Brett Shane McHargue
Summary
Experienced developer using Ruby on Rails and related technologies starting in
2006 and professionally since 2009. Practice Test Driven Development, Continuous
Integration/Deployment and Agile/Scrum processes.
Experience
Ruby Developer (July 2015-Sept 2016)
Royal Academy of Arts [http://www.royalacademy.org.uk]
- Built internal applications tying various systems together and providing
a single customer interface.
- Developed the initial API for a Rails application to interact with the fundraising and donor management software (Raiser’s Edge) on the
backend. This allowed front of house staff to sell RA memberships to
customers awaiting entry to popular exhibits.
- Managed our AWS account and deployment strategies, and researched
the use of Ansible and Docker to automate the deployment and continuous integration needed.
Ruby Developer (Oct 2012 – June 2015)
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The Stage Media Company [http://www.thestage.co.uk]
Lead developer for the launch of The Stage Castings, while continuing to develop sales products for arts oriented directories. Projects included:
- Restructuring application product silos into service applications and
separate backend / front end applications communicating via JSON api
- Investigating and prototyping data / paywall options for The Stage main
editorial product.
- Coordinate the work tasks for Ruby and PHP developers
- Investigate use VM technologies and tools (Vagrant / Docker) and open
stack clustering platforms for cost savings and improved performance
Ruby Developer (Nov 2009 – Oct 2012) Headshift
Designing and developing social software platforms for knowledge management of corporate market with an emphasis on improving social experience.
Worked on small, often distributed teams using Scrum for project management.
Headshift was acquired by Dachis Group which was then acquired by Sprinklr.
Freelance Developer (Nov 2006 - Nov 2009) Various
I performed contract work for CSC’s administration systems to UK insurance
providers, including NFUM and AXA. Work at NFUM included using Ruby FFI to
develop an interface between RSpec and the application language (GraphTalk)
through a C API.
During this time I also underwent formal training for Ruby and Rails.
Senior Application Consultant -) Computer Science Corp
Develop and maintain the application service interface for CSC’s strategic life
insurance and pensions administration system. Responsible for adherence to global standards for teams working in the UK, France and off-shore development.
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Provide direct client application support for major implementations of life and
pensions system for clients in Denmark and Sweden. Assist in the training and review of junior developers.
Develop, test and deploy life insurance administration system, for the US and
Mexico financial services market.
Accepted voluntary redundancy package to explore new technologies.
Senior Programmer/Analyst -) Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc
Supported a major implementation of Oracle Financial Applications for major
manufacturing company. Focus was on increasing performance of complex PL/SQL
financial reports.
Programmer/Analyst -) Department of Information Resources
Provide critical programming resources to several key IT projects to various
State of Texas agencies.
Programmer/Analyst -) Texas Department of Insurance
Implement and integrate newly purchased accounting and payroll systems
with multiple insurance systems used to administer and liquidate ailing companies.
Promoted to team leader position for application development.
Programmer -) Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
Received extensive training through the EDS Systems Engineer Development
program, developing in COBOL and Assembler on IBM Mainframe for large health
insurance clients Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas and Wisconsin.
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Education
Trinity University -)
San Antonio, Texas
B.S. Computer Science
Contact Information
11 Cavendish Court | 21-23 Bromley Road | London SE6 2TS | United Kindom-| @brettshane | -
Skills
### Languages
- Proficient in: Ruby, Javascript, HAML, SASS, JSON, Prolog
- Familiar with: Python, Prolog, Ansible, Chef, Erlang, Elixir
### Software/Platforms/Services
- Rails, Sinatra, Capistrano, Jekyll, Refinery, Discourse, Wordpress
- Vim, TMUX, Git, Github, CodeShip, Travis CI
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Solr
- Apple OSX, Linux (Ubuntu 14.04), AWS, Amazon EC2, Digital Ocean,
Heroku, EngineYard, Docker, Vagrant, VirtualBox VM
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