Coby Randquist

Current

• Executive Director Web Development at AT&T Interactive
• Organizer at LA Ruby Conference
• Partner at Confreaks, LLC

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Recommended

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Connections

492 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog
• Confreaks, LLC
• LA Ruby Conf

Coby Randquist’s Summary

I am a Technology Manager/Architect with full software development life cycle (SDLC) experience. I have been working in the IT Industry for over 20 years, with experience in Online Media, Construction Accounting, Financial Services, Mortgage Lending, Automotive financing and research, intranet technologies, CRM, Order Processing, data mining, warehousing and web-based technologies.

I have managed teams ranging from three to 23 members, including Software Development/Engineering, Quality Assurance, Network Operations, and Business Analysts/Requirements disciplines.

Coby Randquist’s Specialties:

Team Leadership, Budget and Expense control, Project Management, Estimates, building collaboration between business and technology.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, C++, C#, VB .NET, VB6, ASP.NET, ASP, T-SQL, PLSQL, SQLite, MySQL, MS SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9, XML, XSLT, HTML, DHTML, VBScript, Javascript, MS Project, MS Office Automation, Windows NT, 2000, 2003 Server Administration.

Coby Randquist’s Experience

• Executive Director Web Development

  AT&T Interactive

  (Public Company; T; Internet industry)

  May 2009 — Present (7 months)

  Responsible for overseeing development of YELLOWPAGES.COM, yp.com, attinteractive.com, and other web-site properties owned and operated by AT&T Interactive for Consumers.
  
  Managing engineering of five engineering teams to create and maintain the above sites. Technology focus on Ruby and Rails and additional tools and frameworks to support those technologies.
  
  We use an adapted agile methodology, and work closely with our product teams and quality assurance teams which are an integral part of our process. Quality is built in from the start with QA and Test Automation being involved from ideation through product delivery and extended maintenance.

• Organizer

  LA Ruby Conference

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Organizing the second annual LA Ruby Conference to be held in February of 2010. The first conference was in April of 2009 and went very well.
  
  See http://www.larubyconf.com for more details.

• Partner

  Confreaks, LLC

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

  Confreaks was established to provide audo/video services for capturing the experience that is had while attending a conference. Doesn't matter if the conference is about technology, investments, education, etc... we can provide a capable staff to record and preserve the event.

Additional Information

Coby Randquist’s Websites:

• My Blog
• Confreaks, LLC
• LA Ruby Conf

Coby Randquist’s Groups:

LARuby, URUG (Utah Ruby Users Group; http://www.urug.org), slc.rb, Phi Beta Lambda, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery; http://www.acm.org/), Ruby Community

•    Executive Suite
•    Ruby on Rails
•    Web Standards Design + Development
•    RoR (Ruby on Rails) Open Source Network
•    Rubyists
•    AT&T Employee Alumni
•    LARuby
•    Official RailsConf Group
•    UK Ruby On Rails (RoR) JOBS
•    Sales and Marketing Professionals Promoting HighTech and Technology in Los Angeles and its Vicinity
•    MOBILELANCE - mobilelance.groupsite.com