About
8+ years Ruby on Rails Software Engineer with a proven track record in web development and data migration. Expert in leading development teams, integrating with third-party systems, and optimizing operational processes for increased efficiency.
Whether it's a proof of concept, MVP, or full flagship product, thrives on iterating swiftly and proactively. Primarily codes in Ruby, but has gained experience in several additional languages and frameworks over the past decade.
Experience
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Software Engineer, Morgan Stanley at Work
— 2 years
Ruby Software Engineer on the Shareworks platform where primary responsibilities included building new features, addressing bugs, and managing the migration of data.
- Successfully completed the migration of data from a sunsetting platform that had been in operation for over a decade with 20K+ users into the Firm's flagship offering.
- Rebuilt an internal tool used daily to address security concerns.
- Built a proof-of-concept greenfield app for internal use to increase a team's output by over 50%.
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Developer, Production Manager, PXP200
— 6 years
Led a development team of 6 technical engineers in building, repairing, testing, deploying, migrating, monitoring, and maintaining websites for dozens of clients.
- Integrated e-commerce website with 3rd party catalog data, eliminating the need for manual data entry and freeing up office resources for other projects
- Created an application that took user input, processed, and provided a near real-time response on acceptance or rejection.
- Interfaced between clients and dev team on a regular basis to translate real world issues into actionable items, reducing the risk of missing deadlines, or projects going out of scope.
- Sample Brands worked on: HP, Coupons.com, PublicNTP, Norhtrop Grumman, Skyword, Polynesian Cultural Center.
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End User Technologist, Bard Access Systems
— 8 years
Worked on a team to maintain and support all end-user systems (computers, phone, printers, network, servers, etc...) for 500+ office employees and 150+ remote employees.
- Provisioning and deployment of laptops/tablets for 150+ sales team members in the course of 4 days.
- Created a Raspberry Pi based conference room system to automate projector/screen controls.
Education
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Havard Division of Continuing Education, Managing Yourself and Leading Others
While leading a team of 6 other developers, attended the professional development course for successfully managing team members in Cambridge, MA.
Projects
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These are a small sample of some personal projects I've worked on over the years. Projects from my day job are excluded from this list, but I can provide more details for those upon request
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Occupancy App
Personal project created during the Covid-19 pandemic, utilized cloudflare workers to provide an easy way for stores/churches/etc to keep track of the number of occupants in their space.
- Serviced over 31,000 "rooms" during its operation
- Offered to the general public as a free service
- Estimated usage from an estimated 7,000 users globally
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Weather Balloon Launch
Utilized my HAM radio license to assist a local school with weather balloon launch that reached the edge of the stratosphere.
- Live streamed the location and video feed of balloon as it reached height of almost 62,000 ft.
- Helped with design and implementation of technical features of the project
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Bogart's Beads
Personal simple site in memory of my brother's Dog to spread positivity to anyone that comes across the message.
- Utilizes Cloudflare Sites to host a static code hosted on Cloudflares edge servers for lightning fast delivery globally