Bruce Failor Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Remote engagement via Toptal

Remote / Full-time (via Toptal)

Added functionality to both the Ruby on Rails backend and the ReactJS frontend to a website that allows individuals to either (1) search for and reserve housing or (2) list properties for rent in the Washington, D. C. Metropolitan area. Features implemented included the ability to (a) message and share personal information between individuals with.

Remote / Full Time (via Toptal)

Contributing to multiple projects within an agile environment. Using Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, Stash, and Hipchat tools for project description, planning, collaboration, and communication. In almost all cases features were added to Rails applications by extending both the backend and the user interface (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). Also migrated an.

Remote / Hourly

- Created RSpec and/or Cucumber tests as needed.- Supported a Rails JSON API.- Supported Rails JavaScript response rendering.- Created a method to clone an existing race event into another one, reducing the time required from about an hour to 5 minutes.- Created a method for registering for a series of events through a single season pass event without the.

Remote / Full-time

- Modified the Bootstrap carousel approach to create a user interface that allows browsing projects, users, and other database table records as "cards" in a tableau.- Implemented a global project map for the site home page (http://photosynq.org/ - scroll to bottom of the page).- Created an API endpoint for user comments, including the ability to upload.

Remote / Full-time

Short effort supported by year-end funds.- Create service object for pulling the available subtitle languages from the YouTube API for a given TEDEd lesson.- Add the ability to filter TEDEd lessons by the subtitle languages available to the UI (http://ed.ted.com/lessons).Technologies: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, HAML, YouTube API, ElasticSearch

Remote / Full-time

Worked with a team of 4 developers with one individual acting as lead and the other 3 creating microservices that communiciated with each other via APIs. - Supported the capture and parsing of information from a number of commercial APIs (including SOAP XML) endpoints.- Supported the capture of downloads via automated “human” interactions with an embedded.

Remote / Part-time

- Worked with Math instructors to create a UI that provided authentication and a dashboard that displayed critical student progress information.- Created a data scraping process that captured student progress data from the Pearson MyLabsPlus website.Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Selenium WebDriver, AWS, RSpec, Headless/Xvfb

Ruby on Rails (legacy code, test and behavior driven development, client-side JavaScript), Monte Carlo radiation transport with MCNP (e-beam, gamma, neutrons, radiation shielding, radiation driven subcritical assemblies), Diagnostic characterization, measurements, and analysis with IDL and Excel (XUV plasma emission, photodiode and imaging plate.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Engineering, Applied Science (Plasma Physics)

Master Of Science (M.S.), Engineering, Applied Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Physics (Major), Asian Studies (Minor)