David A. Black! ! Developer, trainer, author, speaker, event organizer! ! [email protected]! @david_a_black! github/dblack! (732) 896-5012! ! ! Objective! ! A full-time, permanent job in software development, either working from home (preferred) or working in the New Jersey/New York City area! ! ! Selected skills! ! Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Ember.js, C, Perl, CSS, HTML, XML/SGML! ! ! Recent experience! ! August 2014-December 2014, Lead Developer at Funding Gates, Inc. ! December 2009-June 2014, Lead Developer at Cyrus Innovation, LLC! June 2005-December 2009, Director at Ruby Power and Light, LLC! ! ! Relevant publications and videos! ! Single-authored books and videos:! ! The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Manning Publications, 2009; second edition 2014! Ruby for Rails, Manning Publications, 2006! Rails Routing, Addison-Wesley, 2007! Ruby 1.9 (two-part video), Envycasts, 2007! ! Books contributed to! ! The Rails Way, Addison-Wesley, 2008! Ruby in Practice, Manning Publications, 2009! Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days, Sams, 2002! ! ! ! Selected clients and training partners/venues! ! Accelebrate, Inc.! AdRem Software! American Institute of Biological Sciences! Audible.net! Bear, Stearns! Congressional Quarterly! EEI Communications! Exceed Education! GLOBE Program! Hobart West Group! Intrexon Corporation! MaxMD! NotSleepy LLC! Online Computer Library Center! Polar Rose (Sweden)! Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust (UK)! Skills Matter (UK)! University of Southern California! Visionist! Webucator, Inc.! ! ! Selected conference presentations and keynotes! ! (Presentations have also been made to numerous meet-ups and user groups.)! ! • “The Ship of Matsumoto; or, a Rubyist takes stock”. Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, Philadelphia, 2014! • “The 11th Thing: Generalists, specialists, and how life imitates the decathlon”. Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, Philadelphia, 2013! • “Command Performance: the why and whether of small-scale optimizations”. Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, Philadelphia, 2011! • “Is Ruby Easy?”. Keynote; RubyConf Brasil, 2011! • “The Well-Grounded Nuby”. RubyConf 2011, New Orleans, LA! • “Ghosts of Ruby: a Neo-Dickensian Explication”. Keynote; The Ruby Hoedown 2011, Huntsville, AL! • “Barbara, Demeter, and Don: Notes on Some CS Precepts from a Non-Scientist Programmer”. Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, Philadelphia, 2010! • “Getting to Know Ruby 1.9”. RailsConf 2009, Las Vegas, NV! • “Ruby 1.9: What to Expect”. Joint presentation with Dave Thomas. RubyConf 2008, Orlando, FL! ! ! ! Selected interviews (as interviewee)! ! With Stephen Ibaraki, for the Association for Computing Machinery, 2011! With Satish Talim, for RubyLearning, 2009! With Rob Bazinet, for InfoQ, 2009! With Obie Fernandez, for InfoQ, 2007! With Fabio Akita, for Akita on Rails, 2007! With Pat Eyler, for “On Ruby” blog, 2006! ! ! Selected professional activities! ! • Founder and former director of Ruby Central, Inc. (parent organization of RubyConf and RailsConf)! • Conference co-organizer (RubyConf, RailsConf, RailsConf Europe)! • Member, Professional Development Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery! • Webinar, “Ruby for the Nuby”, for the Association for Computing Machinery, 2014! • Creator, “Ruby Learning Path”, for the Association for Computing Machinery! • “The Compleat Rubyist”, training event in collaboration with Gregory Brown and Jeremy McAnally! • Chief author, scanf.rb in the Ruby standard library! ! ! References! ! On request.
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