HELLO
I AM TIM GOURLEY

WEB DEVELOPER

PROFILE

RESUME

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PROFILE

THE FILE OF A PRO

WEB DEVELOPMENT AND MORE

I've always had a love of computer programming. From an early age I picked up GW-BASIC and Turbo Pascal to work with my Tandy 1000sx, a machine I remember fondly. From there, I moved on to learning Java at OU in the Computer Science program, and picked up Perl and PHP for learning personal web development on the side.

After a while I discovered Ruby through DHH's original Rails demo video, and instantly knew this was the language for me. Since then I have mastered the language as well as Javascript (and Coffeescript) to start building rich client-side web applications.

In addition to programming, I am a huge fan of video games. Anything from Minecraft to Pokémon to Counter Strike: Global Offensive, I'm sure to be spending my time playing games, and even writing code to help further the hobby.

I write a lot of fiction, and have successfully completed NaNoWriMo 3 times.

WHAT CAN I DO?

WEB DEVELOPMENT

Proficient in Ruby, Rails, Angular, Backbone, Javascript, and Sinatra. Comfortable with testing, development, and deployment.

DEVOPS

Experience managing Linux servers, utilizing both Puppet and Chef scripts, command line scripting, backups, EC2, and New Relic.

AGILE

Experience with scrum and Pivotal Tracker. Using TDD with tools such as rspec, mocha, chai, and phantomjs.

PROBLEM SOLVING

Solving bugs and scalability issues by diving deep into the code to figure out the answers to the big "WTF?" questions.

INTEGRATIONS

Enjoys writing glue code for one service to another, like chat bots, background daemons, and gaming utilities.

EDUCATION

Experience teaching ruby, rails, and application deployment to others in a virtual classroom setting.

POWER LEVEL

9000+

POKÉMON

720+

COFFEE CUPS

2500+

TIM GOURLEY

Copyright © 2015 by Tim Gourley. All right reserved.

RESUME

EDUCATION

University of Oklahoma / August 1997 - May 2001

Studied Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics. Worked at the Technology Information Center and freelanced web development.

University of Arkansas / August 2001 - May 2002

Studied Computer Science.

EXPERIENCE

Senior Software Engineer / July 2013 - Current
Phase 2 Interactive (Oklahoma City, OK)

Ruby on Rails, Angular, Backbone, and .Net development, writing rich client Javascript applications.

Senior Software Engineer / September 2011 - July 2013
BLiNQ Media (remote) (Atlanta, GA)

Ruby on Rails development with Backbone.js and Coffeescript. Working with Facebook integration. Code contributor on the open source fbgraph gam.

Master Instructor / May 2011 - September 2011
Engine Yard (remote) (San Francisco, CA)

Writing course material and conduction online virtual training for Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

Application Support Engineer / May 2008 - May 2011
Engine Yard (remote) (San Francisco, CA)

Providing support and scalability analysis for customer applications, written in Ruby on Rails or other Rack-based frameworks. Working extensively with Amazon EC2 and the Terremark cloud.

SKILLS

Ruby

95%

Rails

90%

Javascript

95%

Angular

90%

Backbone

93%

Objective C

40%
TIM GOURLEY

Copyright © 2015 by Tim Gourley. All right reserved.

PROJECTS

PROJECTS

INITRAX

System for managing a Pathfinder RPG campaign's group initiative for combat encounters. Utilizes a Ruby backend with sqlite database, and Backbone.js for the view.

VISIT

POKÉMON PORTAL

Pokémon team information and EV training calculator utilizing a ton of JS tech: Brunch, Chaplin, Backbone, Handlebars, Bootstrap.

CODE

POKÉMON SHINY TRACKER

Angular.js site, optimised for mobile. This is an encounter tracker that also shows probability information for the type of shiny hunt you are undertaking. It supports all Pokémon games from generation 2-6 (there were no shiny Pokémon in the first generation), and shows you the binomial distribution as your hunt progresses.

VISIT

ILIKETURTLES

Lua scripts for the Minecraft mod ComputerCraft.

CODE

CLINCH CLASH

I have a hard time making decisions sometimes. This is a bit of toy code to help with that. Ruby all the way.

CODE

GOOGLEVOICEAPI GEM

Poorly maintained screen-scraping "api" gem for Google Voice. Doesn't work with 2-factor auth. Needs love.

CODE

MACTTS GEM

My first ruby gem! It's a wrapper around the "say" command on OS X.

CODE

ENCOUNTER BUILDER

Command-line tool for helping build level-appropriate encounters for the Pathfinder RPG.

CODE

TRIVIA BACKEND

Ruby and Redis API endpoint for serving up trivia questions, intended for Hubot consumption via Coffeescript.

VISIT

OH HEY HAVE SOME QUOTES

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm,
only to have it abused by amateurs.

Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Where there's a will, there's a beneficiary.

The Seventh Doctor, Doctor Who, Time and the Rani

We do have a lot in common: the same air, the same Earth, the same sky. Maybe if we started looking at what's the same instead of always looking at what's different, well, who knows?

Meowth, The Pokémon Movie

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

POWER LEVEL

9000+

POKÉMON

720+

COFFEE CUPS

2500+

TIM GOURLEY

Copyright © 2015 by Tim Gourley. All right reserved.

CONTACT

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Moore, OK



www.timgourley.com


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Lori Gourley


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TIM GOURLEY

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