Developer Manager New York Management .Net Project

James Somers

** **** **., *** ** Mobile: 772-***-****

New York, NY 10038 E-mail: *******@*****.***

Pivotal Labs, New York, New York

Employment

Developer September 2011 - Present

Test-driven, agile pair programming on multiple large projects. [Ruby, Rails, SQL, and JavaScript

(jQuery)]

Project tech lead, engineering manager, and leader of the New York o ce s internship program.

BookTour.com, San Francisco, California

Lead developer and CTO July 2007 - June 2011

Wrote and maintained our codebase. Drove new product and feature development highlights

included media contact database, tour planning tool, geocoding and event search, author pages,

and embeddable widgets. [Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript (jQuery)]

Worked three months on location at the Amazon.com o ces in Seattle as part of our ongoing

partnership. Built the Events tab into their Author Central dashboard and wrote scripts to

synchronize data between Amazon and BookTour. [Java, Perl, Mason, and Ruby]

Ginzametrics.com, Mountain View, California

Developer March 2011 - June 2011

Managed server and database infrastructure after successfully migrating from Rackspace to two

midsized AWS clusters. [Amazon EC2, RDS, EBS]

Developed features including a faster, more exible keyword management tab. [Rails, SQL]

Complex Systems Group, University of Michigan May 2008 - January 2009

Research

For the Google Summer of Code 2008, wrote software to help researchers merge, explore, visualize,

and analyze data generated by agent-based computational models of complex adaptive systems.

[Python, R]

Parsed and processed the full text of every case heard by the Supreme Court to build a network

of citations among justices. Applied methods from computational linguistics to evaluate the

semantic relatedness of cases over time. [Python, R]

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Education

B.S., Economics (May 2009).

400-level coursework in microeconomics, econometrics, complex adaptive systems, algebra, anal-

ysis, history, computational linguistics, algorithms, rst-order logic, di erential geometry, philos-

ophy of mind, english, and postmodern critical theory.

The Pingry School, Martinsville, New Jersey

Cum Laude society. 1500 SAT (750 M 750 V). Golf team captain. Senior class president.

Contributing writer for TheAtlantic.com. Personal website at jsomers.net. Solved 142 mathematics-

Miscellaneous

related programming problems at projecteuler.net (ranked 1,555th of more than 100,000 users)

[Python, Ruby]. Basketball, squash, golf.

Contact this candidate