Alex Dean

United States (Wessington Springs, South Dakota)

Company: IPS Meteostar Inc.

Website: http://www.meteostar.com

About Me

Background

• 6 years full-time PHP development.
• 1 year Ruby/Rails development.
• Experience developing sites & web applications in : real estate, e-commerce, news, library cataloging, and weather analysis.
• Humanities background before discovering programming.

Rails Interests

• Relational databases : Mysql, Posgres, Oracle
• Spatial databases : Georuby, spatial_adapter, GeoServer
• Testing : Test::Unit, mocha
• Internationalization / Localization.

Teaching Background

• Ran after-school computers & technology class for middle-school students.
• 1/2 year as full-time substitute teacher. Kindergarten to high school.
• Studied teaching methodologies in graduate school.
• 1 year as TA in programming classes at undergraduate level.

Educational Background

• BA : History & Philosophy (Paracollege), St. Olaf College, Northfield MN 1998
• MA : Digital Media Studies, University of Denver, Denver CO 2003

My other links

Mentoring since June 18, 2009

I can mentor in these topics

• ActiveRecord
• AJAX
• Authentication
• Background Processing
• CSS
• Javascript
• Liquid
• Mocha
• Prototype
• Rails 2.x
• Ruby
• Subversion
• System Administration
• Test::Unit