Robert Melton

Current

Lead Developer at Eagle Publishing
Owner at Labrat Technology

Past

CTO / Lead Developer at TelcoIQ
Senior Developer (Import Lead) at Revolution Health Group
Senior Software Developer at Suprtek

Software Developer at Xram

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Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Connections

53 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

My Website

Robert Melton’s Summary

I am looking for a senior or lead developer position on a small development team that focuses on highly dynamic web applications. I am seeking a team where I can leverage my multilingual programming background and enhance the team with my tool and process optimization skills. A role where I am instrumental in bringing about organizational change is considered a plus.

Robert Melton’s Specialties:

My specialty is being a generalist, with a focus on SOA (WebMethods) and interoperability. Large datasets (Terabyte+) imports and munging.

Robert Melton’s Experience

Lead Developer

Eagle Publishing

(Computer Software industry)

December 2007 — Present (2 years )

As the Lead Developer at Eagle Publishing, I am involved in the maintenance and feature upgrades to 70+ sites including HumanEvents.com and Redstate.com. My primary role is that of a developer, but I am also the primary mover on technical decisions including: version control, staffing decision, language, database, coding standards, documentation standards and testing standards. I manage one full time developer and one consultant on monthly retainer, as well as having a high degree of integration with the rest of the IT operations team.
Owner

Labrat Technology

(Computer Software industry)

January 2003 — Present (6 years 11 months)

As the President and founder of Labrat Technology, my tasks included everything involved in running a business, from accounting, to payroll, to doing contracting work myself. I maintained this position while working for other companies until it came into conflict with the hiring rules at Revolution Health.
CTO / Lead Developer

TelcoIQ

(Computer Software industry)

September 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 2 months)

As the Lead Developer at Technology Brokerage Group, I was involved in managing and supporting a few basic sites, and a single complex application. Technical decision making included: language, database, coding standards, documentation standards, testing standards, hardware platform, hosting platform, backup platform and most other IT related decisions.
Senior Developer (Import Lead)

Revolution Health Group

(Privately Held; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

May 2006 — October 2006 (6 months)

As a Senior Developer at Revolution Health, my primary task was to build out the data import system. This included dealing with third party providers of articles, videos, imaging, indexing, and other features. This was a part of the CMS teams tasks.
Senior Software Developer

Suprtek

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2003 — May 2006 (3 years 5 months)

As a Senior Developer at Superlative Technology, my tasks were astoundingly varied and depended on the contract/clients needs. My primary roll was a Senior Developer on a small team of 2-6, but at times, I acted as a lead developer on teams as large as 18 people.
Software Developer

Xram

(Computer Hardware industry)

October 2000 — January 2003 (2 years 4 months)

As a developer at Expanse Memory, I started out as an in-house developer, but transitioned out to being a consultant. My position would later be transferred over to Superlative Technology.

Robert Melton’s Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Computer Science 2000 — 2001

Additional Information

Robert Melton’s Websites:

My Website

Robert Melton’s Interests:

SOA, WebMethods, Large Datasets, Web-Callbacks, Politics, Philosophy, Minimalism, SCRUM, Agile Methods, Flavor of the Week Hobby Language (Scala), New Media