I live in Manhattan.
Email me: [email protected]
Call me: 347.583.9602
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##Goals
- Build awesome web products that SCALE
- Facilitate regular, inspiring interactions between developers and users in order to build better products
- Drive technological innovation
##Experience
###American Express Publishing, New York, NY (May 2009 - Present)
Ruby/Rails Web Developer
- Optimized Travel+Leisure website codebase
- Implemented action caching scheme that enabled the Travel+Leisure website to scale to from 30 to 1000 concurrent requests in the mid-tier web cluster
- Created a resource-mocking gem that enables behavior driven development of a SOA application
- Created several open-source Active-Resource enhancement gems to aid in SOA development
- Created open-source document-versioning, document-cloning, and document-replication gems for development on the CouchDB platform
- Playing a critical role in the architecting and build-out of the Food & Wine backend
- Organizing frequent requirements gathering and feedback sessions between developers and clients
- Facilitating biweekly meetups between key players in the team and the client's project manager
- Pushing the development teams to find new and innovative ways to enhance our brands through regular research sharing sessions
- Directly managing 4 developers
###Live Young Media (liveyoungmedia.com), New York, NY (Oct 2008 - May 2009)
Rails/PHP web developer (freelancer)
- Developed e-commerce sites on top of the open-source Ruby on Rails ecommerce system, "Substruct"
- Developed cms and product catalog sites with PHP5, HTML, CSS, and AJAX, on top of the silverstripe CMS / Sapphire framework. For a list of these site, see our silverstripe profile at http://is.gd/tz5M
###Long View Publishing, New York, NY (Aug 2006 - May 2009)
Systems Administrator
- Customized LP’s websites with PHP4, HTML, CSS, most of which use the open-source php cms “ezPublish”
- Engineered a linux load-balanced web cluster: primary and backup loadbalancers (haproxy), redundant apache2/php web nodes, and redundant MySQL and NFS servers
###New Media Gateway (newmediagateway.com), Dallas, TX (Oct 2004 - Aug 2006)
PHP web developer
- Developed numerous high-profile websites, including http://sandiego.org, http://visitdallas.com, and http://gohawaii.com
- Lead developer, designed and developed PHP-5 MVC model-view-controller framework, complete with ORM framework, and HTML templating engine (we first implemented this for http://sandiego.org)
- Created PHP5 database translation framework that helps programmers map and transform data from one database schema to another by defining mapping schemas in XML
##Education ###University of North Texas, Denton, TX (2000-2004)
B.S. in Computer Science, August 2004
- GPA: 3.98/4.0
- Minor in Mathematics
##Awards ###American Express Publishing
- Innovation Day Contest Winner - Q3, 2009
- Online Department Achievement Award (Innovation) - Q4 2009
- Online Department Achievement Award (Process Improvement) - Q2 2010
###New Media Gateway
- Innovator Award - Q2, Q3, Q4 2005
###University of North Texas
- Outstanding Undergraduate in Computer Science Award, 2003-2004
- National Science Foundation scholarship recipient, 2001-2004
- Board of Regents Scholarship recipient, 2000-2004
- President's list, 2001-2004
- Dean's list, 2000-2004
##Skills ###Programming Languages, Technologies Ruby, Rails, Haskell, JavaScript/Coffeescript, CouchDB, SQL, Git, SVN
###Server Administration Related I've administered machines with SVN, Git, MySQL, Apache 1 and 2, mongrel cluster, haproxy (for loadbalancing), NFS, PHP4, PHP5, Samba, FTP, Surgemail, dnsmasq
###Operating Systems Mac OS X, Linux (debian family)