Software Craftsman
Columbus, Ohio Area
- Current
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- Software Consultant at Obtiva
- Consultant at Self Employed
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- Consultant - Software Developer at JPMorgan Chase
- Contractor - Software Developer at Nationwide Children's Research Institute
- Developer at Braintree Payment Solutions
- Code Samurai at EdgeCase
- Systems Administrator at 3z.net, a PCD Company
- IT Specialist at Goodwill Industries of the Southern Rivers
- Computer Programmer / Systems Engineer at Trinity Data Solutions
- Education
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- North Florida Community College
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Ryan Briones’s Summary
Ryan Carmelo Briones is a technologist with almost a decade of software development and systems administration experience. A passion to improve his craft has driven Ryan to become a advocate of pragmatic thinking, value-driven project management and the open source community.
Ryan Briones’s Specialties:
Web Application Development, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rack, JavaScript, Objective-C, Cocoa, PHP, Perl, System Administration, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Apache, Passenger
Ryan Briones’s Experience
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Software Consultant
Obtiva
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
November 2009 — Present (1 month)
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Consultant
Self Employed
(Computer Software industry)
2002 — Present (7 years )
http://brionesandco.com/ryanbriones/work
Consultant/Contractor services in the areas of custom software development (Ruby, PHP, Perl, .NET), systems administration (Linux, Unix, OpenBSD, Windows Server) and network administration (firewalls, Cisco, network installation, security)
Speaking Engagements:
* "Introduction to Ruby Web Frameworks" - OSCON 2008
* "Commanding Your SSH Universe with Capistrano" - OSCON 2008 -
Consultant - Software Developer
JPMorgan Chase
(Public Company; JPM; Banking industry)
June 2009 — November 2009 (6 months)
Maintenance and new development of a bank internal Ruby on Rails application backed by an Oracle database.
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Contractor - Software Developer
Nationwide Children's Research Institute
(Non-Profit; Hospital & Health Care industry)
February 2009 — April 2009 (3 months)
Port of a Java EE application to JRuby on Rails. Consulted on a UX and workflow redesign of the application. Both applications backed by Oracle.
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Developer
Braintree Payment Solutions
(Financial Services industry)
October 2008 — January 2009 (4 months)
Developed proprietary Internet-based PCI compliant payment and secure data storage solutions.
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Code Samurai
EdgeCase
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
August 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 3 months)
Developed software for clients with a primary focus on Ruby and Ruby on Rails-based applications. Aid in direction and maintenance of key server infrastructure including application staging environments, customer production environments, version control repositories using Git and Subversion and application deployment using Capistrano.
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Systems Administrator
3z.net, a PCD Company
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2006 — March 2007 (7 months)
Helped maintain a mixed datacenter of Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003 servers running Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange 2000 and 2003 for which the majority of customers use Citrix or Microsoft Terminal Services to access mission-critical applications and data. Assist on a few Redhat Linux machines used for POP3 email, DNS and web hosting. Daily duties include server and software maintenance, managing data backups and escalated troubleshooting and tech support. Some WMI, ADSI and system scripting, leveraging Win32 extensions in Ruby or using VBscript, in order to streamline procedures or collect data.
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IT Specialist
Goodwill Industries of the Southern Rivers
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 8 months)
Served as an IT technician for a retail-oriented non-profit organization with 15 locations spread over 400+ miles of southern Georgia. Redesigned and maintained network infrastructure for all locations using Cisco PIX 501 and LinksysVPN firewalls with the goal of centralized administration over standard Internet connections. Participated in choosing a new Point of Sale software, designing an all-in-one touchscreen point of sale system and Windows XP deployment configuration that allowed for a swift transition. Handled all helpdesk support.
Key Projects and Accomplishments
* Built a web-based sales data acquisition application using PHP and Microsoft SQL Server. This application allowed retail stores to take file exported from the old point of sale program in Microsoft Excel format into a centralized database. The application also included a set of specialized reports that allowed managers up to the VP level to streamline their sales and production processes.
* Replaced about 90% of all hardware with new, standardized PCs and specially designed point of sale systems. -
Computer Programmer / Systems Engineer
Trinity Data Solutions
(Computer Networking industry)
November 2001 — August 2002 (10 months)
Served as the lead developer on a project to build a content filtering product that would allow users of this ISP to have their web surfing filtered from inappropriate content. Other day to day duties included administering application servers for clients with hosted websites and handling a small amount of ISP technical support issues.
Developed a system that acts as a transparent content filter between ISP users and the Internet. This system used 100% open source tools including OpenBSD, Squid Web Proxy Cache, Perl, PHP and MySQL. Perl was used as a system administration glue including scripts data acquisition, data collection and email alerts. Initially Perl was also used to provide a web front-end, but ended up as PHP. The MySQL database contained 1,000,000+ records and grew exponentially every day.
Ryan Briones’s Education
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North Florida Community College
AA , 2002 — 2003
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Ryan Briones’s Groups:
Rethink Columbus, Columbus Ruby Brigade, Cincinnati Agile Roundtable
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