TYLER MONTGOMERYtyler.a.montgomery@gmail.com@ubermajestix on twitter/github

interaction, design, and data engineer

Formal Education

Previous Experience

The Colorado College 2002-2005BA in Mathematical Economics

Trademark Consultants - 2007Designed and built web apps with Ruby on Railsto manage advertising sales, content and customers. Provided desktop support and IT management.

L2 Wireless - 2006B2B cell phone sales. 100 cold calls per day. Learned sales is not really my thing.

Colorado College Economics Paraprofessional - 2006

CI:Insight A hardcore text and data analytics application that allows customers to quicklyfind “insight” in a mess of social media data. Insight is an almost fully AJAX application with a Ruby on Rails backend that talks to several webservices and datastores. Iteratively designed and built the app with a small team over a few months.The interface is completely custom built using several js frameworks such as jquery,raphaeljs, and underscore, to achieve a high level of interactivity and maintainability.

Internal Apps w/ SSOReplaced the “monolithic” internal app to be multiple small, focused, and maintainable apps.I designed a handrolled single-sign-on system using memcache to share session stateacross several applications that requires very little configuration in each app (I hate lots of configuration). I also developed replacement apps that allowed our operationsteam to quickly accomplish business tasks that were previously di�cult or impossibleto accomplish.

CI:View and DashboardingA small sinatra app that talks to multiple BI backends to serve custom dashboardsto customers in a CI branded interface. I’ve also been spearheading developmentof a highly scalable dashboarding solution using MicroStrategy. I’m developing aconsistent look and feel along with standardizing our dashboard o�erings.

Marketing WebsiteRedesigned the company website to 1) have a contact form and track leads and 2) not suck.Aimed to correct the “wtf do you guys do” questions people would have about our companywhich the old website(s) did not address. Worked with the CEO and marketing resource toproduce easy to understand copy that describes the business and technology.

Collective Intellect 2008 - Now

Other cool stu� I’ve built (for Collective Intellect)Developed reporting app and middleware to capture and store user interaction with CI:Insight.

Designed a set of easy to implement Private Data ETL ruby classes to rapidly map client data to CI’s format which saved CI from hiring consultants.

Built fast and maintainable API’s as pluggable middleware with Sinatra that talk json.

Designed a bookmarklet called Columbo (getcolumbo.com) to help analysts search for text on webpages more awesomely.

Tools I Love to Solve Problems With

Git Adobe ToolsWeb FrameworksSinatra

JS Frameworks Canvas/SVGRuby Datastores HTML CSS