San Francisco, CA

Experience

Consultant, AKQA, South San Francisco, CA 2009 - to present
Technologies Used: Ruby, Rails, Solaris, Capistrano jQuery

  • Built FlyAlaska4less.com
  • Launched a small project for the visabusinessnetwork
  • Currently working on a top secret project that will launch next year. Shh..

Consultant, Orange Labs, South San Francisco, CA 2009
Technologies Used: Ruby, Rails, Facebook API, FBML, FBJS, FQL

  • Built a Facebook Application for connecting users to businesses.

Consultant, Clerkdogs, San Francisco, CA 2009
Technologies Used: Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS.

  • Integrated the site with the Netflix API using OAuth.
  • Applied a new skin site wide. i.e. rebuilt the HTML and CSS from scratch.

Senior Software Engineer, Potrero Media, San Francisco, CA 2007-2008
Technologies Used: Ruby, Rails, PHP, MySQL with Replication, Javascript, Prototype, Linux, Capistrano and Webistrano, Nagios, Apache, Mongrel, Subversion.

  • Lead Migration of Databases and Websites to a high availability cluster.
  • Architected Web Services and Applications in Ruby on Rails and PHP.
  • Made use of Test Driven Development and Agile Methodologies whenever possible.
  • Designed administration tools and monitoring for over 200 websites and services.

Software Engineer, Podshow, San Francisco, CA, 2006-2007
Technologies Used: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Linux, MySQL with replication

  • Team lead for site internationalization upgrade.
  • Team lead to scale user collection system.
  • Developed social networking features for a podcasting website.
  • Designed MVC architecture.

Education

University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH - BS Computer Science, 2002

Skills

Ruby, Rails, PHP, MySQL, Replication, JavaScript, Prototype, Scriptaculous, jQuery, HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, AJAX, JSON, Nagios, Rake, Capistrano, Webistrano, trac, Subversion, CVS, Apache, mod_rails, Mongrel, Linux, vim, bash, OpenGL, C/C++, Objective-C, Cocoa, OS X

Outside of Work

  • ViMate: Founder of an open-source vi plugin for TextMate using Objective-C and Cocoa.
  • Track Fights: Founder of an eight week series of bike races designed to improve cyclocross in the bay area.
  • Cycling: Currently training with a cycling coach to try to get paid to ride bicycles.