Experience

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  Uber

  • Colorado Front Range

  • Driver

    • May 2021 - Present
    • Colorado Front Range

    I drive people to and fro in a 2020 Corolla. The car handles like a dream. It's got a great sound system and I play excellent music from a wide array of genres including electronic, classical, jazz, bossa nova, rock, the Dead, hip hop, swing, etc. I provide entertainment, unofficial therapy, ...

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  myself

  • Massachusetts and Colorado

  • consultant

    • Sep 2013 - Present
    • Massachusetts and Colorado

    Currently I'm doing a combination of development and tech tutoring. My clients hire me to level up either themselves or their tech people. I meet every client and organization with a fresh mind and the sum total of all my work experience ever which includes construction, architectural consu...

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  6kites

  • Colorado

  • Senior Software Developer

    • Aug 2019 - Nov 2020
    • Colorado

    Built the Smartsheet plugin for Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator. Had a hand in some plugins for other hosts such as Hootsuite and Salesforce. Did some Rails dev on internal tools for large corporate clients. Lots of systems thinking with Lucidchart. Added test suites, containerized apps, wor...

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  Openbay

  • Boston

  • Developer

    • Jun 2012 - May 2013
    • Boston

    Worked about 10-15 hours/week as a contractor, sitting next to Rob most days. He did biz dev and I handled tech. Company valuation increased by millions during that time.

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  yogapo.com

  • Boston and NYC

  • CTO

    • Mar 2012 - Jul 2012
    • Boston and NYC

    Alex was the one with the vision here. He wanted to do yoga teacher training but couldn't find a good site to browse and compare teacher training programs. He brought me on board with a simple demonstration: * First he showed me the first page of google results for "yoga teacher train...

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  thoughtbot, inc.

  • Boston

  • Apprentice

    • Jan 2012 - Mar 2012
    • Boston

    Spent three months in the apprentice.io program

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  Smartleaf

  • Cambridge, MA

  • Rails developer

    • Sep 2010 - Feb 2011
    • Cambridge, MA

    Was an engineer improving the codebase of an app that manages over $50B in assets.

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  Citizens Market

  • Cambridge, MA

  • Volunteer Web Developer / Team Lead

    • 2008 - Nov 2010
    • Cambridge, MA

    Citizens Market aggregates consumer feedback on the companies behind products you buy every day. Any compnay, all companies, users post information and we collect it. Scores are generated for various issues, and you can look these scores up while you shop. Scan a barcode, get a karmic report c...

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  Talking Lights LLC

  • Boston

  • Independent Contractor

    • 2007 - May 2009
    • Boston

    Ran two studies on implementing the Talking Lights system into care facilities. In one case it was the brain trauma ward of Spaulding Rehabilitation Center, and in the other case it was the Alzheimer's care facility at Hearthstone.

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  i.fm

  • Cambridge, MA

  • Hired Gun

    • 2007 - 2007
    • Cambridge, MA

    I had a narrow scope here. Was taking plain .html mockups and converting them to .html.erb templates for the rails app. While I had authority to modify controllers if necessary, I very rarely needed to because they were very well-built before I came onboard.

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  Rhythmic Design

  • Boston

  • coder

    • 2006 - 2007
    • Boston

    Helped my boss develop a set of re-usable PHP modules for composing web applications. I guess you could call them widgets - I remember spending a lot of time on a js tree view where one could expand or collapse nodes, add them, edit, etc. Basically the same interface as what we browse file syst...

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  SD Keppler & Associates

  • Washington, DC

  • Associate

    • Nov 2005 - Jun 2006
    • Washington, DC

    Assisted clients in optimizing building design for renewable characteristics. Most clientele was interested in obtaining LEED certification for their new property.

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  Smokin' Joe's Barbeque

  • Brighton, MA

  • line cook

    • Aug 1913 - Sep 1913
    • Brighton, MA

    Spent a month as a line cook at an awesome soul food restaurant with the best blues in Boston. Learned how to make everything from smoked pork shoulders to Alabama-style barbecue sauce to deep fried catfish and onion rings. It was a nice break from being at a computer all the time.Dates are act...