Glenn Gillen
Employment
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May 2007 – Present Freelance Developer
Ruby and Ruby on Rails contract development for a range of clients including Wordtracker, Homeflow, ScribeLive/ScribeStudio, Distance Learning International, Producers Guild of America, MyDealBook, and Line Communications among others. Projects have included development of social networking, content management, data analysis and reporting, distance learning systems and media rich applications.
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2006 – 2007 Solutions Architect
ESPC (UK) Ltd. / MoveMachine; Edinburgh
Responsible for final decision on business wide technical direction, system specification, and design sign-off. Relationship management of vendors a contractors. Day to day performance management of java development team. Day-to-day development of ruby and ruby on rails business systems including time sheeting systems, project management and performance reporting, work allocation, and web spidering in addition to integrating with java SOA development using web/REST services.
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2000 – 2006 Solutions Architect
SalesForce Australia / SALMAT; Melbourne
Setting of company wide technical direction for Australia's largest outsourced provider of contact centre and computer telephony integration services. Relationship management and requirements gathering with clients across a range of sectors. Management of 50+ development team utilising a range of frameworks and languages including ASP, .Net, PHP and Genesys. Development of new company wide platform to integrate .Net clients with dynamic Ruby on Rails served client CRM systems. Development of wikis, content management systems, knowledge-bases, and associated information retrieval and classification systems.
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1993 – 2005 Freelance Developer
Freelance consulting and development for primarily the legal industry. Development of content management, document generation, document management, business reporting and auditing systems. Developed one of the first GUI based HTML editors.
Professional Skills
- Ruby
- Ruby on Rails
- AJAX
- Javascript
- Merb
- Postgres
- CouchDB
- .Net
- MySQL
- SQL Server
- Test::Unit
- Rspec
- Shoulda
- Hobo
- Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)
- Agile Project Management / SCRUM / XP
- PHP
Personal, Projects & Code
- Ruby Pond
- Em and Glenn
- scRUBYt!
- Semantic Form Builder
- Atlas
- Radiant Search Referrer Terms
- Philotes
- Map.ly
- Longpockets
- Sniffl
- Whisky'd
- Marketing Sushi