Ethan Gunderson

Employment

Obtiva
November 2009 – Present
Developer
  • Worked with clients to develop new features for their application
  • Consistently provided on time development of new features
  • Assisted in helping clients define stories for development
  • Developed using Ruby, the Rails framework, MySQL, MongoDB, and various other technologies
Menards, inc
May 2007 – October 2009
Developer
  • Designed and implemented an estimation engine framework in C#
  • Developed and maintained C# and web based Java applications
  • Pioneered conversion from Visual Source Safe to Subversion
  • Drove adaption of agile practices (daily standups, burndown charts, iterative planning)
  • Introduced an online bug tracking and ticket managing system
  • Introduced online collaborative code reviews to reduce defect rate

Education

Chippewa Valley
Technical College
January 2007 – May 2008 		Associate of Applied Science – IT. Programmer / Analyst

Affiliations

Eau Claire Ruby User Group Co-founder of the Eau Claire Ruby User Group. ECRuby meets once a month and promotes the use of the Ruby ecosystem in the Chippewa Valley. Our members have also presented at various code camps and colleges throughout the surrounding region.
Chicago Database User Group Co-founder of the Chicago Database User Group. ChicagoDB is a newly started user group for developers who would like to learn more about databases. Our goal is to provide a way for developers to learn various use cases for large amount of databases released over the last 2 years.