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Developer @ Freelance Software Developer I built public facing websites and custom Wordpress themes for clients. I used Adobe’s Creative Suite and JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and Rails. I also built the design and layout for both electronic and print versions of an academic journal. From August 2010 to March 2014 (3 years 8 months) Florence, Alabama AreaSenior...

Developer @ Freelance Software Developer I built public facing websites and custom Wordpress themes for clients. I used Adobe’s Creative Suite and JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and Rails. I also built the design and layout for both electronic and print versions of an academic journal. From August 2010 to March 2014 (3 years 8 months) Florence, Alabama AreaSenior Software Engineer @ DockYard, Inc. I use JavaScript, Rails, and Elixir to help large clients build software. I am the App Lead on an ambitious application. We use Rails on the server and Ember as our client framework.Prior to the current client engagement I worked as part of a two engineer team on a web application that used Elixir on the server and Ember on the client. From September 2017 to March 2020 (2 years 7 months) Technical Trainer / Educator @ SmoothTerminal I wrote and recorded a twelve week training course on EmberJS for smoothterminal.com. The Ember topics covered can be viewed here: https://www.smoothterminal.com/courses/ember From July 2016 to December 2016 (6 months) Lead Developer/Partner @ History Seeker I lead development and co-founded History Seeker, a web based education platform for self-directed history and geography learning.The application was build with an EmberJS frontend and a Rails API. The application used leaflet.js to to display historical events on a map and it allowed users to search, and filterable historical events by time, locations, and relation to other historical events. From March 2014 to June 2016 (2 years 4 months) Birmingham, Alabama AreaDeveloper @ Isotope11 Responsible for customer-facing website work. Specific focus on JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and SVG. Maintained and extended a custom jQuery-based JavaScript application that enabled customers of a photography company to customize orders, adding frames, mattes, and inscriptions. Provided for a real-time updating preview of the order as well as maintaining pricing as features were added or removed. Worked on the frontend for various customer-facing portions of a prepaid debit card platform that we built from scratch. Involved JavaScript and HTML/CSS work. Worked on a project that involved a backend Property Insurance Rate Calculator. This had a very detailed front-end JavaScript application for geolocating a property's address, getting a rapid estimate of insurance back, and filling out a 10-page insurance application with detailed validation and conditional field display. Worked on at least 9 other frontend-heavy applications in this time period, each of which involved JavaScript From March 2007 to August 2010 (3 years 6 months) Birmingham, Alabama AreaLead Software Engineer @ Stitch Fix Working with React and Rails to solve problems and build great software. Senior Software Developer @ CaptainU I was involved in transitioning a complex application, with a large active user base, from Coffeescript, Ember Rails, and Ember 1.8, to a modern Ember 2.x application using Ember CLI and ES2015. I worked with two other developers in completely transitioning the application in three weeks. I was responsible for developing and implementing a deploy strategy with the rewritten application. I was responsible for new feature development, ongoing improvements, and maintenance to the Ember-CLI/Ember 2.x app, the Rails API, and a public facing Rails site. I was also involved in optimizations that resulted in an improved page load time of over 200% while increasing the active customer base 3 fold. From August 2015 to September 2017 (2 years 2 months) Greater Denver AreaSenior Software Developer @ Isotope11, inc Built an application that uses an EmberJS SPA integrated within a Rails application to dynamically generate custom employment application forms. A potential employer can save custom forms as templates, clone and change them to fit their specific needs. Built an Ember application that connects to a Wordpress backend. This creates a highly customizable, responsive CMS. Built a Rails application for managing and tracking assets. As the assets come into inventory they are processed through a series of checks and inspections. The application also includes part ordering, acceptance, and rejection or built and rebuilt assets. From March 2014 to August 2015 (1 year 6 months) Birmingham, Alabama Area