Wes Hays
MortarStone.com
- Location
- Reno, Nevada Area
- Industry
- Computer Software
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Wes Hays's Overview
- Current
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- Owner, Founder at Great Basin Solutions, LLC
- Past
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- Director of Information Technology at modeLaw, LLC
- Director of Technology, CASAT at University of Nevada Reno
- Senior Web Application Engineer/System Administrator, CASAT at University of Nevada, Reno
- Java Developer at Bally Gaming
- PHP Developer at modeMD, Inc.
- Help Desk Technician at University of Nevada, Reno
- Education
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- University of Nevada-Reno
- Recommendations
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3 people have recommended Wes
- Connections
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101 connections
- Websites
Wes Hays' Summary
Web application developer, system administrator, and project manager in a wide variety of business applications. Particularly interested in web application and database design using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL. I prefer my development environment be a mac and that my servers run linux (CentOS). I am always interested in startups that offer stock options.
Past experience with a team of programmers and graphic artists on various components of web application development utilizing Linux, Apache, Mongrel, Capistrano, Ruby on Rails, PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
Completed Zend Certified Engineer exam in May 2005.
Specialties
Operating Systems: Mac OS X, Linux (CentOS, SuSE, RedHat, Kabuntu, Ubuntu), Windows.
Software: All adobe products (Dreamweaver, Contribute, Photoshop, etc.), ms office and various others.
JSON, XML, HTML, XSL, XSLT, JavaScript, CSS, AJax, PHP, Agavi, MySQL, Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, Ruport, REST, SOAP, Capistrano, Java, C, C++ and Objective-C, etc.
Small business management, project management, team management, software design, database design, investing, real estate and negotiating.
Wes Hays' Experience
Owner, Founder
Great Basin Solutions, LLC
October 2003 – Present (8 years 8 months)
Great Basin Solutions, LLC dba Great Basin Development.
Specializing in developing church based software. Current projects are:
MortarStone.com
Time2Give.com
CapacityAssessor.com
MortarStone is a Group Management System that offers Attendance Tracking and promotes Leadership Development for churches. This includes a versatile group search, group leader email alerts, attendance software with a multi-platform mobile-friendly site, tracking for the effectiveness of individual leadership roles within a group, among many other useful tools and reports.
Director of Information Technology
modeLaw, LLC
November 2009 – December 2011 (2 years 2 months)
Technical architect, and project manager for all technology initiatives. Lead developer and technical project manager for several dynamic web applications and web sites including management applications, online credit card processing, and internal management productivity applications relating to a small to midsize law office. Responsible for optimizing and maximizing use of all available technical resources. Performs all hardware specification (server, desktop, laptop, printers). Administers Linux-based web servers, database servers, groupware servers, and Windows-based file servers.
Director of Technology, CASAT
University of Nevada Reno
Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry
April 2009 – November 2009 (8 months)
Technical architect, and project manager for all technology initiatives. Lead developer and technical project manager for several dynamic web applications and web sites including conference registration and management applications, online credit card processing, and internal management productivity applications relating to awarded grants. Implemented and customized online course software for both instructor-led and self-paced courses. Primary responsibility for optimizing and maximizing use of all available technical resources. Performs all hardware specification (server, desktop, laptop, printers). Administers Linux-based web servers, database servers, groupware servers, and Windows-based file servers.
Senior Web Application Engineer/System Administrator, CASAT
University of Nevada, Reno
Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry
May 2004 – April 2009 (5 years)
Web application engineer and system administration for CASAT (The Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies). Designed, redesigned and developed web applications to track students, attendees at conferences, certificates and other important information for the University and other grant funded agencies. Worked with a team of programmers on various components of the web applications utilizing Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, RJB, JAVA, PostgreSQL, Capistrano, C, C++ and Objective-C.
iPhone development (Objective-C) and integration into various web applications.
Manage email, file, print, database, web, web application and backup servers for CASAT, the college of HHS (Health and Human Sciences) and various other grant funded agencies.
Java Developer
Bally Gaming
Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Gambling & Casinos industry
July 2003 – May 2004 (11 months)
Designed and developed web applications to keep track of, and interact with, devices that involve gaming and player tracking. Worked with a team of programmers on various components of the web application utilizing AIX, Jboss, Jetty, JSP and MySQL. Redesigned legacy applications written in Transbasic to be written in Java.
Help Desk Technician
University of Nevada, Reno
Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry
August 2001 – June 2002 (11 months)
Provided technical assistance to faculty, staff and students on campus, diagnosing and configuring all computer and network related problems.
Wes Hays' Skills & Expertise
- HTML
- PHP
- JavaScript
- MySQL
- CSS
- XML
- AJAX
- PostgreSQL
- Ruby
- XSLT
- Ruby on Rails
- CentOS
- Database Design
- SOAP
- XSL
- Team Management
- Small Business
- Linux
- SQL
- Dreamweaver
- jQuery
- XHTML
- Apache
- REST
- JSON
- Java
- Software Design
- Web Development
- HTML5
- Web Services
- Web Servers
- Unix
- Databases
- Git
- Programming
- Software Engineering
- Wordpress
- HTML + CSS
- OOP
- Memcached
- Web Applications
Wes Hays' Education
University of Nevada-Reno
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science
1999 – 2003
Wes Hays' Additional Information
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New technology, startup companies, investing, real estate, reading, snowboarding and many other outdoor activities.
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Living Stones Church: www.LivingStonesReno.com
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