Innovative and experienced full stack web developer with extensive expertise (9+ years) in RoR web application development, maintenance and production support. Able to quickly adapt technical skills and organizational knowledge to effectively address diverse customer needs. Proven ability to collaborate with customers, internal users, business analysts, and technical staff to define and build high quality, innovative solutions, and efficiently solve technical challenges. Able to effectively manage and develop local and remote team members, enabling them to successfully take on a wide array of assignments based on client needs.
I developed this responsive website from scratch to showcase my HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript skills. For more details about this website, please go to the About This Website section.
Work on a Ruby on Rails responsive storefront application for purchasing thousands of products from multiple vendors tied to the Packaging industry. Am respnosible for:
Worked on two different teams as a Software Engineer for ClickFunnels. The first team I worked on handled the support of integrations between the ClickFunnels application and Third Party vendors. The second team I worked on handled the migration of the ClickFunnels UI to a new component-based architecture. My job required primarily back-end RoR development with the integrations team and primarily front-end development (RoR, CSS and Javascript) with the UI migration team.
In addition to full time employment, did RoR web development on a part-time contract basis from July 2014 through July 2018.
Moved into a full-time independent web developer role as of August 1st, 2018, supporting multiple clients.
Currently working on an SSO SAML implementation which includes
Have worked primarily with PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, have experience with RSpec and Minitest for test-driven development, have used Git/GitHub for all RoR projects for source control and conducting code reviews, have worked on several agile projects and have used Slack, Zoom, Google Hangout and other tools for team communication.
Bethel Church is a 750 employee organization, which is rapidly expanding through a number of diverse initiatives, to include a school of ministry, global ministry and disaster response, school planting, entrepreneurship, music production, media, and community service.
Supported RoR social media, training, mentorship/internship management, and recruiting web application which provided over 26,000 network members with the ability to post comments, start discussions, ask questions, send and receive private messages, create events, view upcoming events, and search for people, locations and various organizations within the network
This application also included all support for Bethel Church’s school of ministry’s Third year program, 8 sub-networks and a feature rich administration facility which allowed the staff to support different application areas with various authority levels. For the sub-networks, worked with each internal customer to define specifications, validate function, and ensure approval of changes made to the system, allowing a unique and customized view of each network according to their needs.
Accomplishments and responsibilities:
Supported RoR online store, multi-language podcast, and trip management web applications.
Led a team of 15 implementation specialists performing work on a wide variety of customer projects.
In July 2012 I was promoted to Lead Implementation Specialist which required me to split my time between supervising a team of 15 implementation specialists in Columbia and providing technical direction to my team on an as needed basis.
Developed Property & Casualty Insurance web applications using a proprietary development tool that generated XML code.
Worked as part of a 6 person team to implement a Business Owner’s Policy web application.
Managed a staff of 15-20 programmers responsible for developing enhancements and making mandated changes to the Blue Cross Blue Shield Claims Adjudication system, ensuring accurate and timely system upgrades compliant with government requirements (projects ranging from 5,000 to 20,000 hours in scope).
Collaborated closely with the Project Management Office (PMO) to coordinate project schedules, assign work to appropriate resources, and ensure on time and on budget completion of project tasks.
Ensured team had access to training and tools to develop the needed skills for project work and also to further grow their careers.
Provided input to the people side of budget projections and ensured maximum utilization of available resources.
Provided support as needed for their in-house system used for managing inventory, ordering, accounting, reporting (etc.) while working full time, supporting system maintenance, upgrades and migrations (COBOL and BASIC).
Managed a staff of 20+ US and India-based technicians and business analysts implementing CSC’s web-based product that allowed property and casualty insurance agents to capture information for quotes, integrate with rating systems, and submit applications for processing on the policy administration system for commercial and personal lines of business.
Provided support for sales and marketing pursuits, consolidating estimates and proposals for prospects for the peripheral systems and solutions offered commercially by the company. Developed estimating spreadsheet for all peripheral systems that allowed each system owner to easily generate their estimate and allowed for a final estimate to be generated for all systems that was provided to marketing and ultimately delivered to the prospect.
Responsible for meeting revenue projections by keeping staff billable
Worked closely with Project Management Office (PMO) to ensure that
Had Account management responsibilities for several DXC customers to ensure their technical needs were being met for all peripheral systems and solutions they were licensed to use.
Participated in building the Project Management Plan (PMP) for each customer implementation.
Responsible for staff development that included
Managed the development of PC DOS-based information ordering systems which gave companies real-time access to motor vehicle and claims history reports.
Supervised the development of the first of its kind web-based system which enabled SCRF (South Carolina Reinsurance Facility) agents access to rate a personal auto policy over the Internet, and served as a model for other similar online solutions.
Managed the developed of the first web-based product that enabled agents to quote, rate, and bind policies as well as order information real time for personal and commercial lines of business.
Evolved responsibilities and began managing the services teams that implemented this product.
Managed a team of developers and database specialists responsible for a solution which enabled property adjusters to estimate damage on small commercial and residential properties.
Provided technical oversight and completed coding tasks needed to convert the original system to more current technologies. (PC DOS to Windows)
Participated in technical training and onboarding program, gaining familiarity with insurance principles and technologies needed to develop and maintain the company’s proprietary software.
Developed maintained code on a PC-based system designed for personal and commercial Lines independent insurance agents which enabled them to do comparative rating for multiple insurance companies.
I built this responsive website from scratch using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery plugins. I had originally planned to build this website using WordPress, but decided to develop it from scratch to showcase my knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript/jQuery. I used media queries to make the website responsive for the following categories of device/browser sizes:
All code for this website is avaialable for review on GitHub in a public repository. You can access the repository by clicking here.
I tested this website with Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE browsers. I used the https://validator.w3.org website to validate my HTML and it passed with zero errors or warnings. I used animate.css to add some animation to the header section of the website. I used the JQuery waypoint plugin to help suppport sticky navigation, smooth scrolling and mobile navigation.