PROFILE
I am a Ruby on Rails and iOS Developer with over 13 years experience delivering highly performant well crafted software in a wide variety of software systems including embedded, real-time, distributed, desktop, and web applications using agile best practices. I have delivered over 30 applications on time, on budget, and feature complete
I am particularly interested in fully utilizing my high productivity and wide breadth of skills at a small startup company.
EXPERIENCE
G5 Platform
Team Lead, Bend, OR (telecommute), [May.2011 - Present]
G5 provides online marketing solutions to self-storage, student-housing, and senior living properties. I am responsible for leading software developers across our two main effors, Reporting and Mobile.
I was also part of a team that upgraded the core custom CMS from Rails 2 to Rails 3.
Pathfinder Software
CTO, Chicago, IL (telecommute), [September.2009 - May.2011]
Pathfinder is a consulting firm that specializes in delivering MVP for startup companies. While serving as CTO I also participated as Lead Developer on several projects.
Projects
DataColor Colorspot (iOS 4) - Lead Developer
Colorspot is an iPhone application used by interior designers to capture color swatches and then visualize the swatch on surfaces, compare it to another swatch, view color harmony, lookup similar colors, and share the swatch.
seasonalbids.com (Rails 3) - Lead Developer
SeasonalBids provides property managers (PMs) a place to author and public request for bids (RFBs). Contractors can then search for RFBs in their area and bid on them up until the deadline date, which is set by the property manager. PMs can then award contracts to the winning contractors.
pod-cme.com (Rails 3) - Lead Developer
pod-cme is used by physicians to participate in clinical studies and obtain CME credits. Administrators of the site can build clinical area questionnaires and provide education material in documents, podcasts, or videos.
nailyourmortgage.com (Rails 2.3) - Senior Developer
nailyourmortgage provides wholesale mortgages to home buyers and refinancers.
Redpoint Technologies
Technical Software Architect, Chicago, IL (telecommute), [September.2007 - September.2009]
Redpoint is a software consulting firm. In addition to leading project, I also served as Redpoint's only
Technical
Software Architect, which involved evaluating technologies and products, mentoring developers, and conference speaking.
Projects
britetab.com (groovy) - System Administrator
BriteTab is a rich content online resume builder. Videos and images can be embedded in a traditional resume.
global time and expense (ASP.NET) - Lead Developer
The global time and expense application is used in over 50 countries by over 300,000 users.
Consultant for Los Alamos and Sandia National Labs
Software Architect, Albuquerque, NM, [May.2001 - September.2007]
I designed and developed multiple systems used to identify, locate, and sometimes eliminate national security threats. These applications had 100% code coverage before testing was cool!
INRI
Software Engineer, San Diego, CA, [December.1998 - May.2001]
I designed and developed multiple distributed communication systems used by the Department of Defense.
EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin - Madison
B.S. with double major in Computer Science and MathematicsSKILLS
Languages
Ruby, Java, C#, Objective-C, C++
Frameworks/Databases
Ruby on Rails, JQuery, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle
Testing
Real TDD with RSpec
Platform/Tools
Heroku, EC2, S3, RDS, Cloudfront, Passenger, Git, OSX, Linux
Performance
Rapid application development, load testing, profiling, instrumentation, code optimization, database optimization