Chad Jolly

Denver, CO

chad (at) jollycomputers.com

Education

2002 B.S. History University of Wisconsin - Madison

Skill Set

Agile web developemnt with Ruby on Rails.

Current Interests

  • Mac OSX
  • Ruby (Ruby on Rails, Merb)
  • PostgreSQL
  • Object Oriented Design and MVC patterns
  • JavaScript DOM (jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous)
  • ActiveResource and RESTful design
  • Git
  • Haml / Sass
  • Capistrano / SSH
  • Passenger (mod_rails), Mongrel, Nginx
  • iPhone SDK
  • Xen Server Virtualization
  • Blueprint CSS framework

Proficient with

  • CakePHP
  • XHTML / CSS
  • RSS
  • AJAX
  • XML
  • JSON
  • Search Engine Optimization & Marketing (SEO)

I remember the days of...

Perl, Java, Slackware, Telnet, Subversion (SVN), TCSH, Pine, Windows

Work History

Present Employer

Westin Consulting

Denver, CO

Ruby on Rails Developer

2005 - Present

Owner, Nerd

Jolly Computers, LLC. | Winter Park, CO

Web Design and Development company.

http://www.jollycomputers.com

2002 - 2005

Ski Bum

Winter Park, CO

Honed the crafts of bar tending, waiting tables, liquor store management, and construction. It's a long list.

2000 - 2002

Systems Administrator

UW Biochemistry Laboratory | Madison, WI

Administrated a new network of Linux, SGI, Mac, Windows servers and workstations. Designed and implemented a unified data backup and recovery strategy for servers and workstations. Configured an SGI Immersadesk for 3D visualization capable of manipulation with virtual reality gloves and headset.

1999 - 2000

Systems Administrator

UW Engine Research Center | Madison, WI

Maintained, monitored, upgraded, backed up, troubleshot network of SGI, Sun, Linux, Mac, Windows workstations in a graduate level laboratory. Designed, built and installed a 14 node Linux cluster. Part of small team responsible for administration, of 64 Processor SGI Origin 2000 supercomputer.

1996 - 1998

Tech Support

NetNet, Inc. | Green Bay, WI

Internet Service Provider