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Goals

  • To work in an agile environment building web applications.
  • To assist with gathering of requirements and creation of specifications.
  • To collaborate with users to improve the user experience.
  • To further expertise through publishing articles, writing open source software, and attending and speaking at technology conferences.

Skills

Programming Languages
  • Ruby
  • Java
  • Groovy
  • JavaScript
  • Bash
View Languages
  • HTML
  • XML
  • CSS
  • RHTML
  • HAML
  • JSP
Testing
Tools
Deployment
Web Frameworks
Databases
Operating Systems
Agile practices
  • Daily standup meetings
  • Pair programming
  • Short time-boxed iterations
  • Regular code reviews
  • Emphasis on automated testing
  • Continuous integration

Experience

Technical Pickles

Developer and Blogger, July 2007 through Present

Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA

Software Engineer, June 2007 through Present

  • Designed and implemented a web application for managing chemical biology research
  • Worked on a team of 8 developers
  • Collaborated with chemists and chemical screeners to determine requirements and to improve user experience
  • Evaluated, implemented, and embraced new technologies to improve product quality, developer productivity, and developer sanity
    • Utilize CSS and divs instead of tables to improve maintainability of markup
    • Yahoo UI Library for its CSS and JavaScript widgets
    • Generic DAO superclass to eliminate redundant code between DAOs and to provide a consistent API
    • Selenium, HtmlUnit, and JWebUnit for automated web testing
    • Acegi Security for supporting authentication and authorization
    • Extend Acegi Security to support NIS servers
    • Created a framework for more easily unit test Stripes ActionBeans
    • Used MochiKit for AJAX and advanced JavaScript to improve user experience
  • Presented technical talks to the Broad developer community
    • Java on Gentoo Linux
    • You, Me, and Acegi

Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Public Relations Project, January 2008 through Present

  • Drafts announcements for Gentoo's front page
  • Researches and implements changes to improve community relations, openness, and transparency
  • Responds to PR email queries
  • Documents best practices for the project, such as for writing accessible announcements

Gentoo Ruby Project, December 2006 through Present

  • Provide online support for uses on the #gentoo-ruby IRC channel
  • Triage and resolve Ruby bugs filed with Gentoo's Bugzilla
  • Maintain Ruby packages including, but not limited to: Rails, Capistrano, Vlad the Deployer, RSpec, test/spec

Gentoo Java Project Lead, January 2006 through June 2007

  • Oversaw recruitment and training of potential developers
  • Established and organized regular project meetings
  • Collaborated with other open source leaders to promote and facility Linux as a Java platform

Gentoo Java Project Developer, Spring 2005 through June 2007

  • Worked towards improving Gentoo Linux as a Java platform
  • Worked online support for users on the #gentoo-java IRC channel and gentoo-java mailing
  • Triaged and resolved Java bugs filed with Gentoo's Bugzilla
  • Contributed up bug fixes and enhancements to upstream projects
  • Maintained tools for supporting and configuring a Java environment
  • Documented various aspects of the project, including end-user documentation and development documentation
  • Maintained Java packages, including, but not limited to: Eclipse, Groovy, JRuby, Maven, Ant, Spring, Hibernate, Castor

R. R. Donnelly (formerly Banta Internet Solutions), Cambridge, MA

Software Engineer, August 2005 through June 2007

  • Developed and maintained web-based CMSs and marketing tools
  • Collaborated with the architect and senior engineers for project planning and high level design
  • Evaluated, implemented, and embraced new technologies to improve product quality, developer productivity, and developer sanity
    • Maven for build and project management
    • Eclipse as a development platform
    • Spring as enterprise glue and supporting library
    • Continuum for continuous integration testing
    • Trac for providing a front end to subversion, a Wiki, a issue tracker, and a timeline view
    • Basecamp for tracking milestones, to-do lists
    • Utilize CSS and divs instead of tables to improve maintainability of markup

Scientific Computation Research Center, RPI, Troy, NY

Assistant System Administrator, Fall 2001 through Spring 2005

  • Supported approximately 30 workstations, 20 servers, and 4 clusters.
  • Compiled, configured, and installed various open source products for Linux, Solaris and IRIX.
  • Worked towards improving the network's infrastructure to facilitate the administration of the network.
  • Configured and maintained several network services including: IMAP, SMTP, mailing list, web hosting, network monitoring, centralized logging, and automated installations.

Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Troy, NY

Dual B.S. Computer Science and Psychology May 2005

Cumulative GPA: 3.13/4.0 Dean's List