Christopher G. Mendla
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Develop and maintain Ruby on Rails applications for the Small Business Administration in an Agile environment. The environment includes GitHub, Jira, Circle CI and AWS. I hold an 85-P Public Trust clearance.
Developed and maintained applications for the the United States Customs and Immigration Service in a 100 percent remote agile enviornment. Managed an average of four applications. Responsible for maintaining the applications, monitoring security and adding/revising features. I held an 85-P Public Trust clearance for this position
Created and maintained internal and external Ruby on Rails sites. The stack included Heroku and Aws in a Rails 3.x environment using Active Admin. Agile environment with team members in rempte locations
Migrated internal legacy Notes/Dominos applications to Ruby on Rails running on IIS. Applications are integrated with Active Directory for authentication and permissions. Applications use Microsoft SQL server (Schema prefixes allow multiple applications on the same database). Applications support ISO 9001:2008 and 17025:2005 requirements. Trained end users. General support to the IT department as needed
Responsible for all administrative and academic computing and telecommunications. Managed a staff of 12 employees and a major upgrade of all network infrastructure including a new datacenter, Wan teleconferencing, and Y2k remediation of our legacy Cobol system
Launched a Distance Education Program using the eCollege platform. Oversaw conversion of courses from brick and mortar to online
Provided a full range of IT services to multiple clients including web design, SEO, server maintenance, networking and training
Logistician and application developer
I taught as an adjunct at several colleges. Course included: Face to Face and online 100 level intro courses through 500 level graduate courses.