Scott Francis

Current

• Web Developer at Yakima Herald-Republic

Past

• Java Developer at Expeditors International
• Undergraduate Technical Intern at Intel Corporation

Education

• Washington State University

Connections

31 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Scott Francis’s Summary

I'm an experienced software developer currently specializing in web-applications, with an interest in customized client-centric applications development.

As an eager surveyor of new technology and development environments, I'm often asked to evaluate and recommend new tools and practices (the full report will be on your desk by the end of the week, still smoking from the last lab explosion).

For bigger problems, I'm an analytical and methodical worker with an engineer mindset, and reputation for thinking through problems. I always try to leave projects in a better state than when I found them.

Scott Francis’s Specialties:

Software development, focusing on user-interface development, web application development and server administration

Scott Francis’s Experience

• Web Developer

  Yakima Herald-Republic

  (Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

  • Development of in-house content-management-system, "Depot Central", using Ruby on Rails. Depot Central currently used for Yakima Herald-Republic website, and is being evaluated for use at a fellow local newspaper.
  • Administration of OSX Server 10.4 to support Yakima-Herald.com and other local hosted websites. Extensive use of Macports, Apache, Phusion Passenger, Mongrel, and Bash scripting.
  • Various minor development tasks, including assistance with Wordpress installation/maintenance.

• Java Developer

  Expeditors International

  (Public Company; EXPD; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

  June 2002 — February 2007 (4 years 9 months)

  • Web-application development with Java SE platform 1.4 utilizing Apache Tomcat and Tapestry. Responsible for custom applications to update internal databases and perform data synchronization between remote company branches.
  • Secondary tasks included maintenance of template files for Adobe Central Output Server in addition to SOAP API linking Central to document-generation system. Frequently called upon to troubleshoot external documents against Adobe PDF spec.

• Undergraduate Technical Intern

  Intel Corporation

  (Public Company; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

  June 1999 — August 1999 (3 months)

  Responsible for black-box testing of IPEAK Graphics Performance Toolkit, OpenGL version. Performed general use-case tests, in addition to recommending specific OpenGL software for use in further tests.

Scott Francis’s Education

• Washington State University

  1997 — 2001

Additional Information

Scott Francis’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Scott Francis’s Interests:

Animation, music, scripting languages, graphic layout, game development

Scott Francis’s Groups:

•    Alumni of Washington State University

Scott Francis’s Honors:

BSA Eagle Scout, Dale Carnegie Training (2002)

Scott Francis’s Contact Settings

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