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Taylor Boren

taylorboren86@gmail.com | https://www.linkedin.com/pub/taylor-boren/3b/508/89b

Software Developer

Full-Stack Ruby on Rails Developer, JavaScript Developer, Technology Consultant

• Knowledgeable Software Developer with 3 years experience using Ruby on Rails / HTML5 / JavaScript to improve

business processes and customer support for numerous well-known companies.

• Created custom, intuitive user interfaces to enable quicker retrieval of crucial information.

• Gathered requirements and built applications for Weight Watchers, CDC, Hyundai, and more to improve the

customer support experience and decrease time customer support spent solving customers’ problems.

• Integrated numerous APIs into applications built on the Jive Social Software platform.

Primary Tech Skills

• Ruby on Rails

• iOS Development (Swift)

• Angular JS

• jQuery

• HTML5/CSS3

• Twitter Bootstrap

• API Integration

• Linux/Unix Systems

• PHP

Object Oriented Experience

• Ruby

• Swift

• Java

• JavaScript – front-end and

backend (NodeJS)

CSS Frameworks

• Twitter Bootstrap

• Google Material Design

IDEs

Databases

• Postgres

• MySQL

• MongoDB

SDKs

• Jive Node SDK

• Appcelerator Titanium

• Ionic

• Eclipse

• Xcode

Software Developer, 8/2014 – Present, TeleTech Holdings, Inc.

-- Gathered requirements from clients in order to build custom applications to improve key metrics of their business.

-- Analyzed business processes in place and suggested applications to improve efficiency of time-consuming tasks.

-- Eliminated need for many menial tasks so that energy could be directed at revenue generating business processes.

-- Created intuitive tools to take the place of existing convoluted spreadsheets and / or processes.

-- Used Ruby on Rails to consolidate data from many of our clients’ spreadsheets into a Postgres database.

-- Created a Ruby on Rails API to manipulate client data and integrate it within an existing knowledge base.

-- Built announcement system to provide instant communication to all people using the knowledge base.

-- Built Ruby on Rails application that served as:

1. An interface for admins to add, remove, update existing information.

2. An application to gather requests and track request completion.

3. A data store and reporting platform for a plethora business critical data.

Communication Signals Analyst / Mission Manager 2/2010 – 2/2013, United States Navy

-- Held and still maintain active Top Secret clearance

-- Designed, developed and implemented web applications to aid in Analyst training and development,

significantly reducing the training burden put on other analysts.

-- Managed numerous personnel and mission systems across three shifts, coordinating and conducting

training, overseeing daily tasking, and ensuring health and status of access systems.

-- Site operations lead for hardware virtualization operational testing and evaluation (OT&E) of several

mission systems, coordinating resources and manning allowing normal mission function along with

additional testing and training necessary to implement new systems.

-- Coordinated the use of site information resources between all shift personnel and presented daily

operation briefs to site leadership, and to three multi-service shift crews

-- Utilized Red Hat Linux for 3 years to perform technical duties

Education

Oregon State University (2012-2015) – B.S. Computer Science – 3.7 GPA

References

Jacob McNulty

(303) 859-9598 – jacob.mcnulty@orbitalrpm.com

Pallas Forcella

(914) 588-4307 – pallasforcella@teletech.com