Experience

Software Engineer

• Created and maintained an automated system in Ruby and MySQL to compute television viewing statistics for over 3.5 million users with tens of millions of channel switches per month
• Developed an automated system in Ruby and Rails to compute and publish reports
• Used Hadoop and Pig to implement parallel statistics computation
• Developed an ActiveMQ-based messaging system capable of processing several hundred messages per second
• Created a system in Ruby to analyze subscriber purchasing habits

Conference Co-organizer and Speaker

• Recruited and scheduled 9 speakers
• Managed registration for 70 attendees
• Publicized the conference locally and nationwide
• Presented on Ruby Metaclasses

Consulting

• Configured and deployed an Asterisk-based PBX for a small business
• Built a component to integrate XML product data into a Rails-based supply chain management application
• Created a plugin to interface a social music site with Amazon S3
• Maintained a small Mac-based network
• Trained users in the operation of software on the Mac platform
• Performed network, software, and hardware troubleshooting
• Installed and maintained several Gentoo-based servers

Technical Lead

• Developed a Rails workflow application to discover and catalog biological information from thousands of academic papers
• Created Rails plugins for internal use
• Led a small team of developers
• Installed and maintained Rails deployments on Gentoo
• Managed internal IT resources

Associate Consultant

• Architected and developed several large websites and enterprise web applications for Fortune 500 companies
• Developed an application to manage client information for a fitness center using Ruby on Rails
• Rebuilt and maintained a Java-based application that used a linear equation solver to optimize the value of mortgages sold on the secondary market
• Deployed and maintained client applications and servers
• Maintained a corporate network with Mac, Linux, and Windows clients

Web Developer

• Built and maintained static and dynamic websites for many different companies
• Developed e-commerce sites with hundreds of products
• Deployed and maintained client applications and servers
• Maintained a small network with Mac, Linux, and Windows clients

Technology

	Expert at	Working knowledge of	Familiarity with
Languages and Frameworks	Ruby Rails Merb Sinatra PHP HTML CSS Pig	JavaScript JQuery Prototype Python Groovy Java Objective C C Emacs Lisp Bash Perl	Erlang Scala Haskell Clojure Shoes
Software and Libraries	TextMate Git Subversion Rake Capistrano RSpec Apache nginx Mongrel MySQL Hadoop	Emacs Vim Eclipse XCode Postgres Amazon Web Services Memcache Asterisk BIND ActiveMQ LDAP Postfix	iPhone SDK Android SDK Thin Passenger CouchDB WSGI CherryPy
Operating Systems	Mac OS X Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo)	Linux (CentOS, RedHat) FreeBSD Windows	BeOS OS/2 NeXTstep

Community

Conference Attendance

• RubyConf 2007-2008
• erubycon 2007-2008
• CodeMash 2008-2009
• Great Lakes Ruby Bash 2008
• WWDC 2003-2005

Patches

• Configatron
• Pig
• Merb
• Mephisto
• Gitjour

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

• Major: Computer Science
• GPA: 3.65
• College of Engineering Dean's List
• Graduated Magna Cum Laude