Full stack Rails developer Motorlot.com Scottsdale, AZ 2012 - Present: Contract (1+ years)

Tech

• Rails 3.2
• jQuery and jQuery UI
• Capybara and Rspec
• Chef
• Coffeescript
• MySQL
• Amazon AWS

Rails developer and Founder Simplton 2005 - 2013 (8 years: active but no longer available to the public)

• In 2005 we needed a good issue tracker for our team working on NGJ Express. Nothing we tried such as Bugzilla or Sharepoint fit the bill.
• I decided to create one. Here is the whole story.
• Did all the design, graphics, and systems work too.
• Application is six years in the making and loaded with features.

Tech

• Reams of Javascript/CSS/HTML. Prototype.js, jQuery and jQuery UI.
• Rails 3.1/Ruby 1.9 Started app in Rails 1.x
• Marketing pages leverage CSS 2.1/3 but still deprecates well.
• MySQL
• Ubuntu Server

Rails developer Yesware: Cambridge, MA Dec. 2011 - Jan. 2012: Contract

• Created foundations for the automated testing of their Chrome extension using Rspec, Capybara, and Selenium

Principal developer and Co-founder NGJ Express: 2002 - Present (11 years): Contract

• Self-funded this venture with a bit of seed money. In return we received equity for a duration of time.
• Venture was near its death about a year-and-a-half into development. We turned to a little known IE browser technology called XMLHTTPRequest to wrap a 12-page app into a single page one. After that we were able to win company-wide adoption. This was 2003, approximately two years before the term Ajax was coined.
• Today the application is a company cornerstone handling almost all aspects of Customs Brokerage.
• Personally coded and designed a great majority of the application. Moreover, I handle all web server and database administration.
• Screen shots.

Tech

• A ton of Javascript/CSS/HTML. Prototype.js, jQuery and jQuery UI are used for new stuff.
• PHP 5
• MySQL
• Java: Created a permit application system for the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada using the Java Entrust toolkit.
• RHEL and now CentOS.

More work related items/history

• My Pragmatic Programmers Bookshelf.
• Ruby Tapas and Metacasts subscriber.
• Personal and Simplton blog run on Sinatra.
• Bunch of backend ruby scripts and programs such as:
• program to check for overdue books at Chula Vista Library 2008;
• pogram to thwart a DDOS 2007;
• scripts to administer MySQL;
• searching through large compressed file sets.
• Attend Barcamp manchester.
• Web service in Sinatra for looking up U.S. 9 digit zip codes.
• Web design for Great Oak Church. Temecula, CA 2007
• Created podcast management software in Rails for Unchainedradio.com. San Diego, CA 2006
• PDF label creation app and ecommerce billing thru Paypal. PHP based. 2006
• Created Railsite a Homesite, Ruby on Rails plugin in 2006. I use vim nowadays.
• Developed backend eccomerce application in PHP that took orders from the Modernrock.com Yahoo store and coverted it to a order to their CD/DVD distributor. 2005
• Flash dev for ICMA Retirement Company. Washington, D.C. 2000-2002
• Web dev for Modernrock.com. Arlington, VA 2001-2002
• Built Firewall and NAT appliances with RedHat 7 by compiling the kernel source "by hand" for Internet Computers and Support of Falls Church, VA in 2000 (part-time)
• Web dev and systems work for Public Sector Solutions. Falls Church, VA 1999 - 2000
• Network admin for Vertical Marketing, Inc in Falls Church, VA 1998 - 1999
• Environmental Scientist at Dames & Moore, Inc Bethesda, MD 1994 - 1998