Experience

BlastX Consulting

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Business Analytics Developer

  • Apr 2013 - Present



MamaAlwaysSays.com

• Sacramento, California Area

• Software Developer / System Administration

  • Jul 2011 - Present

  Independently programmed and system administrated a local business review, referral, and loyalty system with Ruby on Rails from a bare bones Ubuntu VPS. The system incorporates three unique user subsystems for normal reviewing members, business members, and administrators. The normal user can edit their profile, upload images, and write reviews and referrals for a business. A loyalty program for businesses integrates with a payment gateway, which rewards the business with custom subdomains, referral coupons, customized promotional pdfs, internal messaging, and analytic reporting. The system delivers html content through a Nginx proxy server and Unicorn http server. Background email processing is handled by Resque processor and data storage is implemented in MySql, Redis and Thinking Sphinx for fast searching and caching. Show less



PowerON Services, Inc.

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Oct 2012 - Apr 2013



Travidia

• Software Developer

  • Feb 2008 - Sep 2012

  Developed an advertising and lead generation system using Ruby on Rails that delivers ad content across various advertising channels. Ads for the system are created manually by users or automated through customized XML or CSV feed parsers, and along with web site scraping. The clients' ad inventory can being fully integrated into a Facebook Fan Page and the Twitter API is utilized to post individual ad content. Ads are tracked and analyzed via customized web reporting tools. Lead generation is a combination of email leads and call tracking that is integrated into each ad and web site. Semi-automated tools such as a bookmarklet and browser plugins let clients easily post their ads onto Craigslist. Clients receive an individual micro web site with their ad inventory and also access to the administrative web site for editing and viewing their inventory, analytics, and leads. Agency clients have a fully featured white labeled portal with unique ad placement sections, SEO optimized, and the ability to spotlight dealers and ads. All the web sites run on Unix with the proxy server being Nginx and the application server Unicorn. The data storage is Mysql. Show less



Educational Media Foundation K-LOVE & Air1 Media Networks

• United States
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Web Software Developer

  • May 2005 - Feb 2008

  Developed a promotion scheduling system in C# and ASP.Net, that runs promotions across multiple domains. The promotion system gives the user the ability to upload content and control the timing of displayed promotional content. Developed a CMS in VB.Net and ASP.Net for a news department to add and edit news stories and digital assets. The CMS allows the publishing of stories determined by a scheduled date and the users role in the system. Day to day maintenance of web sites. Developed a promotion scheduling system in C# and ASP.Net, that runs promotions across multiple domains. The promotion system gives the user the ability to upload content and control the timing of displayed promotional content. Developed a CMS in VB.Net and ASP.Net for a news department to add and edit news stories and digital assets. The CMS allows the publishing of stories determined by a scheduled date and the users role in the system. Day to day maintenance of web sites.



Enterprise Software Solutions Group Inc

• Sacramento, California Area

• Software Developer

  • Apr 2004 - Mar 2005

  Programmed a content management system (CMS) for the State Compensation Insurance Fund in .NET that allowed publishing of manuals based on users’ roles and identities. The smart object system developed in C# utilized serialization to run across multiple domains and networks. Programmed a content management system (CMS) for the State Compensation Insurance Fund in .NET that allowed publishing of manuals based on users’ roles and identities. The smart object system developed in C# utilized serialization to run across multiple domains and networks.



DHHS SACRAMENTO COUNTY

• Sacramento, California Area

• Web Developer

  • Sep 1998 - Apr 2004

  Developed a CMS which allowed users to independently publish web pages based on a standardized template system. An additional internal web page hit tracking system was integrated into the CMS that allowed the reporting of user preferences and usage of the system. Programmed Perl scripting modules that integrated the local and national news, traffic, weather and market reports into the Intranet site. Day to day maintenance of web sites. Developed a CMS which allowed users to independently publish web pages based on a standardized template system. An additional internal web page hit tracking system was integrated into the CMS that allowed the reporting of user preferences and usage of the system. Programmed Perl scripting modules that integrated the local and national news, traffic, weather and market reports into the Intranet site. Day to day maintenance of web sites.