Craig P Jolicoeur's Resume (Last updated October 2nd 2008)

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CRAIG P JOLICOEUR

401.578.9896

Johnston, RI 02919

http://craigjolicoeur.com

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OBJECTIVE 
To lead web development teams with cutting edge techniques while improving client operations due to an improved website experience.

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WORK EXPERIENCE 

Park Assist, New York, NY

Sept. 2008 - Present
Ruby on Rails Developer
  • Worked on launching Park Assist's web platform for their car park infrastructure services.

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Wis.dm, Cambridge, MA

September 2007 - July 2008
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
  • Worked as senior developer to launch new revision of wis.dm social Q&A site.

  • Implementation of Rails test suite and performance optimizations

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RatePoint, Needham, MA

November 2006 - September 2007
Ruby on Rails Lead Developer
  • Lead Developer for Ruby on Rails websites (www.ratepoint.com, web.ratepoint.com and secondlife.ratepoint.com)

  • Developed RatePoint.com using Ruby on Rails and MySQL for VC-backed startup

  • Extensive development of Flash Remoting service using WebOrb

  • Custom Rails API for automatic order integration

  • Custom Rails API development for web integration with SecondLife game from Linden Labs

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Computer Associates, Inc., Smithfield, RI

Sept. 2000 - October 2006
Software Developer / Client Consultant
  • Responsible for custom software development for a client list of 12 clients with between 5 and 85 users

  • Maintained and expanded company website built using VB.NET web services and Ruby on Rails

  • Developed custom Ruby on Rails internal web portal using AJAX to manage corporate whitepaper and newsletter distribution system

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Dr J Enterprises, LLC, Johnston, RI

Sept. 2000 - Present
Web Developer
  • Web consulting business specializing in Ruby on Rails application development and Wordpress PHP plugin and theme development

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EDUCATION 

Pensacola Christian College, Pensacola, FL, September 2000 - May 2003

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Mathematics, 3.79 - cum laude honors Grade Point Average

 

Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, September 1999 - May 2000

General Courses in Computer Science, 3.96 Grade Point Average

 

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SKILLS 
Ruby on Rails, merb, PHP, Perl

jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, AJAX

XHTML, CSS, MySQL, Mongrel, Solr, Lucene

git, SVN, MVC, rspec, Agile Methodology

Mac OS X, Unix/Linux

Photoshop

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COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT 
  • RIRUG - Founder of the Rhode Island Ruby User Group

  • BBRuby - Ruby library for BBCode markup processing (http://github.com/cpjolicoeur/bb-ruby/)

  • ParseHTML - Ruby HTML parser (http://github.com/cpjolicoeur/parsehtml)

  • prototypeGrowl - Prototype Javascript implementation of the Mac OS X Growl notification system (http://github.com/cpjolicoeur/prototypegrowl/)

  • FeedCache - Wordpress RSS feed caching plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedcache)

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