Adam Fortuna

Current

Code Ninja at IZEA, Inc.
Creator/Developer at Arcade Fly (Self-employed)

Past

Web Developer at Westgate Resorts
Senior Application Developer at Foreign Currency Exchange
Creator/Developer at DDRei.com

Web Developer at University of Central Florida
Web Developer at University of Central Florida
Web Developer Intern at One Business Place
Macro Developer at KnowledgeView

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Education

University of Central Florida

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Industry

Marketing and Advertising

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Adam Fortuna’s Summary

Developer based in Orlando, Florida experienced in a number of web focused languages. In addition to being a passionate developer, Adam helps run a user-group based on Adobe technologies here in town, Adobe Developers of Greater Orlando (Adogo). Adam is currently working on a number of side projects using Ruby on Rails and jQuery. His goal is to create amazing applications with clean, user friendly interfaces that people enjoy using, while keeping HTML and CSS valid and incorporating microformats when applicable. Adam goes to user-group meetings and programming events in Orlando, and occasionally presents at Adogo and other user-groups.

Adam Fortuna’s Specialties:

Web development utilizing the following:
Ruby on Rails (2+ years)
Javascript (4+ years)
jQuery (<1 year)
Prototype.js (2 years)
Java (2 years)
Python (<1 year)
Flex (2 years)
Actionscript (2 years)
ColdFusion (4 years)
PHP (3 years)

Various experience implementing or using the following:
OpenID, identity management, web standards, mapping, internationalization, Wordpress, globalization, XMPP, BOSH, REST, APIs, Agile, testing, mocks/stubs, test driven development.

Adam Fortuna’s Experience

Code Ninja

IZEA, Inc.

(Internet industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Worked with a team of developers to add features, ﬁx bugs and improve performance bottlenecks on SocialSpark (http://www.socialspark.com), a Ruby on Rails web application. All code written for SocialSpark included test coverage using Rspec in accordance with team standards. Worked with one other developer to create and launch CloudShout (http://www.cloudshout.com), a blog widget platform for real-time communication written in Javascript and jQuery with a Python backend. Created new Javascript applications for CloudShout utilizing external web services such as Flickr, Twitter and Youtube.

Using primarily: Ruby on Rails, Rspec, Javascript, JQuery, Python, Pylons, Prototype, Capistrano, Ubuntu, Mac OSX, Textmate.
Creator/Developer
Arcade Fly (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Computer Games industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Created and developed a location listing site for arcades and games using Ruby on Rails and Google Maps. The site is completely driven by the community, and valuable user feedback. Capistrano is used for deployment, with Passenger as our application server. Images are stored on S3 (soon to be CloudFront). The site strives to be completely XHTML 1.0 valid with an "A" Yslow rating. Currently looking into converting images to sprites, microformats and OpenID registration.

Used Primarily: Ruby on Rails, Javascript, jQuery, Google Maps API, Capistrano, Rspec, Mocha, Passenger, Ruby Enterprise Edition, Ubuntu.
Web Developer

Westgate Resorts

(Privately Held; Hospitality industry)

February 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 4 months)

Worked on a team of 7 other developers, 3 project managers and 2 designers to create and maintain various applications central to the hospitality industry at Westgate Resorts. These included many front end applications exposed through ColdFusion or Flex with Java/Oracle behind the scenes. Created a bilingual application utilizing Google Maps to track hotel locations.

Used primarily: ColdFusion 6/7, Flex 2, Java 4/5, Oracle 8i, Subversion, Ant, Jruby on Rails, JUnit, JMock, Maven, Google Maps API.
Senior Application Developer

Foreign Currency Exchange

(Financial Services industry)

June 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 8 months)

Assisted in maintenance and development of new features for an enterprise web application used by banks for recording foreign currency transactions and reporting on them. Worked with a team of up to 7 other developers towards creating an internationalized version taking into account language selection, timezones, currency formatting, number formatting, date and time formatting and more.

Used primarily ColdFusion 4/5/6.1, Fusebox, XML, and MS SQL Server 2000, CVS, Eclipse, Ant.
Creator/Developer

DDRei.com

(Computer Games industry)

December 2000 — April 2005 (4 years 5 months)

During spare time in college, created a fan site for Dance Dance Revolution, focusing on arcade listings, game information and community building. Since this was before DDR was available on consoles in the US, it became useful for gamers to meet up and play in arcades, with DDRei helping communication. The site was developed using PHP and MySQL, with tight integration with PHPBB. Active development on this site stopped sometime in 2005, with 2001-2003 being the most active years. It is still live today in that same state it was left in 2005.
Web Developer

University of Central Florida

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

May 2004 — December 2004 (8 months)

Worked to revamp the website for the Co-op department at UCF using ASP.
Web Developer

University of Central Florida

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

February 2003 — May 2004 (1 year 4 months)

Worked on a contract basis to create web applications used to assist in the admissions process to the UCF Film department. Developed a custom application in PHP that the UCF Film Faculty used to review applicants and eventually choose who was accepted and not, accompanied with emails sent out notifying the students.
Web Developer Intern

One Business Place

(Online Media industry)

November 2001 — February 2002 (4 months)

Created and maintained websites in ColdFusion and MSSQL. These included modifications to the public company site, obp.com (since offline) which was similar to CitySearch, and the back-end administration panel.
Macro Developer

KnowledgeView

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1999 — August 2000 (1 year 4 months)

Created how-to videos using Iola Macro Magic demonstrating how to do common tasks in widely used PC applications such as Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Access and Excel. As the company expanded, was put onto a newly created team creating how to videos in Macromedia Flash 4 with audio and video instructions for using consumer hardware such as cell phones, digital and video cameras.

Adam Fortuna’s Education

University of Central Florida

BS , Information Technology , 2000 — 2005

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Adam Fortuna’s Interests:

Ruby on Rails, Javascript, OpenID, Flex, Actionscript, Spring, semantic web, MySQL, microformats, xmpp, high performance websites (especially front end), web analytics, rss, social media, Dance Dance Revolution, foreign movies, arcades, gaming, traveling, Twitter, Mint, Remember the Milk, Werewolf, Settlers of Catan, board games.