Software Engineer System
Resume:
Bernd J. Ustorf
Walnut Creek, CA 94597
*****.******@*****.***
Curriculum Vitae
Designed and built Recurring Billing System
Get Satisfaction
Process Credit Cards at Braintree using Active Merchant
San Francisco, CA
Completed project within 10 days of starting at company
Sr. Rails Developer
All existing self-serve customers signed up using system
10/2008-Present
Created client metrics system
Provided first insight to management about quantity and types of
companies signing up on a daily basis
Built White-label/Customization system
Allows enterprise clients to customize Get Satisfaction's
application, providing continuity of experience
Demo of product to potential enterprise clients resulted in signed
contracts.
Re-factored legacy code to adhere to Rails best practices
Insider Pages
Improved scalability using memcached
San Francisco, CA
Created software (ruby) to perform qualitative analysis of search results
Sr. Software Engineer
produce csv report for execs
1/2008-10/2008
provide web based diagnostics
Maintained scripts providing XML feed of businesses and reviews for
preferred partners (Citysearch, Google, Yahoo, etc.)
Autdited Google Adsense compliance
liased with Google staff
analyzed compliance docs
wrote compliant Javascript
Mentored junior Software Engineer
IAC
Ripe Ivy Consulting, Inc.
Coded PHP navigation structure for WordPress blog
Hawthorne, NJ
Wrote WordPress Plugin to manipulate categories
President
Assisted IAC Tech Department with integration
8/2006-1/2008
Virtual Algonquin
Created blog network in MovableType
Trained principals on MovableType.
Trained staff in HTML/CSS
Produced Video and Pod-casts
Provided IT guidance and support to mid-sized marine insurance broker
Seaborne International, Inc.
Developed .Net/TSQL business automation app. (prototype and version 1)
New York, NY
Capture policy info
Chief Technical Officer
Calculate premium
1/2001-8/2006
Produce MS Word docs
Track AR/AP
Develped prototype in Ruby on Rails/mySQL
Administered multi-site VPN
Company purchased by WebMD
Mednetrix
Managed IT department of 10
Boca Raton, FL
Lead WebMD transition team
Chief Technical Officer
Developed ASP/MS SQL public facing app
5/1998-12/2000
Developed ASP/MS SQL business automation app.
Ruby, Rails, Git, Subversion, Capistrano, RSpec, REST, HAML, GeoKit, SQL,
Development Skills:
AJAX, Scriptaculous, LINUX, EC2, S3, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, .NET
Education: Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
Graduated with distinction 1994
French Instructor
Fluent German, Spanish and French
Spoken languages:
Running, Windsurfing, Skiing, Guitar
Hobbies:
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