Billy Reisinger :: Resume

14025 140th Court, Apple Valley, MN 55124 | 612.308.9081 | billy.reisinger@gmail.com | LinkedIn profile

I enjoy programming software for the web, and I have been doing so since 2002. I am skilled with most of the technologies that power web applications, from the database all the way to the UI. I am very strong with dynamic languages in general. I enjoy solving complex problems and I love working in a team. I have had multiple experiences in a leadership role as a developer, and I am always looking for new opportunities to lead and mentor other developers.

I am a strong proponent of Test-Driven Development and agile development practices.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

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

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 UI Developer, http://www.nbcsports.com/ (July 2006 - July 2007)
• Web Developer, http://www.nbcolympics.com/ (2006 Torino Olympics)
• Part of Development Standards Committee; led team 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 (no longer on web, company bought out in January 2006)
  • Designed, developed, and deployed database-driven website with custom CMS
  • Developed an abstracted, template-based, database-driven real-estate content management system with session-managed authentication system
  • Developed strategies for client attraction and lead retention (opt-in email list)
  • Website designed with table-less layout using XHTML and CSS
  • Graceful degradation, standards-compliant

Open Source Projects

• Jash - JavaScript Shell - sole developer and maintainer since 2004.
• Travis! (agile development webapp) - committer
• ActiveRecord OracleEnhanced Adapter - contributor
• ValidatesUrlFormatOf - contributor

Education

Classes toward Master of Computer Science / Software Engineering - Towson University - Towson, Maryland

• GPA: 4.0

Master of Music, with honors (2003) - Peabody Conservatory / Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, Maryland

• Developed / composed Rondo for Rodent and Computer, a groundbreaking interactive media composition involving real-time video stream analysis and processing
• Thesis: Theme for a Lonely Planet (for Symphony Orchestra)
• GPA: 3.9

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

• GPA: 3.4

Development skills

• JavaScript
• Ruby / Rails
• MySQL, Oracle, Sqlite
• Actionscript 3 / Flex
• PHP
• Java
• Python
• XSLT / XPATH
• HTML / XHTML / XML
• CSS
• Web Services (using SOAP, REST, JSON, and XML-RPC)
• CVS, Subversion, Git
• Shell scripting (Bash)
• Ant, Rake, Capistrano
• Regular expressions
• Velocity, ERb, Haml
• Selenium

Other skills

• Object-oriented programming
• Test-driven development
• Agile development
• Common design patterns
• Functional programming
• SEO
• Adobe Photoshop / Image Ready, GIMP (graphic design, image optimization)
• Apache, Tomcat, Jetty, Mongrel, Passenger, and WEBrick
• Continuous integration servers (Hudson, Bamboo) and dependency management frameworks (Ivy)
• Akamai ESI
• Proficient with Windows, Mac, Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS)

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