
Technical Evangelist at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area

Technical Evangelist at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area
My interests are varied and my dedication is focused. Over the past several years, I've participated in every level of development in web applications from conception to execution, building quality software with Ruby on Rails including a popular online reservations system (Partywirks), and a successful social network for people abroad learning English as a second language (English, baby!).
After being part of the Light Engineering team bringing you LinkedIn Mobile, I now find myself as LinkedIn's Technical Evangelist-- helping to spread and integrate our fantastic APIs and our OpenSocial implementation.
In my free time I play with analogue synthesizers, write poetry and fiction, play video games, and tinker with reality.
"Look at my hair; like the design. It's the truth!" - David Byrne
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, REST, AJAX, OpenSocial, Perl, Object-Oriented Programming, rSpec, the internets
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
April 2008 — Present (7 months)
Bringing the Intelligent Application Platform and OpenSocial to our valued members outside and inside LinkedIn.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2007 — April 2008 (7 months)
I was part of the Light Engineering Team at LinkedIn, building things with Ruby on Rails.
* LinkedIn Mobile. http://m.linkedin.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 2 months)
Building next-generation on-line reservations business solutions in Ruby on Rails.
Partywirks - http://www.partywirks.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Contributed to higher education software products and English, baby! http://www.englishbaby.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 2 months)
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Law Practice industry)
2002 — 2003 (1 year)
Filed Legal Briefings, Desktop Support, Reception
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year)
Maintained data integration between online college applications and student information databases.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years)
Maintained data integration between online college applications and student information databases.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Restaurants industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
Served beverages and food
Hosted Open Mic
Liberal Studies 2002 — 2003
Creative Writing 1998 — 2002
Creative Writing, Theater 1996 — 1998
internet engineering, ruby on rails, music, social networking, writing, computer-aided arts, computer-generated art, web development
OSCON 2006