Information Technology Consultant
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Information Technology Consultant
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Project manager with solid technical background and skills. Experience building business applications in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Perl, Visual Basic, and Java. Degree's in Economics and Political Science, lived and worked in southeast Asia for two years. General interests include international development, languages, human rights and SCUBA diving.
Web applications, south-east asia, project management, software development, training, general management
(Education Management industry)
August 2008 — Present (4 months)
Ruby on Rails Web Developer, turning business needs into a state-of-the-art web application, scaling to thousands of users.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2007 — April 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Using state-of-the-art Agile development processes based around the Ruby on Rails framework, worked as part of a distributed team to develop a cross-organization collaborative application for Near-Time Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
July 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 6 months)
(Privately Held; Public Policy industry)
November 2006 — March 2007 (5 months)
Designed and created corporate infrastructure and survey research applications.
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
June 2006 — July 2006 (2 months)
-Assisted with various PHP and server administration tasks
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; International Affairs industry)
January 2004 — April 2006 (2 years 4 months)
- Created Software Project Management curriculum for Philippine Department Of Science and Technology Region 7.
- Designed and conducted multilingual seminars on Software Project Management, PHP web programming, Linux, and basic business management to government and non-government organizations in the Philippines.
- Managed daily activities of the Open Source Computer Security Lab in Cebu City. Responsibilities included directing a multi-cultural four-person staff and approximately 170 on-the-job trainees.
- Revised systems analysis and design for SME.Net project, cresulting in a 1.5 million peso grant from the Canadian Government to local NGO. SME.Net provides an on-line E-commerce portal, training, and export assistance to 20 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the region.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 4 months)
- Provided consulting services to several organizations involved in small-scale E-commerce projects. Developed and marketed the first Open Source PHP-based wedding registry software.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2002 — October 2002 (10 months)
- Initiated and coordinated E-commerce web application development projects for small to mid-sized companies and non-profit organizations.
- Acted as liaison between customers and developers. Managed small teams of developers as well as external contractors.
- Responsible for sales, pricing, and quote construction for projects. Communicated directly with potential and established customers. Assisted in development of in-house project management and workflow system.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 4 months)
- Developed applications using Perl, Python, PHP, Visual Basic 6.0 Visual Basic, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and XML.
- Managed and maintained Windows NT/2000, Linux, and FreeBSD based operating systems. Installed, configured and administrated MySQL and Oracle database systems.
- Independently designed and developed software applications for inventory management, on-line shopping, search and indexing, database management, and QuickBooks integration.
1996 — 2000
International Development, Technology, SCUBA diving, Visayan and Arabic language, the Philippines, human rights
Triangle Scuba
Triangle Ruby on Rails (TriROR)
Triangle PHP Users Group (TriPUG)
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Association