Billy Reisinger :: Resume

I enjoy programming software, and I have been doing so since 2002. I am skilled with many of the technologies that power web applications - from databases to user interfaces. I thrive on solving complex problems and I love working in a team.

I am passionate about doing excellent work , and I take responsibility for making software awesome. I deeply believe that excellent software starts with me being excellent, and continues with me being excellent to those around me. I love to be around people, and I want the software that I work on to make a positive impact in their lives.

I am a strong proponent of Test-Driven Development and Agile Development practices, and I participate actively in the open source community.

Lastly, I think that having a sense of humor about stuff helps you not die.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

GovDelivery, St. Paul, MN (January 2009 - present)

• Worked in development team doing a ground-up rewrite of an enterprise web application / message delivery system
• Developed with Ruby on Rails, Java, Oracle, JavaScript, and Flex

Senior Web Developer

Internet Broadcasting Systems, Minneapolis, MN (December, 2005 - December, 2008)

Notable roles / accomplishments in this position:

• Lead UI Developer for NowLocal project (December 2007 - September 2008)
• Lead developer for TheLab, a Flex-based "futures market" on product ideas for internal use
• Lead Developer, http://www.nbcsports.com/ (July 2006 - July 2007). In this position, I led a team of 8 developers on an agile project. I presided over a successful relaunch of the site.
• Web Developer, http://www.nbcolympics.com/ (2006 Torino Olympics)
• Part of Development Standards Committee; led a large team of developers to instill new coding standards company-wide for JavaScript / ActionScript
• Led development of new JavaScript application framework for the company's series of sites (~80) using object-oriented practices and test-driven development

Web Developer

Fisher Real Estate, L.L.L.P., Baltimore, MD (May 2002 - December 2005)

• Designing and maintaining company website Note: link goes to the Internet Archive version of this site; company no longer exists
  • Invented an effective strategy for client attraction and lead retention using an opt-in email list and push notifications for new vacancies
  • Developed new system for collecting and tracking maintenance requests from tenants
  • Designed, developed, and deployed database-driven website with custom CMS

Some Open-Source Projects

• Oci8Simple - creator
  A simple Ruby library for executing SQL against an Oracle database using Ruby OCI8
• ActiveRecord OracleEnhanced Adapter - contributor
• Jash - JavaScript Shell - creator
  A JavaScript command-line interface to a web page - that works in IE6! No longer maintained.
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Education

• Master of Music with honors (2003) - Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University

• Bachelor of Fine Arts, cum laude, with honors in Music Composition (2001) - Tulane University

Skills

Dogma

test-driven development, agile development, object-oriented programming, web accessibility, open source software, continuous integration

Programming

Ruby, JavaScript, Java, Bash, PHP, Actionscript, SQL, PL/SQL, C, Objective-C, XSLT, XPATH, HTML, XML, Akamai ESI, CSS, regular expressions, Git, Subversion, CVS, Rake, Ant, Capistrano

Frameworks

Ruby on Rails, Spring, Prototype, jQuery, Mule ESB, iOS, Flex

Persistence

MySQL, Oracle, Sqlite, Redis, memcached, PostgreSQL