Markus A.O.
Loponen
Web Software Creator / Innovative Equator / Systematic Escalator
- Location
- Copenhagen Area, Denmark
- Industry
- Internet
- Current
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- CTO / Lead Software Developer / Systems Architecture at Wiccle
- Director / A/V Recorder and Producer / Systems and Infrastructure at Lake of Flowers Productions
- Web Developer / Digitizer / Systems Provider at Gaudiya Grantha Mandira
- Past
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- Web Solution Developer / Graphics Designer / Project Organizer at CodeWallah
- Editor / Translator / Research / Archival / Prepress / Project Manager at Freelance / SKCSM
- President / Project Director / PR / Networking / Systems and Infrastructure at Gaudiya Kutir
- Director / Web Developer / Sales and Marketing at Raga Design Ky
- Web Developer / Cowboy Coder / Designer / Promoter / Organizer at Freelance / GVS
- Sales / Marketing / Communication / Technology at ISKCON
- Education
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- RTFM
- SYK
- Recommendations
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Summary
Senior software developer with solid working experience in web development, custom web software and websites, graphics and content production / copywriting (online and print), translation and multi-language work and applications, database design and implementations, local and virtual community management, general conceptualization, systemizing and scaling of processes, environments and information across contexts, etc.
Current primary production focus on extensible CMS solutions and other abstracted development (one tool fits multiple needs), custom implementations thereof, along with associated technical support and documentation. Moving towards semantic web and encyclopædism, diverse AI applications, networked scalable community and publishing platforms, and other future solutions brewing behind the scenes.
Highly organized and systematic, I seek to routinely map patterns of recurring activity, optimize work environments through automation and systematized project flows, and innovate scalable models for emerging scenarios — advancing a general culture of sustained efficiency with generous human resources considerations. I aim with focus for optimal efficiency in minimum time for maximum fulfillment.
I have a long background in Hindu, Buddhist and Oriental studies and related meditative and cultivation disciplines, with parallel research into psychology and general applications of diverse methodologies — also in business and technological environments. On the creative and alternative side, I have a strong interest in aesthetics, expressive art and photography, innovative media, natural medicine, activism for good causes, and a general love for symmetry.
I also have a sewing machine driver's license and a judo champion award, can successfully repair most things with duct tape and ingenuity, and know how to design, produce and install a kitchen sink on a rainy day if necessary. I dwell in perpetual beta.
A.k.a. "Markus Ananda Loponen", "Ode / Oskari Loponen"
Specialties
content management systems, custom web applications, ecommerce and gateways, abstracted multi-purpose development, fluent PHP / MySQL / HTML / CSS / JS & AJAX / Python etc., technical writing and education, performance optimization, copywriting and editing for human/SE optimization, multi-language development, diverse graphics and design integration, project structuring, analysis and multi-management, general cross-field multi-tasking, psychology of communication and group dynamics
Skills
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PHP + SQL + Architecture
(Expert, 10 years experience) -
HTML + CSS
(Expert, 14 years experience) -
JavaScript + AJAX
(Advanced, 8 years experience) -
Photoshop - Web/Print
(Advanced, 15 years experience) -
Human/SEO Copywriting/Editing
(Advanced, 12 years experience) -
Communities + Groups
(Advanced, 15 years experience) -
Promotion + Engagement
(Advanced, 15 years experience) -
Teams + Management
(Intermediate, 13 years experience) -
Sanskrit + Bengali Translation
(Intermediate, 12 years experience) -
Causal Systemization
(Expert, 15 years experience) -
General Pattern Recognition
(Advanced, 15 years experience) -
Communication + Semantics
(Advanced, 11 years experience) -
General Optimization + Automation
(Intermediate, 8 years experience) -
Lectures + Education
(Advanced, 13 years experience) -
Interpretation + Exegesis
(Advanced, 14 years experience)
Languages
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English
(Native or bilingual proficiency) -
Finnish
(Native or bilingual proficiency) -
French [school major]
(Limited working proficiency) -
Swedish [school minor]
(Limited working proficiency) -
Danish
(Limited working proficiency) -
Bengali [classical/modern]
(Professional working proficiency) -
Sanskrit [philosophical]
(Professional working proficiency) -
Hindi [modern]
(Limited working proficiency) -
Pali
(Elementary proficiency) -
Romance language group
(Elementary proficiency) -
Indic language group
(Elementary proficiency) -
Nordic language group
(Elementary proficiency) -
PHP
(Native or bilingual proficiency) -
SQL
(Full professional proficiency) -
HTML
(Native or bilingual proficiency) -
CSS
(Native or bilingual proficiency) -
Javascript
(Professional working proficiency) -
Python
(Limited working proficiency) -
Perl
(Limited working proficiency) -
ASP & VB
(Limited working proficiency) -
BASIC
(Limited working proficiency)
Experience
Privately Held; Internet industry
February 2009 – Present (1 year 9 months)
Since the project began in early 2009, I have overseen and worked through the entire technical CMS development cycle from architectural conceptualization to practical development, several software versions for two modular CMS products, and two dozen scalable customer online solutions using exclusively in-house software. The bulk of the work has been telecommuted from Denmark to Wiccle Ltd Ireland headquarters in Galway.
Aside CMS software development, I have conceptualized and contributed in copywriting and graphics for customers and general marketing, intranet and project management solutions, brand development and associated graphics, technical support and community management, developer outreach and networking, server infrastructure and hosting solutions, documentation and video tutorials, customer contact and communication, staff upskilling and assistance, department meetings and production management, strategy formation through market and product screening, and other miscellaneous tasks and duties that emerge as a budding IT company prepares to enter the grand arena.
For more on the many aspects of operation and innovation underway at Wiccle Ltd in Ireland, Denmark, and around the cyberlands, please see the published CMS software list under "Publications" further down the page, and screen Wiccle.com under Showcase, Fusion News, and Developer Blogs. For a bit of geek fun, see InternetIndustrialRevolution.com.
Publishing industry
March 2002 – Present (8 years 9 months)
Lake of Flowers Productions was in its prime between 2005 and 2007, producing and publishing online a total of 100.8 GB of audio recordings and edited video footage, and photographed and archived thousands of high-quality photos. Presently in archival mode, the project website is supported by ads and donations, and continues to serve out free media indefinitely. As of October 2010, 27 TB of tracked media have been downloaded.
The storage and online file serving solution was provided with support from the Internet Archive (Archive.org) and their petabyte project, as free availability of high-quality media and cultural history was a shared agenda. In-house developed tools for connecting with the Internet Archive server networks made the operation a pleasure. Footage from the archives has been featured on Comedy Central's The Daily Show and in numerous independent productions.
Beyond a well-rounded set of in-house productions, the project collaborated with several independent archivists, photographers and video enthusiasts to provide a broader range of available media, providing additional publicity and support for them. There are also large archives of yet unpublished stock material.
Areas of work: A/V recording, equipment screening, testing and purchase, A/V editing and post-processing, codec, compression and storage solutions, scripted processing, online infrastructure, networked resources, peer-to-peer media distribution models, scripted image and metadata archiving, A/V versioning and archiving, web development, online archive scripts and tools, DVD authoring and production, general design, prepress and print, newsfeeds and podcasting, open-source audio/video tools
See under "Publications" for more information.
Libraries industry
February 2002 – Present (8 years 10 months)
Software and technical solutions provider, text digitization and transliteration with Gaudiya Grantha Mandira, a non-profit initiative founded by professors Jan Brzezinski and Neal Delmonico for digitizing, transliterating, and eventually translating ancient and medieval Sanskrit and Bengali texts as a free public service.
The current library hosts over 600 previously unavailable texts in diverse formats for both academic research and seekers of wisdom, provides an additional platform for collaboration, and a well-rounded set of free tools for converting text between all common transliteration schemes and associated Indic scripts.
With the direction and dedicated work of the project leaders, the text repository has been produced in collaboration and with help from dozens of coordinated volunteers around the world contributing their skills and know-how for advancing the project. Much of the content is also mirrored in several peer academic and hobbyist resources.
Some initiatives I set into motion, like a semantic markup language for automated text processing, cross-referencing and miscellaneous notation, an abstracted data storage system for bibliographies and metadata cross-referencing of categorized shorter texts, and an advanced full-text library search engine, are still in the air pending more resources and volunteer participation.
See under "Publications" for more information.
Markus A.O. has 1 recommendation (1 client) including:
Internet industry
October 2004 – February 2009 (4 years 5 months)
Freelance: Custom websites and web applications, eCommerce and CMS research and custom software development, rapid concept prototyping, abstracted database and data comparison tools, complex online content archives, multimedia portals, transliteration, multi-language and grammar analysis tools, template systems, PSD to CMS template integration (XHTML/CSS), support desks and flow tracking, content production and graphics design, third-party software customization and mod releases.
Online promotion and advertising, beta-testing, bug reporting and collaborative project contribution, open-sourced web tools and utilities, VPS/shared hosting environments and control panels (cPanel/Plesk/Ensim/Webmin), basic Linux server administration, Miva Merchant scripting and customization, miscellaneous outsourced web projects, audio/video production, compression and production scripting, storage and backup strategy and implementation, contributions and support in developer forums.
The two final years went largely off the grid across India and Nepal in search of the ultimate code and the patterns of a grand paradoxical abstraction, with periodic meditation retreats and seclusion, general free wandering on foot, entertaining villagers, publishing blogs, photos, doodles, poems, satire and editorials, and hacking in a random client update at times of electricity and "available" business time in a cyber-café down the lane.
In Nepal, I worked with two environmental/educational NGOs and an orphanage, providing marketing and networking help, volunteer organization, labor, technical solutions, food, and organizational structuring on a volunteer basis. Somewhere down the line I first grasped that strange unifying light atop the yonder mountain peak after muttering too many mantras, studying too many books, casting too many spells, hoping too many hopes, dreaming too many dreams, and walking way too many miles both physically as well as far far down the rabbit hole and back again.
Markus A.O. has 1 recommendation (1 client) including:
Publishing industry
February 2002 – February 2008 (6 years 1 month)
Manager for Sri Krishna Chaitanya Shastra Mandir global and local publications in English, four produced and mass-printed books with matching e-book versions, general production management, English (non-Indian) public relations and promotion.
Simultaneous translation (Bengali and English), cultural interpretation, contextualization, orientation and consultation, general guidance and facilitation for theory and practice.in connected and comparative lifestyle, philosophy, theology, meditation, languages, literature, music, and cuisine.
Author and producer for general digest e-books and websites, translation (Sanskrit and Bengali to English and Finnish) and integrity verification, direct clarifications with elderly Bengali authors and advisers, general proofreading, manuscript organization and archival work, abstracted information storage and applications, historical and doctrinal research and exegesis, research papers and general queries, synthesis and systematization of scattered source texts.
Desktop publishing, printing press contacts and production supervision, website design, copywriting and development, wiki authoring and encyclopedic collaboration, cross-referenced multilingual databases and reference tools development, shared authoring models and workflow conceptualization, small-scale website networking and centralized search engine infrastructure.
Communications and consultation, local and virtual community management, miscellaneous research and writing, source material hunt and digitization, fund raising strategies, education and seminars, audio/video recording and media archival projects, environmental projects.
Non-Profit Organization Management industry
June 2005 – June 2007 (2 years 1 month)
The Gaudiya Kutir was a syncretic networking initiative to advance availability of information and resources on cultural, meditative and religious traditions originating in medieval Bengal and the ancient heritage of India. With agendas for I. Education, II. Preservation, III. Celebration, IV. Facilitation, and V. Outreach, and with over a year in preparations before registration, strategies and plans were formed for a broad field of activities and global expansion.
The organization sought to pool volunteers and ongoing projects under one roof, providing synergy, contacts and additional resources to efforts with parallel interests and potential. With over a dozen major internal projects and assistance for numerous independent initiatives, it innovatively distributed information and provided substantial resources to a small but growing global audience it helped network together. In absence of sufficient active supporting interest and funding, the project was gradually frozen, and contingencies were shaped for the initiatives to continue independently.
I contributed as founding member and VP (later President), executive board member, community leader, project manager, systems and website developer, resources producer, and with education and curriculum, successfully bringing a wide range of information and resources from rural India before a global audience, creating a noteworthy level of awareness, inquiries, contacts and further engagement.
Activities: project organization, human and material resource management, volunteer management, local and virtual community development, lectures and seminars, educational initiatives, copywriting and press releases, promotional materials, server infrastructure, material and resource development, event organization, social media and networking, networked websites, software development, project consultation, audience activation initiatives, translation and interpretation
Internet industry
January 2002 – September 2006 (4 years 9 months)
Content portals, custom CMS and eCommerce solutions from a scratch, flexible content builder tools, business portfolio and brochure sites, discussion forum software screening and customized implementations, newsletters and mailing systems, cross-market partnership production flow systemization and strategies, CSS variants for pages, customer contact, site promotion and affiliate scripts, miscellaneous graphics and content production, hosting service maintenance and resale, and dozens of outsourced web projects and collaboration with Design Studio Muotohiomo.
Some noteworthy side-tracks with Flash and ActionScript projects and prototyping, vector graphics, advanced audio filtering, scripted graphics generation and video filtering, 3D and other animation prototyping. Also: wiki work, print design for brochures, posters, CD covers, booklets, product labels, and company/organization logos.
In non-profit: Acted as SWKS sports association member with secretarial board duties. Aside assistance and consultation with legal and agenda documents and media production, I also created and maintained an application for virtual organization membership management, integrated with a custom-built multi-level CMS solution with modules for publishing and updating diverse content in multiple languages.
2002-2004: Retail of PC parts and custom-built PCs, private branded economical PC builds for targeted needs and audience scales, hardware market research, hardware and BIOS optimization, hardware and software troubleshooting, overclocking and system optimization, general system tweaking and tuning, numerous Linux distro tests for hardware compatibility.
[We ran out of capital for the PCs and couldn't keep cutting the margins to compete with emerging web stores that expanded through large invest capital and huge sales volumes.]
Information Technology and Services industry
January 2000 – January 2002 (2 years 1 month)
Small/medium business websites, basic eCommerce solutions, CMS customization and simple custom CMS prototyping and deployment, brochure sites and home pages, graphics and content production, web software modification, CMS and publishing systems testing and deployment, miscellaneous scripts and utilities, personal and volunteer NGO website projects. Self-directed learning through tutorials, manuals, and professional collaboration and guidance.
Desktop publishing, translation and editing, brochures and promotion, general prepress work and on-demand click-print mass publishing, community management, event organization, lectures and seminars, tutorials and study materials preparation and production, promotional writing, audio archival and associated online resources, e-book library compilation, organization and material production, miscellaneous research, and general promotional strategy.
Collaboration and pioneer work with Gaudiya Vedanta Publications in editing, layout, custom fonts and general prepress, parallel with independent startup publishing, distribution and sales models and trials. The related e-book and lecture library/archive initiatives I set in motion with several associated resource websites transformed their overall online publishing approach in maximizing outreach potential.
Parallel to this, I acted in the capacity of a community leader with the International Gaudiya Vedanta Society with congregational organization, engagement continuity cultivation, market expansion strategy, general organization, education and and public representation, along with international networking and strategic think-tanking for exchange of ideas and effective outreach strategy across mixed target groups.
Religious Institutions industry
June 1995 – January 2000 (4 years 8 months)
Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International: Book and CD sales, direct marketing. Sales team leader, trainer, manager and cashier (1999), accounting. Personal rapid marketing to diverse age and industry target groups. implementation of innovative direct consumer cold lead sales strategies for fast sales results in groups and other high-yield audience connectivity scenarios.
Library and store bulk sales, event sales booth presentations, sales arrangements and stock control. Customer follow-up and ethical sales development for customer post-sale satisfaction and returning business, internal law and organizational structures, Projections for on-road stocks with overhead for unexpected sales on the basis of past sales volume by season, location, team members, and revenue requirements.
Department and project leadership, talks and lectures, congregation expansion models, cell group organization, education and consultation, audio archive organization and source material networking, community management and conflict resolution, event organization and promotion, periodic internal upskilling in communication, management and sales seminars, scalable on-road and large catering cooking and organization skills, dramas and theatre.
Poster/brochure design, prepress and promo material printing, e-communication, Internet, Telnet and BBS systems, textual research and language studies, personal web projects and other technology. Communication and coordination across heavily hierarchical and often archaic multi-level managerial and advisory structures on national and global scope; success in a highly demanding environment.
Modeling and implementation of philosophical and operative formulas in practical contexts; mental training and discipline to sustain functionally desirable perspectives across environments. Deep philosophical research on practical and metaphysical causation, causal chains and causal combinatorics, and derived practical projections and mental projection models.
Markus A.O. has 1 recommendation (1 co-worker) including:
- BK Goswami, Student, Northwestern University
Publications
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iWiccle CMS Community Builder 1.0.0
- Wiccle Ltd
- July 9, 2009
Authors: Markus A.O. LoponenThe pilot version of iWiccle CMS Community Builder, version 1.0.0, was released following four tight and solid months of development from March 1st onward on a tight budget, with several rewrites of large segments of code to provide increased flexibility over the prototype cores, featuring eight modules, an extensive page builder, accessory builder tools, and an elaborate admin back-end atop an abstracted CMS core.
The first incarnation of Wiccle.com was also produced during this time as the pilot live test case of a customized CMS software implementation.
► Official page: http://www.wiccle.com/page/products_iwiccle
► Wiccle Builder introduced: http://www.wiccle.com/staff_blogs/dev_lair/features/post/featured_wiccle_builder_cms_and_custom_c
► Version 1.0.1 release: http://www.wiccle.com/news/backstage_news/iwiccle/post/iwiccle_101_-_stability_and_feature_upda -
iWiccle CMS Community Builder 1.1.1
- Wiccle Ltd
- August 15, 2009
Authors: Markus A.O. LoponenSecond milestone release of iWiccle CMS Community Builder, version 1.1.1 introduced skin sub-themes, new community features, favorites and content tracking, added search-engine optimizers, multi-language improvements, several architectural improvements, increased customizability, and exhaustive cross-browser optimizations.
► Official page: http://www.wiccle.com/page/products_iwiccle
► Version 1.1.0: http://www.wiccle.com/news/backstage_news/iwiccle/post/iwiccle_cms_community_builder_110 -
iWiccle CMS Community Builder 1.2.0
- Wiccle Ltd
- January 31, 2010
Authors: Markus A.O. LoponenThird milestone release of iWiccle CMS Community Builder, version 1.2.0 rehauled and extended the entire suite on the basis of a four-month stretch of custom CMS implementations on the Irish small and medium business market, porting over loads of enhanced code base from the ongoing Wiccle Web Builder development version.
This version — that might have as well been labeled 2.0.0 — introduced two new modules, countless workflow optimizations to support rapid development cycles, an extended "content backgrounds" builder setup, substantially extended configuration options, extensible multi-context data-transformation processors, extended templating script, and easier deep functionality customization options.
► Official page: http://www.wiccle.com/page/products_iwiccle
► Version 1.2.1.1: http://www.wiccle.com/news/backstage_news/iwiccle/post/iwiccle_cms_community_builder_1211_relea
► Templating kit and resources: http://www.wiccle.com/staff_blogs/dev_lair/wicclecom_development/post/developer_kits_patch_files_bug_bin_featu
► Improved page builder: http://www.wiccle.com/staff_blogs/dev_lair/tutorials/post/iwiccle_tutorials_wiccle_builder_page_ed -
iWiccle CMS Community Builder 1.3.0
- Wiccle Ltd
- September 13, 2010
Authors: Markus A.O. LoponenFourth milestone release of iWiccle CMS Community Builder, version 1.3.0 rolled out countless premium features from Wiccle Web Builder into our open-source CMS variant, featuring a thorough security hardening, better cross-context module combinatorics, improved debugging and other developer conveniences, performance improvements, complex script multi-language improvements, complete separation of language and HTML, new templating script extensions and dynamic template enhancements, new variant sub-themes to skins, captchas and spam prevention, and countless miscellaneous fixes.
► Official page: http://www.wiccle.com/page/products_iwiccle
► Download: http://www.wiccle.com/page/download_iwiccle
► Demo videos: http://www.wiccle.com/video/p/iwiccle_videos
► Design philosophy: http://www.wiccle.com/staff_blogs/dev_lair/cms_platforms/post/my_design_philosophy_with_the_wiccle_web -
Wiccle Web Builder CMS 2.0 - 1.0.0
- Wiccle Ltd
- April 16, 2010
Authors: Markus A.O. LoponenThe pilot release of Wiccle Web Builder, our grand daddy commercial CMS with 25+ customizable modules, developed conjointly with the iWiccle-series of free open-source general-purpose CMS solutions. Introducing eCommerce, multimedia modules, social networking applications, new discussion and collaboration tools, module cloning and new combinatorics, extended configuration options, system logs for debugging and extra security, a streamlined installer, and countless bug fixes and feature enhancements.
► Official page: http://www.wiccle.com/page/products_wiccle
► Download: http://www.wiccle.com/page/download_wiccle
► Version 1.0.1: http://www.wiccle.com/news/backstage_news/wiccle/post/wwb_101_released
► 50 second installation: http://www.wiccle.com/staff_blogs/dev_lair/wiccle/post/wiccle_web_builder__50_second_install
► Demo videos: http://www.wiccle.com/video/p/wwb_videos
► System architecture: http://www.wiccle.com/staff_blogs/dev_lair/tutorials/post/wiccle_system_architecture__core_class_a
► Design philosophy: http://www.wiccle.com/staff_blogs/dev_lair/cms_platforms/post/my_design_philosophy_with_the_wiccle_web
► Pre-release preview (09/09): http://www.wiccle.com/staff_blogs/dev_lair/wiccle/post/wiccle_10__modules_preview -
Wiccle.com CMS Headquarters
- Wiccle Ltd
- August 12, 2010
Authors: Markus A.O. LoponenThird major incarnation of the global Wiccle Ltd CMS portal, approaching the "final form" of the project. Synthesizing the benefits, groundwork and experience of the preceding year under one hood, building towards a global brand with matching promotion, support, sales and community avenues.
New strong and clean design with improved accessibility and content structuring, copywriting and SEO, editing and proofreading of incoming content contributions, polishing and extending diverse groundwork by other authors, tuning content flow and on-site presentation strategy for improved contact to conversion paths, ongoing technical customer support, documentation, content refinement and extension, in a tight timeframe..
This complete site reimaging helped triple incoming traffic within the month, received positive feedback from clients, visitors and industry peers, and led to several strategically important Google front page search engine positions.
► Official page: http://www.wiccle.com/ -
Madhavananda Project Index
- Freelance / SKCSM
- January 19, 2007
Authors: Markus A.O. LoponenThe MPI is an exhaustive personal project index covering a total of six years of research and 50 individual projects undertaken and brought to various stages of completion, managed from both Finland and India. Further published works and productions are included in the combined portfolio and task tracker portal. A good deal of the related resources were acquired in collaboration with Sri Krishna Chaitanya Shastra Mandir and associated helpful people. Much of the production cycle and related adventures were also documented and archived online in substantial detail with photos [Vraja Journal].
Among others: Archival work, book publishing and prepress, printing and e-books, multi-project environment management, construction and rural property development, dozens of networked website projects, classes and seminars, language tools and localization, local and virtual community management, community think-tanks and study groups, promotion and study materials, tutorials and manuals, standards research and establishment, resource networking and project support, lecture podcasting and media production, 10000+ organized photos, server administration, software development, etc. -
Lake of Flowers Productions
- Independent
- May 21, 2005
Authors: Markus A.O. LoponenFeaturing views into the cultural and religious landscapes of Bengal and North India, the project hosts a total of over 45 hours of video in formats up to DVD quality, and almost 40 hours of audio up to raw FLAC quality. With a total of a quarter million media downloads and 500,000 images viewed, it's easily the most popular site of the genre, and in many ways unique in both content and technical implementation.
Serving 100.8 GB of high-quality audio/video multimedia with 27 TB downloads to date, with assistance and resources from the Internet Archive. The project has not been actively developed since 2007, and is maintained in archival mode with sustained traffic. With a long term storage solution and minimal running costs, the strategy allows continued media availability into the indefinite future.
► Production Archive: http://www.lakeofflowers.com/pool/productions
► The Daily Show Feature: http://www.lakeofflowers.com/pool/news#the_daily_show -
Gaudiya Grantha Mandira
- Gaudiya Grantha Mandira
- October 5, 2004
Authors: Markus A.O. LoponenA non-profit academic and enthusiast library initiative for digitizing, transliterating and eventually translating a vast body of ancient and medieval Sanskrit and Bengali texts of various genres covering philosophy, history, epics, aesthetics, biography, drama, poetry, rituals, hymns, grammar and yoga.
Founded by Dr. Jan Brzezinski and Dr. Neal Delmonico in 2001, the freely available corpus of texts has grown largely with the efforts of a dedicated core of volunteers, who have tirelessly hunted source texts, transcribed old manuscripts, edited and provided alternative readings, provided technical solutions, and sought to network volunteers and raise funds to expedite the endeavor.
The site has gone through three incarnations with solutions I have provided, from static HTML to customized CMS scripts, and finally into its current form on a new tailored platform. When new resources become available, the project will continue to be upscaled and enhanced to meet its full potential.
► Library Index: http://granthamandira.com/index.php?show=library
► diCrunch Indic Script and Transliteration: http://granthamandira.com/diCrunch/diCrunch.php
Education
RTFM
Certified Evolver, PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, AJAX, Python, C, Servers, Networks, SEO, etc.
1990 – 2012 (expected)
I was ten when I got my first SVI-728 MSX from a computer genius colleague of my father's who pioneered in 3D graphics. That's when I cracked the first books on bugs and BASIC, and started chipping away at all things code and computers.
They encouraged me to become a programmer with an eye for the future, not just a gamer, and so it became. Dad worked in print industry his whole life and I keenly observed, so I've been exposed to prepress and typography since my cradle.
Progressively self-taught in collaboration with industry professionals, reading through countless pages, in the course of practical working engagement, seeking to stay ahead of slow-moving educational curriculum.
In a mixed industry demanding rapid assimilation of cross-field skills, spending three years in learning what can essentially be picked up in three months just hasn't been a viable or palatable option. Any necessary upskilling and orientation to existing systems takes place swiftly and on per-need basis.
SYK
IT and Programming, Image Manipulation, Economics, English, French
1989 – 1995
SYK (Helsingin Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu) is a highly respected internationally oriented private school with emphasis on languages. Optional curriculum on IT, image manipulation, graphics design, art and drawing, and economics. Consistent high grades on all theoretical subjects (peak 9.55/10 on a scale of 4-10).
Recommendations For Markus A.O.
Web Developer / Digitizer / Systems Provider
Gaudiya Grantha Mandira
“Actually, I would give ALL the above qualifications to Markus. He is one of the hardest working people I know, who goes out of his way to find or create solutions to problems on his own initiative. We were sad to lose him and still hope that we can retain his services as a consultant in the future.” October 22, 2010
Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, Good Value
Jan Brzezinski,
hired Markus A.O. as a
Graphic/Web Designer
in 1998
Web Developer / Designer / Project Organizer
CodeWallah
“Markus is a brilliant programmer! I worked closely with him while he created the back-end of an e-store, while allowing me to design the front end. The results were very favorable and because of his willlingness to work with me the way he did, we were able save a significant amount of money.” October 25, 2010
Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, Good Value
Blake Farley,
hired Markus A.O. as a
IT Consultant
in 2005
Sales / Marketing / Communication / Technology
ISKCON
“Markus is very responsible and highly intelligent.” October 23, 2010
BK Goswami,
Student, Northwestern University
worked directly with Markus A.O. at ISKCON
Contact Settings
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