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