Experience
2014–Present
Vintage Aerial
Co-Founder, Director of Engineering
- Transformed a 50 year old analog door-to-door business to digital
- Built workflow for scanning & digitizing millions of historic aerial photos
- Conceptualized, build, and maintain e-commerce and social platform in Ruby on Rails
- Developed web-based GIS tools for geocoding paper flight maps
2014–Present
Freelance Developer
Some of the projects I've built as an independent developer in the past few years are a:
- Conference management app for a worldwide conference hosted by a local university (Ruby on Rails)
- App to track students and their progress with a tutor for a local non-profit (Ruby on Rails)
- Policy calculator and payment portal for a large wholesale insurance company (Ruby on Rails, front-end and
back-end)
- Safety inspection app for a Fortune 500 hotel chain (Laravel, front-end and back-end)
2018–2020
Kinship
Co-Founder
Started a digital agency to bring together 4 local developers where we helped clients ship ideas like a(n):
- Social app to drive learning engagement for a Fortune 100 airline (React Native, GraphQL API in Laravel)
- App for a airport lounge sharing startup (React Native, GraphQL API in Ruby on Rails)
- App for a photographer marketplace (React Native, GraphQL API in Ruby on Rails)
- API to connect legacy parking ticket and billing system to new GraphQL-based front-end (Ruby on Rails)
- App to manage document workflows and billing for a real estate acquisition firm (Ruby on Rails)
2012–2014
Bloomberg L.P.
Senior Web Developer, Bloomberg.com
- Lead team with technical direction and process, including code reviews and pair programming
- Architect new front-end Rails 4 app and transition from legacy Rails 2 app
- Held training talks and seminars
2010–2012
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Senior Developer, Partner
- Develop & design e-commerce solutions for imaging- & print-related products
- Lead team of Rails developers with Agile methodologies
- Solution development and proposal writing
2005–2010
SFC Graphics
IT Manager, Senior Developer
- Responsible for all aspects of IT in organization (hardware, software, & network)
- Developed in-house ERP system in Ruby on Rails that has been in use for over 13 years
- Built tools for on-demand ordering and just-in-time manufacturing of customized print products from cart to PDF generation to shipping automation
2001–2004
SongMeanings
Co-Founder
- Started lyric & interpretation site in high school to learn PHP and MySQL
- Grew to 1M uniques/month
Education
2003–2007
University of Toledo
Studied Computer Science and Engineering
Buzzwords
I believe in picking the right tool for the job, here's some of what's in my toolbox:
- CSS
- Docker
- ElasticSearch
- Figma
- HTML
- JavaScript
- Photoshop
- Python
- React / React Native
- Ruby on Rails
- Ruby
- Shell Scripting (Bash/zsh)
- SQL
- Tableau