PomeroyTX.com

Dad. Developer. Gamer.

I am a programmer by vocation and often by hobby. I'm a Dad 100% of the time, and a (card) gamer as time allows. I like things that are not simple to achieve (see: problem solving) while not being overly complex (see: java).

Technical Skills

* Ruby - Rails, Active Record, XMLRPC, Meta Programming, General Scripting
* PHP - Smarty, phpxmlrpc, OOP, General Website Programming
* Java - Tomcat, Hadoop, SOLR, Spring, GWT, Hibernate
* Web Development - Html, Javascript, jQuery, CSS, Photoshop
* Databases - Mysql, Postgres, BerkleyDB, memcached
* Operating Systems - OS X, Linux(Fedora, Gentoo, REHL, Ubuntu), Windows XP}

General Skills

* Experience in fast paced corporate enviroments
* Understanding of business needs, requirement gathering, user stories
* Passionate desire to learn anything and everything possible
* Ability to comprehend and solve abstract problems quickly and efficiently
* Know how to find answers I don't know: Google, Forums, Mailing Lists

* Software Engineer II - The Rackspace Cloud (3/08 - Present)
* Applications Developer I - Pocket Communications (04/07 - 3/08)
* Communications Consultant - Pocket Communications (01/07 - 4/07)

* Family - My awesome wife, 2 sons and my daughter
* Scripting - Writing scripts and tools for immediate use
* Programming - Engineering software solutions to last
* Games - Board games,card games, mental games and puzzles
* Dr Pepper - 'nuff said