Web Technologist
Jacksonville, Florida Area
- Current
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- Business Manager at Hashrocket
- Past
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- Product Manager at Koders, Inc
- Vice President / COO at VyMed Data Services
- Sr. Software Engineer at Symantec
- Sr. Software Engineer at AMA (Analytical Mechanics Associates)
- Sr Software Engineer at Clarifi (formally Sengent)
- Sr Software Engineer at Xcelerate
- Software Engineer Intern at Telinet
- Education
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- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Stanton College Prep
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Ben McDonald’s Summary
I am helping a great group of developers start up a consulting company in my home town of Jacksonville. I use to be a part of a software company that provides other software developers products to search their own source code base. I have also been involved in the design and implementation of many enterprise software projects, included a financial modeling software application that is used primarily in hedge funds to perform technical analysis of historical trends in the stock market, security software for the Symantec Anti-Spam appliance, security software for the Microsoft ISA server.
Ben McDonald’s Specialties:
Ruby on Rails (only type of job I will take), C#, .NET, Java, C++, HTML, project management, Struts, user interfaces
Ben McDonald’s Experience
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Business Manager
Hashrocket
(Internet industry)
February 2008 — Present (9 months)
Helping Obie Fernandez grow out a unique work force of experienced software engineers using best of breed technologies such as Ruby on Rails to help clients realize their web application dreams.
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Product Manager
Koders, Inc
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 8 months)
Product management for the Professional and Enterprise Edition products.
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Vice President / COO
VyMed Data Services
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Medical Devices industry)
October 2005 — August 2006 (11 months)
Responsible for developing the company from the ground up.
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Sr. Software Engineer
Symantec
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SYMC; Computer Software industry)
December 2003 — October 2005 (1 year 11 months)
Design and Implement security software for enterprise products to filter an organizations emails and websites from spam, viruses and other malicious content.
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Sr. Software Engineer
AMA (Analytical Mechanics Associates)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2003 — December 2003 (5 months)
Consulted NASA engineers, by helping to create a web-based workflow system that helped manage the engineering tasks associated with creating the next space launch vehical (space shuttle).
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Sr Software Engineer
Clarifi (formally Sengent)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2001 — August 2003 (2 years 1 month)
Designed and implemented software to provide finacial intelligence to the hedge funds.
Designed and implemented distributed software to provide finacial intelligence to the masses. -
Sr Software Engineer
Xcelerate
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 1999 — August 2001 (2 years 1 month)
Consulted several companies on how to take their brick and morter companies to the web.
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Software Engineer Intern
Telinet
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years)
Implemented software for a web based multi-media mailing system. Allowed for aggregation of faxes, email, and voice mail into a central location and provided access in a combination of those formats. Emails could be read to you over the phone, voice mails were stored as digital audio and placed in your email inbox.
Ben McDonald’s Education
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Georgia Institute of Technology
BS, Computer Science, August 1994 — August 1999
- Activities and Societies:
- Lambda Chi Alpha, IFC, FASET Orientation
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Stanton College Prep
HS, High School, 1988 — 1994
Additional Information
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Ben McDonald’s Interests:
soccer, golf, tennis, new technology
Ben McDonald’s Groups:
RubyJax, Lambda Chi Alpha, Friends of Virginia Weslyan
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Georgia Tech Business Network -
Ruby on Rails -
Test Driven Development
Ben McDonald’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
