Hired by Glide to lead a team of 5 Ruby and PHP developers.Accomplishments● Worked on several “problem projects” to help get themlaunch­able.● Set company standards and best practices.● Help other developers with their workflows to make themmore productive.● Sit it on client project discovery and story cardingsessions to help outline project scopes.● Assist other developers with their project tasks.● Review pull requests form the other developers for projects.● Setup staging and production servers using Nginx andPassenger or Unicorn.● Deploy sites using Capistrano.

Brought on board to take their flagship software as a service application for Workforce Development Automation “Atlas” to the next level. http://atlasforworkforce.com. This software automates several aspects of the Workforce Development (un- employment) offices in Florida. Accomplishments● Rewrite Atlas from the ground up using the CakePHP framework and EXTJS JavaScript framework, making it faster and more user friendly. ● Oversee the ongoing development and bi weekly deployment of Atlas.● Create an interface allowing the scanning of documents from twain devices into the document archiving module in Atlas.● Create a touch screen kiosk interface for end users to interact with the Atlas software from kiosks at one stop locations.● Setup the development team up with GIT for software version control.● Implement a ticketing and bug tracking solution aiding in our development process.● Work with other developers on the team planning new features and updates to our software.● Develop an automated software deployment strategy using Ruby and Capistrano, allowing for 1 command deployment directly from our GIT repository. ● Develop real-time desktop push notification application for our document management software using Appcelerator Titanium and node.js.● Developed a few smaller sites in Ruby on Rails such as http://lifecyclestudio.com/

Long time friend who is a web designer and myself started a webdesign & development shop. We decided after a couple years thatwe both wanted to gain more experience in the industry so we bothtook positions at other companies and dissolved dZero.Accomplishments● Oversee day­to­day operations of the business.● Setup Debian Linux based SVN, development, andproduction servers.● Develop robust web applications and websites using PHPMVC frameworks like CakePHP and CodeIgniter.● Use jQuery to implement cross browser compatibleJavaScript.● Develop e­commerce sites using open source solutionssuch as Magetno and Zen­Cart.● Develop blogs and content managed sites usingWordPress.● Manage projects to meet deadlines and deliver client siteson time.

Hired as a junior developer to help build web sites and webapplications for Make a Byte’s clients.Accomplishments● Build dynamic data driven websites, web applications, andscripts for clients using PHP 5 and MySQL.● Studied and practiced several web technologies andlanguages (XML, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, andJavaScript).● Explored and practiced object oriented programmingmethodologies.● Worked with MVC and many other design patterns.● Practiced building multi­tier web applications.● Learned about Agile development strategies like SCRUM.