Software Developer

Experienced working in fast-paced, multidisciplinary environments. Passionate about software design, code construction, testing, automation, visualization, and configuring services.

LanguagesRuby, Python, C, Objective-C, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML, UNIX Shell, SQL, PHP, Perl
Frameworks/APIsDjango, Rails, Cocoa, jQuery, RSpec, Drupal, OpenGL
SystemsLinux (admin experience), Mac OS X Server (admin experience), Solaris 10, UNIX, Windows
SoftwarePuppet (code contributor), Apache, MySQL, Trac, Xcode, Git, Subversion, Emacs, IntelliJ, Visual Studio

Experience

Software Development:

  • Assisted team members in completing projects for rapidly approaching deadlines, handling client data to database conversions.
  • Gained experience in automation and reusability at Reductive Labs for use in real environments under practical circumstances.
  • Recommended processes and reusable code practices, which led to developer tool creation and increased project maintainability.
  • Decreased the startup time of new client projects for programmers from 45 minutes to 1 minute, utilizing automation.
  • Fixed bugs and wrote new code using Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).

Web Application Development:

  • Assisted a client with a website addition using PHP when the client's development team could no longer make progress.
  • Recovered, updated, and redeployed a client's website after the website went down.
  • Developed a collaborative website using Drupal and PHP for the Vanderbilt Integrative Cancer Biology Center (VICBC).
  • Supervised a summer intern who worked on the VICBC collaborative website.
  • Contributed to many sites that utilized Django, Python, jQuery, and JavaScript, including mycacties.com, theirongateonline.net, fostermobley.com, and nextgreatamericanartist.com.

Desktop Development:

  • Wrote a packet visualizer application for Mac OS X using C, Objective-C, and Cocoa.
  • Wrote a program using RubyCocoa that assisted project managers in setting up new client projects.
  • Developed Dr. Peter T. Cummings' Cancer Biology algorithms as visually interactive programs using OpenGL and wxWidgets.
  • Processed client transactions using Java, XML, and a 3rd party web API.

Server Configuration Management:

  • Worked directly with Luke Kanies on his server configuration management software, Puppet, which is written in Ruby.
  • Deployed a Puppet system to automate server configurations of development, staging, and production servers.
  • Assembled, configured, and deployed a Mac OS X Server computational cluster with over 40 nodes.
  • Wrote scripts using Perl and Python to update and deploy changes to the cluster.
  • Wrote a backup script using Python that was used to successfully restore the database and files of a website that went down.
  • Developed a method for deploying LDAP (user/host authentication) across the local area network for developer accounts.

Other Experience:

  • Represented Reductive Labs at conferences.
  • Wrote functional specifications and documentation.
  • Experienced traveling throughout U.S. and Europe.

Companies:

  • Consulting, Sole Proprietor, Nashville, TN, April 2008 - Present
  • Cabedge.com, Franklin (Nashville Area), TN, January 2008 - April 2008
  • Reductive Labs, Nashville, TN, July 2007 - October 2007
  • BoxLogic, Murfreesboro (Nashville Area), TN, January 2007 - July 2007
  • Department of Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, May 2005 December 2006
  • Department of Mathematical Sciences, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, August 2003 - December 2006

Volunteer:

  • Elders First Adult Day Services Association, Murfreesboro (Nashville Area), TN, October 2005 - Present

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, minor in Mathematical Sciences, 2006
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
  • Summa Cum Laude (Highest Honors)
  • Computer Science Alumni Award
  • Member, Vice President: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Member: The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

Presentations

  • "project. your. code." ACM Chapter of MTSU, September 24, 2008
  • "Demo: VICBC Collaborative Website," Vanderbilt University, October 16, 2006
  • "Beginning Linux," ACM Chapter of MTSU, April 17, 2006
  • "Cancer Biology Simulation and OpenGL," Siggraph Chapter of MTSU, November 21, 2005
  • "Cancer Biology Simulation and Computational Clusters," Vanderbilt University, August 5, 2005

Conferences

  • PuppetCamp, 2009
  • PyCon, 2008
  • RubyConf, 2007
  • Ruby Hoedown, 2007
  • Ohio LinuxFest, 2007
  • BarCamp Nashville, 2007