keith ward

business owner

About

Independent Contractor at KSW Industries

Country

united states

City

redding

Industry

information technology and services

Skill

ruby on rails, angularjs, javascript, ruby, jquery, css, web applications, github, mvc architecture, ubuntu, linux, wordpress, php, apache 2, agile web development, postgresql, mysql, java, c, objective c, vim, nginx, haml, web development, cascading style sheets

Experience

business owner

ksw industries

2018-7 - Present · 8 yrs 3 mos

airborne cryptologic linguist

united states air force

2002-4 - 2010-5 · 8 yrs 2 mos

Produced intelligence reports in support of national security objectives. Supervised 10 airmen in forward deployed location. Performed basic hardware troubleshooting.

full stack ruby on rails engineer

bethel church

2014-1 - 2016-8 · 2 yrs 8 mos

* ● Project lead for RoR application that manages several thousand students trips, donations, and private information. * ● Core contributor to Bethel Ecommerce RoR web store (shop.ibethel.org). * ● Developed the flagship site for Bethel Church, which integrated multiple technologies, including PHP, AngularJS, Elastic Search, and RoR. * ● Oversee DevOps for ~50 Ubuntu virtual servers on Digital Ocean which implement different variations of LAMP, Phusion Passenger, Nginx, MySql, and PostgreSQL. * ● High testing standards with continuous integration using Semaphore and Github. * ● Involved in all aspects of application development lifecycle.

software engineer intern

hewlett-packard

2013-6 - 2013-8 · 3 mos

* ● Developed HP printer diagnostic utility for use on computers running OS X, using Objective-C and C programming languages. The tool diagnosed problems for both wired and wireless connections. * ● Project was developed using HP's internal Device Model Framework. I was the only state side developer with knowledge of this API (it was developed in Ukraine). * ● Responsible for project from start to finish with minimal supervision. * ● SVN revision control

student programmer

boise state university

2012-7 - 2013-5 · 11 mos

● Created package management application for all campus dorms. Allowed administrators to scan packages into database and notify students of package arrival. ● Developed web appication to store shift notes and administrative tasks. Administrators used this to keep records of events, track appointments, and store information to share with other workers. ● Developed web applications using Coldfusion, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and MySQL

lead software engineer

bethel church

2016-10 - 2018-7 · 1 yr 10 mos

● Project lead for video on demand subscription website that serves 8500+ clients. ● Tools used in applications include: RoR, React, Python Pyramid, VueJS, Webpacker, and ElasticSearch ● Built subscription service API to integrate Braintree with multiple applications using RoR 5 ● Design Patterns and Object Oriented Design are key elements that we focus on as a team when building applications ● Refactoring, writing tests, and leaving code better than I found it are things I try to do on a daily basis.