Perry Hertler

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I am a Ruby on Rails and iOS Developer with over 13 years experience delivering highly performant well crafted software in a wide variety of software systems including embedded, real-time, distributed, desktop, and web applications using agile best practices. I have delivered over 30 applications on time, on budget, and feature complete

I am particularly interested in fully utilizing my high productivity and wide breadth of skills at a small startup company.

EXPERIENCEFidelity Life Insurance (FLA)Team Lead, Remote Independent Consultant, 2011 - Present]

FLA is transitioning to a product company.

Lead a large team on a major SOA effort for a new product involving 13 Padrino services, 4 Rails 3.2 applications, 10 custom gems, MongoDB, Postgres, RabbitMQ, and Backbone.js.

Team Lead, Bend, OR (telecommute), [May.2011]

G5 provides online marketing solutions to self-storage, student-housing, and senior living properties. I am responsible for leading software developers across our two main effors, Reporting and Mobile.

I was also part of a team that upgraded the core custom CMS from Rails 2 to Rails 3.

CTO, Chicago, IL (telecommute), [September.2009 - May.2011]

Path nder is a consulting rm that specializes in delivering MVP for startup companies. While serving as CTO I also participated as Lead Developer on several projects.

ProjectsDataColor Colorspot (iOS 4) - Lead Developer

Colorspot is an iPhone application used by interior designers to capture color swatches and then visualize the swatch on surfaces, compare it to another swatch, view color harmony, lookup similar colors, and share the swatch.

(Rails 3) - Lead Developer

SeasonalBids provides property managers (PMs) a place to author and public request for bids (RFBs). Contractors can then search for RFBs in their area and bid on them up until the deadline date, which is set by the property manager. PMs can then award contracts to the winning contractors.

(Rails 3) - Lead Developer

pod-cme is used by physicians to participate in clinical studies and obtain CME credits. Administrators of the site can build clinical area questionnaires and provide education material in documents, podcasts, or videos.

(Rails 2.3) - Senior Developer

nailyourmortgage provides wholesale mortgages to home buyers and re nancers.

Technical Software Architect, Chicago, IL (telecommute), [September.2007 - September.2009]

Redpoint is a software consulting firm. In addition to leading project, I also served as Redpoint's only

Technical

Software Architect, which involved evaluating technologies and products, mentoring developers, and conference speaking.

Projects

(groovy) - System Administrator

BriteTab is a rich content online resume builder. Videos and images can be embedded in a traditional resume.

global time and expense (ASP.NET) - Lead Developer

The global time and expense application is used in over 50 countries by over 300,000 users.

Consultant for

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Software Architect, Albuquerque, NM, [May.2001 - September.2007]

I designed and developed multiple systems used to identify, locate, and sometimes eliminate national security threats. These applications had 100% code coverage before testing was cool!

INRISoftware Engineer, San Diego, CA, [December.1998 - May.2001]

I designed and developed multiple distributed communication systems used by the Department of Defense.

EDUCATION

B.S. with double major in Computer Science and Mathematics

SKILLSLanguages

Ruby, Java, C#, Objective-C, C++

Frameworks/Databases

Ruby on Rails, JQuery, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle

Testing

Real TDD with RSpec

Platform/Tools

Heroku, EC2, S3, RDS, Cloudfront, Passenger, Git, OSX, Linux

Performance

Rapid application development, load testing, pro ling, instrumentation, code optimization, database optimization

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