Developer Development

Location:

Denver, CO

Posted:

September 29, 2012

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Scott Meade

Denver Area Rails Developer

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Denver Area Rails Developer

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Remote, Agile Development

Over five years successfully working remote and agile.

I am a low-maintenance, highly motivated, self-directed developer. All projects in my

portfolio were completed from my dedicated home office as a remote, solo developer or as a

member of a small remote team. Several are BDD projects with daily stand ups, paired

programming, and short iterations.

Proven Professional Track Record

Experience in projects of all sizes, duration, and stages.

Demonstrating motivation and self-direction, I have personally launched three commercial

web applications. I have also been a member of three other distributed, remote development

teams producing Software as a Service products.

Ability to Pick Up Existing Apps

Can easily onboard into existing Rails apps and teams.

I design and develop new features, provide technical insight, and production support for

practicalecommerce.com, picking up where another developer left off. I extended and

transformed the platform in order to support a sister site, Ecommerce Devloper.

Strong Technical Skills

Including Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript.

With 20 years in IT, five+ years in full-time Rails design and development, and a masters

degree in Information Systems, I bring a solid technical background to applications.

Besides Rails and jQuery, my resume also includes most of the standards such as Java, ASP

.NET, major RDBMs, and tools such as Git.

Small Team Experience

Comfortable on teams of all sizes.

All projects in my Rails portfolio represent teams between 1 and 6 developers. I find

smaller teams more enjoyable, productive, focused and successful (when measured on time,

budget, and customer satisfaction) than large teams such as I experienced in corporate IT.

Quality Work under Deadlines

Through communication and planning, I meet deadlines.

I have planning and productivity skills that allow me to reliably meet deadlines. As an

extreme case, I participated in the 48-hour Rails Rumble in 2008 and 2009. AffiliApp.com

is my Rails Rumble 2009 entry which is the recipient of the Ready to Earn exhibition

award, recognizing AffiliApp for having a clear business model that offers real value .

Client References

Kerry Murdock, Practical eCommerce

Kerry is the owner of Practical eCommerce

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phone: 1-970-***-****

Chris Bernard, Zavers.com project

Chris is the owner of logicleaf.com, who I sub-contracted through

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phone: 1-609-***-****

Adam McGowan, Firefield.com

Adam is the founder of Firefield.com.

****@*********.********** Murphy, VideoPros

.com

Michael is a Partner in the company that owns VideoPros.com

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Peer references from fellow developers are available upon request.

Education

Masters of Applied Science in Computer Information Systems

University of Denver, 2006

BS, Business Administration with Computer Science minor

Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, 1991

Fun

Besides coding, I enjoy a variety of activities including

hiking Colorado s 14ers

geocaching

scuba

camping

Portfolio

eCommerce Developer and Practical eCommerce

Practical eCommerce is a leading Resource for Online Business Owners . I picked up this

CMS-driven site where a previous developer left off. Much of the functionality is not

publicly accessible. From the framework of PeC, I programmed eCommerceDeveloper.com as a

solo, freelance Rails developer and deployed it to EY Cloud.

Using: Rails, git, mySQL, AJAX, CSS, Passenger, ultrasphinx, memcached, nginx.

Firefield.com

Firefield is an online sports management app. As part of a 2 person, distributed, Rails

team, I performed full life-cycle Rails development on this site. Using: git, mySQL, AJAX,

CSS.

VideoPros

VideoPros is a site and marketplace for professional videographers. As part of a 5

person, distributed, Rails team, I performed full life-cycle Rails development on this

site. Using: git, mySQL, AJAX, CSS.

PlaybookIQ and LeadsOnRails

These are two sales and marketing related products I develop, market, and support. Both

have active, paying users. I am responsible for the product brochure front-ends as well as

the Rails applications themselves. Using: Rails, git, mySQL, AJAX, CSS, haml.

Zavers

Zavers is an online coupon site, connecting grocers and consumers. As part of a

distributed 6 person Rails team with members across the country, we followed an agile

development method including daily stand ups, pair programming, two-week iterations, task

estimate methods, and test-driven development.

Rails Rumble Apps, Solo

Rails Rumble is a 48-hour programming contest. I completed the 2008 and 2009 Rails Rumble

in the solo division. AffiliApp is my solo Rails Rumble 2009 entry which was completed in

less than two days and won the Ready to Earn exhibition award.

Rails Hackfest

The Rails Hackfest recognizes top contributors to the Rails framework during the contest

period. I was one of the top 5 contributors during the 2007 Hackfest.

Bio

Scott has twenty years of professional IT experience in every aspect of software

development and software project and team management and improvement. Recognized as a

creative problem solver, Scott is able to speak easily and communicate effectively with

both technical development teams and executive management. In 2006, he co-founded Synap

Software, LLC with a unique combination of deep technical skills and strong business

experience. Synap Software offers effective information technology solutions for small- to

medium-sized businesses.

Prior to starting Synap Software, Scott spent seven years at Sprint Nextel where he led

Information Technology efforts in marketing, care, collections, cash receipts, and data

warehouse. At Sprint Nextel, he earned a reputation for positive interaction with the user

community resulting in IT projects that exceeded user expectations culminating in receipt

of an Inner Circle Award, Sprint Nextel s highest employee honor.

Scott has expertise with every aspect of software development and management of software

development teams. He has experience in a wide range of languages including Ruby on Rails,

Java, PL/1, Visual Basic, .Net, Delphi, C++, and PowerBuilder. Scott holds a Masters of

Applied Science degree in Computer Information Systems from the University of Denver.

Scott s rates range from $90 to $100 / hour with additional flexibility depending on