=========== Josh Adams ===========
===== B.A. Math / Philosophy =====
========== 205-215-3957 ==========

A history...

>> Kingwood Christian High School
>> Graduated 5/2001
>> Valedictorian, State Basketball Champ, chess club, Tesla Coil

> Went to Ireland and London on our senior trip.  Hadn't gotten into
 Princeton or MIT, and wasn't feeling particularly great about going
 to RPI (in retrospect, probably should've), so while we were on the
 trip decided to spend some time in Ireland instead.

> Built a Tesla Coil using a 15kV/30mA Neon Sign Transformer capable of 27"
 strikes to a grounded rod.  This came in second in a science fair to a kid
 that did the old standby 'physics of corking a baseball bat' presentation.
 Kid you not.

>> PRIME Engineering Innovation, Inc.
>> 6/1998 - present
>> Building machinery, wiring panels, programming PLCs, general gopherage

> Dad's robotics engineering company.  Worked for him through high school, and
 continue to work as he needs help.  Just finished wiring control panels up
 for three riveting robots that PRIME modified over Christmas at a tier-one
 automotive supplier.

>> Administrative Assistant
>> CFI Bible College in Ireland
>> 7/2001 - 1/2002
>> Perl, basic IT, wandering the streets of Dublin

> Raised ~$10-15k from local businesses to take back to the bible college to
 build a computer network.  Ended up building around 15 machines once I got
 there.  Wrote a perl script to read the proxy logs in order to bill the
 students for their time online based on the username in the log.  Really
 basic stuff.

>> Software Development
>> The Contact Network, d/b/a InLine
>> 6/2002 - 6/2004
>> HTML, CSS, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks & Freehand, VB6, VB.net, ponies,
>> C#, Perl, MySQL, MSSQL 7, AS/400 integration

> Did a couple of stints at InLine (http://www.inline.com).  Started out solely
 as a graphic designer, because that's what they were hiring.  Ended up
 developing web apps and building web sites for companies in the region
 (worked on ~70 sites or apps during this period).  Made a couple of once-off
 desktop apps for customers.  Was forced from linux (Debian, usually)
 environment into the Wonderful World of Windows.

> Worked in a team of three to develop the custom asset management / ticketing
 application used throughout the company.  The app handled on-site billing,
 technician scheduling, custom reporting.  It had an interface (in the form of
 a nightly data dump) to our DOS RealWorld backend system.  Customers could
 view invoice data directly from our website.  It had a module for Sharepoint.
 This system was rebadged and sold at around $15k a pop.  Development time was
 around six months, with around 50% of development time devoted to that
 project and the other 50% devoted to money-making endeavors.

> Did a lot of e-commerce work, grafting additional features onto iHTML
 Merchant, which is this horrendous e-commerce system built in a nasty
 tag-based language (iHTML).

> As a contractor after the first stint, spent three or four months as a
 project lead managing the data retrieval / reporting for a class action
 settlement money distribution.  Basically, a bunch of mind numbing once-off
 SQL and web apps each of whose lifespan was around a week.  Left the first
 time to open a record store / 'focus on the band' / continue my graphic
 design contracting.

>> Guitar / Vocals
>> valign (http://www.purevolume.com/valign)
>> 1/2004 - 1/2006, RIP

> Heck yes, a band.  Weren't very good.  Went on a Christmas tour, some kids dug
 us.  Played a few times a month around the Birmingham area.  Practiced a lot
 more.  Didn't sound like we practiced as much as we did.

>> President / Graphic Designer
>> Libero Captivum / design of minD
>> 6/2004 - 1/2005

> Rented a store with the bassist, sold some CDs for people on consignment, and
 just generally tried to make the local music scene better.  Did graphic design
 software development contract work to pay for the bandish efforts and school.
 Slept in the back room of the store.  In disgusting conditions.  In violation
 of the lease, surely.

>> Software Development / RFID Specialist
>> The Contact Network, d/b/a InLine
>> 1/2005 - 1/2006
>> More VB.net, Perl, Ruby, Rails, a failed project, a certification, a revelation

> The RFID in the title is a joke.  Went to a single weekend class and spent
 three months studying RFID stuff in my off time, took a few certification
 tests, and bam, specialist.  Built a small VB.NET HTTP polling app to move the
 data from a webserver-equipped Symbol RFID reader into a database, and built a
 little RFID.rb class to provide a basic API.  Of course Ruby is a scary
 language to InLine, as they're a Microsoft Gold Partner.  They didn't let me
 finish the ruby interface as they wanted an "Enterprise-Ready" interface.
 Apparently VB.net is totally enterprise-capable.

> In my down time, played with Ruby.  Grabbed Rails and started throwing together
 apps that were much more flexible.  We didn't do proper MVC at InLine at the
 time, and I was finding that I could get 8 times as much done at home goofing
 off as I was getting done in 8-10 hours of work at InLine.  Of course I
 couldn't expect InLine to shift their development efforts away from the MS
 world, and instead they asked me to get an MCSD so they could get some extra
 benefit that Microsoft hands out to companies in order to gain .net developers.
 I feel I've sinned, as I'm now a Microsoft Certified Professional.  Ultimately,
 the reverence attributed to Microsoft Beloved Status at that place made me quit
 and start up my software company.  So I didn't have to keep taking their stupid
 tests.

>> Lead Developer
>> intellect: Intelligent Collections
>> 1/2006 - present
>> Ruby, Rails, MySQL, vim, Mongrel, Markaby, Juggernaut, WEB_2_O_BUZZWORD[i], AJAX

> Developed software to automate small claims procedures thoroughly enough to
 allow companies to use small claims court in place of collection agencies for
 their debt collection.  This process will provide on average a higher
 recovery rate for debt in the $300-$2500 range.  http://www.intellectsoft.net

> Contracted out ruby work for a few projects, and gave a talk on Rails to the
 Internet Professionals Society of Alabama in which we developed an AJAX chat
 system in an hour.  Didn't have time in the talk to implement the push server
 that uses a tiny embedded Flash 6 movie (Juggernaut, as the Ruby
 implementation of this concept is known).  Wish I had, it was cool.

>> B.A. Mathematics, Philosophy
>> University of Alabama at Birmingham

> Currently pursuing a master's degree in mathematics as quickly as I can
 afford to.  Also taking programming courses to fulfill prerequisites for more
 interesting CS courses.  My work schedule throughout college meant I didn't
 attend classes very often.  It's what I had to do to afford it, though.

>> Co-founder RubyHam - Birmingham's Ruby Users Group
>> (http://rubyham.wordpress.com) Promoting Ruby in the 'Ham.

Fin.