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Summary

I am currently (2013) only interested in the Ruby on Rails platform !

I develop in Ruby on Rails daily for both fun and income as seen in my .

I'm currently working with on several Rails applications that help School Districts manage their resources.

My current preferred set of technologies for Rails development is Ruby 1.9.3, Rails 3.2+, SQL(any flavor), git, Pivotal Tracker and jQuery.

When learning Rails I initially created 9 applications to develop my skills, all of which you can see in my

I have a passion for new technology and using it to provide users with practical solutions to their needs!

I'm also a fan as I greatly enjoy learning and sharing knowledge!

When I'm not doing Ruby, I'm often playing around with Javascript or Python.

Though I consider myself a geek, friends, colleagues and co-workers tell me that my greatest asset is my attitude and proven experience

in closely working well with business users and understanding their needs well.

I currently use rSpec for Model and Controller testing, Selenium for View testing, Git for Source Control, jQuery for javascript,

vi and rubyMine for editing and Ubuntu for my desktop (sometimes I use a Mac).

My recent Rails experience adds to my 10+ years of production experience in analysis, design and development on a wide

variety of platforms, databases, languages and tools for several companies, a startup and even my own company!

Objectives

To provide users with useful and innovative solutions.

To learn from others while sharing my own knowledge and skills.

To do the above in a fun, relaxed, environment, focused on the work.

Identity

Blog: http://my.opera.com/durrantm/blog/

Github: https://github.com/durrantm

Website: http://michaeldurrant.com/

Resume: http://michaeldurrant.com/resume.html

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/durrantm

Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/631619/michael-durrant

Experience

Jul 2012 - Current The District Management Council, Boston MA

Rails Developer

Working on a variety of Rails applications that help school districts manage their resources and schedule their staff for both General and Special Education.

Worked to develop new functionality and convert poorly engineered applications to more standard RESTful simple code.

Using jQuery, Rails versions 3.2.11 and tools such as git for DVCS and Pivotal Tracker for project tracking

Jan 2011 - July 2012 Boston Agile Partners, Cambridge MA

Rails Developer

Worked on a variety of client (Rails) applications, from a Hospital Survey tool to a Salesforce assistant to a Real Estate application.

Worked to develop new functionality and convert poorly engineered applications to more standard RESTful simple code.

Using mostly jQuery and Rails versions 2.3.8, 2.3.11, 3.0.3, 3.1 and 3.2 and tools such as git for DVCS and Pivotal Tracker for project tracking

May 2003 - Jan 2009 Children's Hospital, Boston MA

Senior Business Intelligence Developer

Developed data extracts and reports for a large number of users and departments using

Business Objects, Crystal Reports with Oracle and SQL Server databases.

Used Cold Fusion to voluntarily write a 'Wikipedia' like "CDD" (Common Data Dictionary) internal application for the group with an Oracle backend.

Created a number of applications and reporting solutions in a number of different projects with a diverse cross-section of users and opinions,

often working behind the scenes to resolve key issues.

Ran a Data Quality Group with a variety of Hospital users at various management levels to identify and resolve complex Data Quality Issues.

I was headhunted into this position by a former colleague at Children's who I had to worked with,

though I was not looking for new employment at that time.

June 2002 - May 2003. Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, Lincoln

MA

Lead Developer

Created, modified and maintained Cold Fusion Applications using

Cold Fusion 5.0 and SQL server 2000. Designed and coded new Bug Tracking

application to track all bugs and enhancements.

Sep 2000 - October 2001. Brandstamp, Cambridge Innovations,

Cambridge MA

Senior Data Architect

Created Oracle 8i PL/SQL based Cold Fusion Applications to merge

data and create email campaign applications.

Oct 1999 - Aug 2000. Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA

Web Application Developer

Created web templates for dynamic HTML applications. Wrote

back-end PL/1 support programs to extract data from MVS Mainframe

for web presentation and update combined with HTML pages designed

in Dreamweaver.

Apr 1999 - Oct 1999. Snap2Web, Brighton MA

Owner, Web Site Design Firm

Sole proprietor of a small business web site Design Company.

Gained experience in Internet Technology, web site design and graphic

layout using a wide variety of tools including FrontPage98, PhotoShop

and Canvas.

Jul 1998 - Apr 1999. CSC Consulting Corporation, Waltham MA

Senior Developer, Oracle Financials

Implemented successful upgrade to Oracle Financials (Projects,

AR, PA, GL). Lead hands-on developer in upgrade of custom SQR environment in a

HP/SUN UNIX PVCS environment using tools like vi.

Provided production pager support 24 x 7.

1988 - 1998. Children's Hospital Of Boston, Boston MA

1995 - 1998 Application Team Leader

Responsible for a team of three developers in an enterprise-wide

project to replace core Registration, Scheduling and Accounting systems.

Presenter and technical sponsor for front-end registration system.

Worked with a broad range of hospital management, end-users and IS

staff over three years with 6 months of unit, integrated and interfaced testing with change

management and issue resolution of over 1000 issues.

Provided production support 24 x 7 for Legacy applications.

1988 - 1995 Application Specialist I, II,

III

Created Oracle SQL Database application for booking hospital

preadmissions. Investigated, analyzed and documented manual booking

system.

Education

2013, January. Python, Code Academy

2012, December. Code Year, Code Academy

2012, September. Ruby bits, Code School

2012, May. Functions, conditionals and primitives in Javascript: Code Academy

2011, December. Rails best practices, Code School

2011, March. Scaling Rails at Thoughtbot

2010, November. Ruby Group Meetups

2010, September. Personal Rails App 1-6 with Ubuntu and mySQL

2010, May. Switch to Linux(Ubuntu) from Windows (3 new machines, etc.)

2010, April. Cold Fusion 9 New Features (ORM, etc.), Lynda.com.

2000, May. Object Oriented Technology (1 week.) IBM, Woburn,

MA.

2000 NetG on-line training. Achieved passing grades in a wide variety

of courses.

1999 Web Site Design using FrontPage98. BCAE, Boston, MA.

1996 C++ (1 week). Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard,

MA.

1994 Programming in C++. (gpa4.0) Northeastern University,

Boston MA.

1992 Oracle SQL & SqlForms. Oracle Corporation, Boston,

MA.

1984 - 1988 B.Sc. (Hons) Business Information Technology Studies, Manchester

University, Manchester, UK

Languages & Tools

Advanced knowledge in SQL, HTML and programming practices.

Extensive knowledge in Rails, Oracle, PL/SQL, Unix, JavaScript, SQR

Basic knowledge of RSpec, Ruby, AJAX, JQuery

Development

Local Rails groups East and West almost weekly with fellow developers, Subscriptions to Ruby on Rails Magazine, Internet

World, XML Journal, Cold Fusion Developer Journal.

(ror app of course!) of scripts,

examples, code & organizations

Constant online training courses in new technology each month and overall I just have a huge appetite for change, learning and growth.

Interests

Antique car restoration (1956 Buick), extreme

skiing, Bonsai cultivation, world travel, XML technology.

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