Ryan Sandridge

Current

• Founder/Owner at Sand Ridge Labs, LLC

Past

• Senior Developer at Aha Media, Inc.
• Senior Software Engineer at America Online
• Co-op Programmer Analyst at NewsNet

• Software Programmer at MacLaboratory, Inc.

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Education

• Drexel University
• Mechanicsburg Area Senior High

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Industry

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Ryan Sandridge’s Summary

Ryan Sandridge’s Specialties:

Ruby/Rails

Ryan Sandridge’s Experience

• Founder/Owner

  Sand Ridge Labs, LLC

  (Internet industry)

  May 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  •Contract with Earth Aid Enterprises, LLC (May 2009 - present)
  - One of two developers maintaining earthaid.net
  - Ruby on Rails

• Senior Developer

  Aha Media, Inc.

  (Online Media industry)

  September 2007 — December 2007 (4 months)

  Development of aha.tv on very small team. Primarily development was in Ruby/Rails on the customer facing web application. The Aha application allows curators to create video playlists easily, and automatically, based on sets of criteria and weightings.

• Senior Software Engineer

  America Online

  (Public Company; twx; Internet industry)

  July 1995 — January 2000 (4 years 7 months)

  Designed and programmed many components of AOL Macintosh Client using Metrowerks Codewarrior C++ and application framework PowerPlant. Gained experience integrating 3rd party source code. Experienced projects with heavy team interaction as well as completely individual projects. Participated in development of cross platform prototype of AOL Client. Senior Engineer for AOLTV Client. Developed AOLTV components using vxWorks and Tornado. Expanded knowledge of object oriented design using C++, including modern design patterns. Applications development for MacOS, Win32, BeOS, and vxWorks.

• Co-op Programmer Analyst

  NewsNet

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1993 — June 1995 (1 year 10 months)

  Programmed new routines in C and maintained old FORTRAN routines for online service. Carried projects from design phase through implementation to completion. Participated in team quality assurance by peer code review. Gained experience working on large systems with a team.

• Software Programmer

  MacLaboratory, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 1992 — June 1995 (3 years 4 months)

  Main programmer of HyperCard based product line. Involved in making design decisions. Participated in evaluation of proposals, considering time and implementation. Experimented with new technologies to determine the feasibility of the integration into new and existing product lines.

Ryan Sandridge’s Education

• Drexel University

  B.S. , Physics , 1990 — 1995

  Also completed requirements for a minor in Computer Science.
  
  Cumulative GPA 3.4
  
  Henry S. C. Chen Memorial Award for Physics (1995)
  Awarded to undergraduate physics majors demonstrating excellence in their studies.
  
  Dean's List (Fall 1990, Spring 1993, Fall 1994)

  Activities and Societies:

  Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society

• Mechanicsburg Area Senior High