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Grand Rapids, MI, US

Paperize is a tabletop game design tool that I created to bring modern agile project management practices to the tabletop game industry. It helps game designers go from idea to playable prototype in minimum time so that more games get tested, games get tested more, and the quantity of quality games goes up over time. Make better games, faster!Paperize is.

Atlanta, GA

I am a founding partner of an Atlanta-based investment club. The club's mission is “Empowering personal wealth through group education.” We invest in stocks, commodities, real estate, and P2P lending, as well as holding events and making charitable donations annually. As president, it was my job to coordinate the efforts of the membership, including.

Greater Atlanta Area

As the engineering team coach at Polar Notion, I brought 20 years of web development experience to every step of the consulting process. Some of the high points:- pair programming as much as possible- friendly, learning-focused code reviews for every Pull Request- lunch & learn topics of a wide variety, both planned and ad-hoc- stand-ups/weekly status.

Greater Atlanta Area

Built out the entire cloud product offering backend using ExpressJS, Postgres, AWS & Google Cloud, RabbitMQ, and of course, lots of tests!

Atlanta, GA

As TourBuzz has grown, its team has remained small and cross-functional, so I've had numerous responsibilities in my time there:- Product Engineer: investigating and prototyping a new version of the product that targets real estate agents directly instead of the photographers that work with them, Team Lead for a small team creating a modern stack with a.

Atlanta, GA

I spent some time at the ubiquitous and enigmatic GitHub, learning about and absorbing their "open allocation" culture and processes from the inside. I worked on an internal tool for the company that every employee and founder used on an at-least-weekly basis.GitHub famously "builds web apps like it's 2005", meaning server-generated templates and gradual.

Atlanta, GA

I joined MailChimp to help take their thriving newsletter-based business into the transactional email realm, competing with the likes of SendGrid and MailGun. Their engineering team was already intact, but they needed a developer who could talk to developers, so I joined up and hit the conference trail.- traveled and sponsored conferences, meetups and.

Atlanta, GA

I was the first technical hire at Scoutmob, meaning I inherited a codebase built by contractors as well as all of the other technical needs of a growing company, including but not limited to the printers, wifi, and VOIP system for the inside sales team. Not entirely what I expected, but that's the small startup life!- only developer working closely with.

Developer for hire with diverse range of skills including Ruby/Rails, Flash/Flex, cloud computing (Amazon S3, EC2, etc). Specializing in taking an idea from concept to deployment on budget and on time.

2D/3D programming in Flex/Actionscript for the creation of an in-house panorama viewer for real estate photographers. This piece of software pushes the envelope for the industry by creating a single, seamless interface that integrates still images, partial and 360-degree panoramas, soundtracks and voice-overs, floor plans, and even videos for an experience.

Highgroove Studios is one of the foremost Ruby on Rails consultancies, with such high-profile customers as UC Berkeley, Sun Microsystems, the State of Georgia, and The New York Times.The volume, diversity, and speedy turnaround time of Highgroove projects means that I get to work on something new almost every week. We use an agile, iterative approach to.

VideoCrush.com was to be the world's first video-only web dating platform. I implemented a seamless, easy to use video conversation system that required no tedious setup or up-front download for the user. All user behaviors were tracked to give automatic feedback which helped evolve the application's usability and user experience at speed. Though this.

Responsible for all things technology in this bleeding-edge, swing-for-the-fences web marketing startup. Using Ruby on Rails, I developed and deployed more than a dozen different web applications to support our products and services, many of them profitable in as little as two weeks. The Rails framework itself evolved greatly during this time-frame, as.

Worked on a small development team (4) to launch the first multiplayer management simulation game for mobile on Cingular (now AT&T) in October 2005.Participated in game design and technical design meetings, helped steer strategic business decisions and tactical development decisions.Developed code to seamlessly build our mobile products for a wide variety.

Founded Tapscore Mobile to create branded gaming experiences for mass-market mobile devices.Led a team of 3 to design, architect and deliver a rich, original gaming experience in 4 months.Worked with a graphic designer to create sprite sheets to make the most efficient use of the limited resources of the device.Created standalone, level-editor software.

Education record

High School Diploma