Jason Rush Email & Phone Number

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Portland, Oregon, United States

• Leads a team of developers and works closely with product management at Walt Disney Imagineering to develop a suite of internal tools using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and PostgreSQL

Remote

* Worked with Ruby on Rails, React/Redux, PubNub and MySQL to build and maintain a suite of web applications that handle e-commerce, chat, SMS and telephony communications between users and professionals.

Remote

• Led a team of developers, and worked closely with product management at Walt Disney Imagineering to develop a suite of internal tools using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and PostgreSQL
• Architected and built an internal warehouse and inventory management application using Rails and PostgreSQL
• Architected and built an internal file-watermarking application using a Rails frontend, and AWS services for the backend, including S3, SQS and AWS Lambdas written in Go
• Built APIs for sharing information between a suite a of Disney applications using Rails and ActiveModelSerializers
• Built reporting tools involving complex SQL such as common table expressions, partitions and ranks

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Gathered requirements, communicated with stakeholders, prioritized and planned sprints
• Responsible for the release of the Consumer Engagement Portal, a consumer product for tracking energy usage, controlling thermostats, and providing energy efficiency tips
• Built a normative comparison algorithm for grouping residents into similar clusters in order to provide statistics to the end user about like houses
• Created dispatching and fleet management software using MySQL Spatial, GeoRuby and Spatial Adapter
• Communicated with real-world, external devices using low-level proprietary protocols
• Built APIs for an in-house iPhone app and third party applications

Glendale, California, United States

• Used JRuby and Java to develop prototypes for experimental technologies including search, voice recognition, text-to-speech and natural language parsing
• Contributed to open-source projects including Waves, a resource-oriented web framework for Ruby, and Moonstone, a JRuby wrapper for Lucene
• Developed plugins and extensions for Lucene and Solr
• Created algorithms for location-based searching
• Used Ruby on Rails to develop a web application for comparing competing search algorithms

Sherman Oaks, CA

• Architected and developed software using Ruby on Rails
• Analyzed and improved application efficiency by optimizing queries, and caching content
• Worked closely with management and the design team to rapidly implement new features

Vancouver, Washington, United States

• Architected, designed, and developed custom Ruby on Rails and J2EE applications
• Managed the software development process throughout the project lifecycle using agile methodologies such as Scrum and Feature-Driven Development
• Oversaw the software development teams in Vancouver and Vietnam, coordinating task assignment, performing code review and providing mentorship to junior-level developers.
• Collaborated with clients to identify project requirements
• Created customer documentation and performed on-site training for software products