• Independent Developer
• Birmingham, AL
• Various

• Wordpress Integration with Magento - Wordpress shortcodes, Magento SOAP API
• C/ C++ - Kernel Module for Allwinner A10 ARM PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) Github source for pwm-sunxi
• Ruby On Rails - RETS MLS data downloader and validator Github source for rets_validator
• Ruby On Rails and coffeescript - Leaflet.js map with a custom coordinate system for in-game information display. Github source for firedeaths

• Learning Earnings - Online incentive program for K-12
• Birmingham, AL
• Developer / SysAdmin / Architect of Awesome

• Main developer for our PHP / MySQL (LAMP Stack) site
• Ported application to Rails
  • Using Devise, dragonfly, sass, coffeescript, Spree (spreecommerce.com), multi-domains, auctions, etc
• Setup automated server monitoring
• Moved LearningEarnings “to the Cloud” from a dedicated server
• Moved LearningEarnings Subversion repo to git and github
• Code review and deployment (github based) for 2 (very) remote developers
• Developed workflow procedures first utilizing SVN, then git for quick, ticket-based deployments
• Optimized MySQL queries and MySQL server configuration as well as PHP code

• Docupak,Inc. - Marketing and Fulfillment company
• Alabaster, AL
• Senior Developer

• Took over reporting infrastructure developed in SSRS and added significant features
• Leader of the “Special Projects” Team
• Developed almost exclusively in C# . .NET in VS2008 and VS2010
• Led development of several key projects from design to deployment
• Developed a data warehouse database for some legacy projects
• Utilized SVN
• Installed, configured, trained and provided support for Trac
• SQL Server stored procedures

• BBVA Compass
• Birmingham, AL (Daniel Building)
• Finance Manager III (VP level)

• This position wasn’t a good fit, and wasn’t what I was hired for.
• Managed a group of subject matter experts supporting a star-schema mission critical Oracle Data Warehouse
• Developed a Rails app for the Small Business group to automate monthly reconciliation tasks that fed into the Corporate Financials

• Sungard/OMNI(formerly Pyramid Digital Solutions until August 2005)
• Owned by Dharmesh Shah
• Birmingham, AL
• Developer/ R&D Team Leader/ Director of Product Architecture

• Directed the efforts of 4 developers and 1 DBA.
• Presentations to the development group on software design patterns and current development technology.
• Ported Windows CGI Web application to Linux, HPUX, and AIX.
• SysAdmin for Unix (development) servers (HPUX and Linux)
• Upgraded Rogue Wave libraries.
• Upgraded VSS to Subversion and built a new release process. Migrated ALL revision history and author information from 1994.
• Expert level Perl programmer, Unix developer, and C/ C++ developer.
• Created a Ruby Domain Specific Language (DSL) to automate testing of our web apps. Includes authentication, session interface, performance metrics and historical comparison

• Magnatrax Corporation
• Eufaula,AL
• Application Group Leader / Architect

Directed the efforts of 6+ developers in developing both User Interface, and Security + Logistics components (2 teams) of a comprehensive metal buildings design tool. "De facto" leader of a three member Architecture board responsible for reviewing the current architecture and proposing architecture changes to the current application.

Member of the Readiness Review committee. This committee was responsible for evaluating organizational readiness to deploy our software. As a member of this committee, I championed enterprise software architecture changes to ensure organizational ability to deploy our software to our network of affiliated builders. Other duties included:

• Outsourcing / co-location review
• Hardware requirement specification
• WAN requirement estimates
• I was given leadership of the User Interface in addition to Security + Logistics 7 months after initial hire.
• I championed and helped define a more industry standard point release process.

• ElPaso Energy
• Birmingham,AL
• Client/Server Architect / Principle

• Oracle database
• PL/SQL (Server Side)
• C++, OO Design
• Design Patterns
• CORBA
• Visual Basic
• RCS
• Unix (HP-UX)

• 1.2 million lines of C++ code (some auto-generated by Rational Rose)
• 4500+ source files
• 500+ database tables
• 500+ database views
• 400+ PL/SQL packages
• 50 gb database

• Federal TransTel
• Birmingham,AL
• Lead Developer

Design and develop billing applications for the telecommunications industry. This position included design and development of critical applications utilizing PL/SQL (Server and Client Side), SQL, C, Perl, SCO Unix and Digital Unix. My accomplishments include: Porting the applications from SCO Unix to Digital Unix Extensive data mining software to identify additional revenue sources. I directed the efforts of 3 developers.

• Southern Computer Systems
• Birmingham, AL
• Lead Developer
• Lead Product Developer - ImageKey

  Designed and developed tools for image assisted data entry. This was originally developed using OS/2 V1.3, ported to OS/2 2.0 and Windows NT 4.0. I designed background queuing software utilizing threads, workflow software with the Btrieve record manager, and display manipulation software for both Windows and OS/2. ImageKey software was written in mostly C / C++. Our G4 image decompressor was x86 Assembler (Initially 16bit, ported to 32bit).

• Lead Product Developer - ImageTrac(sic)

  The ImageTrac scanner is a high speed (300 ppm) full color scanner. I designed and developed inkjet software for imprinting tracking numbers on documents. I assisted in development of the real-time basic transport software utilizing the QNX operating system. This real-time software interacted with motors sensors and fans to accurately move the paper past the camera. I developed software to store JPEG encoded images from the image capture to TIF and jpeg format. Directed the efforts of 3 developers.

  Achievements: Management award for outstanding service on the ImageTrac project. 33% bonus one year.

• The Riley Group
• Dothan, AL
• Senior Developer

• OpenStreetMap mapping
• My University of Montevallo edits
• OpenLayers GeoJSON import of US State and County data (GeoJSON EX demo)
• Arduino Non-Blocking Stepper control library
• Magento Extension for vendor address geolocation
• Magento SOAP (PHP) integration with Wordpress
• (Perl) Web Spider for retrieval of images held hostage by a hosting company
• Subversion, Authentication ( MySQL auth), PHP configuration, Apache URL-Rewriting for a stock-research firm
• ( Rails 1.x) Fully normalized Multiple Listing Service ActiveRecord model, and several other unfinished rails projects
• ( Rails 3.2.13) RETS Validator app for pulling RETS data, validating and importing into custom database schemas (On Github)
• Found an ”encouraged misconfiguration” for nginx+Unicorn that was causing Fedora users problems.

• Troy State University
  • US-Alabama-Troy
  • Completed 3 years of a Computer Science/Business Administration double major.
• University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • US-Alabama-Birmingham
  • Various extra-curricular subjects such as Physics, Calculus I and II - not in the pursuit of a degree.
• Personal Study
  • Personal Software Process
  • gprof profiling
  • MythTV
  • OpenStreetMap mapping
  • Arduino
  • Raspberry Pi

2011 - Present

• Birmingham Open Source Software
• Organizer, Presenter..

2009 - Present

• OpenStreetMap
• Mapper. University of Montevallo, Coosa River, Interstate 65 crossings / onramps, area counties way fixups, misc subdivisions

2003 - Present

• Birmingham Area Linux Users
• Member, Presenter.

12/1996 - 2/2001

• Birmingham Oracle Users Group
• Member / Presentation Coordinator