Chase Allen James

Education

B.S., Applied Technology, Western Kentucky University, 2005
Associate of Applied Science in Information Technology, Bowling Green Technical College, 2003

2010 - present, Self-employed

Developed Bluegrass Help-at-Home, a web application for finding in-home care providers. Provides ability to search profiles by availability and other attributes. Built using the Ruby-based Sinatra web framework.
Developed resume submission feature in Ruby on Rails for ArkNet, a facilities management application for a local rehabilitation therapist outsourcing company.
Developed Vidproxy, a web application to search videos hosted by third-party video hosting providers (i.e. Vimeo). All thumbnails, tags, description, and titles are cached, allowing users to have a custom frontend to their videos. Currently used by the BGADD as BlueGrassWebTV.com using Vimeo as the hosting API. The site is implemented in PHP using a Ruby Sinatra-like framework called Fitzgerald, IdiORM, and Paris.
Engineering Ruby on Rails application for managing financial benefit accounts for a local health care administration company.
Utilizing cdist for server provisioning.

2008 - 2010, PromptSite LLC, Senior Developer

Engineered Ruby on Rails facilities management application for local rehabilitation therapist outsourcing company. Handles scheduling for therapists of varying diciplines for multiple rehab facilities. Currently manages day-to-day scheduling of over 50 therapists for over thirty facilities. Manages therapist and facility profiles, provides online therapist availability submission.
Optimized website deployment using Ruby rake, git and remote_task.
Optimized server provisioning using Sprinkle and custom sprinkle scripts.
Developed a file upload and document sharing application in Ruby on Rails to facilitate easier file sharing. Later revisions stored files using Amazon S3. Currently in use by four different organizations.
Improved site uptime and developer response time by migrating 20 websites from shared hosting to virtual private servers.
Developed three e-commerce websites using the RBiz Radiant CMS e-commerce extension.
Improved website uptime, security, and custom extension development time by migrating to Radiant CMS from Joomla CMS.
Developed Ruby application using the Sinatra framework that manages votes on rain barrel art.

2007 - 2008, Voltaic Commerce LLC, Developer

Maintained eight DragonFly BSD web application jails across two co-located servers.
Co-developed and pioneered multiple Radiant CMS powered websites.
Built custom Radiant CMS extensions.
Co-developed Scrumptious, a full-featured task, team, and time management Ruby on Rails web application.
Developed a tag-based password management system in the Camping web framework.

2006 - 2007, BGADD, Network Administrator

Reduced email spam by 70% by configuring custom spam assassin rules in an Exim-powered Debian email server.
Maintained three Debian Linux web and mail servers in three geographically disparate locations.
Systems administrator for four county government computer networks encompassing over 230 workstations across multiple government offices.
Pioneered BGADD's web application services offering.
Supervised one IT intern.

Wrote zodiac; a static website generator supporting multiple markup formats in awk and sh.
Wrote erl_gm; a wrapper for the command-line implementation of GraphicsMagick in Erlang.