
Ruby on Rails Developer
Washington D.C. Metro Area

Ruby on Rails Developer
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Jonathan is an independent software consultant currently located in Baltimore, MD. His 14-year professional software development career includes small start-ups as well as large Fortune 500 companies. In 2007, after almost 10 years shackled by Java web and backend development, Jonathan freed himself and began working with Ruby on Rails. His strongest skills lie in agile development, code simplicity, team leadership, and user interface design and usability. Through his company, Federal Hill Technology, he is available for projects large and small - preferably developing cutting-edge web applications using Ruby on Rails.
Ruby, Rails, UI design, UX design, Ajax, system architecture, web standards, RESTful web services, team leadership, agile development methodologies
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Ruby on Rails, Ajax, web standards, Oracle, MySQL, capistrano, rspec, mod_passenger, apache, gruff, svn, OSX
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
2001 — October 2007 (6 years)
Web application design, architecture and construction. Java, J2EE, JSP, JSTL, Struts, EJB, BEA WebLogic. Web design, XHTML/CSS, AJAX, Javascript, web standards. Red Hat Linux, UNIX, Apache, open source software, team leadership, agile development methodologies.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years)
Web application design and construction, Java, JSP, EJB, BEA WebLogic, Sybase, Linux
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2001 (less than a year)
Web application construction. Java, J2EE, JSP, JDBC.
(Public Company; E-Learning industry)
2001 — 2001 (less than a year)
Web application tuning and maintenence. J2EE, BEA WebLogic
(Public Company; Hospital & Health Care industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years)
Client-server application. Microsoft C++, C, UNIX, Java, Informix
(Defense & Space industry)
1994 — 1996 (2 years)
Client-server applications. C, UNIX, Motif, Oracle
BS, Computer Science, 1989 — 1993