Alan Blount Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

We use ML (and stuff) to decide where to route payments and what type of auth message to send. We try to provide a lot of information and process automation to improve customer experiences, and provide fair refunds, and reduce chargebacks. We manage integrations with a googleplex of partners (see what I did there?), and keep the lights on and handle it gracefully when there are brown-outs.

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

2 parts back end (NodeJS/MeteorJS/Elixir), 2 parts front end client side rendered UI/UX (React), 1 part devops... heavy on the microservices (REST/GraphQL). Season with some R&D, hybrid mobile apps, functional/concurrent data processing (AWS Lambda/Elixir/Scala/Node/Cassandra/Spark). Blend until smooth.

The company is small, fast-paced, nimble, and fun. We all work from home offices in various locations across the country. We are a group of dynamic, highly motivated and highly skilled people who are passionate about our work and our professions."We help people hear, communicate, and function better."http://alliedhealthmedia.com/I work mainly with CakePHP, PHP5 (fpm/cli), NodeJS, jQuery, Nginx, Ubuntu/Debian, Git, Redis, Percona, MongoDB, and MeteorJS.My role is to direct technology choices, architect and develop our applications, and lead/support our team of 8-10 excellent developers.

Primary web developer for a small internet design studio. We made custom applications from the ground up, as well as modifications to pre-built applications like WordPress. We worked mostly in PHP (the LAMP stack) and maintained some legacy ASP applications. We focused on quality code, standards compliance, excellent design, and SEO optimization.Key Projects:* Designed and built a fully redundant high-availability server cluster.* http://bspurses.com - 100% custom* http://essentialoils.org - 100% custom

New York, Ny, Us

* Exceeding goals in the development of an intricate intranet website framework, integrating with Livelink and hundreds of pre-existing individual websites. Also developed a series of tools to allow non-technical authors to create and maintain their websites within our intranet.* Reduced expenses and improved stability with the use of GNU and Open Source solutions.* Maintained and administered our Livelink and intranet applications and servers, totaling 10 production servers and a full QA environment, and a full development environment.* Provided Tier 3 support for intranet related support issue, involving a good deal of issue and/or end-user troubleshooting as well as knowledge documentation, procedural authoring, and Service Desk training.* Telecommuted full time from a home office in Columbus, Ohio since July 2004.

New York, Ny, Us

Global Service Desk Analyst - Acted as the first and second lines of defense for all employee inquiries. We routed tickets for simple building and supplies issues as well as investigated, troubleshot, and reported on trends with all maner of technical problems. We had a specific focus on MS Office applicaitons, VPN and remote access applicaitons, Internet and Intranet access, and many other custom and third-party applicaitons use by Mercer employees accross the globe.

Various odd contracting jobs involving anything from XHTML/CSS to 100% custom PHP applicaitons.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Second level technical support for residential Cable Modem customers across the USA. General troubleshooting, as well as local network and cabel modem specific troubleshooting. Designed and built a troubleshooting guide web application and knowledge base.

* Learned about manipulating steel and became proficient on all equipment.* Assisted Dave Caudill in numerous construction and design assignments.* Contributed to and improved the efficiency of the studio and the quality of the work.

Education record

Education record