Dave Rapin

Current

• Lead Web Developer at Globacore

Past

• Senior Web Developer and Designer at MABO Media
• Product Architect at Clay Tablet Technologies
• Technical Director at ExtendMedia Inc.

• Software Architect at ACTRA
• Chief Software Architect at InfomedX
• Software Developer at Boeing
• Software Developer at EuphoriaMedia Inc.
• Software Developer at Canadian Standards Association

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Education

• Canadore College
• University of Western Ontario

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Industry

Computer Software

Dave Rapin’s Summary

Web designer and developer with over 10 years experience in the field, specializing in Ruby web frameworks like Rails and Merb.

Expertise in cloud computing, hosting, open source web technologies, SEO, and agile development.

Dave Rapin’s Specialties:

Ruby on Rails, jQuery, database management, Linux setup and administration, SEO, design, architecture, agile development.

Dave Rapin’s Experience

• Lead Web Developer

  Globacore

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2009 — Present (5 months)

• Senior Web Developer and Designer

  MABO Media

  (Internet industry)

  April 2008 — August 2009 (1 year 5 months)

  Responsible for the design / redesign, development, and management of several web applications. See www.homeinteriorguide.com
  
  Technologies Used: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Linux (Ubuntu), Photoshop, HTML, CSS, jQuery, Sphinx, Git.

• Product Architect

  Clay Tablet Technologies

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Translation and Localization industry)

  June 2007 — April 2008 (11 months)

  Responsible for designing and implementing the core architecture for a message oriented middleware (MOM) product to connect various (many) content management systems with various (many) translation management systems.
  
  Technologies Used: Java, Ruby, Rails, Spring, Guice, JPA, MySQL.

• Technical Director

  ExtendMedia Inc.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  August 2001 — October 2006 (5 years 3 months)

  Lead technical resource for the services side of ExtendMedia's flagship media management product.
  
  Technologies Used: Java, EJB 2, Struts, Hibernate, Spring, Axis, XStream, Postgres, Javascript, MySQL.

• Software Architect

  ACTRA

  (Non-Profit; Entertainment industry)

  April 2001 — July 2001 (4 months)

  During a three month contract at ACTRA I was responsible for putting together a technical specification for their new member's application.

• Chief Software Architect

  InfomedX

  (Computer Software industry)

  April 1999 — March 2001 (2 years )

  At InfomedX I was the lead technical resource for their flagship product "iRetrieve".
  
  Technologies used: ASP, COM+, HTML, Javascript, XML, SOAP.

• Software Developer

  Boeing

  (Public Company; BA; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  December 1998 — March 1999 (4 months)

  During this 4 month contract I was responsible for providing technical specifications for a redesign of a parts management application.

• Software Developer

  EuphoriaMedia Inc.

  (Internet industry)

  January 1998 — November 1998 (11 months)

  At EuphoriaMedia I was the lead technical resource, and in charge of designing and implementing several services contracts for clients like Bell Canada and Elections Ontario.

• Software Developer

  Canadian Standards Association

  (Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Consumer Services industry)

  July 1996 — January 1998 (1 year 7 months)