Adam Fortuna

Current

• Code Ninja at IZEA, Inc.

Past

• Web Developer at Westgate Resorts
• Senior Application Developer at Foreign Currency Exchange
• Web Developer Intern at One Business Place

• PCShowAndTell.com at Macro Developer

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Education

• University of Central Florida

Connections

42 connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company
• My Company

Adam Fortuna’s Summary

Web developer based in Orlando, Florida experienced in a number of web focused languages. In addition to working with these technologies, Adam helps run a usergroup based on Adobe technologies (Adobe Developers of Greater Orlando) and is currently working on a side project using Ruby on Rails. His goal is to create clean, user friendly interfaces that people enjoy using, while keeping HTML and CSS valid and incorporating microformats when applicable.

Adam Fortuna’s Specialties:

Ruby on Rails, ColdFusion, Java, Flex, Javascript, OpenID, identity management, web standards, mapping, internationalization, wordpress and globalization

Adam Fortuna’s Experience

• Code Ninja

  IZEA, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  May 2008 — Present (5 months)

• Web Developer

  Westgate Resorts

  (Financial Services industry)

  February 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 4 months)

  Web developer focusing on Java, ColdFusion, Flex and JRuby on Rails.

• Senior Application Developer

  Foreign Currency Exchange

  (Financial Services industry)

  June 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  ColdFusion, SQL.

• Web Developer Intern

  One Business Place

  (Online Media industry)

  November 2001 — February 2002 (4 months)

  Created and maintained websites in Coldfusion and MSSQL.

• PCShowAndTell.com

  Macro Developer

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Services industry)

  May 1999 — August 2000 (1 year 4 months)

  Initially created how to videos using Iola Macro Magic demonstrating how to do common tasks in widely used PC applications such as MS Word, Powerpoint and Excel. Later on created how to videos in Macromedia Flash 4 with audio and video instructions for using consumer hardware such as cell phones, digital cameras and video cameras.

Adam Fortuna’s Education

• University of Central Florida

  BS, Information Technology, 2000 — 2005

  I initially started as an "Undecided major".
  A week into my first semester I'd changed to "Computer Science".
  Fall of my 2nd year I changed to "Management Information Systems".
  At the end of the summer after my 2nd year I changed to "Information Technology" and stayed with it!

Additional Information

Adam Fortuna’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company
• My Company

Adam Fortuna’s Interests:

Ruby on Rails, Javascript, OpenID, MicroID, Flex, Dance Dance Revolution, Foreign Movies, arcades, gaming, semantic web, traveling, MySQL, high performance websites, web analytics, rss, social media

Adam Fortuna’s Groups:

Adobe Developers of Greater Orlando, Orlando Ruby Users Group, Doterati, Rich Application Developers Of Melbourne

•    IZEA Family
•    doterati

Adam Fortuna’s Honors:

Featured in Business journal while working at PCShowAndTell.
Featured in the Orlando Sentinel for DDRei.com.
Advanced Certification in ColdFusion 7.

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