Resume
Scott Willson
scott.willson@gmail.com
1204 SE Pershing Street, Portland, OR 97202
(503) 913-6013
Lead Developer, Analog Analytics (Portland, OR), 2008-present
Led remote team to build SMS-based advertising measurement system. Application uses text message call-to-actions to track offline advertising and provide demographic information.
Built and ran white-label daily deal syndication platform that handles millions of dollars a month in revenue.
Code-to-test ratio 1:2.6.
[Ruby on Rails, C, MySQL, Solaris, Ubuntu]
Senior Developer, Con-way (Portland, OR), 2004-2008
Enhanced and fixed company-wide AR billing system that handles $15 million of corrections a month. Mentored developers in Java, agile development, and refactoring.
Over time, persuaded team to move into open bullpen, plan work in two-week iterations, use Trac, write tests first, pair program, and talk face-to-face with users. Went from 0 to 467 unit tests and 408 system tests, and dropped total lines of code from 50,000 to 40,000.
Set up continuous integration build for department with JRuby and Rails.
Built customer-facing logistics site that handles a half-million EDI transactions/month.
[Java EE, Ruby on Rails, Spring, Hibernate, WebSphere, Oracle, DB2, SuSE, AIX]
Senior Developer, contract, 2001-2004
Coded, tested, and deployed web application and data processing systems for Banfield Pet Hospital, MeasureCast, Synetics, Freightliner, and New Edge Networks (Portland, OR).
Mentored teams in agile development, collaborated on architecture, and wrote code. Integrated with internal and external systems (credit card billing, bank account billing, medication shipment).
Created scalable, high performance, distributed systems.
[Java EE, Python, Swing, Oracle, DB2]
Senior Web Developer [Java, WebObjects], mySeasons.com (Old Saybrook, CT), 2000-2001
Senior Web Developer, Gap Inc (San Francisco), 1997-1999
Computer Consultant/Website Developer, avviso (San Francisco), 1995-1997
Graphic Designer (San Francisco), 1993-1995
Flight Attendant, American Trans Air (San Francisco), 1990-1993
Senior Consultant, Wesleyan Computing Center (Middletown, CT), 1989-1993
Personal consulting and open source, 1997-present
Built bike racing event registration, results, membership, and mailing list site for Oregon Bicycle Racing Association (http://www.obra.org/) in Rails. Open-sourced core code (https://github.com/scottwillson/racing_on_rails) and used it to build the Washington State Bicycle Association, American Track Racing Association, Alberta Bicycle Association, and Montana Bicycle Racing Association results sites. System holds over 447,000 results for 28,000 racers and calculates standings for a variety of competitions. Code to test ratio: 1.0/1.7.
[Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MySQL, FreeBSD, OS X]
http://www.butlerpress.com/resume/
https://github.com/scottwillson
https://github.com/analog-analytics/hydra
Wesleyan University, 1989-1993
B.A. with honors: International politics and non-western history
