Zach Hale

Current

CTO at Mavenry
The Guy at Zach Hale

Past

Web Developer at HelpHive
Co-Founder at skillbit
Webmaster at University of Washington Information School

Technical Manager at Rainydawg Radio
Systems Administrator Intern/Web Developer at Practice Partner

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Education

University of Washington

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Zach Hale’s Summary

Web application designer and developer who loves writing great code and practices accessible and standards-based design. Currently working primarily in Rails while pouring his heart into his startup company. Has experience building in both Windows and Linux environments and comfortable with a variety of programming languages, application frameworks, databases, and servers. Built and maintained linux servers both personally and professionally including a 7 server production environment for a 24/7 internet radio station.

Zach Hale’s Specialties:

Web application design and development, practical use of web standards and accessibility best practices, database design, Linux server administration

Zach Hale’s Experience

CTO

Mavenry

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Financial Services industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

Web application design and development, Server planning and administration, Brand development. Working with Rails, MySQL, Memcached, Starling+Workling, Capistrano, Mongrel+Nginx, Apache+Passenger, and Linux.
The Guy

Zach Hale

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2003 — Present (6 years 11 months)

Web design and development for primarily small personal and business websites and blogs including server administration, IT consulting. Working primarily with PHP, Rails, MySQL, WordPress, RadiantCMS.
Web Developer

HelpHive

(Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2009 — October 2009 (4 months)

Rails Development
Co-Founder

skillbit

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — January 2008 (1 month)

The company created out of the first Startup Weekend Seattle. My primary role was UX/Interaction Design/Interface Design.
Webmaster

University of Washington Information School

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

April 2007 — December 2007 (9 months)

Responsible for developing and improving multiple of The Information School's websites, Web design and development, Information Architecture, Helped drastically improve the accessibility of the main iSchool website by employing web standards and accessibility best practices, Supported faculty and staff. Overhauled the calendar to integrate microformats and provide several methods for syndicating the content via email and subscribable iCal calendars. Worked primarily with C#, .Net and SQL Server.
Technical Manager

Rainydawg Radio

(Broadcast Media industry)

July 2006 — June 2007 (1 year )

Linux server development and management for web, streaming, encoding, file, and firewall servers, Windows desktop administration and support, Web development for public website and private intranet, Implemented automated backup system and listener tracking system, Migrated several paper systems to web applications. Worked primarily with PHP, Smarty, Apache, Icecast, Samba, and several distributions of Linux.
Systems Administrator Intern/Web Developer

Practice Partner

(Computer Software industry)

October 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 7 months)

Maintained and deployed custom windows desktop configurations, Helped develop processes and batch scripts for automating deployment, Provided hands on desktop support for Windows workstations and applications, Maintained and improved the primary and support site web applications, Designed and Developed custom E-Commerce web store and cart for software licensing and support including heavy business logic integration into existing SQL database systems and payment gateway integration. Worked primarily with C#, .Net and Windows.

Zach Hale’s Education

University of Washington

BS , Informatics , 2004 — 2008

Activities and Societies:

IUGA, Rainydawg Radio, UW Social Software SIG

Additional Information

Zach Hale’s Interests:

Web application design and development, Music, Emerging technologies, Entrepreneurship, Apple, Crazy ideas, Personal information management, Ruby, Rails, Coffee, Tea