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Jonathan S. Linowes

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Profile

Professional software developer and product manager with over 20 years hands-on entrepreneurial experience. Expertise with a broad range of software and Internet technologies, including Ruby on Rails, jQuery, and Rspec.

I solve real world problems with practical yet elegant user-centric solutions based on business priorities. I subscribe to agile, behavior driven (BDD), TATFT, DRY, progressive enhancement, “Don't make me think”, and open source approaches to software development. I love to love my work.

Technical Skills

Recent technical experience and skills include:

Ruby on Rails since 2007 (version 1.x) as my principal language and framework (prior work in Php, Java, C++). Active member of the Rails community and technical ecosystem.
Extensive experience with jQuery javascript framework, including JQuery UI and numerous plug-ins.
Expertise with SQL databases (including mySQL, Postgres); experience with no-SQL databases (MongoDB, CouchDB); cloud-based (Amazon AWS); import/export/data processing; and text-based data stores (CSV, YAML, XML). Knowledge of query optimizations, data compression, and encryption.
Authentication and authorization frameworks (including devise, authlogic).
Visual presentation of quantitative information (including Google visualization chart api, Google maps api, and javascript graphing libraries).
Ecommerce frameworks including ActiveMerchant, and gateway services (Authorize.net, Braintree)
Advocate of test and behavior-driven development (BDD), including Rspec (behavioral unit testing) and Cucumber (plain text executable user scenarios). My projects average 1:1 code to test ratios.
Expertise in various CSS and HTML templating frameworks (including SASS/SCSS, Compass, HAML, simple_form/formtastic, Themeroller). Worked with HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery Mobile.
Practical practitioner of agile development processes including iterative design/development with rapid customer feedback.
Strong experience in hosting (including cloud-based (Heroku), virtual private servers, linux/unix/osx); deployment (Capistrano); and revision control (git, SVN)

Employment

M2S Inc
West Lebanon, NH (2011 - present)

Senior Software Engineer. Technical lead, software architect, mentor, and agile developer primarily using Ruby on Rails, for medical data management.

Parkerhill Technology LLC
Lyman, NH (2002 - present)

Owner. Web applications development and product management consulting, specializing in Ruby, Rails and related web applications development. Active member of the Ruby on Rails community since 2007.

Syntrex Corporation
Manchester, NH (1998 - 2002)

VP & Biz Dev Customer Advocate. Co-founder of Internet security software company. Managed technical operations, customer support, and enterprise installations.

Autodesk Corporation
Bedford, NH (1994 - 1998)

Development and Product Manager, Data Management Division. Directed development of the AutoCAD View family of software products for engineering workflow.

Sirlin Corp.
Londonderry, NH (1987 - 1994)

Owner. Built leading computer-aided design (CAD) collaboration tools for engineering teams. Acquired by Autodesk in 1994.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)

Master of Science in Media Technology
MIT Media Lab

Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)

Bachelor of Arts
Computer graphics and animation

Open Source

A sample of recent open source projects

Formtastic Renderer
Replaceable render engines for Formtastic. a refactor of the Formtastic plugin to accept replaceable render engines, including ERB, HAML, and custom.

code article
kudos: “You sir, are a genius. Love your work! Thank you, thank you, thank you.”

Gridify
A Ruby wrapper and Rails plugin for jqGrid. jqGrid is a rich featured data grid built with the jQuery javascript library. Gridify defines a simplified, more consistent API for jqGrid rather than directly emulate the jqGrid api and options in Ruby.

code article
kudos: “Thanks for the awesome work.”

SaasRamp
Software as a service (SAAS) plugin. Rails plugin enables subscription billings in your application. Built on top of the popular ActiveMerchant plugin.

code article
kudos: “Great plugin”

IwaFetch
News gathering utility. Collects and caches news search results hourly from Google News and other sources for later review.

code
kudos: “Does exactly what I need it to do”

Husage
Satellite internet usage utility. A free hosted service for tracking download usage for subscribers of the HughesNet satellite internet service. Scrapes the default HushesNet usage report to generate better more informative reports and send alert emails.

code article
kudos: “AMAZING! Thank you so much... This is truly a godsend. Thank you thank you thank you.”

Community

Volunteer, elected, and community activities include:

Lisbon Regional School Board (Lisbon, NH) - Moderator (2009 - present)
Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation (Bethlehem, NH) - Board of Trustees (2008 - present)
Lisbon Upstage Players (community theatre, Lisbon, NH) - Board of Directors (2009 - present)
Amoskeag Business Incubator (Manchester, NH) - Board of Directors (2003 - 2009)
Mt. Wachusetts Entrepreneurial Resource Center (Leominster, MA) - Board of Directors (2005 - 2007)
NH Agricultural Innovation Program - Advisory Board (2005 - 2007)
NH High Tech Council / MIT Enterprise Forum - Planning Committee (2005 - 2007)
North Country Council (Bethlehem, NH) - Economic Development Committee (2004 - 2007)
Software Association of NH (SwANH) - Board of Directors (1994 - 2009); Annual Conference Chairman (2004, 2005, 2006)

Personal

A personal note

In 2005 we moved to "north country" from southern New Hampshire, with 4 children in tow, to an old dairy farm where the farmer was retiring. We'd been coming up north for years, camping, hiking, and skiing, and one Columbus Day weekend while checking out the real estate market, somewhat spontaneously, we put a deposit on this property. The old farmhouse required extensive renovation; a few years later we moved in.

I am presently full time employed at M2S Inc. Off hours, I work on web application projects for my personal projects, clients, and non-profits.