
Senior Software Engineer, Ruby on Rails
Greater San Diego Area

Senior Software Engineer, Ruby on Rails
Greater San Diego Area
As a web developer I thrive on helping to discover and shape the vision and scope of an application based on the needs of its users. I enjoy participating on all levels of a project life cycle, from concept and planning through implementation to final deployment and user testing.
Agile development methodologies, brainstorming, code quality, cloud computing, Linux, non-profit organizations, Ruby, Rails, semantic web, server administration, strategic planning, test-driven development, web design and development, web development workflow
(Computer Software industry)
September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
Have worked with over a dozen clients to date in producing a range of websites, from the quick, focused and pragmatic all the way up to sophisticated social networks and online business ventures.
(Religious Institutions industry)
April 2004 — Present (5 years 8 months)
Developing web-based tools to inform, connect and equip missionaries and the church.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
May 2009 — November 2009 (7 months)
Responsible for delivering several major subsystems on a $1.5M intranet application developed for a Fortune 500 company. Drove implementation phases of user homepage/dashboard functionality, working closely with members of a small team to ultimately release on time and under budget. Deployed multi-role staging and production server clusters using automated configuration management and custom server provisioning tools.
(Religious Institutions industry)
May 2008 — December 2008 (8 months)
Building an online community that connects like-minded individuals around their shared experiences and passions within their church and city.
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
September 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 4 months)
Java web development building semantic web tools to store and manage digital library collections.
(Educational Institution; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2004 — March 2005 (6 months)
Set up an internal wiki for our group and wrote a lot of technical documentation and a few administrative scripts.
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2002 — October 2004 (2 years )
B.A. , Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts and Music, Minor in Computer Science , 2001 — 2005
My first two years were spent studying Mathematics and Computer Science, but I found ICAM to be a much better blend of the creativity and abstract thinking required for successful web development. A minor in CS helped supplement and formalize the passion I have for programming and technology.
Art and technology, backpacking, Christianity, elegant design, foreign cultures, globalization, Jesus, literature, music, my rad friends and family, scuba diving, snowboarding, technology and the church, thunderstorms, Unix one-liners, web development
Vineyard Christian Fellowship
UCSD — Best of ICAM, 2005