Online Entrepreneur & Ruby On Rails Consultant
West Palm Beach, Florida Area
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- Founder and President at Sales Tools, Inc.
- President and Consultant at Talcott Systems, LLC
- Past
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- Senior Systems Administrator at Lodging.com
- Senior Software Engineer at Redwood Investment Systems later called Verilytics, Inc.
- Strategic Solutions at Redwood Investments/Verilytics
- Software Engineer at Pubweb, Inc. / Netpaper, Inc.
- Software Engineer/Consultant at Various
- Senior Unix Administrator at Thomson Financial Services
- Unix Administrator at Motorola, Inc.
- Unix Administrator at Florida Atlantic University
- Education
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- Florida Atlantic University
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Steven Talcott Smith’s Summary
I offer a unique combination business and technology expertise with a people-orientation. I am currently a proficient Ruby on Rails developer with a background in Java Development and large scale e-Commerce and enterprise systems administration. I enjoy writing code, as well as sales, support, marketing, technology and business strategy. I am a leader with hands-on horsepower and I enjoy sharing knowledge and cooperating to build great systems. I am an entrepreneur and I am always looking for interesting and lucrative problems to solve.
Steven Talcott Smith’s Specialties:
Ruby on Rails development, web analytics, email-marketing, large scale e-commerce system administration, search engine optimization, real estate data, securities and investment data, perl, java, php, Mac OS X, other UNIX
Steven Talcott Smith’s Experience
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Founder and President
Sales Tools, Inc.
(Internet industry)
February 2005 — Present (4 years 10 months)
Developed Free2ChatNow.com in 2009, renamed company to Sales Tools, Inc. from New Home Construction Search, Inc.
In 2005-2006, Started an online service for real estate agents, newconsearch.com. It allows agents to search for new and pre-construction, email prospects and track new construction in their market area. The system also provides a targeted and trackable advertising channel for real estate developers. With building inventories, developers are increasingly turning to agents and to new sources for qualified buyer leads.
Developed initial product and business plan, funded operations, successfully raised Angel round financing, hired key employees, re-wrote product in Ruby on Rails, executed expansion. -
President and Consultant
Talcott Systems, LLC
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
July 2002 — Present (7 years 5 months)
From late 2006 through present, provided Ruby on Rails development, consulting and mentoring to clients: Bacardi USA, Dow Jones, TrendMicro, and other, smaller clients. Utilized a variety of frameworks and plugins to provide publishing, eCommerce, content-management and back office database management solutions based on Ruby on Rails.
In Spring 2008, developed an open-source Rails-plugin, “Limber,” which provides a code-generation framework to greatly simplify the process of developing Adobe Flex applications that integrate with Ruby on Rails.
In 2004 and 2005, consulted to Orbitz.com and Lodging.com, both units of Cendant Corporation at the time. Provided e-Commerce application and system administration as well as support for offshore software development. Assisted in application migration and support within the Orbitz platform. The application was Lodging.com, a large e-commerce web site executing over 1 million searches and several thousand hotel-bookings per day. -
Senior Systems Administrator
Lodging.com
(Internet industry)
2004 — 2004 (less than a year)
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Senior Software Engineer
Redwood Investment Systems later called Verilytics, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Investment Management industry)
November 1998 — July 2002 (3 years 9 months)
Helped design core analytics product, managed Putnam Investments account, consulted as lead developer on a massive portfolio construction system using the BARRA risk models, supported sales efforts, helped recruit key employees.
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Strategic Solutions
Redwood Investments/Verilytics
(Internet industry)
1998 — 2002 (4 years )
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Software Engineer
Pubweb, Inc. / Netpaper, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)
February 1998 — November 1998 (10 months)
Excelled as member of small startup software development team. Developed java servlet-based web interface to a distributed print-on-demand, content-management system.
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Software Engineer/Consultant
Various
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Investment Management industry)
December 1996 — February 1998 (1 year 3 months)
Provided software consulting and development services for various organizations including John Hancock, Private Healthcare Systems, CSG Systems and Levi Strauss. Project work included Data Warehouse deployments, website development and refactoring of legacy reporting systems.
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Senior Unix Administrator
Thomson Financial Services
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Investment Management industry)
October 1995 — December 1996 (1 year 3 months)
Ran entire production UNIX domain for several Thomson businesses. Provided 24x7 troubleshooting support of network operations while deploying new software and systems as well as managing required backups and maintainence.
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Unix Administrator
Motorola, Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
June 1993 — October 1995 (2 years 5 months)
Provided 24x7 software and hardware support of production factory automation environment as well as support for automation software development and tooling design. Motorola SVR4 UNIX, Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX, and Uniflex.
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Unix Administrator
Florida Atlantic University
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
June 1990 — June 1993 (3 years 1 month)
Supported Unix Systems for the Computer Science department. Prior - supported Unix for Physics and Mechanical Engineering, provided PC network support campuswide.
Steven Talcott Smith’s Education
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Florida Atlantic University
Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy August 1991 — May 1995
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Steven Talcott Smith’s Groups:
MIT Enterprise Forum of South Florida (Fire Circle for Entrepreneurs), Gold Coast Venture Capital Association, Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce
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