Steven Holloway

Past

• Lead Developer - Ruby on Rails at Six Figures International
• Lead Software Developer - Ruby on Rails at Six Figures
• Independent Software Developer at Steven Holloway Technical Consulting

• Web Programmer at City of Cairns
• Ruby Programmer at Futurecorp Group
• IT Techincal Officer at James Cook Univerisity - Cairns - Faculty of Science and Engineering

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Working with Rails
• My Blog
• AT&T Williams F1

Steven Holloway’s Summary

Professional software developer working primarily within the web space with Ruby on Rails.
Building an array of different apps from GIS data pooling to simple content managed web sites to high profile, large scale media intensive websites.
Promoting the use of OS X and Linux.
Cocoa & RubyCocoa Development on OS X
Cross platform development with Ruby

Steven Holloway’s Specialties:

Ruby, Rails, Python, PHP, Javascript, SQL, VB, ASP, CSS, HTML
Unix (and variants Linux, OS X, BSD), Windows, Novell Systems administrator
Graphic Design Photoshop, Fireworks

Steven Holloway’s Experience

• Lead Developer - Ruby on Rails

  Six Figures International

  (Computer Software industry)

  2008 — May 2009 (1 year)

• Lead Software Developer - Ruby on Rails

  Six Figures

  (Privately Held; Online Media industry)

  March 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 2 months)

  Behaviour / Test driven development with Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Seleniunm, Prototype/Lowpro. Agile XP process, Story driven project management.
  Development and maintenance of a niche job board
  aimed at the six figure salary market.

• Independent Software Developer

  Steven Holloway Technical Consulting

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2008 — March 2008 (3 months)

  Web Application Development with Ruby on Rails in the Melbourne Australia Area. Currently working on a family oriented social network.

• Web Programmer

  City of Cairns

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  November 2007 — 2008 (1 year)

  PHP Javascript SQL HTML Programming.

• Ruby Programmer

  Futurecorp Group

  (Internet industry)

  October 2006 — July 2007 (10 months)

  Developing Rails ( PHP & Python ) apps for high profile clients from the media industry.

• IT Techincal Officer

  James Cook Univerisity - Cairns - Faculty of Science and Engineering

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  March 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 11 months)

  Network Management - Novell Directory Server, Mac OS X Server, Windows, Mac and Linux Clients, PC & Server Hardware. GIS Lab managment (ESRI Software).
  Software Development - Development of Intranet utilities with PHP Rails and MySQL,
  Custom applications developed for PhD students and academic researchers in the sciences area.
  Graphic Design - Created posters and leaflets for Faculty marketing campaigns and events.

Additional Information

Steven Holloway’s Websites:

• Working with Rails
• My Blog
• AT&T Williams F1

Steven Holloway’s Interests:

Programming, Web Development, Databases, OS X, Linux, BSD, Cocoa, Ruby, Python. Smalltalk, Objective-C. Music Production, Composition and Peformance, DJ-ing, Sound Sculpture. Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Pure Data, Max/MSP, Digital and Analogue Synths Cycling, Yoga, Kung Fu (Wing Chun, Tai Chi Chuan, Chow Ga)

Steven Holloway’s Honors:

In 2006 I won a competitive scholarship (based on my programming experience) from the Apple University Consortium to attend Apple Computer's World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco.

Steven Holloway’s Contact Settings

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