Patrick Tulskie

Current

• Sr. Software Engineer at BeenVerified
• Technical Mastermind at Twexaminer

Past

• IT Data Security at Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
• IT Help Desk at Reader's Digest Association, Inc.

Education

• Pace University
• Pace University-Pleasantville/Briarcliff Campus

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My RSS feed

Patrick Tulskie’s Summary

Patrick has had exposure to nearly all aspects of professional computing from full time infrastructure to freelancing in web application development and design. This wide range of exposure makes Patrick a jack of all trades with an ability to rapidly master a set of skills for the task at hand.

More recently, Patrick has made the transition from full time IT Data Security to Software Engineering. He loves writing Ruby both in his free time and in the office. When he's not writing code, he's probably learning how to increase his efficiency and improve his bag of tricks.

Patrick is also a pretty regular blogger (www.PatrickTulskie.com), tweeter, and general social networker. Amongst his blog posts and tweets, you'll be sure to find commentary and observations about the social networking scene in addition to a fair amount of developer "stuff." He loves meeting people and staying in contact. He is not what you'd call a bridge burner in any way. If you'd like to talk with Patrick then just shoot him a message and I'm sure you'll have a great exchange.

Patrick Tulskie’s Specialties:

Due to Patrick's diverse background, you'll find that he can jump into many different discussions and help form ideas. While he's done his fair share of graphics design and IT infrastructure he is also fairly well versed at software development. He's had experience in several langauges ranging from Ruby and Python, to the popular Java, even down to some minimal experience with the Mac-centric Objective C.

Patrick Tulskie’s Experience

• Sr. Software Engineer

  BeenVerified

  (Security and Investigations industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Working on a small team, building and enhancing BeenVerified.com. Responsibilities range from cutting up designs into new pages in HTML, CSS, and JS, building new pieces of the Rails application, writing Ruby libraries and plugins, creating a suite of tests using Test::Unit and Selenium for acceptance testing, mastering search engine optimization techniques, moving long running tasks to DelayedJob, and implementing page caching and database optimization for load-time-critical pages.

• Technical Mastermind

  Twexaminer

  (Computer Software industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  Twexaminer is a Ruby on Rails application that examines users on Twitter. It is a very early beta but the road map consists of automatic new follower email handling, storage of users and their attributes, and more concrete recommendations as to whether or not a user should be followed, blocked, or just ignored. The road map is obviously much more expansive than this but it is not published for competition sake.
  
  Further expansion on the project is aimed at other social services such as Facebook, Identi.ca, Pownce, and others. It puts the users in control of what should be classified as spam or a golden user so as to have a much higher confidence rating among its user base.
  
  This project is not being funded at this time.

• IT Data Security

  Reader's Digest Association, Inc.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RDA; Publishing industry)

  June 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 4 months)

  Responsible for ID and rights management, ID compliance, building tools to ease administration, penetration testing, network analysis, Cisco router and firewall ACL changes, wireless accesspoint setup and monitoring, and other "in the moment" security related items.

• IT Help Desk

  Reader's Digest Association, Inc.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

  September 2004 — June 2006 (1 year 10 months)

  Worked in the help desk providing support on the phone or in person. Was responsible for asset tracking, support escalation, new software testing, and implementation of piece of software so that the Macs could chat on Sametime.

Patrick Tulskie’s Education

• Pace University

  MS , Software Engineering and Design , 2007 — 2009

  Seidenberg Outstanding Student of the Year

  Activities and Societies:

  Global Software Development Project 2008, Whatever You Say (http://github.com/PatrickTulskie/whatever_you_say)

• Pace University-Pleasantville/Briarcliff Campus

  CS , Computer Science , 2003 — 2007

Additional Information

Patrick Tulskie’s Websites:

• My Website
• My RSS feed

Patrick Tulskie’s Interests:

new technology, programming, social media, web development, GTD, community growth, blogging

Patrick Tulskie’s Groups:

•    Pace University Alumni,Faculty, Staff and Students
•    Ruby on Rails
•    Digest Connect
•    Tweeple

Patrick Tulskie’s Honors:

Pace University - Dean's List

Patrick Tulskie’s Contact Settings

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