Jacob Good's Resume (Last updated June 11th 2008)

Resume builder

JACOB GOOD

Fort Worth, TX 76107
http://www.thoughtstoblog.com

-

OBJECTIVE 

I want a career that is fast paced, exciting, and intriguing; capturing the essence of software development. I also want to bring new things to the table wherever I'm at and become a valuable resource to the company and community.

-

SKILLS 

C#, ASP.Net, T-SQL, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SCRUM, REST, Web Services, .Net Compact Framework, AWS (S3, EC2, SQS)

-

WORK EXPERIENCE 

Downtown Partners Inc., Burlington, IA

March 2003 - May 2004

Project Manager
Collaborated with 24 downtown businesses and the Iowa Department of Economic Development to provide e-commerce capabilities to "Ma and Pa" type shops. Managed a development team, oversaw project budgets and time lines, and educated other communities on the value of e-commerce.

-

Inetium, Inc., Bloomington, MN

May 2004 - September 2006

Senior Consultant
Worked with teams on Windows Smart Client Applications, Web Services, and Mobile solutions.

Time was spent mentoring, defining the companies ideas and goals (SCRUM, TDD, community involvement, Raving Fans), presenting for various groups, consulting, and development.

-

space150, Minneapolis, MN

September 2006 - October 2007

Ruby Developer
Working on a team of Ruby developers supporting internal Ruby projects as well as web sites and Ruby on Rails projects for clients. Successfully ran and optimized one of the largest social networks on Ruby on Rails, supporting a user base well over 200,000 users (www.yfly.com). Leading other teams as well in the development staff, including .Net work.

-

Inetium, LLC, Fort Worth, TX

October 2007 - Present

Senior Consultant
Worked with teams on Windows Smart Client Applications, Web Services, and Mobile solutions.

Time was spent mentoring, defining the companies ideas and goals (SCRUM, TDD, community involvement, Raving Fans), presenting for various groups, consulting, and development.

-

drop.io, New York, NY

March 2008

Developer
Working with a great team to develop the best collaboration tool on the internet. Working mainly in Ruby with merb, mongrel, Rails, and other Ruby frameworks. Amazon Web Services are utilized for site hosting and audio, video, and document conversion.

-

-

EDUCATION 

University of Northern Iowa, August 1999 - December 2002

BS in Computer Science

 

-

CERTIFICATIONS 

MCSD .Net

-

DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY 

Project RIDE-ME (www.projectrideme.com) - Co-Founder, Contributor,

DevelopStuff.EvolveStuff - Open source genetic algorithms framework in .Net.

-

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS 

Fort Worth .Net User Group (February 2008) - A Play Date with Ruby on Rails and .Net
Twin Cities Code Camp (Spring 2007) - If Darwin Could Write Code
Chippewa Valley .Net User Group (December 2006) - Windows Presentation Foundation
Minneapolis .Net User Group (September 2006) - Windows Presentation Foundation
Twin Cities Code Camp (Fall 2006) - Integrating Ruby on Rails with .Net

-