Technologies

• Ruby on Rails (3, 4, and 5)
• TDD and BDD with RSpec, Minitest, and Cucumber
• JavaScript (ES5 and ES6) and CoffeeScript
• HTML5 and CSS3
• SASS with Bourbon/Neat and Bootstrap
• SQL with PostgreSQL and some MySQL
• AngularJS (1.x)
• React
• Some Ember and Backbone
• Ionic (1.x)
• AWS (mostly S3, EC2, Route53 and CloudFront)
• Heroku
• Redis including Resque and Sidekiq
• Git/GitHub
• Grunt/Gulp/Bower/NPM
• Jekyll
• Hubot/Lita
• Agile (not really tech, but you know)
• Wordpress

Open Source

• Author of the Gripst Ruby Gem
• RuboCop (TargetRailsVersion feature)
• Fitgem (patch)
• Paypal Adaptive Gem (patch)
• Phoenix Guides (documentation)
• shouldi (documentation)
• Contributor to various Centresource open-source projects (e.g. Preseason)

Exploring

• Elixir
• Phoenix Framework
• ReactJS

Activities

• Mentor at the Nashville Software School
• Organizer of the Nashville Software Beginners Meetup
• Speaker: I'll take Lita for $500: Ruby and Chatops
• Speaker at Nodevember '15: From the Ash: PhoenixJS and the Phoenix Framework
• Speaker at Nodevember '14: Undefined is not a Function: What the Most Common Errors in JavaScript Actually Mean
• Speaker: Only What Non-Developers Need to Know about Git and Github
• Speaker: The Ruby Object Model
• DISH Conference panelist 2014

Employment

• Heroku (2015 - Present)
  • Web Developer, Marketing
• Centresource Interactive Agency (2013 - 2015)
  • Developer
• Max Beizer Music (2005 - Present)
  • Songwriter, Singer, Musician, CEO, Janitor

Education

• Nashville Software School (June 2012 - December 2012)
  • cohort one, the original gangsters
• Vanderbilt University (2002 - 2006)
  • Bachelor of Arts, Psychology

Fascinations

• Being married to the most beautiful woman in the world
• Fender guitars and amplifiers
• Arsenal FC
• The reds of Burgundy and the whites of Alsace