Skills used: Rails, Ruby, Typhoeus, Resque, Redis, RSpec, VCR, Heroku, nginx Role overview: Maintain and improve existing code designed to scrape search results from online retailers to find counterfeit items or items that infringed on the intellectual property of IPS’s customers while IPS searched for a new full-time developer.

Skills used: Rails, Ruby, jQuery, Flot, Knockout.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Memcached, RSpec, Jasmine, Capistrano, Passenger, C#, git, Behavior-Driven Development Role overview: Managed a small team of intranet developers before moving into development of customer facing data presentation application. Created data transmitter for new on-site data acquisition system, making use of a RESTful API. Managed Linux servers utilized by these applications.

Skills used: Rails, Ruby, RSpec, jQuery, PostgreSQL, Passenger, jRuby, ActiveMQ, Java, ASP.Net, C#, git Role overview: Began development of corporate intranet site in ASP.Net/C# and migrated to Ruby on Rails to reduce code and speed up prototyping and development. Applications included equipment and employee tracking, job scheduling, bid management, training and safety tracking. Managed production and staging Linux servers, repositories, databases, and other services. Assisted in the development of the on-site data acquisition system.