Ray Parker

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Strengths Ruby on Rails, C++, C++/Linux/Mac/Windows, Objective C (OSX and iOS), .NET (C#, Web and PC Development), TCP/IP/Sockets, MS Access BASIC (VBA), SQL (MSSQL and MySql). A passion for FSAs and BDD. Experience 2020 – 2023 Cilutions / Hughes Media

Contract Developer

Sole back end developer supporting a small team of front end developers. Moved back end toward a GraphQL API server and designed and wrote a generic data ingestion server to service other servers with a GraphQL interface, providing the front end on servers all information to display dynamically built pages to create and manipulate data integrations (a once-written front end with a back end driven interface). 2019-2020 IndyWork/PolePosition

Contract Developer

Main Rails developer for a scheduling application. Instituted GraphQL interface to feed a mobile application as well as a web application for all CRUD operations and business-related data changes. Also did a lot of digging into Chef and preparation for a move from Heroku to a more appropriate AWS installation of the environment, slated for later in 2020. 2018 Medidata

New York, NY

Contract Developer

Worked on cleaning up the test suite on a large, complex Rails app. Was part of the development team maintain and adding features to application. Wrote and designed parts including upgrading their custom data-accessing classes to make use of Rails strong parameters, custom messaging per endpoint, etc. application that synchronizes with calendaring services (i.e. Google Calendar) and allows storing of meta data and categorization of events and uses the same to allow for templatized social media promotion and promotion campaigns, API outlets for web site calendar syncing, auto emailing via email services (i.e. MailChimp), bulk dissemination of events via category to event aggregators and the like. 2015 GoWatchit

New York, NY

Contracting Senior Rails Developer

Wrote some pf the larger architectural pieces for new features including a custom caching strategy and a generic List piece that allowed simple implementation of being able to add and ActiveRecord class easily to company and user lists for display and search as well as the API interface to support mainly Angular applications. Was also instrumental in forging the relationship with GoWatchIt and OpsLine, a company specializing is SysOps/AWS strategies for companies taking the next step to enterprise from startup. Spent quite a bit of time mentoring junior developers and bringing simplicity of code and design to mid-level developers.

2015 LendKey

New York, NY

Senior Rails Developer, Team Lead

Lead a team of programmers to continue existing product and develop new product. Worked closely with the product owner and business analyst to define new product. Mainly API development with some light interface work on older HTML based applications. Also did a lot of work on the existing testing-sphere and promotion of TDD/BDD.

2014 Magnetic

New York, NY

Rails Guild Lead, Architect, Team Lead

Lead the Rails Guild, involving two teams spanning the US and Europe and a number of projects, responsible for settings standard and best practices as well as training new recruits. Took large application with zero testing coverage up to 80%+ coverage. Was responsible for designing and implementing a Rails API application to serve new business needs as well as eventually replacing the core of the above- mentioned application. Was tasked with upgrading and making more successful project management scheme.

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2014 CAN Capital

New York, NY

Lead Developer / Architect

Lead a small team developing a RESTful JSON brokering API that gave a uniform interface to disparate back end systems. Assembled the project management and instituted Agile development practices with a strong emphasis on BDD and granular feature definitions. Brought in Pivotal tracker and deployments/hosting were done on Heroku as per company policy. Designed a JSON transformation library that not only transformed one JSON schema to another, but allowed for type checking and validation of input JSON. 2013 iCapital Network

New York, NY

Lead Developer / Architect

Hired as a senior Rails developer to develop a customer matching service in the private equities sector. Developed the back end in Rails 4 serving initially a traditional web application and then progressing to an restful API back end to service an Angular.js and other front ends. Hired two developers as well as bringing on board european contractors and set up workflow using Pivotal Tracker / Semi-Agile disciplines, integrated testing, Capistrano deployments. 2012 – 2013 Shermans Travel Media New York, NY

Lead Developer / Technical Liaison

Worked in tandem with a very hands-on project manager and QA person to identify and develop new products for the Shermans brand with a team of European developers. Added and fleshed out numerous features of the large ecosystem of applications centered on the travel advertising business. Was responsible also for establishing better relations between the business and the development department, reporting directly to the CEO. Established a quasi-Agile system and discipline centered on requirement gathering / feature description and LOE estimation using Pivotal Tracker. 2011 – 2012 Sony Music Entertainment New York, NY

Ruby Developer

One of a team of four programmers maintaining and enhancing two main applications: A generic, skin-able store to sell products and MP3s for 800+ artists web sites for mainly artists of Sony-owned labels and the CMS application used worldwide in a back-office context to manage the stores and content. Spear-headed the upgrade of the store application from Rails 2.2 to Rails 2.3 and then up to Rails 3.0.*. Did the same for the CMS application. Also brought TDD to the team and set up and maintained a TeamCity CI server. Many technologies used including integration with many different system, Amazon cloud services, load balancing/ large architecture experience – handling ~3,000 hits a second on average with spikes up to ~30K/sec spikes for news and appearances of popular group like One Direction. 1993 – Present Nibble and Byte Software Toledo, OH, New York, NY Programmer / Co-Proprietor

Have written various ‘shareware’ utilities and done consulting and contract programming for The Rovisys Co. (Ravenna, OH), OCS Management Corporation (Toledo, OH), Great Lakes Sound

(Toledo, OH), The Professional Musicians of Northwest Ohio, as well as charity help for The Sight Center (Toledo, OH) and local musicians. Also maintain a numerous web-sites, including my own, under this banner. MSVC++ / C# / .NET, Borland C++, Access, and Dreamweaver mainly used. Ray Parker

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2009 – 2010 Curious Brain New York, NY

Contracting Programmer

Develop and maintain Ruby on Rails backend (content server) that feeds information to an iPhone applications (TouchChords) as well as general data services for other Curious Brain projects. Wrote a custom-written generic Finite State Machine (FSM) in C++ that is used to solve guitar fingering, graphical finger overlays and will soon be implemented to figure out guitar voicing based on standard lead sheet notation (i.e, Gmaj9). The FSM is built per application from a text file generated from a flowchart application. 2006 – Present Mediatek Consulting New York, NY

Contracting Programmer

Web/database/HTML/CSS development, specializing mainly in database design and writing interface functionality to those databases using MS SQL Server and .NET/C#. Straight HTML site implementation in conjunction with various graphic designers. 1999-2001 Bernard L. Madoff, Inc. New York, NY

Applications Programmer

Wrote applications to support departments enterprise-wide, including portions of market-trading simulation software. Wrote an enterprise-wide cross-platform text messaging system. This encompassed a 24/7 server application (Windows NT) that accepts messages from various platforms, ranging from a Stratus mainframe (via sockets) to PC platforms such as Visual Basic, Lotus Notes, C+

+ and applications (via COM or sockets) and databases these messages as well as display the messages to systems operators via a Windows application. Wrote server that took buy/sell messages from the Stratus (via sockets) and distributed the messages to traders, again via sockets. Wrote critical pieces of trading software systems, mainly code to handle 5,000/sec rows of information coming in- house that needed to be databased (indexed) and distributed to 250 traders with less that a two second lag and at the same time not fill hard drives too quickly. Wrote scriptable data conversion application to transfer data back and forth between PC and Stratus text and binary file formats. 1998 – 1999 RHI Consulting, Xerox Connect, IntelliMark NYC, Toledo General Consulting, Light Programming Network Tech Have quite a bit of short–term contract work ranging from light programming to team-leading in OS rollout work to Y2K consultant. For this period of time I was taking specifically short-term work as I prepared to relocate to the NYC area.

1998 OmniSource, LLC Toledo, OH

Applications Programmer

Wrote Applications for various departments in Borland C++ Builder / Delphi / Oracle / NT. Extensive report writing in Crystal Reports, connecting Crystal Reporting to above applications using Crystal Report’s ActiveX control.

1995–1997 OCS Management Corporation Toledo, OH

Systems Administrator / Applications Programmer / Help Desk Wrote and maintained applications for four departments. Programming mainly database / actuarial applications for this insurance-industry company, I used MS-SQL server as a back end, MS Access/MSVC++ front ends, Crystal Reports and Access report writing. Ray Parker

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1991-1994 Luther College Decorah, IA

Studies in Computer Science and Advanced Computer Science While in the capacity of artist-in-residence I audited many courses in compiler-design, OOD, OOP, Application Development, data structures and algorithms, and some other general CS courses.

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