Technologist, Author, & Entrepreneur
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Owner at Earthcode Studios
- Partner at Highgroove Studios
- Past
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- Director of Product Development at SV Technology
- Engineering Lead at Colarity (Centerwheel Corp)
- Consultant at Accenture (Andersen Consulting)
- Consultant at Accenture
- Education
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- University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
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Andre Lewis’s Summary
I am available for consulting and training. I focus on Ruby on Rails and Ajax, although I'm well versed in many technologies. I have a particular interest in geospatial web applications, and my book is Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax, available from Apress (ISBN: 1-59059-787-7).
Andre Lewis’s Specialties:
Technically, I currently focus on Ruby on Rails, Ajax, and geospatial technologies. Lots of experience in Enterprise-level multi-tier architectures, Java Enterprise, Object-Oriented design and development, datamodeling, algorithms, SQL stored procs, full-text search technologies (primarily Verity K2 search)
Andre Lewis’s Experience
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Owner
Earthcode Studios
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
July 2006 — Present (2 years 6 months)
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Partner
Highgroove Studios
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Our accomplished team does consulting, development, and training focused on Ruby on Rails, Ajax, and mapping. We also walk the walk with cutting-edge products coming out of our Innovation Labs.
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Director of Product Development
SV Technology
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
2003 — February 2006 (3 years)
- Improved release timeliness and predictability; delivered all three major releases on schedule.
- Reformulated teams to better align with business demands.
- Managed a team of 8 engineers.
- Instituted improved design and product specifications process. -
Engineering Lead
Colarity (Centerwheel Corp)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2002 (3 years)
- Lead teams of developers (up to 10) to consistently meet deadlines with outstanding quality
- Designed and built major portions of Colarity’s web application in Java, Cold Fusion, and Microsoft SQL Server
- Designed and built a caching architecture that increased Colarity’s web application capacity by 4X and decreased average page response time by 75%. Application supported 1.5 million pageviews/day with 1 million registered users -
Consultant
Accenture (Andersen Consulting)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years)
- Provided technical consulting for large Telecoms -- Pacific Bell, AT&T Wireless, Iridium, Celcom Malaysia
- PacBell: Implemented Netcool network monitoring package to facilitate fault level management of PacBell’s 911 and FastPacket data networks.
- Iridium LLC: Built components of Message Processing System for world’s first satellite-based wireless service provider. Team lead & developer.
- Celcom Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur). Customized Message Processing asset for leading Malaysian wireless service provider. Roles included data architect, technical architect for UCT middleware, and coordinator for system rollout plan. -
Consultant
Accenture
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years)
Andre Lewis’s Education
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University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
BS,BA, Computer Science, Philosophy, 1992 — 1996
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