Peter van Gorder is creative software engineer with 22 years of web development experience and 26 years of audio and video production experience – serving clients ranging from sole proprietors to large corporations.
Peter holds a Computer Information Science degree from Sonoma State University and runs a tech-media company specializing:
- Web Design, Development, and Maintenance
- Video Production & Editing
- Audio engineering
He has long been interested in true computer intelligence, having created his own neural network from scratch in C++ in 1991, but is now working with Python, spaCy and natural language processing in an effort to do custom knowledge modeling.
Sole Proprietor
dream-create-communicate.com
1995–Present
- Created and managed over 105 websites with duties ranging from planning, development, deployment, and
management. - Brand Identity – Managing and maintaining brand identity and consistency across all
client’s digital and print media of logos, colors, fonts, business cards, websites, emails,
and sign-up forms.
Sole Proprietor
dream-create-communicate.com
1995–Present
- 4 years of video work for Community-Matters.org making news compilations for investors, promotional videos for their annual fundraisers.
- 8 training videos for middle-school and high-school “Ambassadors” in the Safe School Ambassadors® program.
- 8 educational CDs – including development of the script for the educational content, all audio engineering, and mastering for Kim Atkinson of Pulsewave.com.
- 25 Teacher-Student Highlight videos for the The Dance Center (of Santa Rosa, CA), collaborating with the studio director, 4 teachers, and 140
students. - 151 video backdrops created for the The Dance Center’s annual show.
- PSA titled “One Cup”: Ideated, storyboarded, directed, edited, and produced a local PSA
encouraging people to bring & re-use their coffee cups to help eliminate trash.
ProTransport Cotati, CA
2015–2019
- Consultant to ProTransport’s 1.2 million dollar software purchasing and implementation decisions related to the
logistics of running all ambulances and crews across 4 dispatch centers and 16
stations. - Created NewsToTheCrews, an internal news channel, displaying a rotation of news &
updates to all employees, synchronized across 16 ambulance stations. - Created websites for their 4 consolidated ambulance companies across California,
Illinois, and Florida: protransport-1.com, prnambulance.com, centuryambulance.com,
covalent-health.com
Chess Club For Kids, Rohnert Park CA
2012–Present
- Advised and then implemented the transition full eCommerce system, replacing their “checks and
envelopes” business into an online payment and registration system. - Worked as a lead instructor with a team of 26 teachers running chess classes in 51
schools with 2 county tournaments each year.
Hall Kinion, Sausalito, CA
2001–2002
- Database Website development using the ColdFusion programming language
- Developed “Data2Go” into a chat, pager, and cell phone tool using Tcl (before
smartphones came out, so don’t judge 😉
icPlanet Inc., San Rafael, CA
1999–2000
- Created “Data2Go” – Patent issued: US-20070150804-A1
- Wrote ColdFusion code for all webpages related to Data2Go.
- Created auxiliary tools to amalgamate data from various external websites in order to
predict industry & hiring trends (using Perl and FLASH).
Brøderbund Software, Novato CA
1993–1999
- Created Rugrats online game as movie teaser – released just before the Nickelodeon Rugrats movie
- Worked on various teams creating Carmen Sandiego Math Detective, Dr. Seuss
Kindergarten, and Dr. Seuss 1st Grade Deluxe – all are “early learning” software titles. - Worked in the Systems Tools depart developing company wide tools for the other software engineers, the sound department, and the graphics department. All assets and media were processed via our tools to generate cross-platform media object files.
Owner/Operator of GrooveFarm Productions
Audio Engineering & Studio Musician for the following artists
1987 – 2006
- Blind Curve
- The Ruminators
- Logan’s Well
- Sol Horizon
- Terra Nova
- Kim Atkinson
- Carnaval Spirit
Performed and/or member of the following bands and artists
1985 – 2006
- Sol Horizon
- Lost At Last
- Pato Banton
- Alasdair Fraser
- Terra Nova
- Kim Atkinson
- Carnaval Spirit
- Bog Head
- The Karry Walker Band
- Osha Levin
- Steve Baughman
- Dylan Schorer
- Carleen Duncan
- Fungus Amongus
- The Townsmen (of Sonoma County)
- The Toasters (of Sonoma County)
- Mylar
- Python
- JavaScript
- PHP
- C
- C++
- Pascal
- Assembly
Markup
- HTML5
- CSS
Software Engineering
- Text files and the Terminal
- GitHub
- CodeWarrior (“back in the day”)
Web Development
- WordPress + Shared Hosting Environtment
- Drupal (hate it, why do all 501c3’s use it?!?)
- Joomla (is it dead yet?)
Video editing
- Davinci Resolve
- Adobe Premire
- Final Cut X
Audio Engineering
- Digital Performer
- Logic Pro
General Office productivity
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
Graphics
- Photoshop
- Krita
