Ryan Shillington

Current

• Owner at Austin Star Map
• Advisory Engineer at IBM
• Owner at Used Is Better Inc.

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Past

• Technical Lead at Troux
• Technical Lead at Marsh and McLennan
• Software Developer at Trilogy

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Education

• University of Waterloo

Recommended

22 people have recommended Ryan

Connections

271 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Used Is Better
• IBM
• Austin Star Map

Ryan Shillington’s Summary

o 10 years of experience with Java 2 technologies including JSP/Servlets/Custom Tags, Hibernate, J2EE/EJB, Struts, Swing, JDBC, JNI, JNLP, XML, JNDI, Log4j, BEA Weblogic, and Apache/Tomcat
o Experience building client heavy AJAX applications that never need a page reload
o Advocate of software quality “best practices” including estimating, tracking quality metrics, code reads, source control systems (SCS), and automated testing

Ryan Shillington’s Specialties:

Technical Leadership, Java programming, web architecture, software design methodologies

Ryan Shillington’s Experience

• Owner

  Austin Star Map

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)

  October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

• Advisory Engineer

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Services industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

  Responsible for developing new technology for IBM on their Websphere Fabric team.

• Owner

  Used Is Better Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Retail industry)

  December 2003 — Present (6 years )

  Built a profitable business to three employees and over 60,000 customers in three years.
  
  I direct the business strategy and write most of the software. I'm not involved in the day to day operations.

• Technical Lead

  Troux

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 2004 — April 2007 (3 years 3 months)

• Technical Lead

  Marsh and McLennan

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MMC; Insurance industry)

  April 2003 — February 2004 (11 months)

  Worked on two insurrance applications that ballooned in number of users over the short time that I was there.
  
  I was a short term contractor there, not a full-time employee.

• Software Developer

  Trilogy

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — October 2002 (2 years 10 months)

  Developed software to help retail businesses such as Lands' End, Sun and Lennox sell more to their clients. Performed well both as both a developer and as a consultant. Notable achivements include the patented MCC Gold, the well-used Classpathenator, and the XML Loader. Everything I worked on there is, to my knowledge, still in production today.

Additional Information

Ryan Shillington’s Websites:

• Used Is Better
• IBM
• Austin Star Map

Ryan Shillington’s Groups:

Toastmasters
Citizens on Patrol
Pecan Springs Springdale Neighborhood Association (PSSNA)

•    Trilogy Alumni
•    AgileAustin
•    IBM co/ex workers independent group