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author: Owen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca> 2015-07-03 22:31:49 -0400
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+		<h1 id="hire-me">Hire Me</h1>
+<p>I'm always interested in hearing from people and organizations that I can help,
+whether that means coming in for a few days to talk about end-to-end testing or
+joining your organization full-time to help turn an idea into reality.</p>
+<p>I live in and around Toronto, ON. I am more than happy to work remotely, and I
+can probably help your organization learn to integrate remote work if it doesn't
+already know how.</p>
+<p>You can see more about me as a person on
+<a href="https://hiremyfriend.io/profiles/90b8caa5">HireMyFriend</a> or
+<a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/ojacobson/">LinkedIn</a>. You can also get a sense of
+the code I write by looking at this blog, as well as my
+<a href="https://bitbucket.org/ojacobson">Bitbucket</a> or
+<a href="https://github.com/ojacobson/">Github</a> sites: I recommend starting with
+<a href="https://github.com/ojacobson/refreshbooks">Refreshbooks</a> or
+<a href="https://github.com/ojacobson/sparkplug">Sparkplug</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="for-fun">For Fun</h2>
+<p>I regularly revisit problems from old jobs, interesting ideas from the internet,
+and whatever else catches my fancy as a way to build up skills with specific
+technologies. Right now, I'm tinkering with <a href="http://angularjs.org">AngularJS</a>
+and <a href="https://jersey.java.net">Jersey 2</a> as a way of building lightweight,
+highly-responsive web front ends. Ask me about it and I'll be more than happy to
+talk your ear off. I've also run similar projects to explore Node, Django,
+Flask, Rails, and other platforms for web development, as well as numerous tools
+and frameworks for other platforms.</p>
+<p>I also mentor people new to programming, teaching them how to craft working
+systems. This is less about teaching people to write code and more about
+teaching them why we care about source control, how to think about
+configuration, how to and why to automate testing, and how to think about
+software systems and data flow at a higher level. I strongly believe that
+software development needs a formal apprenticeship program, and mentoring has
+done a lot to validate that belief.</p>
+<h2 id="freshbooks-2009-2014">FreshBooks (2009-2014)</h2>
+<p>During the five years I was with the company, it grew from a 20-person one-room
+organization to a healthy, growing two-hundred-person technology company. As an
+early employee, I had my hand in many, many projects and helped the development
+team absorb the massive cultural changes that come with growth, while also
+building a SaaS product that let others realize their dreams. Some highlights:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p>As the lead <a href="http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else">MySQL</a> database
+  administrator-slash-developer, I worked with the entire development team to
+  balance concerns about reliability and availability with ensuring new ideas
+  and incremental improvements could be executed without massive bureaucracy
+  and at low risk. This extended into diverse parts of the company: alongside
+  the operations team, I handled capacity planning, reliability, outage
+  planning, and performance monitoring, while with the development team, I
+  was responsible for designing processes and deploying tools to ease testing
+  of database changes and ensuring smooth, predictable, and <em>low-effort</em>
+  deployment to production and for training developers to make the best use of
+  MySQL for their projects.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>As a tools developer, I built the <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sparkplug">Sparkplug</a>
+  framework to standardize the tools and processes for building message-driven
+  applications, allowing the team to move away from monolithic web applications
+  towards a more event-driven suite of interal systems. Providing a standard
+  framework paid off well; building and deploying completely novel event
+  handlers for FreshBooks’ core systems could be completed in as little as a
+  week, including testing and production provisioning.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>As an ops-ish toolsmith, I worked extensively on configuration management
+  for both applications and the underlying servers. I lead a number of
+  projects to reduce the risk around deployments: creating a standard
+  development VM to ensure developers had an environment consistent with
+  reality, automating packaging and rollout to testing servers, automating the
+  <em>creation</em> of testing servers, and more. As part of this work, I built
+  training materials and ran sessions to teach other developers how to think
+  like a sysadmin, covering Linux, Puppet, virtualization, and other topics.</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="riptown-media-2006-2009">Riptown Media (2006-2009)</h2>
+<p>Riptown Media was an software development company tasked with building and
+maintaining a suite of gambling systems for a single client. I was brought on
+board as a Java developer, and rapidly expanded my role to encompass other
+fields.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p>As the primary developer for poker-room back office and anti-fraud tools, I
+  worked with the customer support and business intelligence teams to better
+  understand their daily needs and frustrations, so that I could turn those
+  into meaningful improvements to their tools and processes. These
+  improvements, in turn, lead to measurable changes in the frequency and
+  length of customer support calls, in fraud rates, and in the percieved value
+  of internal customer intelligence.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>As a lead developer, my team put together the server half of an in-house 
+  casino gaming platform. We worked in tight collaboration with the client
+  team, in-house and third-party testers, and interaction designers, and
+  delivered our first game in under six months. Our platform was meant to
+  reduce our reliance on third-party “white label” games vendors; internally,
+  it was a success. Our game received zero customer-reported defects during
+  its initial run.</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="osi-geospatial-2004-2006">OSI Geospatial (2004-2006)</h2>
+<p>At OSI Geospatial, I lead the development of a target-tracking and battlespace
+awareness overlay as part of a suite of operational theatre tools. In 2004, the
+state of the art for web-based geomatics software was not up to the task; this
+ended up being a custom server written in C++ and making heavy use of PostgreSQL
+and PostGIS for its inner workings.</p>
+<h2 id="contact-me">Contact Me</h2>
+<p>Sound good? Curious? Want to discuss any of this some more? You can get ahold of
+me at owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca or on <a href="https://twitter.com/derspiny">Twitter</a>.</p>
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author	Owen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca>	2015-07-03 22:31:49 -0400
committer	Owen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca>	2015-07-03 22:35:09 -0400
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