GearBasin (start-up)

Website – In alpha – Dev link provided on request

Lead Developer/Co-founder (Full Stack)

Seattle, WA

August 2016 – Present

• GearBasin is a start-up in alpha stage. It is a online market place for people who want to rent or sell their outdoor gear like kayaks, camping gear, bikes, etc. in addition to a large social network for outdoor adventurers.

• Developed a full-feature, content rich website from the ground up on the Ruby on Rails framework and many other technologies. Some features are transactions, listings, rating/ranking systems, events, images, profiles, and many more.

• Implemented full-stack skills to build all aspects of the website from back-end to front-end using technologies such as Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, PostgreSQL, Heroku, etc.

• Used design and UX skills to plan and lay out the website.

• Worked with and implemented third party technologies such as Google Maps API and Elasticsearch.

• Performed start-up activities such as business plans, market analysis, competitive analysis, management plan, operating plan, financial plan, and many more.

• Developed and implemented site wide tests.

• Constantly finding and troubleshooting many problems with success.

• Features that have been built and customized for the site via Rails, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, and other programming languages that were needed.

• Blogging/Posts/News
• Comments
• Events/Calendar System
• Filters (Data, search)
• Following (Twitter like)
• Friend/Relationship System
• Groups
• Listings for gear
• Login/ Log Out/ Validations
• Map and location data (Google Maps API)
• Messaging System
• News Feed System
• Notifications
• Photos/Albums
• Microposts (Twitter like)
• Ranking/Algorithm system
• Rating System
• Rentals and money transactions
• Reporting/Blocking users and content
• Resource Central
• Reviews
• Search (Elasticsearch)
• Settings
• Trackers/Marketing Data (Google Analytics)
• User permissions - Ranging from Master to content specific admins
• Voting

The Garrigan Lyman Group

GLG.com

Web Developer

Seattle, WA

September 2013 – January 2018, September 2018 (Contract job)

Sites worked on while at GLG:

*Some of these T-Mobile sites have been transfered over to the T-Mobile domain or taken down but the work is still representative of what I did at GLG.

T-Mobile Prepaid • T-Mobile Explore • T-Mobile Explore Business • T-Mobile Validate • T-Mobile ExploreMy • GoSmart Mobile • Womens Presidents’ Org • Evergreen Home Loans • The Garrigan Lyman Group

Written out links:

T-Mobile Prepaid - https://prepaid.t-mobile.com/prepaid

T-Mobile Explore - http://explore.t-mobile.com/4g-lte-network

T-Mobile Explore Business - http://explore.business.t-mobile.com/

T-Mobile Validate - https://validate.t-mobile.com/advantage

T-Mobile ExploreMy - http://explore.my.t-mobile.com/

GoSmart Mobile - https://www.gosmartmobile.com/

Womens Presidents’ Org - https://www.womenpresidentsorg.com/

Evergreen Home Loans - https://www.evergreenhomeloans.com/

The Garrigan Lyman Group - https://www.glg.com/

• Built and maintained sites such as T-Mobile Prepaid, T-Mobile Explore, T-Mobile ExploreMy, T-Mobile Explore Business, T-Mobile Validate, GoSmart Mobile, Womens Presidents’ Organization, Evergreen Home Loan, and The Garrigan Lyman Group.

• Worked with clients, creative designers, UX designers, other web developers, QA(Quality Assurance), managers, and other resources in a collaborative environment to build and maintain the above sites.

• Covered and helped out with full stack of web development procedures from initial design, building, Quality Assurance Testing, and pushing to production.

• Work distribution – Approximately 65% front-end and 35% back-end.

• Worked on a custom Content Management System(CMS) Umbraco that GLG built for T-Mobile and many other companies.

• Have headed complete redesigns for entire websites such as T-Mobile Prepaid.

• Built and launched large scale email campaigns.

• Tasked with and succeeded with troubleshooting many problems on the T-Mobile and other websites.

• While at GLG, worked in Scrum, Agile, and Kanban work environments. Work methodology depended on project and if a method was being tested for efficiently.

Kaljaa.com, Dew-Boms L.L.C.

Founder/Lead Developer

Seattle, WA

October 2009 –August 2016 (Suspended indefinitely)

• Kaljaa is a social network that is designed specifically for the beer industry by utilizing B2B, B2C, and C2C relations.

• Kaljaa was temporarily launched in a very successful and well received clinical/beta trial. During that trial, Kaljaa had a large number of users join that included people from all parts of the industry such as beer drinkers, breweries, beer distributors, restaurants, and critics.

• Kaljaa is built with Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/AJAX, jQuery, HTML(5), CSS(3), and many more technologies.

• Features of Kaljaa that have been built using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/AJAX, jQuery, MySql, HTML(5), and CSS(3)

• Blogging
• Login/Log Out/Validations
• News Feed System
• Friend/Relationship System
• Rating System
• Trackers
• Information Centrals
• Messaging System
• Calendar/Events System
• Settings
• Following/Micro-posts
• Photos/Albums
• Reviews
• Marketing Data
• Comments
• And many more

• Successfully recruited a development team to program the site. The development team fluxed anywhere from 3 to 7 programmers pending on what kind of temp programmers we have. At the core there are 3 permanent programmers that are developing the site.

• Completed a very in-depth business plan which includes the executive summary, information on the company itself, information on the industry, market analysis, design, competitive analysis, marketing plan, management plan, operating plan, financial plan, and conclusion summarizing the future plan and expectations of the business.

• Developed, designed, and wrote Kaljaa.com’s entire design document consisting of several hundreds of pages that describe the entire website and displays the information in such a way to make future expansion of Kaljaa fluid and productive. The design document provides detail of the websites’ high level design, low level design, database schema, database relations, wire frame designs, graphic designs, description, objectives, goals for each page, link flow charts, link lists, etc.

• Web development methodologies such as Feature Driven Development (FDD), Scrum, and Agile have been researched to help improve our programming environment.

• Filled out and developed proposals and requests such as a request for information(RFI) and request for proposal(RFP) to acquire contract programmers, set up servers, purchase software, and other various services from businesses local and abroad.

• Acquired appropriate business licenses, such as a L.L.C.

• Acquired Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN) and set up appropriate tax codes.

• Successfully contracted businesses local and abroad to produce and finish certain aspects of the website, with both sides being mutually pleased with the performance and communications.

• Applied for and successfully received a copyright© for the website through the United States Copyright Office, and currently working on a trademark.

• Successfully set up business bank accounts with PNC bank and established appropriate credit lines. Successfully set up the ability for Dew-Boms, L.L.C. to accept credit cards through First Data Global Gateway API in junction with PNC.

• Initiated, developed, and maintained professional relationships with managers, owners, and employees of breweries, The Brewers Association, Silicon Valley Web Hosting(now NephoScale), suppliers, and many other important business contacts.

• Used Adobe products such as Photoshop and Microsoft Visio to develop and design Kaljaa.com

YRCI

Federal HR Assistant/Specialist

US Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Finance Center, National Science Foundation, and Departmental Management

Fairfax, VA

November 2010-August 2012

• Identify veteran’s preference for applicants applying to U.S. federal jobs.

• Determine non-competitive and competitive eligibility for applicants applying for a job.

• Create applicant logs in Excel spreadsheets connected to YRCI database

• Complete draft recruits with Job Analysis, Assessment Questionnaire and Vacancy Announcement for review and approval.

• Use USA Staffing to post vacancy announcements for NFC and to rate, review, and qualify candidates for a vacancy posting.

• Use USAJobs to access applicant database to find jobs, people, update statuses, locate resumes, acquire resumes.

• Experience viewing applications and submitting Certifications on QuickHire.

• Logged staffing and classification requests in multiple secure databases with title of the job, its series, rating, organization, contacts and determining what action is requested. Converted and added the PD, job analysis, crediting plan, etc. to the request log.

• Knowledgeable on how to examine and acquire necessary information to achieve objectives for recruitment, staffing, and classification purposes from documents such as the SF-52, DD214, SF-15, SF-50, Schedule A, VA letters, college transcripts, performance appraisals, ICTAP, Position Descriptions, Crediting Plans (CP’s), KSA’s (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities), Job Analysis’s (JA’s)

• Assisted in determining quality category rating by using a crediting plan and assessing the applicants to determine the most qualified for a specific job.

• Assisted in determining if applicant meet minimal qualifications and minimal GS level/pay for a job in a given location of the country.

• Experience in reviewing applicants online on USAJobs and QuickHire in both the DE (Delegated Examining) and MP (Merit Promotion). Knowledge of how to determining Veteran’s Preference (TP, CP, CPS, and XP) through required government documentation.

• Experience in putting together a Certificate of Eligible’s to send to the specified agency.

• When reviewing applications and other sensitive information, I keep strict adherence to the Privacy Act and Freedom of Information Act of the applicant and any sensitive information of the document.

• Knowledge of OPM and Agency responsibilities

• Under OPM guidelines for Federal Agency Examining Offices, I have knowledge of how to identify the job and its assessments, recruit and announce the job, accept and review applications, assess applicants, certify eligible’s, reporting and accountability responsibilities you have as a examiner.

• Successfully completed the Delegated Examining Operations training offered by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) at the National Science foundation June 23, 2011.

• Used Adobe PDF to convert and encrypt applications for security and privacy reasons.

• Use PDF Convert Professional to convert documents into a variety of other formats including Microsoft word. After converting those documents, I proceed to fix the grammatical and formatting mistakes in the document.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in and out of the office.

• Very proficient in Microsoft Word, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Access.

• Very computer literate

• Typing Speed: 49 words per minute