William James Holcomb

I am currently in the market for remote opportunities. I write my best code in ruby.

• Department of Happiness Bluff City, TN Founder 2/2017–
  • Technologies: Rails, Apiary, API Blueprint, GitHub, Slack, Angular
  • Projects:
    • Stay: Backend and API Blueprint for an interface for leasing space and delegating maintenance tasks.
• Techtronic Industries Anderson, SC Rails Developer 9/2017–9/2018
  • Technologies: Rails, GitHub, Slack, RSpec
  • Projects:
    • Ridgid's Registration Portal: Significant rewrite of front and back ends to accomidate a new design.
    • Ryobi's Newsletter: Added interface and list management for email opt-ins.
    • General Maintenance:
• Cerner Corporation Kansas City, MO Rails Developer 3/2016–12/2016
  • Technologies: Rails, GitHub, JIRA, Crucible, Slack, IRC, Standups, Microsoft Office, RSpec, Cucumber, Code Reviews
  • Projects:
    • Kaiju: Added HTML components to toolkit for formatting data from java-based backend for presentation in a patient's chart.
    • Charts: Implemented display sections of the redesigned patient chart solution.
• Mindtonic Media Asheville, NC Rails Developer 2/2015–1/2016
  • Technologies: Rails, Pivotal Tracker, Slack, Pair Programming, GitHub, Amazon Cloudfront, RSpec, jQuery, API Blueprint
  • Projects:
    • Groupdini: RSpec test-driven extension of a Rails server backing an API Blueprint for a social networking application.
    • BeautifulNow: Javascript-based continuous scroll UI and database management for a Rails application providing art competitions.
• Synaptian Johnson City, TN Rails Developer 4/2012–11/2014
  • Technologies: Rails, Trello, Pivotal Tracker, Redmine, GitHub, Linux, Heroku, Amazon EC2 & S3, Standups, Capistrano, jQuery
  • Projects:
    • Beverage Industries: Rails app for inventory tracking, auctioning, and sales of beverage manufacturing equipment with javascript headline and banner rotation plugins.
    • Aphid: Amazon MWS and PAA delayed_job scraper tracking 60,000+ products per day with D3 charting and custom analytics housed in PostgreSQL and Redis.
    • Howlin' Wolf: Cordova-based Couchbase-backed Ember.js mobile app for syncing recorded levels from oil wells with a Rails app.
• Sun Microsystems Reading, MA Summer Internship 6/2008–10/2008
  • Technologies: Solaris, Daily Standups, Scrums
  • Project:
    • Project Aura: Implemented a grid-capable Java-based collaborative filter.
• Vanderbilt Human-Machine Teams Laboratory Nashville, TN Research Assistant 4/2007–12/2009
  • Aided in the development and testing of an interface for controlling teams of robots for responding to chemical spills.
• Marijuana Policy Project Washington, DC Web Administrator 1/2006–3/2007
  • Designed and implemented campaign sites including a set of layouts for mpp.org's database of over 10,000 pages
  • Python programming to migrate sites from Kintera Inc's CMS
• Peace Corps Mauritania Volunteer 3/2003–12/2005
  • Information and Communications Technologies Volunteer assigned to Cisco Academy at University of Nouakchott teaching CCNA preparation courses in French, scheduling classes and managing enrollment
  • Built new configuration for the Girls' Mentoring Centers and set up imaging system to deploy this around country (~50 systems in 12 cities)
  • Helped with design for local NGOs as well as a full redesign of ecodev.mr and cisco-academy.mr

• Masters of Science with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction from Vanderbilt University, December 2010 (3.6 / 4.0 gpa) with advanced courses in Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Statistical Inference, Algorithm Design, Introductory Robotics, Multimedia Systems, Computational Models, and Experimental Design
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Software and Scientific Applications emphasis and Mathematics minor from Tennessee Technological University, December 2002 (3.4 / 4.0 gpa)

• Ruby, SVG, D3, HTML, Javascript, Java, ActionScript, PHP, SQL, CSS, Bash, XML, XSLT, C, Perl, Python, C++, DCL, VAX Assembly, VB

• GitHub: http://github.com/dysbulic
• Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/264008/will
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wholcomb
• Homepage: http://dhappy.org