Ruby on Rails Engineer at Trion World Network
Austin, Texas Area
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- Ruby on Rails Engineer at Trion World Network
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- Ruby on Rails Developer at Thunderdata Systems
- Business Analyst / ScrumMaster at InCircuit
- Tech. Project Manager at HomeAway.com
- Technical Lead at NTT Communications / Verio, Inc.
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- University of Phoenix
- Cuyahoga Community College
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Nick Cancelliere’s Summary
Ruby on Rails developer with experience building several e-commerce enabled applications (using ActiveMerchant), AJAX powered interfaces and RESTful APIs. I have written a few plug-ins and have shared code on GitHub (ncancelliere).
I am certificated (CSM/CSP) Scrum Practioner. Interested in expanding my knowledge and experience in Agile development methodologies, especially Scrum and Lean. Enjoy teaching and coaching others on Agile process. I have created an Agile Workshop program with AgileAustin, where monthly volunteers teach Agile concepts using in-class experiences to attendees.
Nick Cancelliere’s Specialties:
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Certified Scrum Practitioner, Agile development methodologies, web project management, defect tracking systems, Selenium, HTML, CSS, RDBMS (MySQL, Postgres, Oracle), ColdFusion, web development, Mac OS X, Unix/Linux, Eclipse/Aptana, NetBeans 6, Fireworks, Wiki, Kanbans
Nick Cancelliere’s Experience
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Ruby on Rails Engineer
Trion World Network
(Privately Held; Entertainment industry)
May 2009 — Present (3 months)
Trion is a publisher and developer of games and original entertainment, combining elements of online, gaming and traditional media. As a Ruby on Rails developer, I work on a small team of other developers helping build and implement several projects in support of the gaming platform through the use of web applications and RESTful APIs.
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Ruby on Rails Developer
Thunderdata Systems
(Internet industry)
May 2008 — May 2009 (1 year 1 month)
Thunderdata provides small and medium sized businesses with custom web design and application development. As an application developer I helped design and build Ruby on Rails applications and support existing PHP sites, working with clients to realize business goals through web-based solutions. I also introduced agile development practices including Scrum, BDD and XP concepts.
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Business Analyst / ScrumMaster
InCircuit
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 5 months)
InCircuit specializes in asset management software solutions for state governments, universities and private corporations. I worked with customers and determined the best solution for them, help manage product backlogs, and acted as a liaison between the customer and technical team. I was a ScrumMaster for a team of 7 people. I also helped research, propose and implement processes improvements.
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Tech. Project Manager
HomeAway.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
May 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 8 months)
HomeAway.com offers advertising services on the web for vacation rentals by owner. There I worked with .NET and ColdFusion development teams using an Agile Scrum process to maintain and update 5 public web sites for vacation rentals by owner and property managers. Responsible for implementing the process and getting adoption.
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Technical Lead
NTT Communications / Verio, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 1998 — May 2005 (7 years 5 months)
NTT is an international telecommunications company. I was responsible for a small ColdFusion development team. Delivered web application solutions for the business (both internal and public facing). Consolidating business requirements to design technical solution. Implemented enterprise content management, customer self-service portals and Flash applications. Maintained relationship with NTT parent company in Japan, delivering web applications to them under contract.
Nick Cancelliere’s Education
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University of Phoenix
BSIT , Information Technology , 2003 — 2006
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Cuyahoga Community College
Court Reporting 1993 — 1995
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Nick Cancelliere’s Interests:
Agile methodologies, Ruby and Ruby on Rails (RoR), MMORPGs, cooking
Nick Cancelliere’s Groups:
ScrumAlliance, AgileAustin, AusinOnRails, Westlake Taekwondo Plus
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Nick Cancelliere’s Honors:
Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) June 2007
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) June 2006
Given an "Outstanding Web Development" in 2003 award by senior Marketing and IT management for successful 100% redesign of Verio.com on time and budget.
Verio.com earned the WMAs WebAward [sic] Standard of Excellence three years in a row.
Recevied a "Verio IT Development Excellence - 2001" awarded by Verio IT senior management.
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