Remote, Agile Development
Over five years successfully working remote and agile.
I am a low-maintenance, highly motivated, self-directed developer. All projects in my portfolio were completed from my dedicated home office as a remote, solo developer or as a member of a small remote team. Several are BDD projects with daily stand ups, paired programming, and short iterations.
Proven Professional Track Record
Experience in projects of all sizes, duration, and stages.
Demonstrating motivation and self-direction, I have personally launched three commercial web applications. I have also been a member of three other distributed, remote development teams producing Software as a Service products.
Ability to Pick Up Existing Apps
Can easily onboard into existing Rails apps and teams.
I design and develop new features, provide technical insight, and production support for practicalecommerce.com, picking up where another developer left off. I extended and transformed the platform in order to support a sister site, Ecommerce Devloper.
Strong Technical Skills
Including Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript.
With 20 years in IT, five+ years in full-time Rails design and development, and a masters degree in Information Systems, I bring a solid technical background to applications. Besides Rails and jQuery, my resume also includes most of the standards such as Java, ASP .NET, major RDBMs, and tools such as Git.
Small Team Experience
Comfortable on teams of all sizes.
All projects in my Rails portfolio represent teams between 1 and 6 developers. I find smaller teams more enjoyable, productive, focused and successful (when measured on time, budget, and customer satisfaction) than large teams such as I experienced in corporate IT.
Quality Work under Deadlines
Through communication and planning, I meet deadlines.
I have planning and productivity skills that allow me to reliably meet deadlines. As an extreme case, I participated in the 48-hour Rails Rumble in 2008 and 2009. AffiliApp.com is my Rails Rumble 2009 entry which is the recipient of the Ready to Earn exhibition award, recognizing AffiliApp for having "a clear business model that offers real value".
Client References
Kerry Murdock, Practical eCommerce
Kerry is the owner of Practical eCommerce
kmurdock@practicalecommerce.com
phone: 1 (970) 257-0606
Chris Bernard, Zavers.com project
Chris is the owner of logicleaf.com, who I sub-contracted through
cebernard@gmail.com
phone: 1 (609) 304-9475
Adam McGowan, Firefield.com
Adam is the founder of Firefield.com.
adam@firefield.com
Michael Murphy, VideoPros.com
Michael is a Partner in the company that owns VideoPros.com
mdm@nicheti.com
Peer references from fellow developers
are available upon request.
Education
- Masters of Applied Science in Computer Information Systems
University of Denver, 2006 - BS, Business Administration with Computer Science minor
Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, 1991
Fun
Besides coding, I enjoy a variety of activities including- hiking Colorado's 14ers
- geocaching
- scuba
- camping
eCommerce Developer and Practical eCommerce
Practical eCommerce is a leading "Resource for Online Business Owners". I picked up this CMS-driven site where a previous developer left off. Much of the functionality is not publicly accessible. From the framework of PeC, I programmed eCommerceDeveloper.com as a solo, freelance Rails developer and deployed it to EY Cloud.
Using: Rails, git, mySQL, AJAX, CSS, Passenger, ultrasphinx, memcached, nginx.
Firefield.com
Firefield is an online sports management app. As part of a 2 person, distributed, Rails team, I performed full life-cycle Rails development on this site. Using: git, mySQL, AJAX, CSS.
VideoPros
VideoPros is a site and marketplace for professional videographers. As part of a 5 person, distributed, Rails team, I performed full life-cycle Rails development on this site. Using: git, mySQL, AJAX, CSS.
PlaybookIQ and LeadsOnRails
These are two sales and marketing related products I develop, market, and support. Both have active, paying users. I am responsible for the product brochure front-ends as well as the Rails applications themselves. Using: Rails, git, mySQL, AJAX, CSS, haml.
Zavers
Zavers is an online coupon site, connecting grocers and consumers. As part of a distributed 6 person Rails team with members across the country, we followed an agile development method including daily stand ups, pair programming, two-week iterations, task estimate methods, and test-driven development.
Rails Rumble Apps, Solo
Rails Rumble is a 48-hour programming contest. I completed the 2008 and 2009 Rails Rumble in the solo division. AffiliApp is my solo Rails Rumble 2009 entry which was completed in less than two days and won the Ready to Earn exhibition award.
Rails Hackfest
The Rails Hackfest recognizes top contributors to the Rails framework during the contest period. I was one of the top 5 contributors during the 2007 Hackfest.
Bio
Scott has twenty years of professional IT experience in every aspect of software development and software project and team management and improvement. Recognized as a creative problem solver, Scott is able to speak easily and communicate effectively with both technical development teams and executive management. In 2006, he co-founded Synap Software, LLC with a unique combination of deep technical skills and strong business experience. Synap Software offers effective information technology solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses.
Prior to starting Synap Software, Scott spent seven years at Sprint Nextel where he led Information Technology efforts in marketing, care, collections, cash receipts, and data warehouse. At Sprint Nextel, he earned a reputation for positive interaction with the user community resulting in IT projects that exceeded user expectations culminating in receipt of an Inner Circle Award, Sprint Nextel’s highest employee honor.
Scott has expertise with every aspect of software development and management of software development teams. He has experience in a wide range of languages including Ruby on Rails, Java, PL/1, Visual Basic, .Net, Delphi, C++, and PowerBuilder. Scott holds a Masters of Applied Science degree in Computer Information Systems from the University of Denver.
Scott’s rates range from $90 to $100 / hour with additional flexibility depending on project timeline, scope, and responsibilities.
