Employment History
Senior Software Developer, Renewable Funding, LLC
(Full-time employee)
March 2010 – present
(Portland, OR)
Develop and maintain Ruby on Rails applications, extract code into internal libraries, contribute to process changes for a five- to eight-person development team, organize and give "Lunch & Learn" presentations, provide personalized in-house training for less technical stakeholders.
Lead Developer, CTI Solutions Group
(Full-time employee)
August 2009 – March 2010
(Portland, OR)
Developed and maintained Ruby on Rails applications.
Developer, raSANTIAGO & Associates
(Part-time employee)
February 2009 – July 2009
(Portland, OR)
Developed and maintained Ruby on Rails web applications. Performed several complex database conversions, an effort that culminated in SQrbL, a Ruby library for simplifying such conversions.
Developer, Zocalo Software
(Full-time employee)
August 2007 – January 2009
(Portland, OR)
Maintained and extended five bespoke Ruby on Rails web applications with a combined total of 3,000+ active users.
[Remote office: company and clients in New York, NY.]
August 2007
[Graduated Portland State University.]
Developer: Outcomes Tracker, version 3
(Project)
June 2006 – June 2007
(Portland, OR)
Rewrote the application for the Web using Ruby on Rails, to enable use of the software by teams in Africa as well as the United States.
Developer, Teaching Autistic Children, Inc.
(Part-time employee)
October 2004 – May 2007
(Portland, OR)
Developed an Access-based system for entering developmental assessments for clients, then creating custom charts via Excel automation. Also began work on a timecard entry system in Ruby on Rails, to be used for billing and payroll.
[Telecommuting position: company in Sacramento, CA.]
Developer: Outcomes Tracker, version 2
(Project)
August 2003 – February 2004
(Portland, OR)
Ported user interface and business logic to Visual Basic 6. Added built-in charting, statistics, and filtering features, which removed the need for agencies to spend over $1,000 to purchase licenses for Access and SPSS.
April 2003
[Returned to college full-time.]
Developer, Personable PC Solutions
(Full-time employee)
April 2001 – October 2002
(Portland, OR)
Added new features, bug fixes and performance enhancements to two commercial Access-based applications for the health-care industry.
[May-July 2003: returned for short-term project.]
Developer, HellerEhrman
(Full-time employee)
July 1999 – February 2001
(San Francisco, CA)
Developed and maintained various departmental database applications using Access, Visual Basic, ASP and SQL Server.
Developer: Outcomes Tracker, version 1
(Project)
February 1998 – June 1999
(Sacramento, CA)
Created Access 97 database to track pre- and post-test client outcome evaluation scores for social service agencies in Placer County, CA and analyze program impact over time. This version exported data for analysis in SPSS (a commercial statistical package).