Adam Fortuna Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, UT, US

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Social discovery for series book lovers. We want to make it shockingly simple for you to discover new books, organize the books on your shelf and make lasting connections with other readers.

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Started a blog that grew into a course platform to help people learn how to invest confidently on their own using low-fee, diversified, buy and hold investments.

Salt Lake City, UT

In December I decided to leave Pluralsight to try my own thing. I'm currently taking some time to refresh and reset, but have a bunch of things I'd love to do work on in 2018 in the investing and finance space.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Working on Hands-on Learning.

Orlando, FL

Created and developed a location listing site for arcades and games using Ruby on Rails and Google Maps. The site is completely driven by the community, and valuable user feedback. Capistrano is used for deployment, with Passenger as our application server. Images are stored on S3 (soon to be CloudFront). The site strives to be completely XHTML 1.0 valid.

Work with a team of developers to create new sites, add features, fix bugs and improve performance bottlenecks for multiple sites written in Ruby on Rails or Cherry.py (Python).Added features and performed bugfixes preparing for the release of SocialSpark (http://socialspark.com), a Ruby on Rails web application. All code includes Shoulda tests in.

Created a site to help track movies watched, your ratings, where you saw them and who you saw them with. Written in Ruby on Rails, this site hooks into Facebook connect (and more later) to extend your network. The goal of this site is to help people answer the question, "What is the best movie you saw last year?"Using Primarily: Ruby on Rails, Jquery.

Worked on a team of 7 other developers, 3 project managers and 2 designers to create and maintain various applications central to the hospitality industry at Westgate Resorts. These included many front end applications exposed through ColdFusion or Flex with Java/Oracle behind the scenes. Created a bilingual application utilizing Google Maps to track hotel.

Assisted in maintenance and development of new features for an enterprise web application used by banks for recording foreign currency transactions and reporting on them. Worked with a team of up to 7 other developers towards creating an internationalized version taking into account language selection, timezones, currency formatting, number formatting.

During spare time in college, created a fan site for Dance Dance Revolution, focusing on arcade listings, game information and community building. Since this was before DDR was available on consoles in the US, it became useful for gamers to meet up and play in arcades, with DDRei helping communication. The site was developed using PHP and MySQL, with tight.

Worked to revamp the website for the Co-op department at UCF using ASP.

Worked on a contract basis to create web applications used to assist in the admissions process to the UCF Film department. Developed a custom application in PHP that the UCF Film Faculty used to review applicants and eventually choose who was accepted and not, accompanied with emails sent out notifying the students.

Created how-to videos using Iola Macro Magic demonstrating how to do common tasks in widely used PC applications such as Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Access and Excel. As the company expanded, was put onto a newly created team creating how to videos in Macromedia Flash 4 with audio and video instructions for using consumer hardware such as cell phones.