Ed Rooth's Resume

Ed Rooth
San Francisco Bay Area, CA USA	www.edrooth.com

Summary

Full-stack Web Developer with 10+ years of real-world experience and a strong record of success. Passionate about programming, open source, and learning new technology. Specifically interested and specializing in JavaScript, architecture, NoSQL, UX, optimization, and scalability.

Fluent in Japanese, living and working in Japan since 2007. Ample experience solving multi-lingual software issues.

Never looking for just a job, but an opportunity to build amazing things with amazing people. An idea-embracing environment and a smart passionate team are essential.

Skills

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
JavaScript, C#, SQL, HTML, CSS, Java

DATABASES
MongoDB, MySQL, MS SQL Server

FRAMEWORKS
JQuery, Backbone.js, Express, Chrome Extensions, Google Closure, Less, Twitter Bootstrap, Jasmine, Underscore.js, Require.js, ExtJS

SERVERS
Node.js, Apache, Tomcat, Solr, Jenkins, IIS

OS
Mac OSX, Linux, Windows, Windows Server

SOFTWARE
Vim, Git, Firebug, Photoshop, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Pro-Tools

Work Experience

Front End JavaScript Web Developer	San Francisco, CA
Rackspace Hosting	12/2011

Cloud Business Unit

Senior Web Application Developer	Tokyo, Japan
Wall Street Associates	03/2010 - 10/2011

Co-Lead Developer/Architect of a 4 person agile development team responsible for building and maintaining a multi-lingual next-generation SaaS recruitment CRM

Planned and implemented new features, resolved defects, and refactored code in every application tier. Technologies consisted of: C#.NET, WCF, Sql Server, MongoDB, Solr, ExtJS, plain JavaScript, CSS

Practiced iterative agile development and was active in every phase including: scrum, requirement analysis, design, coding, peer code-review, testing, etc.

Provided guidance and mentorship to junior developers

Led iteration to overhaul large portion of the application with a 5x faster more scalable and feature rich MongoDB implementation. Migrated 8+ million rows of data, drastically improved usability, resulted in unprecedented praise from users.

Contributed to open source MongoDB C# driver

Improved code coverage by 20% by using Test Driven Development

Optimized application performance decreasing response times up to 80% by: discovering inefficiencies in session store, applying database indexes, modifying build to convert all images into CSS Data URIs

Streamlined build process by setup and maintenance of Continuous Integration Server

Introduced and led bi-weekly architecture meeting which became a forum for team to engage in constructive discussions resulting in numerous product enhancements

Modified complex search functionality extensively using SQL, Solr, and C# - Resulted in 2x faster responses and improved accuracy. Achieved through modifying Solr weighting algorithms, optimizing SQL, optimizing SQL Server indexes

Administration of Sql Server, MongoDB, IIS, Solr, and cache servers

Contributed to documentation of code/development guidelines

Lead Web Developer / Project Manager (contract)	Tokyo, Japan
Nikko Asset Management	04/2009 - 03/2010

Responsible for public websites of the third largest asset management firm in Japan

Managed project to migrate 3,000+ static pages into CMS - Managed another web developer and instructed 6 member marketing team and vendors on content migration

Led two person team to customize Joomla CMS by developing new features and custom themes using: Apache, MySQL, PHP, .NET, JavaScript, and MooTools

Developed custom features such as: browser drag-and-drop file upload, closing NAV price reporting, stage-to-production content promotion tool, web services for importing financial data, automated backup

Performance benchmarked and optimized sites for high-traffic (40k-50k page views/day) - Resulted in 50% avg faster response times (load testing via Apache bench and JMeter)

Developed JSON based REST APIs and client reference implementations for promotional web site investing game using JQuery and JavaScript - Resulted in ease of extensibility via 3rd party development

Communicated primarily in Japanese as most stakeholders were native Japanese

Senior Web Developer	New York City, NY
Mimeo Inc.	07/2006 - 04/2007

Senior member of 6 person development team for the innovator of online document printing and distribution

Key developer on customer-facing, company profit-center web application - worked extensively with JavaScript, C#.NET, and SQL Server

Worked closely with system architect to implement new features - i.e. new binding options, and AJAX based image viewer

Devised algorithms in C# to solve challenging saddle-stitch print layout problems

Worked closely with in-house and off-shore QA teams to address defect resolution

Collaborated with designers to turn UI concepts into working software

Extensive UI coding in an environment with 10,000+ lines of JavaScript, allowing users to customize product options with instant visual feedback

Data mining and analysis with SQL to determine customer usage patterns/statistics

Project Manager of Web Development	New York City, NY
National Cable Communications	01/2002 - 06/2006

Led a 4 person development team in building mission critical B2B & internal web applications for a 450 person, $1 billion revenue cable advertising company

Worked with Microsoft Consulting and led project to migrate legacy application infrastructure to SOA architecture - Used C#, ASP.NET, Web Services, and Sharepoint technologies - Resulted in a homogeneous, interconnected, flexible architecture

Oversaw development of internal ASP.NET and J2EE web application development (Order Management, Invoicing, CRM, etc.) - Java apps based on Struts, EJB, and Weblogic

Oversaw outsource development and integrated those modules into core applications

Analyzed business processes with upper management to improve efficiency through software solutions. Resulted in countless time savings, removal of human error, and drastically improved invoicing and sales forecasting accuracy

Co-authored XML file format which later became cable advertising industry standard for electronic order/invoice communications

Administered Weblogic and IIS web/application servers

Designed databases and stored procedures using Microsoft SQL Server

As company representative was member of American Association of Advertising Agencies (www.aaaa.org) technology committee to define industry standards for B2B electronic communication protocols

Education

BS	09/1997 - 06/2001
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Computer Science 3.3 Grade Point Average

Non-Credit - Professional Development	02/2003 - 12/2003
New York University, New York City, NY Continuing education courses in Java and Web Services 4.0 Grade Point Average

Certificate of Completion - Advanced Japanese Course	03/2007 - 12/2008
Kai Japanese School, Tokyo, Japan Japanese Language 4.0 Grade Point Average

Certifications
JLPT Level 2 - Japanese Language Proficiency Test (Business Level)

Community Involvement
https://github.com/sym3tri http://stackoverflow.com/users/275016/sym3tri