development, (not that anyone still uses desktop apps). I
have no doubt that I can pick up the language quickly enough and I'm sure
Google (the great teacher of all things) will help me figure out the rest. 
    
    I'm attaching my resume, so that you can get a feel for my experience.
(Plus it just seems like the thing to do in this situation.)
I'm looking forward to getting started!
Ty Landercasper
Ty@ibudesigns.com
RESUME:
OBJECTIVE: 
    I'm one of those programmers who got into it for the love of programming
and it shows. I've programmed on everything from the TI-83 to the Xbox 360,
and if there's a skill I don't have than all I need is an excuse to learn it
and I will. I turned a hobby project into a business that supported me for
several years so I've learned a lot about how to make an amazing product
that succeeds even in the ruthless market that is the app store, as well as
the softer skills that you need to run a business.
I'm looking for a good home. A start up or a startup like environment where
there's more work than time and everyone has to wear multiple hats, and
figure out how to get things done and even what can be done, because those
are the environments that I thrive in.
COMPUTER SKILLS:
    Visual Studio, C#,C++, Java, C, Visual Basic
    4+ years iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile development
    Unity, Flash, Actionscript 2.0, ActionScript 3.0, Flex framework, Silverlight
    ASP.NET, AJAX, HTML, DHTML, CSS, Javascript, JSP
    Thirteen years experience with .NET
EXPERIENCE:
Owner Pixelality, Seattle, WA (7/14 to present)
    Created The Virtual Window a device that keeps track of your head and turns
your TV into a realistic window! 
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlEwnG-9O8A
    Used Kinect and Wii-mote based tracking
    Modified Unreal Engine to support Off-axis projection
    Used computer vision code to anaylize a video stream and find the head.
Owner SupportStream, Seattle, WA (4/15 to present)
    https://supportstream.solutions/Supportee
    Funding model that allows people to donate a dollar a month to their
favorite charities, artists or other things they care about. 
    Created Marketing campaign that will eventually be used to drive donators
to help their favorite causes : https://supportstream.solutions/
    ASP.NET backend. 
    Paypal integration for payments. Went through the application process for
advanced functionality. 
    Cross-Site scripting with iframes
    Used JQuery for animations and popups.  
    Custom designed logo and various CSS changes
Contractor Big Finish Games (not Big Fish), Salt Lake City, UT (12/13 to 3/14)
    Programmed puzzles for the continuation of my all time favorite video game!
    Scripted both 2D and 3D puzzles using Unity and C#
Owner Comic Reader Mobi, Seattle, WA (4/09 to present)
    http://comicreader.mobi
    Software allows fullsized comics to be read on small screens
    Several unique and intuitive UI features to make using the program easier.
(Clicking on text to have it pop out. Realistic page turn effect when
dragging from sides. Drag page down from top to access controls)
    Automatically detects text in image and pops out when touched (patent pending)
    Out for the iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Android, Windows Phone 7,
Linux, PC and Mac OS X (Even have a prototype for the Xbox 360!)
    Original version built from scratch for each platform.
    Latest version uses .NET/Mono technology to share code base among all the
devices (Except blackberry)
    Was one of the top 100 grossing ipad apps
    Created Silverlight version which allows you to demo the app without buying it
    Reviewed on Gizmodo!
http://gizmodo.com/5511926/best-ipad-comic-reader-comic-zeal-vs-comic-reader...
    Implemented effective piracy prevention for iPhone version.
    Resolution independent code scales to any screen size
    Modified jpeg reader to handle large progressive jpegs on low memory devices
    Built an entire object oriented UI library from scratch to ease
multiplatform development
Mobile Developer Inrix, Seattle, WA (7/13 to 1/14)
    Developed parts of the Inrix Traffic app for both iPhone and Android platforms.
    Built a prototype turn by turn navigation system for the app.
Mobile Developer Pulsar Informatics, Seattle, WA (2/12 to 5/13)
    Lead developer for app for iphone and Android that helped keep track of
sleep and brain performance.
    Software was used by International Space Station, Fedex, Navy, and
Department of Transportation for sleep and alertness studies.
    Worked with Bluetooth LE connectivity.
Flash Developer Microsoft, Seattle, WA (10/08 to 4/09)
    Wrote commercial websites in flash to advertise various products.
    Lead Developer for site: http://theguysmanual.msn.com/
    Converted artistic vision into functional website
Software Engineer Interactive Alchemy, Phoenix, AZ (1/06 to 6/08)
    Flypaper: (http://www.flypaper.net)
    Won “The Viagra Award for Performance Enhancement Under Pressure”
    Full software release cycle. From prototype to final build.
    Improved “Story Map” layout performance from several seconds to instant by
rewriting the layout algorithm.
    Cut page load times in half by creating a custom C#/Flash socket connection
    Wrote “Single Swf” implementation, which dynamically injects files into a
precompiled swf.
    Wrote pure AJAX pager for website, which allows near instant page changes
    Used XAML to allow the program to render content off the website as if  it
were a winforms application
    Constantly worked with several different languages (Javascript, C#,
ActionScript) on a daily basis, depending on the required task  
    Modified network site to use NTLM/forms authentication, so network users
didn’t have to log in, but allowed outside users to continue using the Forms
sign in
    Used double buffering, caching and other GDI tricks to significantly
improve the speed and appearance of the application
    Extended many winforms controls to have new look and feel 
    Wrote memory file management system, preventing the need  to write files to
a temporary location
     Wrote custom logging for Flash application, dramatically simplifying
debugging problems on clients machines
    Used ASP.NET’s URL rewriting to share common files among several different
Flash applications
    Worked with clients on several projects which often required the
modification of unfamiliar and undocumented code
    Interviewed several applicants for both the product and web teams
Programmer      FLEXfone – Brussels, Belgium (6/03 to 12/05)
    FlexVoIP: (http://www.flexfone.net/flexvoip/prodinfo.html)
    Client side is written in C#, server is written in ASP.NET, MySQL database 
    Makes use of alpha blending in order to allow the customer to change colors
of almost any item.
    Automatically updates itself on startup
        NetGuardian: (http://www.ibudesigns.com/NetGuardian.ppt)
    Client side is written in C#, server is written in ASP.NET using C#
    Multilingual support
Open source Projects:
    Notepad++: Compare Plugin
 (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/download.php)
    Shows the differences between two documents
    Written in C++
    Highlights and aligns added, deleted, modified, and moved lines
    Included in version 4.8 and higher
EDUCATION:
The University of Arizona – Tucson, Arizona
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, December 2003
Minor in Mathematics and Japanese 
Computer Science GPA: 3.424 Overall GPA: 3.035
    Team leader for project to program the game Qubic
    Graduated in 3.5 years
    Awarded the Charles Blixt Scholarship
BattleSharp: (http://www.ibudesigns.com/BattleSharp.zip)
    Uses unsafe code to directly access memory in order to speed up rendering
    Peer to peer mode allows players to play each other over a lan
Qubic: (http://www.ibudesigns.com/Qubic/)
    Written as a Java applet
    Pseudo 3d rotating grid
    Server side software allows online multiplayer matches
    	Graphics Renderer: (http://www.ibudesigns.com/Graphics.png)
    Basic graphics engine 
    Renders parallelepipeds (blocks and cubes) and spheres. 
    Implements shading, basic, diffuse, and specular lighting and raytracing

I'd love to contribue. Can anyone help me get started?

Cheers,