BLACK ANT MEDIA

Working with Black Ant Media was a great experience. Throughout our design project Jason delivered completed sections on time and frequently went beyond the scope of our discussions to provide us with options we hadn’t considered. I always felt that we had a partner, someone who had our best interests in mind.

- Dave Getty, Owner PhotoEats.com


Resume



Jason Long




Streetrod Stuff


Co-Founder & Web Developer
July 1999 - July 2005

  • Worked on complete site rewrite using Ruby on Rails framework and Subversion version control package
  • Began converting existing pages to valid XHTML and CSS
  • Designed site architecture, visual design, navigation for entire site
  • Implemented object-oriented PHP framework
  • Wrote unit tests for PHP classes
  • Implemented custom search tool using Google's Developer API with PHP and SOAP
  • Implemented administrative fax tool for sending orders and CAD drawings with PHP and SOAP
  • Designed clean and simple shopping cart and checkout process using Verisign's Cybercash for processing credit cards
  • Created Subversion source code repository for version control
  • Optimized page structure and markup for search engine placement
  • Implemented maintenance utilities for automated backups, traffic statistics generation, photo slideshows, and classified ad expirations using Python, shell scripts, and cron


MindLeaders


Project Manager
April 2002 - April 2004

  • Performed role as technical project manager for several projects
  • Helped establish requirements and timeframes for projects
  • Created detailed project schedules using Microsoft Project
  • Responsible for accurate code integration and staging using Visual SourceSafe
  • Led small teams of 3-4 people per project
  • Acted as communication buffer between Program Managers and developers
  • Offered advice and mentoring on technical architectures and software designs
  • Performed code reviews for all team members


MindLeaders


Software Developer
November 1999 - April 2002

  • Performed role as technical lead while designing and implementing web-based Java application
  • Led department investigation and implementation of Java unit testing framework using JUnit and Ant
  • Wrote Java applets and ASP applications for student signup process with credit card processing
  • Wrote PL/SQL code for new Oracle applications
  • Wrote expiration warning system in C to perform daily checks on student subscriptions and email warnings
  • Assisted in setting up new Oracle server hardware at co-location facility
  • Led company-wide task force responsible for preparing all departments for major courseware changes
  • Wrote documentation for corporate partners describing how to integrate existing web applications with MindLeaders' software


Sterling Commerce


Software Developer
October 1996 - November 1999

  • Prepared documentation for functional and design specifications
  • Designed and implemented a Business Rule Engine to dynamically route messages  within GENTRAN's Mailbox application.
  • Used COM to connect to necessary modules and SQL Server for data storage.
  • Implemented a Business-to-Business adapter to process XML data between a GENTRAN:Server  and a WebMethods server
  • Used InstallShield to write installation scripts for various products

Toolbox



Web Design/Development


PHP, Ruby on Rails, Java, ASP, MySQL, Javascript, XHTML, CSS, XML

Visual Design


Usability Studies, User Interface Design, AJAX Techniques, sIFR Typography

Software


Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Photoshop, Apache, CVS, Subversion


Education

1996 Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Sciences

The Ohio State University, College of Engineering