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Founder and CEO - Citiznz: Subscriber-Controlled News Media

Boston, MA, US

Client contract work. Feature development in Rails, React, GraphQL.

Ridgefield Park, NJ, US

Part of a flexible team building and maintaining applications serving ad content to Samsung TVs worldwide. Ruby on Rails, React, Typescript, Erlang, Golang.

US

Founded Pacific Collegium and developed the organization into a significant force in local early and classical music, including the establishment of Chapel College: an East Bay cathedral-style men and boys choir in the English tradition.

Lehi, Utah, US

Ruby on Rails development; models and migrations; React (contract role)

Los Angeles, California, US

Ruby on Rails development (contract role)

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Lead Ruby on Rails and team JavaScript developer for various client companies including Juma Ventures, Juniper Networks, and CA Technologies.

Alpharetta, GA, US

Ruby on Rails development for Orchestrate project, bringing a wide array of development technologies together into an integrated reporting and collaboration package. Rigorous agile team environment including thorough test coverage, code review cycles, and scrum practice.

Consulting work in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and related technologies. Client work with Juniper Networks (ExtJS/Ruby), Higher Circle (Ruby on Rails), AppStem Media (plug-in development for inclusion in Sencha ExtJS framework), Social Print Studio (Sinatra backend for iOS application), and Monsoon Co. (Ruby API for iPhone app back end).

Ruby on Rails programmer, lending strong expertise and taking on various roles on many development projects ranging from accounting and safety control systems to live-data and video throughput applications. Also developed mobile applications in JavaScript frameworks.

Director of the Cantori, Trouveres and Continuum ensembles, and teacher of music and Latin at the Boychoir Day School. Other responsibilities have included the Intermezzi level choir; German, English and other foreign language instruction; arrangement and composition, and recording engineering and editing.

Rebuilt pneumatic organ actions and assisted with repairs and installations.

Established and conducted gallery schola, and a service of weekly a cappella Evensong. Trained boy singers for occasional events.

Developed a complex series of key macros to facilitate departmental use of mainframe resources, using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). MS Access database and front end development. Informix SQL pass-through queries against data warehouse and maintenance.

Responsible for a broad range of administrative and artistic duties, including season and repertoire planning, recruitment, parent relations and logistics.

Taught Visual Basic programming and "Get Ready for Computer Programming" to middle-school age students.

Developed MS database, employing extensive SQL and VBA, to perform Material Requirements Planning calculations for full-plant production of Pentium II CPU Cartridge.

US

Developed multi-user Microsoft Access data-entry and reporting system, to automate the retrieval and reconciliation of loan disbursement information. Worked in Microsoft Excel and VBA creating custom lookup functions. Wrote CASL (Common Accessory Scripting Language) and VBA routines to facilitate data entry.

Accessed Pac Bell's AMOS database and executing SORD order completions. Wrote macros to help automate repetitive data entry. Assistant to hicap testing staff.

Coordinated general operations of the Choir. Worked with and translated among several database environments. Facilitated computer hardware and software purchasing and implementation. Extensive graphic and document design work and Microsoft Office experience.

Developed training program for singers. Wrote custom applications in Symantec C to translate and manipulate graphics files.

Graduate Study, Conducting

Graduate Study, Choral Conducting

Graduate Study, Music

B.A., Philosophy