Edwin Meyer Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

San Francisco, Us

Employed part-time to evaluate the output of various large language models for the Scale.com subsidiary Remotasks. The work involves comparing the output of two or more chatbot responses to the same prompt selecting the best, and often correcting bad responses so the LLM can learn from this.

- A part-time effort to move the "Mytapp" medical study participant messaging application from Heroku to Amazon Web Services (AWS) .- I had previously worked on this application when it was sponsored by the University of Illinois.

- Member of a small team of developers focused on adding new features to a legacy Ruby on Rails app and fixing bugs, part of a system that detects and identifies stopped schoolbus passing violators, and manages citation generation for school systems across the country.- Interpreted requirements, identified code segments to be modified and implemented changes. Also reviewed other developers' code and documented development procedures.

- Member of the Operations & Maintenance group of the Digital Innovation and Development(DIDIT) project, which is responsible for multiple Ruby on Rails applications.- Perform and deploy regular security & other package (“gem”) updates, as well as implementbug fixes and new functionality for several of these apps.- Active “Public Trust” federal clearance.

Performed various coding and debugging tasks including API coding for a customizable webservice for both customer facing and back office account access.

Bloomington, Mn, Us

Implemented new features in the Proctorserv app that manages remote test-taker exam sessions.

Rochester, Minnesota, Us

· Outlined the architecture for a successor Ruby on Rails app to one that was deemed too flawed for further incremental modification. The architecture was organized around the Strangler Fig pattern of Martin Fowler, which facilitates incremental replacement of existing modules.· Implemented new features for another Ruby on Rails app.

Loveland, Colorado, Us

Assisted with the development of a web portal to integrate the activities of employees and customers of a large agricultural producer and retail vendor in North America and worldwide. Performed primarily Ruby on Rails and Node JS API development.

Updated an existing Ruby on Rails web application deployed on Heroku that allows medical study managers to create and schedule a suite of messages to be emailed to study participants. Updates include implementation of user roles and multi-tenancy, which allows a single application instance to host multiple studies.

Denver, Co, Us

- Member of the Online Development group of Colorado’s largest issuer of workers' compensation insurance policies.- Performed development and bug fixes on a suite of Rails web applications that allows employers and agents to manage policies and claims by injured workers.- Temporarily assigned to the Business Support group to investigate and fix issues related to both the Rails and legacy Oracle Pro*C web applications. Familiarization with a wide variety of subsystems to make fixes with a minimum of support.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Provided development and support for Huron's customized installation of the Allegory legal document management system.- Worked primarily remotely, interacting with the lead Allegory developer in Oregon.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

I performed analysis, maintenance, and build-out for Auto.com, a high-volume AWS-hostedmulti-server app that provides new and used auto listing search to the public.

- Added new functionality and fixed bugs in the admin and public websites for an online market research firm. - Worked remotely with minimal direction from the CTO.

Harrisonburg, Virginia, Us

- Hired by my earliest Ruby on Rails client (2008) to help meet a delivery deadline for a custom content management system (CMS) that creates legal compliance training modules in multiple languages.- Designed and implemented a custom authentication scheme using the Devise Ruby gem. - Implemented custom authorization for access to various resources based upon the user's role and project-level & language access.

Woodridge, Illinois, Us

Assumed responsibility for deployment, maintenance, and improvement of the hybrid Rails/Windows Server website of a sports protection equipment manufacturer following deployment of the new Rails application by a web design studio.

Chicago, Il, Us

Design and implement features of a REST API that mediates between product orders placed on partner web sites and internal Sears services which perform fulfillment.

Chicago, Il, Us

Designed and implemented Bayesian and other statistical modules for automatic categorization of new advertiser offers. The outputs of several categorizers are compared to assign a category, and new categorizers can be readily added. Created a companion test program to analyze performance of the categorizers.

London, Gb

Developed new functionality for a sales and customer management system operated by the Senior Educators division to accommodate the needs of an expanded sales force. Worked as part of a geographically distributed team.

Lemont, Il, Us

- Designed and implemented a radiation exposure management system in Ruby on Rails in consultation with an Argonne staff member.- Interviewed radiation safety section staff to obtain information regarding the existing paper-based system for assigning radiation dosimeters to workers. Performed analysis and design for a replacement web-based application to fulfill these requirements.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Designed and implemented the mobile version of a leading entertainment website targeted towards the 21-35 age group in Ruby on Rails (http://m.metromix.com).- A complicating factor was that two parallel applications served different groups of metropolitan markets. Code duplication was minimized by embedding a single mobile implementation in the newer application to serve all markets. Only minor additions to the legacy application for mobile device auto-redirect and manual switching were required.

Harrisonburg, Virginia, Us

- Designed and developed the "MoodManager" Ruby on Rails web application for delivery to the Northwestern University Medical school in Chicago. MoodManager provides users with informative modules and associated tools to learn about and cope with various aspects of depression.- Managed the Rails application that invokes Adobe Flash to provide an enhanced user experience and provides a service request interface (API) allowing the Flash code to obtain data from the Rails application.- Assumed responsibility on short notice after the original lead developer left the project. Successfully assimilated the architecture with minimal support and completed the "phase 1" version.- Designed and implemented new "phase 2" features involving complex business logic requirements involving the availability and sequencing of modules and tools.- Interacted with the project manager to elicit specifications and with the Adobe Flash developer on the service request interfaces.

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