Andy Miller
C Developer in Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Member since September 16, 2014
Andy is a Software Architect experienced in client-server and web based software design and development. He is particularly interested in working in a diverse team environment that values good testing practices, continuous delivery, and continual learning.
Andy is now available for hire
Portfolio
- Tagalong TouriOS, Objective-C, C#, ASP.NET WebAPI, Azure
- giftbug.coRuby on Rails, Postgres, Heroku
- Two-Eyed DesignsASP.NET, C#, WordPress, Ruby on Rails
Experience
- C, 19 years
- C#, 11 years
- ASP.NET, 8 years
- CSS, 7 years
- JavaScript, 7 years
- Ruby, 4 years
- Test-driven Development (TDD), 4 years
- Objective-C, 2 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Unix/Linux, Vim, Git, automated tests.
The most amazing...
...thing I've designed is a commercial vehicle(taxi, bus, etc) tracking and revenue system used in many US airports.
Employment
Co-founder, Software Engineer
2014 - PRESENTTagalong Tour- Won first place at Startup Weekend Pittsburgh in March 2014.
- Built a native iOS self-guided walking tour app in Objective-C.
- Built ASP.NET WebAPI back-end running on Azure that provides data to the iOS application.
- Built scalable analytics tracking and a dashboard based on Keen IO.
Technologies: iOS, Objective-C, C#, ASP.NET WebAPI, AzureCo-founder, Software Engineer
2013 - PRESENTgiftbug.co- Assisted in design and user experience of the application.
- Architected a scalable web application built on Ruby on Rails, Postgres, and Heroku.
- Made strategic decisions on the direction of company.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Postgres, HerokuCo-owner, Software Engineer
2013 - PRESENTTwo-Eyed Designs- Provided top-notch consulting, development, and web design services to the client.
- Led a team of developers on a year-long rewrite of multiple large web applications for physical therapist licensing.
- Designed and developed a new WordPress website for the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall.
- Wrote an item scheduling system for ATI Metals to track items through their new hot-rolling plant.
Technologies: ASP.NET, C#, WordPress, Ruby on RailsDirector of Software Engineering
2013 - 2013CTR Systems- Was responsible for the long-term direction of the product.
- Managed client projects, often on-site.
Technologies: ASP.NET, C#, SQL ServerSoftware Development Manager
2008 - 2013CTR Systems- Managed a team of twelve software engineers, QA engineers, and business analysts.
- Led the design and development of an airport commercial vehicle tracking and revenue system.
- Managed the PA-DSS compliance process throughout the company.
- Learned and applied Scrum methodology across the company to improve engineering quality and communication.
- Developed a new parking cashier POS system.
Technologies: ASP.NET, C#, SQL ServerSoftware Engineer
2004 - 2008CTR Systems- Developed a new ASP.NET web application for a parking garage management system.
- Developed a building access control system.
- Led the effort to establish standard development guidelines for the team.
- Led the initiative to use development best practices such as source control and bug tracking systems.
- Developed custom time management applications in C++/MFC.
Technologies: ASP.NET, C#, C++, SQL ServerProgrammer Analyst
1998 - 2002AIG- Worked on a data warehousing project to store and analyze large amounts of mainframe data using Oracle.
- Developed a high-speed document scanning system to provide customers web access to their paperwork.
- Developed a workflow management system to increase the speed of communication and reduce errors among customer support personnel.
- Developed custom call center support software.
- Ported applications from mainframe COBOL to Visual Basic.
Technologies: Visual Basic, C++, COBOL, Classic ASP, Sybase, Oracle
Experience
- Winner of Startup Weekend Pittsburgh, March 2014 (Other amazing things)http://tagalongtour.com/
A team of nine developers, designers, and marketing experts came together for over 54 hours to build a mobile app that offers self-guided walking tours around Pittsburgh. Since then, they've formed a company around the idea and are now in the App Store.
I developed the main tour list screen and API communication layer of the iOS application, as well as the analytics tracking and dashboard. - giftbug.co (Development)http://giftbug.co/
In 2013, my wife, Shannon, and I quit our jobs to create giftbug, a startup built around the idea that giving gifts should be fun and simple.
I built the application on Ruby on Rails, Postgres and Heroku.
Skills
Languages
JavaScript, Ruby, HTML, CSS, C#, Go, C, Objective-C, C++, Java, PHP, Visual Basic, Rust, HaskellFrameworks
ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET MVC, Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Kendo UI, ASP.NET, Sinatra, ZURB Foundation, Ember.jsLibraries/APIs
Infragistics, jQueryTools
Microsoft Visual Studio, TFS, GitHub, Git, Vim Text Editor, Xcode, Subversion (SVN)Platforms
iOS, Linux, Unix, Heroku, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rackspace Cloud, Rackspace, Oracle, WordPressStorage
Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQLParadigms
Agile Software Development, Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Scrum, Test-driven Development (TDD)
Education
- Course completion degree in Computer Science1998 - 2000University of Houston - Houston, TX
- Course completion degree in Computer Science1996 - 1997Allegheny College - Meadville, PA
