Senior Software Engineer at ExtJS
Montreal, Canada Area
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- Senior Software Engineer at ExtJS
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- Lead Programmer at Blue Sponge
- Lead Programmer at Bluesponge
- Lead Programmer at Resistor Software
- Web Developer at CRCW Inc.
- Software Developer at Teilhard
- Electronic Technician at DNL Technologies
- Education
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- The University of Calgary
- Assiniboine Community College
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chris scott’s Summary
Skilled at the whole spectrum of web-application development, from the database to the interface.
particularly skilled with javascript, especially the ExtJS library. prototype, scriptaculous, JQuery and Mootools.
Merb / Rails developer.
Did first for-loop at 11 years old on a TRS80.
Former C=64 user. If you ever copied Spy Vs. Spy with fast-hack-em and saw it "Cracked by R2D2", that was a friend of mine.
chris scott’s Specialties:
Ruby, Javascript, Ajax applications, database design, css, Ext Javascript library.
chris scott’s Experience
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Senior Software Engineer
ExtJS
(Computer Software industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Working with the client development services team and providing on-site training for enterprise customers. Implementing new features for the Ext3 core library. Creating Merb and Rails gems to interface with Ext.Direct. Created new DataWriter technology along with RESTful features for Ext3.
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Lead Programmer
Blue Sponge
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
June 2008 — November 2008 (6 months)
Designed a complex Rails/ExtJS-based CMS for a prestigious architectural institution. The application make use of the Tobias Luetke's excellent Liquid gem for rendering static content. The system remotely interfaces with the clients significant existing resources through a JSON API.
Led a team of developers implementing a cutting-edge front-end for a high-profile government tourism web-site. Encouraged a talented css-developer on the project to play with ExtJS, which paid off huge. This css-developer has gone on to be quite proficient navigating / debugging the Rails code-base as well.
Provided consulting and custom-components upon an application for the NHL's historic Montreal Canadians hockey club as they prepared to promote their 100th Anniversary season. The Rails/ExtJS-based application, dealing largely with media-management and tagging, took advantage of Amazon Web-services. -
Lead Programmer
Bluesponge
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
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Lead Programmer
Resistor Software
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — June 2008 (3 years 6 months)
Created inventory management / order-management applications using php, Ruby on Rails and ExtJS javascript library.
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Web Developer
CRCW Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2003 — January 2005 (2 years )
Set up open-source php applications such as Drupal, PostNuke, forums; custom websites.
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Software Developer
Teilhard
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2000 — September 2002 (2 years 9 months)
Created a OO-perl ecommerce application similar to <a href="http://www.shopify.com">Shopify</a>.
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Electronic Technician
DNL Technologies
(Civil Engineering industry)
March 1992 — June 1998 (6 years 4 months)
Travelled throughout North America installing/monitoring strain gage & ultrasonic data acquisition systems on
over 50 railroad bridges and sports arenas.
Z80 micropressor-based circuit design / repair.
Helped create software for monitoring roof truss load on sports arenas (including Montreal Forum). The software read data from
strain gages into a finite element model of the roof truss, displaying graphs of load in real time.
Used Autocad to create scale drawings (from original blueprints) of railroad bridges and sports arenas for company reports and
business proposals.
chris scott’s Education
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The University of Calgary
CompSci , 1999 — 2000
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Assiniboine Community College
Electronic Engineering Technology , Electronics , 1991 — 1992
Analog and TTL-based digital electronics. AC/DC electronic theory.
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chris scott’s Interests:
Merb, Rails, Javascript, ExtJS, Guitar.
chris scott’s Groups:
jsdoc-toolkit
Liquid Template Engine
Montreal on Rails
Merb
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