Travis Berry

Denver, CO, United States 303-809-2621 https://www.travisberry.com/

I believe in creating, shipping, learning, and having fun. My goal is to continually improve and conquer new challenges.

Technical Skills

Like: ruby, php, css, javascript, html, git, osx, mongodb, cucumber, amazon-ec2, heroku, mvc, restful
Dislike: soap, coldfusion

Experience

2009 - 2012 Manager Software Development bieMEDIA
  • Moved from intern to Manager Software Development in a short period of time.

  • Manged a team of 3 developers. Heavily interacted with leadership members from other departments and executives.

  • Built and oversaw several large internal systems to improve business productivity including order management (RoR/MongoDB), video hosting/delivery (RoR/MySQL), and asset management/control (PHP/MySQL).

  • Integrated systems with a large number of third party API's. Including SendGrid, YouTube, Ooyala, Facebook, and Twitter. Integrated with several customer API's as well.

  • Developed and deployed server automation tools to increase Amazon ec2 deployment speed (Puppet).

  • Reduced server costs by installing server monitoring tools (NewRelic) to track performance and usage of machines. Was able to reduce instance size on several machines lowering monthly charges.

  • Worked to improve developer productivity by creating continuous integration servers (Jenkins and Travis CI), code deploy systems (Hubot/Capistrano and git hooks), and improved the quality of internal documentation (TomDoc and Zendesk forums).

2008 - 2012 Freelance
  • Created lots of WordPress sites for people, ranging from simple theme tweaks to complete custom themes. Examples available at https://www.travisberry.com/work/

  • Setup and managed hosting for clients.

  • Made recommendations for a simple small business network.

  • More free tech support for friends and family than you can shake a stick at.

Education

2006 - 2010 Bachelor of Arts in Digital Filmmaking and Video Production Art Institute of Colorado
  • Won outstanding portfolio award.

  • Worked with a couple students to create and release a feature length documentary. This experience directly led to my moving into programming.

Projects & Interests

September 2011 - April 2012 GitHub - Hospitium https://github.com/ninetwentyfour/Hospitium
http://hospitium.co

Animal Management Software for Rescue/Shelters

December 2010 - April 2012 GitHub - Homkora https://github.com/ninetwentyfour/Homkora
http://homkora.com

Super simple time tracking application

Video player that you can write on

Coderwall

Download PDF