Ronan Cranley

Senior Developer

rcranley@gmail.com

Work Experience

Sept. 2015 - Present

Senior Developer, Technology Manager

Company: Cambia Health Solutions - MedSavvy, Journi
City: Portland, OR
Activity field: Healthcare web and mobile apps, surrounding transparency with pharmacuticals
Site: cambiahealth.com, medsavvy.com, journi.com

Responsibilities

Design, build, and manage a pharmacy-transparency web application that helps explain the effectiveness of different medications, and what they cost based on insurance and cash-based prices;
Assist in the design, architecture and implementation of the Ruby on Rails internal and external API;
Lead a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring coding standards (source control, testing, QA, analytics etc.), maintaining cloud-based infrastructure as well as being the developer liaison with the rest of the business units;

Aug. 2014 - Sept. 2015

Senior Developer

Company: Point 97
City: Portland, OR
Activity field: Marine and Spatial Mapping and data collection Web and Mobile Applications
Site: point97.io

Responsibilities

Design and build several data collection mobile apps for the company to transition from a contract-based company to a product-based company, using the Angular-based Ionic Framework and Cordova/Phonegap, working both online and offline - for locations without cell/data coverage;
Assist in the design, architecture and implementation of the Python/Django internal and external API;
Serve as the Lead Developer, ensuring coding standards (source control, testing etc.), maintaining cloud-based infrastructure as well as being the developer liaison with the rest of the business units;
Co-developed several mobile and web based mapping / planning tools which are being used as decision systems for Marine Protected Areas and Coastal Use surveys on both US coasts, and internationally.

Oct. 2013 - Aug. 2014

Senior Engineer

Company: AutoAp, Inc
City: Beaverton, OR
Activity field: Mobile Applications
Site: autoap.com

Responsibilities

Design and build the main company product, to be released in both the Apple App Store and on Google Play;
Assist in the design and architecture of the Java/Spring/Hibernate-based internal and external API;
Complete integration of our Wordpress-based website with our API, so certain data could be viewed outside of the app, as well as user sign-up and partner tracking.

Mar. 2013 - Oct. 2013

Senior Software Engineer

Company: Gigapan Systems
City: Portland, OR
Activity field: High Resolution Imagery
Site: gigapan.com

Responsibilities

Lead the development of the web-based viewer for Gigapixel images. Designed, built and implemented an HTML5/canvas based rendering solution, replacing the flash-based image viewer, with a cross-browser / cross-platform solution for desktop and mobile;
Participated in software and infrastructure planning discussions, preparing for anticipated future growth and expansion of the company, pending financing for implementation;
Assisted in the continuous development and deployment of the Rails applications which controls the Gigapan website, membership areas and the public API.

Jul. 2012 - Mar. 2013

Director of Infrastructure

Company: University of Portland
City: Portland, OR
Activity field: Higher Education
Site: up.edu

Responsibilities

Participation in strategic planning for Information Services (IS) including project planning, management and brainstorming;
Manage the resources responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of all of the University's infrastructure;
Coordinate and plan upgrade/improvement projects related to the University's hardware infrastructure, including the implementation of a VoIP phone system; several NetApp SAN upgrades; VMWare server and desktop rollout, and upgrades; Oracle database and middleware upgrades;
Create policy around the appropriate use of technology on campus, specifically related to user account management and password management as well as backup retention and implementation;
Setting and continually managing project expectations with team members and other stakeholders;
Partner with all University departments to determine technology that will best meet their business needs; determine how to implement these technologies in a cost effective and timely manner;
Coordinate tactical meetings with customers to address service issues.

Jun. 2011 - Jul. 2012

Assistant Director of Web and Administrative Systems

Company: University of Portland
City: Portland, OR
Activity field: Higher Education
Site: up.edu

Responsibilities

Participation in strategic planning for Web and Administrative Systems (WAS) and IS including project planning, management and brainstorming;
Manage the web development and support team, responsible for the entire web application portfolio for the University, except for Moodle, the Learning Management System (LMS);
Responsible for planning, maintenance, and development related to the infrastructure, security, stability, standards, and applications that support and maintain all the administrative and academic web and software systems;
Managed the technical requirements for all upgrade and migration projects related to all web-based software;
Oversee the QA/QC of application programming, infrastructure, software, and hardware planning that supports the efforts of WAS developers, administrators and analysts;
Provide leadership to individual and group project efforts so that each staff member contributes to the fullest level of their position responsibilities and professional abilities.

Oct. 2007 - Jun. 2011

Senior Applications Developer / Systems Manager

Company: University of Portland
City: Portland, OR
Activity field: Higher Education
Site: up.edu

Responsibilities

Management of personnel in the Applications Group inside WAS including: the Oracle DBA; Portal/LMS Administrator; Banner Administrator; as well as designers and developers;
Participation in strategic planning for WAS and IS including project planning, management and brainstorming;
Oversight of several critical IS projects including Banner upgrade; Enterprise Portal implementation; rebuild and redesign of infrastructure for the entire University web presence for high availability. This included transitions from RHEL4->5 for the Academic ERP (Banner), and Ubuntu->CentOS for all other web services;
Oversight of the implementation of server and application monitoring; server imaging for disaster recovery; and proof of concept virtual and cloud-based servers;
Primary Web Developer and MSSQL DBA: built Online Giving; Campus Map; Grad School applications; and implemented the transition from MSSQL v2000 to v2005, then to MSSQL v2008, managed the Drupal 4.x -> 5.x upgrade.

Jul. 2006 - Oct. 2007

Web Application Developer

Company: University of Portland
City: Portland, OR
Activity field: Higher Education
Site: up.edu

Responsibilities

Redeveloped the University's public website and home-grown content management system;
Development of applications that integrated with the Ellucian Banner ERP system;
Primary MSSQL DBA, C# & PHP Developer, Backup Administrator for several key systems: Portal (Liferay/Tomcat/Ubuntu), Academic CMS (Drupal/Apache/Windows), LMS (Moodle/Apache/Ubuntu), and MySQL.

Jul. 2003 - Jul. 2006

Systems Analyst, Team Lead

Company: ESB International
City: Dublin, Ireland
Activity field: Electrical / Semi-state
Site: esbi.ie

Responsibilities

Design and development of the corporate intranet and public website;
Development of web applications that assist with the achievement of several national and international certifications;
Oversight of a team of PHP developers, MySQL and MSSQL Administration;
Business Process determination; requirements gathering; web content management; document management; knowledge management; and process management.

Publications

September 2011

Head First jQuery

Publisher: O'Reilly Publishing
Languages: English, French, German, Russian, Polish, French, Japanese and Chinese
Site: http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfjquery/
ISBN-10: 1449393217
ISBN-13: 978-1449393212

Contract Work

2013 - 2014

Company

Gigapan

Contract description

Design and build multiple viewers for various Gigapan clients

Deliverables

Time Magazine - One World Trade Center
911 Memorial Museum - Family Room virtual Tour
Al Jazeera - Mural Detail

2012 - 2013

Company: Liquid Development
Contract description: Redesign and build company website. Include touch-sensitive / responsive image sliders, responsive website.
Deliverables: Liquid Development

Education

1999 - 2003

School of Computing

Name of Organization: Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT)
Degree: Computer Science
Awarded: Bachelors of Science (Honors)
Thesis/Final Project: Client-based GIS mapping and assessment tool, using Java Swing, Oracle spatial.

Courses & Certificates

2011 - 2013

WVHEHR Management Development Series

Certifying Organization: Willamette Valley Higher Education Human Resources

2009 - 2010

Database design and development courses for both MSSQL and Oracle

Certifying Organization: Various

2005

ITIL (V2) FOUNDATION CERTIFICATE

Certifying Organization: Information Systems Examinations Board, part of the British Computer Society