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Career usage of Rails

Startup 2007 - Current:
- Took on Project lead role
- Architecture of Social Media platform
- Lead of Development Team, day to day system design
- Constant refactoring and improving of code base

Technologies : TBA

Fastmount 2004 - Current:
- Implemented Ruby on Rails portion of web app to gradually phase out PHP part of web app
- User interface enhancement with jQuery
- Shared login system with PHP
- Use of existing data model
- Complex business logic as described.

Technologies: CentOS | Apache | Passenger | Capistrano | HAML | rSpec | rMagick | Rails | MySQL | Prototype | jQuery

Strategic Coach 2006 - 2007:
- Implemented first system in Feb 2006, a simple eCommerce site for The Strategic Coach
- Implementation proved Rails was a huge win for “time from concept to production”, continued on from this and developed long awaited client ‘portal’.
- Very large Rails app in terms of models (100+)
- Complex architecture for interfacing with legacy Filemaker installation.
- Extended application with Flex front end components.
- Content management mixed in with client data aggregation and display

Technologies: OS X | Apache | Mongrel | Capistrano | rSpec | rMagick | Rails | MySQL | Flex | Filemaker | HTML | CSS | Prototype | Scriptaculous

2005:
- Learning project in Rails : Hosted Blog/Image platform

Technologies: CentOS | Apache | SCGI | rMagick | Rails | MySQL

Community Efforts
- Actively maintain this blog
- Given talks at Toronto Rails Tech Events
   - http://work.rowanhick.com/2008/02/12/how-to-avoid-hanging-yourself-with-rails/
   - http://work.rowanhick.com/2008/06/11/toronto-rails-night-merb-presentation/

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