Dana Jones Email & Phone Number

Eugene, OR, US

Los Gatos, CA, US

I manage the distributed Studio team of thirteen cross-functional engineers that builds tools for content intelligence and content programming. We support our creative teams by tracking content development from concept to green-light decision, and by helping them decide when to launch content in our global markets. We use machine learning and robust data.

Los Gatos, CA, US

Lead the team within Production Finance Engineering that is responsible for tracking budgets, spend, and cash flows for produced content. In this capacity, I work closely with partners in Product, Finance, UI, Design, Support, and other engineering groups to ensure that the right work is done by the right people at the right time to best serve our internal.

Berkeley, California, US

I managed a globally distributed team of engineers, leads, and managers in support of Gatsby's open source web development framework. My efforts center around enabling better communication and delivery for my team and our worldwide open source community, by collaborating with managers and leads from other teams and departments.

San Francisco, California, US

I managed two distributed teams of engineers across various disciplines (frontend, backend, native application, QA) building the core functionality for our SaaS product. My responsibilities included:* interviewing; * hiring; * conducting regular checkin meetings with employees;* leading projects;* coaching;* writing and delivering performance reviews;*.

May 2013 - SpreeConf - "Contributing to Spree User Documentation"Sep 2013 - Windy City Rails - "Documentation is Win" - https://www.windycityrails.com/videos/2013/#18 June 2015 - Ruby Nation - "Speed-dating Your Rails Application"Sep 2015 - Nash.rb - "Speed-dating Your Rails Application"Oct 2018 - Cream City Code - "A Tale of Two Teams"

New York, NY, US

Managed a team of ten software developers at all skill levels, both internal and contractors, stateside and overseas, across three teams. I balanced the requirements of Product and Engineering with a realistic roadmap for each team’s products.I wrote and reviewed code, conducted training sessions, supplied documentation, set coding standards, conducted.

Holland, MI, US

Worked as a software developer on a variety of client projects, primarily using Ruby on Rails. Responsible for scoping, planning, implementing, and testing features and bug fixes, as well as communicating directly with clients about progress and requirements. Special focus on pair programming across various teammates, coaching/mentoring, and improving.

Leesburg, Virginia, US

Worked on the Triage team, creating the Triage appliance product. Its purpose is to assist security analysts in the identification and containment of malicious email attachments. I worked primarily to integrate the product with third party services like Splunk and Cuckoo, via API.

Nashville, Tennessee, US

I was hired as a Ruby developer to work with a growing team in the healthcare industry - specifically in cost transparency. After an initial onboarding process, I became intrigued with the company’s functional programming work in erlang, and requested to join that team. Within two months I was the development lead of a team that grew to three developers..

Palm Harbor, FL, US

Upon joining this grocery store-industry company, I immediately began implementing automated testing, using Rspec, Shoulda, and FactoryGirl, so the team would have more confidence in upgrading the project moving forward. Led effort to move the company’s primary application off of Rails 2 and onto 3, with an eye toward eventually joining the Rails 4.

Part of the development team. Responsible for producing written developer training materials, documentation, and example code for users of the Spree e-commerce platform. Also charged with helping with bug fixes, feature releases, and improving automated test coverage. Interface heavily with the developer community to engage them about their needs and.

We worked on a diverse array of projects as freelancers - from accounting software to a funeral planning website to an application devoted to recording stewardships for Catholic organizations. Working on such a broad spectrum of projects taught me to look for creative solutions to unusual development problems. All work done was with Ruby on Rails, with.

Helped to found RailsBridge, an organization devoted to improving the culture of the Ruby on Rails community to make it more inclusive. I was most involved in the Rails Tutor initiative, to produce and publish tutorials for beginning developers using RoR as their first language.

I created and coded a website to aggregate information about Internet quilt stores for the quilting community. It included information about the types of products sold, location, services offered, etc. Eventually the site grew to include free quilt patterns and targeted advertising. In the fall of 2001, we added a scavenger hunt feature called a Quilter’s.

San Jose, California, US

Worked in McAfee’s new (at the time) online technical support team. We answered incoming tech support inquiries about McAfee products and developed knowledge base documentation for both users and support technicians. Was promoted to team support supervisor after 8 months.

Employed in Stream’s call center, solving customer problems and answering technical inquiries about Hewlett-Packard laptop computers.