Resume #

Alan MacDougall, Brooklyn, NYC
alanmacdougall@gmail.com
alanmacdougall.com
github.com/amacdougall

Skills #

Engineering management Full-stack web development
Single-page web application development
REST API development
Domain modeling and application architecture
Refactoring legacy code into efficient modern systems

Languages and Frameworks #

JavaScript: React.js, Redux, modern JS practices including ES6
Ruby: Rails, REST APIs, scripting
SQL: query composition and optimization
And for fun: Clojure/ClojureScript, Python

Experience #

GetFeedback: WIP

Senior Developer, full stack with webapp emphasis, Paperless Post, May 2011 – Dec 2017

Introduced React.js to the company through tech talks and mentorship
Architected and developed the card design tool using React.js
Guided the overall architecture and technical direction of the design tool
Developed the canvas-based card-display module which currently powers every aspect of the core business: desktop web, mobile web, the iOS app, and the image rendering pipeline
Designed and updated the underlying database tables, Rails models, and API routes
Over 500 Github pull requests worth of features, bugfixes, and refactorings

Senior Developer, The Phoenix Group, 2007–2011

The Phoenix Group was a Long Island-based agency which created interactive marketing and sales tools for its clients. Projects included:

A real estate sales tool integrating geographical data with Google Earth to show overlays and points of interest on a giant touchscreen kiosk
An interactive configurator for complex office printing systems
Eventually, a framework for dynamically generating configurators for various printing systems
Dozens of interactive multimedia marketing websites

Freelance Web Developer, 2000–2007

The journeyman phase of my career, in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas. Mostly server-side web development and self-contained client-side Flash apps. PHP, Java, C#, Flash, the works. Details available on request.

Education #

BFA, Millikin University, IL