DAVE LADELFA
Los Angeles, CA 90065

Professional Profile

Aptitude in rapidly mastering new software and hardware resources. Acute sense for the aesthetics of logical design and an ability to elucidate complex subjects to less-technical audiences. Experience with taking creative initiative under strict guidelines and with executing others designs. Dedicated work ethic and an ability to balance meticulousness with the demands of a deadline. Commitment to producing rock-solid code of the highest security, efficiency, and usability.

Objective

To be part of a development team utilizing best practices, state-of-the-art tools, and collective ingenuity to create useful, reliable, elegant software solutions.

Employment History

• Worked independently and in conjunction with CEO and CTO to define requirements, develop schedules, track bugs and implement industry-best code and security practices.
• Upgraded Rails 2.3 application and dependencies to current release versions.
• Cleaned and refactored code.
• Managed deployments across a custom multi-server environment.
• Improved significantly RSpec test quality and coverage.

• Worked independently and in conjunction with CEO/CTO to define requirements, develop schedules, and establish agile workflow and best-practice coding conventions.
• Delivered features, fixed bugs, and kept code well-maintained and upgraded.
• Employed Test- and Behavior-Driven Development methodologies using RSpec.
• Managed all aspects of GoogleMaps integration and application i18n/L10n.

• Defined functional requirements through consultation with management and customers.
• Created and maintained complex ASP application hand-coded in object-oriented VB Script with backend procedures in T-SQL and client-side functionality in JavaScript.
• Developed and managed updated and customized Ruby on Rails versions of the application.
• Led design and development of comprehensive contract and change management module.
• Established dev-team Test- and Behavior-Driven Development practices using RSpec.
• Integrated client-side Microsoft Project functionality through VBA scripting.
• Managed Linux and Windows servers, PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server databases.

• Created user interface components, application architecture, DB schema and business logic.
• Installed and maintained databases for development and testing purposes.
• Consulted with clients and other independent contractors to define requirements and develop schedules.
• Employed Test- and Behavior-Driven Development methodologies using RSpec.
• Led design and implementation of functionality permitting site managers to selectively synchronize data between application (MySQL) and legacy (Oracle) databases.

• Participated in all aspects of design, coding, and maintenance as part of a small dev team.
• Developed and maintained desktop application code using VB 6 with OOP and COM
• Led migration of product from Access backend to SQL Server 2000.
• Created printed reports with Crystal Reports.
• Took the lead in developing ancillary utilities (data import and export) and user controls.