Austin Schneider

Objective

To work on a Ruby on Rails web application. Ideal position would provide exposure to various technologies with co-workers who share the same love for this industry as me. Ideal company would have a strong focus on creating a quality product that provides valuable benefits to the end-user.

Summary of Qualifications

• Experience with most of the popular plugins and gems.
• Good knowledge of caching techniques and memcached.
• Understand the value of code modularity and common design patterns.
• Specialize in user interface and experience.
• Proficient at designing and implementing database models.
• In-depth understanding of web marketing and search engine optimization.
• Experience with various version control systems.
• Hand-coder with a strong focus on writing beautiful, human-readable, well tested code.
• 13+ years experience with Adobe Photoshop.
• Good understanding of query languages and efficient querying from Rails.
• Experience with testing frameworks, to include rspec and cucumber with various mocking/stubbing libraries.
• Experience with other languages common to web applications, to include: PHP, Perl, Shell Scripting.
• Familiar with agile methodologies and practices.

Related Experience

Deepsalt, Inc.

• Developed large scale web-based order management application with the ability to manage customers, employees, orders, inventory, warehouse bins, purchase orders, taxonomies, vendors, etc.
• Worked as lead UI developer
• Gained extensive knowledge in multiple areas to include: integrating a templating system, SQL full-text search, authentication, authorization, job queues, asset packaging, caching, and more

Morris DigitalWorks

• Worked as a developer on a photo-sharing web application, developed in-house
• Worked on various Drupal powered newspaper websites
• Gained extensive knowledge of Linux based web servers, shell scripting and the development-to-production web application lifecycle

NeboWeb, LLC

• Developed in-house CMS, running multiple websites
• Apart from design, involved in all aspects/steps of site creation
• Gained extensive knowledge of SEO best practices

Savannah River National Laboratory

• Developed online training websites for the intranet on site
• Created PDF Documents for web and print
• Designed logos and graphics for web and print

Education

Augusta State University
Bachelor of Science – Majored in Computer Science and Mathematics
Graduated in May of 2006

Contact

Phone

(706) 833-2138

Email

austinschneider@me.com

Address

700 Spalding Ct.
Martinez, GA 30907