Adam Bair

Current

• Director of Development at Intridea, Inc

Past

• Software Architect at Intridea, Inc
• Senior Engineer at Intridea, Inc
• Software Engineer at Revolution Health

• Web Developer / Systems Administrator at New England Life Care
• Intranet Developer / Network Operating Center (NOC) 2nd Shift Lead at Fairchild Semiconductor
• Software QA, Web Developer, Technical Support at DeLorme Publishing Co.

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Education

• Pragmatic Studio Erlang
• Big Nerd Ranch
• University of Southern Maine

• Southern Maine Community College

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Recommended

4 people have recommended Adam

Connections

90 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Working with Rails (WWR)

Adam Bair’s Summary

Dynamic and driven developer with a passion for beautiful code.

Adam Bair’s Specialties:

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RJS, Subversion, AJAX, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, XHTML, Strong (portable) understanding of programming methodology and concepts, Understand the importance of testing (unit, functional, and integration), Ability to install, configure, and troubleshoot my development environment, Production of standards compliant markup and code, Working knowledge of MySQL, SQLite, and MSSQL, Exposure and limited use of C++ and Java

Adam Bair’s Experience

• Director of Development

  Intridea, Inc

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  October 2009 — Present (2 months)

• Software Architect

  Intridea, Inc

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  May 2008 — October 2009 (1 year 6 months)

• Senior Engineer

  Intridea, Inc

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  September 2007 — May 2008 (9 months)

• Software Engineer

  Revolution Health

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  September 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 1 month)

• Web Developer / Systems Administrator

  New England Life Care

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  July 2004 — August 2006 (2 years 2 months)

• Intranet Developer / Network Operating Center (NOC) 2nd Shift Lead

  Fairchild Semiconductor

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; FCS; Semiconductors industry)

  June 2003 — July 2004 (1 year 2 months)

• Software QA, Web Developer, Technical Support

  DeLorme Publishing Co.

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2002 — June 2003 (10 months)

Adam Bair’s Education

• Pragmatic Studio Erlang

  2008 — 2008

• Big Nerd Ranch

  Seminar , Ruby on Rails Bootcamp , 2006 — 2006

  A week long class led by Marcel Molina Jr. of 37signals and Ruby on Rails core contributor

• University of Southern Maine

  Coursework , Computer Science , 2000 — 2002

  Computer science coursework.

  Activities and Societies:

  Accepted into the University Honors Program

• Southern Maine Community College

  AS , Computer Science , 1998 — 2000

  3.6 Cumulative GPA, Graduated with Honors

  Activities and Societies:

  Inducted into the National Honors Society

Additional Information

Adam Bair’s Websites:

• Working with Rails (WWR)

Adam Bair’s Interests:

Recent Literature . Programming Ruby 2nd Edition - Thomas, Fowler . Agile Web Development 1st Edition with Rails - Thomas, Heinemeier Hansson . Rails Recipes - Fowler . Pragmatic Version Control with Subversion - Mason . Getting Real by 37signals (Fried, Heinemeier Hansson, Molina Jr., et al.) . My Job Went to India: 52 Ways to Save Your Job - Fowler . Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby - whytheluckystiff . The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principals, and Processes - Duyne . Enterprise Integration with Ruby - Schmidt . TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac - Gray II

Adam Bair’s Groups:

•    DCRUG
•    Intridea Inc
•    Rails Rumble Alumni
•    Scalr

Adam Bair’s Honors:

Phi Theta Kappa National Honors Society, 1998-2000