Summary:

• Senior front and back end developer skilled in all areas of presentation layer web development and pixel perfect rendering. 15 years of experience designing and building dynamic user interfaces for small and enterprise-scale applications, architecting large CSS/HTML solutions, managing teams of 4-8 members, providing estimates and scoping, recruitment. Frameworks, templates, and scripting languages include Python, .NET, JavaScript frameworks/libraries, Ruby on Rails, Flex/ActionScript, JSP/Velocity/Freemarker, PHP/WordPress, XSLT, and GWT. Adept at responsive web techniques, HTML5, CSS3, AJAX development, progressive enhancement/graceful degradation, and mobile web development.
• Consistently recognized for meeting strict deadlines, a strong work ethic, creative problem solving, and management and leadership skills. Constant effort to maintain a professional and high quality product, especially where visible to the public. Clients include: GM, HBO, Bloomberg, Citi, Prudential, Sears, State Street, and CIO.com.
• Frequently participate in Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessment - usually as the lead pen-tester - and in Incident Response
• Have discovered, researched, and disclosed numerous vulnerabilities in both networking appliances and operating systems/applications services
• Have maintained and developed backend databases, using: MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and Alchemy in addition to maintaining and developing front-end web applications using PHP/HTML
• Experienced in both proprietary and open source applications - participating in the development of many open source applications
• Long-term programming experience with multiple interpreted and compiled languages Perl, Ruby, Python, C/C , etc
• Have provided hardware installation and support

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Languages

• Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET 2.0 - 4.0 , C , MVC 1-3 , Classic ASP, TSQL, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, XML and HTML
• Familiar with Microsoft Visual Basic

Software

• Database: Microsoft SQL Server, 2000, 2005, 2008
• Platforms: Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7

Environments: Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 - 2010 , Team Foundation Server, Visual Source Safe, Enterprise Manager and Management Studio

Experience

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• Building architecture and front end product for AnyFare, a unique new payments technology company focusing on diverse point-of-sale scenarios ranging from electronic tolling to retail biometrics.

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• Peekaboo is a technology company with the best-in-class face recognition software. We offer a platform for developers and publishers to automatically detect and recognize faces in photos using a robust, free, API.

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• Synapse Synergy Group is a global think tank headquartered in Silicon Valley. We are a new breed of entrepreneurs dedicated to transforming ideas into sustainable business models.
• We have developed a totally unique and one of a kind business model, which on its own has evolved into a dynamic combination virtual think-tank/incubator/accelerator environment something never before seen.
• With more than 20 projects currently underway, we believe our products will eventually change the world.

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• Hatch is a geo-fencing based social app where users can 'leave' notes for their friends at specified locations. Those friends will receive a push notification informing them of the note's title and location, but must then go there in order to retrieve the rest of the content. Users can also leave surprise notes, in which case their friends will not receive a notification until they are at the specified location.
• Hatch also acts like a local bulletin board for your area by showing the most recent posts from other users around you. It allows anyone to connect and share information with others without having to know them.
• Music, News, Photos, and Videos spread faster than ever through our tight-knit community.

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• Building mobile and web-based applications.
• Full stack engineer responsible for development of live streaming media products.
• Worked extensively with Ruby 1.9.3 and 1.8.7, Ruby on Rails 2.3 and 3.2, and Postgresql 9.1 on the backend.
• Experience with HTML5, Javascript, Backbone.js, CSS3 and Twitter Bootstrap on the front end.
• Setup and configured automated deployment and scaling infrastructure on Amazon using EC2, S3, Route53, Elastic Load Balancer, and Virtual Private cloud with Ubuntu 12.04 and RHEL 5.5.
• Administered legacy PHP and Ruby on Rails 3.2 applications.
• Architected and developed AdvancedXL Server, Designer, and Data Analyzer products. This software family is designed to construct complex rule driven web applications from bits and pieces of Microsoft Excel files and integrate with them at runtime. AdvancedXL utilized C , ASP.NET, .NET Windows Forms, .NET Web Services, SQL Server, and Excel calculation engines.
• Modular, scalable, robust code optimized for performance and reusability with web standards, best practices, and OOP/MVC considerations.
• Performance optimization, progressive enhancement, usability, and accessibility.
• Managing and mentoring of large teams of presentation layer experts in conjunction with middle tier/back-end developers, project management, user experience, quality assurance, and functional design teams.
• Technical Skills Recognized expert in hand-coding X HTML4/5, CSS2/3, and JavaScript.
• Thorough understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and workarounds.
• Significant knowledge of core JavaScript as well as jQuery, Dojo, MooTools, and Prototype/Scriptaculous.
• Able to develop within various frameworks and languages on Windows and Unix/Linux environments.
• Various newer tools including SASS pre-processor, SVN/CVS, WordPress, Git-Hub, and social APIs.
• Adept at writing SQL and integrating with databases, including Oracle and MySql.
• Able to quickly set up web and application servers including Apache HTTP Server/Tomcat and WAMP/XAMPP.

Confidential

• Responsible for front and back end application development of in vehicle entertainment systems.
• Back-end Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails 3.0.x , Sinatra, RDF, SPARQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, AMQP, and Resque.
• Front-end Technologies: HTML/HAML, CSS/SASS, Javascript, jQuery, jQuery UI, Backbone.js
• Also administration of deployment servers using Amazon EC2, Ubuntu, puppet, Apache 2, passenger, Amazon RDS, Route53, Amazon S3, and Cloudfront.
• PHP, Python, Django and MySQL work on high-profile, high-traffic sites for Buick.com, Opel.com, and Vauxall.com including CMS, media processing, reporting tools API development database design and management dev/ops release management, internal environment administration .
• Provided object-oriented design, analysis, programming, and implementation for web applications with the .NET Framework 2.0 - 4.0 using both Web Forms and MVC2
• Front End Development utilizing HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript leveraging the Bootstrap framework and a Java / SQL backend.
• Web application development for backend system using AngularJS and Node.js with cutting edge HTML5 and CSS3 techniques.

Confidential

Directed organizational infrastructure and daily IT operations that included: planning, designing, managing, budgeting and project development for 40 member staff including project management of a 30 member off-shore team. Acted as organization's primary IT spokesperson providing big-picture views in the development of the organization's overall IT department structuring. Oversaw the design and development of the entire IT department from the ground up, including: upgrading infrastructure, system planning, rebuilding corporate network, data center creation and migration and multi-tiered web architecture implementation.

Selected Achievements:

Generated over 2,000,000.00 in savings by motivating staff to meet aggressive project deadlines.

Maintained a leadership role in the creation of a second data center with 70 standalone databases and servers in Las Vegas.

Confidential

Technical Architect.

Led the Development Team.

• Designed and Developed Large Features across the entire product, including thick and thin UIs, Web Services, Middle Tier services, JPA persistence layer.
• Developed System Requirements for many features including application security, order differencing, and service composition.

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Recommended preventive, mitigating, and compensating controls to ensure the appropriate level of protection and adherence to the goals of the overall information security strategy. Assisted in the development of access-controls, separation of duties, and roles. Conducted technical risk evaluation of hardware, software, and installed systems and networks. Assisted with testing of installed systems to ensure protection strategies are properly implemented and working as intended. Assisted in incident response and recommend corrective actions. Communicated with personnel about potential threats to the work environment. Participated in forensic recovery and analysis. Participated in development and maintenance of global information security policy.

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• Designed and implemented power management software subsystem and GUI applets for Treo 600 PalmOS smart phone.
• Assisted hardware team with specification and testing of rechargeable battery and power-related components.
• Developed C and ARM assembly firmware to control ARM deep-sleep modes.
• Wrote low-level I2C drivers for battery protection IC and other peripherals.
• Analyzed and resolved power-consumption issues for CDMA/GSM radios, digital camera, SD, etc.
• Developed Windows-based emulator for ARM system-on-a-chip peripherals.
• Created PalmOS diagnostic applications for internal development and QA.
• Used oscilloscope and JTAG in-circuit emulator Signum/Multi-ICE for ARM debugging.
• Used PalmOS and Microsoft Windows software development and debugging tools.

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Software design engineer

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Hardware design engineer Psion 5 Series