Summary

My objective is to work with individuals and companies in skilled and specialized areas such as Ruby, Rails, database administration, application deployment and business strategy. I bring a wealth of technical knowledge, ability to expedite time-sensitive tasks, and history of running my own successful and profitable company.


Professional Experience

Lead Engineer - Localini (Offernode, Inc.), San Mateo, CA (May 2007 - Present)
  • Point on software development, network architecture, database administration, and service integrations
  • Business strategy
Technologies:
  • PostgreSQL, Ruby, jRuby, Javascript/jQuery, Haml/Sass, REST, Glassfish, Passenger
Integrations:
  • Amazon (FPS, EC2, EBS, S3, CloudFront, Load Balancing), Facebook

Principal - STATIM Web Development, Danville, CA (August 2005 - Present)
  • Ruby on Rails Web Application Development (5 years experience)
  • Worked with clients through direct referral and via QUALITY HUMANS, INC. (http://www.qualityhumans.com)
Select Projects:
  • LookSmart, Ltd. (Public, NASDAQ:LOOK)
  • Notary Depot (http://www.notarydepot.com) - Principal
Typical Tasks Performed:
  • Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite
  • Bug and issue tracking via Trac
  • Security tracking and following of the Rails core team commit changes
  • SQL optimization (as well as ActiveRecord optimization, proper eager-loading, etc.)
  • Payment gateway interaction, including writing the ruby API for the BluePay gateway
  • AJAX where appropriate
  • Usability design and directory structure including geographical distance search functions based on latitude and longitude
  • Subversion management: branching, tagging, etc.
  • Automated deployment with Capistrano to servers using either Litespeed or Mongrel

Web Developer - 1-800-RADIATOR, Benicia, CA (June 2005 - August 2005)
  • Organized and provided training to development team for Ruby, PHP, Smarty, SQL optimization, database normalization, Linux administration, and Subversion.
  • Managed enterprise-level web and database servers as well as fail-over redundancy solutions.
  • Managed over 1000 domain names and DNS for most effective search engine placement by developing a method to deploy one application that appeared as hundreds (based on accessed server IP address), as well as making each server address appear to originate from a separate C-block IP address to accessors and (most importantly) search engines.
  • Assumed responsibility for and executed the task of creating development, QA, and production environments.
  • Orchestrated migration to agile development and deployment techniques using tools such as Subversion and custom deployment recipies.
  • Coded functionality to interface with ESTARA incoming call system.
  • Go-to in the event of server crisis, security vulnerabilities, etc.

Technical Support Analyst - DIVERSIFIED HEALTHCARE SERVICES, INC., San Ramon, CA (March 2001 - December 2002)
  • Daily, weekly and monthly reporting for accounting, account management and clients.
  • Interfaced with company's Southern California office to coordinate programming projects.
  • Programmatically automated PPO reporting process for entire client base, saving the company roughly 400 hours per month and allowing more time to focus on high priority projects.
Joe Noon
Danville, CA 94526

1-925-577-3858

Email: joe@stat.im
Web: http://stat.im