Resume - Jesse van Herk - Senior Web Developer

Phone: +1.780.887.2876   Email:  jesse@imaginaryrobots.net

== Summary ==

· Summary · 10+ years of development, QA, and project management experience · Proven track record on large-scale projects
                · Technical expertise in multiple languages and environments
                · Leadership of both internal and external teams

== Education ==

               : B.Sc.   Computer Engineering, University of Alberta.

== Experience ==

 Oct 2016 -     Senior Quality Engineer, Jobber.
       present:  · Built standards and processes around quality engineering
                · Improved automated test suites
                · Developed new features in Rails and Ember using Agile
 May 2010 -    Web Producer /  QA Lead, City of Edmonton.
     Oct 2016   · Led team of 3 QA staff, including hiring and performance reviews
                · Managed outsourced team’s development and operations work
                · Modernized website infrastructure and code-base
                · Upgraded web infrastructure to handle 20x greater traffic load
                · Formalized quality assurance and defect tracking processes
                · Implemented automated deployments and multiple test environments
                · Led training sessions for large groups of staff  and clients
                · Tracked and reported progress to stakeholders
                · Chaired Web Advisory Committee and participated in website governance

 Jan 2010 -     Senior Developer (contract), Athabasca University.
     May 2010   · Integrated social networking and course-ware applications with enterprise systems
                · Worked with stakeholders, QA, and IT to develop requirements and goals
                · Designed and implemented new features
                · Planned project milestones and tasks using Agile methodology
                · Implemented new features and bugfixes in existing codebase


                                 Jesse: van Herk - Senior Developer
                     Phone:  +1.780.887.2876 •     Email:  jesse@imaginaryrobots.net
                               •   http://www.imaginaryrobots.net


 May 2005 -    Web Development Manager, BioWare/Electronic Arts.
      Dec 2009   ·  Delivered large-scale social networking website on-time and on-budget
                 ·  Designed architecture to display in-game telemetry on websites
                 ·  Managed daily tasks and scheduling for team of 3 developers
                 ·  Coordinated agencies and contractors to develop multiple AAA websites
                 ·  Migrated website assets to new CDN, saving over $10k per month
                 ·  Mentored junior team members in development techniques and day-to-day work
                 ·  Designed and managed setup of new web hosting environments
                 ·  Presented plans, progress, and schedules to stakeholders
                 Senior:   Systems Developer, BioWare/Electronic Arts.
                 ·  Refactored web applications to scale to millions of queries per day
                 ·  Migrated production applications to modern MVC framework (cakePHP)
                 ·  Trained new team members and developed documentation repository wiki
                 ·  Implemented automated deployment and testing process
                 ·  Designed and implemented new business applications in PHP and Perl
                 ·  Developed APIs for existing web applications using SOAP and REST
 Aug 2004 -    Software Development Engineer (contract), Amazon.
       Jan 2005   ·  Implemented new features for amazon.com eCommerce systems
                 ·  Integrated back-end web services with front-end website using CORBA
                 ·  Added automated monitoring for critical systems
                 ·  Worked with regional teams to determine holiday scaling needs
                 ·  Deployed new servers to handle increased load
                 ·  Debugged network bottlenecks and systemic bugs

  prior: to 2004 various, contact for details.

== Technical Details ==

     Languages:   Python, Ruby, JS, PHP, C#, C++, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Lua, Perl
Version Control:  Git, Perforce, Subversion, TFS, Bzr
     Databases:   MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server
         Servers: Nginx, Nodejs, Lighttpd, Memcached, Apache2, IIS, Uwsgi
         Devops:  Ansible, AWS EC2/S3, Vagrant, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef
           Tools: Github, Bitbucket, Zendesk, JIRA, Eclipse, Visual Studio, vi
   Frameworks:    Bootstrap, Angularjs, .NET, Rails, CakePHP,

== Drupal ==



== Miscellaneous ==

     Languages:   Native English speaker, intermediate French
Bragging Rights Jumped out of a plane.  Jujitsu brown belt.  Survived the game industry.

                                  Jesse:  van Herk - Senior Developer
                       Phone:  +1.780.887.2876 •     Email:   jesse@imaginaryrobots.net
                                 •   http://www.imaginaryrobots.net