Platform Team Lead

• Oct 2021 - Present

My team is responsible for developing and maintaining our systems' back-end (database, architecture,...) and REST API. My team is responsible for developing and maintaining our systems' back-end (database, architecture,...) and REST API.

Lead Developer

• Nov 2017 - Sep 2021

Senior Web Application Developer (Remote)

• Jul 2016 - Nov 2017

Technologies: Ruby, Rails 5, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, jQuery, Bootstrap, Google Maps API, Twilio, CSS, HTML, Heroku, AWS, Linux, nginx AgingCommunity.com is being developed to connect users with assisted living facilities through a mobile-ready, responsive design. The site is in alpha release (to allow search engines access), but we are within months of an MVP release capable of earning revenue. My most recent milestone delivered is to utilize Twilio Programmable Voice to verify user authority to act as managers of an assisted living facility. Show less

Senior Web Application Developer (Remote)

• Oct 2001 - Nov 2017

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, PHP, JavaScript, Perl, MySQL, jQuery, jQuery-UI, CSS, SASS, HTML, HAML, XML, SOAP, WSDL, Google Analytics, Google AdWords, EngineYard, AWS, Symfony, Linux, Apache, nginx SpeedyPin has been a leading online retailer of prepaid telecom products since 1997. Notable Achievements • produced an industry dominant competitive advantage in fraud-control • raised the percentage of automatically fulfilled orders to over 98% • sold our SaaS to new entrants afraid of fraud and to competitors already buried by it • learned Ruby on Rails on the fly to replace an abruptly departed two-person development team • interfaced with countless APIs of product suppliers, payment gateways, and third-party services • effected multiple hardware and provider migrations with minimal disruption to operations • frequently beat hardware/platform vendors to diagnose and/or remediate highly technical problems • successfully scaled code and assets to handle a roughly 1200% increase in sales • managed both remote developers and a small development office in downtown Vancouver, BC • eliminated intellectual property and operational entanglements with an early vendor by replacing much of the code base and changing vendors • provided all assistance requested by the company founders to help sell SpeedyPin to a private equity firm • achieved and maintained compliance with CAN-SPAM and PCI DSS • earned top-3 Google US results for almost all critical search terms • profitably expanded PPC advertising campaigns by roughly 1000% • substantially raised the professionalism and value of SpeedyPin's affiliate program before revenue growth made it possible to hire a dedicated marketing manager • coded a custom A/B testing framework • subjected all UI / UX changes to testing (test-driven design) to ensure positive bottom-line impacts Show less

Senior Web Application Developer/Consultant

• Jan 1999 - Nov 2017

My services are most often provided under my corporate identity, Act of Mind Communication Inc. My services are most often provided under my corporate identity, Act of Mind Communication Inc.

Web Application Developer

• May 2000 - Oct 2001

Technologies: Linux, Apache, Perl, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, Flash, CSS, HTML, XML, XPATH The Odell Group's 3 person web team developed and hosted web sites for hundreds of clients on a LAMP stack. Technologies: Linux, Apache, Perl, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, Flash, CSS, HTML, XML, XPATH The Odell Group's 3 person web team developed and hosted web sites for hundreds of clients on a LAMP stack.