I began programming Ruby and Rails prior to Rails hitting 1.0. For the past ~ 17 years I have freelanced within the Ruby on Rails ecosystem.

• Responsible for track planning, tooling, upgrades, and review of contributions and issues for the Wren track. Successfully authored the Wren language track and created all necessary Wren infrastructure for the new version of Exercism (launched Sept 2021) - including: syntax highlighting, code analysis, test runners, testing framework, and a custom fork of the Wren CLI that supports proper tracebacks. Authored the first 53 Wren exercises. Reviewed and merged 75+ PRs for Wren stack. Created all necessary track documents and contribution guide.

• Successfully mentored 4,000+ students across 8,975+ different solutions resulting in 834 personal testimonials and a 99% satisfaction rating. • Contributed small bug fixes and test changes to tracks GitHub repo as needed.

• Develop custom CRM to run the reservations back-office: scheduling, calendar, invoicing, customer payments, email, detailed notes, etc.• Host and support a legacy system over more than a decade

• Lead the continued development of custom internal billing/CRM software used to manage customer relationships, handle invoicing, SaaS subscriptions, track key business and financial metrics, etc.• Improve reliability and robustness of a legacy codebase while simultaneously delivering new features• Collaborate with and supported other product teams via custom APIs• Build custom SSO solution to allow single sign-in across all subscribed products (PostgreSQL)

• Maintain and support ongoing development of SaaS CRM application.• Upgrade application across several major Rails versions.• Collaborate with users and vendors to problem-solve and understand needs• Ensure compliance with lead tracking APIs from major brands (Honda, Audi, SMART, VW, etc.)

• Complete successful ground-up rewrite of Eduvo SaaS application• Develop and build entirely new ManageCAS SaaS product from scratch

• Performed site design, hosting, web app development, and PC service and repair.

• Responsible for the school's entire web presence• Successful migration from Linux/Apache to a Windows 2000/C# ASP.net stack.• Develop and implement online admissions system

• Maintain and enhance web-based cost savings management app• Support incompatible browser environments (IE 5/5.5/6, Netscape Navigator 4)• Successfully migrate code from VBScript and MS COM objects to pure JavaScript• Tech: Microsoft IIS/ASP/MS SQL/Oracle