Own/operate web development consultancyWorking with multiple clients in both front-end and back-end technologiesCurrently working with: Ruby on Rails, Elixir, Ember, React

Ember frontend and Ruby on Rails backend. Worked in an exciting company actively making local governments work better with their citizens on problems in their communities.Created a new feature of the Ember application to allow governments to complete work orders that citizens report.

* Acted as front-end lead, advising and consulting all team members with Ember best practices, leading to cleaner, better tested code. * Upgraded Ember from 1.13 to 2.4 to keep up to date with the latest and great Ember releases. Fixed all bugs and upgraded all addons/dependencies to handle this change. * Refactored a broken test suite of 1600+ q-unit tests to be functional. Allowing CI to run properly, and instilling a TDD culture within the team. * Helped drive home the completion of a massive re-factoring of code to use ElasticSearch. This increased the speed of the application by a large amount. * Helped implement Redis to use for caching certain parts of the application, resulting in dramatic speed increases * Reduced code complexity with refactors in both Ember and Rails applications, leading to higher productivity, higher code quality, and increase to test coverage of all code.

* As first in­house hire, took over development of photo sharing application built using Backbone.js with Rails 3.2 backend * Leveraged improvement in Rails 4.1 and Postgres 9.3 to improve performance to meet increased scalability requirements * Built entire administrative applications using Backbone/Rails to support the growing needs of the platform * Resolved any performance bottlenecks, allowing the application to scale to handle millions of pageviews per month * Manage both in­house and contract developers

* Working in a full stack SOA Rails environment. Developing features from inception to completion, including: Data modeling, RESTful API design/development, and frontend design and development. * Working with complex business logic in a healthcare space. Directly communicating with stakeholders and management to drive best practices and results with tight deadlines. Deploying new releases to production environments. Handling feature requests and bug reports from end-users, and driving solutions for production issues.

* Coordinated and deployed releases to the production Gilt Groupe websites while working with an international development/QA team. Developed and improved upon deployment scripts and tools in Capistrano and Ruby to automate staging, pre-release (QA), and production environments. * Created hooks in ruby to enforce rules in source control. Created git hooks that scaled with our large number of projects while also meeting demands of smaller teams with specific requirements. Managed CI instances and handled issues as they arose. Built an automated build feature between git hooks and our jenkins instance that scaled to all teams. * Supported day to day tasks managing over 30 staging servers running a full stack of gilt services and code. Quickly debugged problems and handled requests as they arose.

* Produced official release builds of Energy Center (the flagship product of Viridity). Created shell scripts to automate a very manual process of building a new official release. Automated tasks included: building a release with specific repository revisions, creating installers, and informing QA of release availability. Also created shell scripts to automate “end-game” release tasks such as: Documentation, Tagging specific repositories with official release information, backing up working copies, and backing up installers. * Developed automated install and upgrade testing on the EnergyCenter product using Java. Ensured installs and upgrades to archive, and trunk versions met QA standards on all supported platforms including: Red Hat, SUSE, and Windows. Automated using a test instance of Hudson. Ran nightly after every successful nightly trunk build. * Supported multiple teams in a dynamic build environment including: Subversion, Hudson (for build automation), Ant, and BitRock (to create installers). Managed checkins, branches, and official release and patch builds. Also automated nightly/daily builds, official releases for multiple products, and multiple QA efforts. Also developed SVN Hooks to manage checkins properly through software.

* Managed a dynamic team of QA testers outside of the company. Developed test cases and managed the entire QA process for many companies of various sizes and needs. * Worked as acting QA manager on site for multiple agile development companies. Was on site for the end of each sprint. Managed the entire QA process for numerous iterations to provide a complete product on time in an agile schedule. Implemented SCRUM based management to help the Project Management team organize projects and day-to-day work.

* Worked as a part of the QA Engineering team at Virtual Iron Software. Managed regression, and installation automated testing. This automated testing ran every night and installed 40 guest operating system distributions 10 times every night. * Also had manual testing responsibilities, using the VI-Center to test the products user interface. Testing was performed using both Linux and Windows environments.