
Ivor Scott
Self-motivated Software Engineer with two Fine Arts degrees leveraging his creativity in software. Ivor is a strong communicator and a quick learner. He passionately develops strong working relationships with others and is excited to work in a collaborative distributed environment.
Experience
Akelius
Software Engineer9/2018 to present
Siemens AG
Digital Frontend Engineer4/2017 to 8/2018
- Created 4 analytic app prototypes for power plant performance monitoring
- Built a brand style library for a suite of applications
- Co-created a customer workshop agenda with a digital business model developer
- Made scalable and interactive D3 graph components
- Created Sketch UI designs then uploaded them to Invision Enterprise to share clickable mockups with teams and product owners or customers
- Critiqued UI Designs from external contractors
- Validated/invalidated assumptions, for example: problem hypotheses, user scenarios, and ui designs with customer feedback
- Examined organizational focus and stressed the importance of mission, vision, and culture
- Performed customer discovery interviews
- Established lightning talks
- Live recorded my lighting talk about co-creation and customer development
- Made everyone on my team feel like they belonged
- Promoted team first, customer second
Mass Mutual Financial
Application Developer 11/2015 to 1/2017
- Performed full stack development with Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL.
- Built the frontend of a loan request microservice using AngularJS, Bootstrap, NPM, Sass, jQuery, ES6, and JSPM.
- Built a brand style library.
- Re-designed existing features in applications.
- Given assignments without prior knowledge of the technology required but learned quickly and executed within a 2 week Sprint.
- Wrote unit tests using Rspec and FactoryGirl.
- Wrote front-end integration tests using Selenium-based framework called Watir.
- Performed cross-browser/device compatibility testing.
- Deployed private repositories to Artifactory, pulled them down using npm.
- Scheduled user research sessions to learn from real users.
- Participated in daily stand ups and used JIRA.
- Leveraged Gulp for task-running.
- Researched new technologies and discussed trends from Thoughtworks' Technology Radar.
Unbound Commerce
Lead Web Developer 03/2015 to 10/2015
- Developed a mobile version of a customer's existing Yahoo Store site
- Responsible for front-end development.
- Used JavaSever Pages (JSP), HTML5, JQuery, Robert T. Morris Language (RTML), and CSS3.
- Made code changes to a browser-based editor.
- Allocated work to team members according to priority and difficulty using Trello
- Had direct client interaction via email and phone.
- Sent invoices to customers.
- Updated system record of customer information: email, phone number, credit card etc. while on phone with them.
- Called people to pay outstanding balances.
- Trained onboarding members.
- Re-designed or upgraded existing mobile sites from basic to premium.
- Contributed customer support through email and via Zoho CRM. Responded to complaints, questions, and fixed bugs.
- Used Google Speed Test to optimize mobile sites, making changes based on the recommendations provided.
- Merged new code with existing code and previewed changes before making it live.
- Tested functionality of completed work.
- Implemented new features to live mobile sites: custom search with filter, custom collapsible nav, scroll to the top bottom, drop down lists, contact form, tap to zoom etc.
- Performed cross-browser/device compatibility testing.
Technical Skills
Adept | Intermediate | Evolving |
---|---|---|
React | Traefik | AWS |
Redux | Portainer | Golang |
Ember | Drone CI | Kubernetes |
NodeJS | Wordpress | Azure |
TypeScript | Ruby on Rails | PostgreSQL |
Javascript | MYSQL | |
MongoDb | Python | |
Docker | Flask | |
Unix | PHP | |
D3 | ||
Education
M.F.A. Visual and Performing Arts, Tufts University, 2012-2015
B.F.A. & Philosophy Minor, Visual and Performing Arts, Tufts University, 2008 - 2012
Notable Courses
Introduction to Data Science, General Assembly, 2016
Unix System Administration, Tufts University 2013
Notable Workshops
Data Driven Product Management, Beyond Machine, 2018
3-Day Advanced Ultimate Go Training, Ardan Labs, with Bill Kennedy, 2019
Kubernetes vs. Swarm, Goto Berlin, with Bret Fisher, 2019