Hacker for Hire
My name is Clinton Judy. I'm a web developer and consultant living in State College, Pennsylvania. I've been programming in Ruby on Rails for over 3 years; I love the practice of software craftsmanship, and I strive to amaze every client I work with. Let's build stuff together!
Clinton Judy
110 Scenery Ct
State College, PA, USA 16801
clinton@j-udy.com
judy.github.com
814.531.JUDY
Open Source Code
Artfully OSE
Artfully Open Source Edition is a Rails engine driving Artful.ly, an online system to sell tickets, receive donations, and manage your customers. It’s a simple, elegant way to keep track of events and people, and now you can run and extend it under the MIT license.
Code on Github »Karma
The Karma server project is a restful API for tracking “karma” points of users across several separate websites. It has a complete, easy, RESTful API for integration. It's designed to be highly concurrent, and includes 100% code coverage.
Code on Github »Lifeviz
Lifeviz was released under the MIT license. You can find more about the Lifeviz project in the portfolio. The project is notable for dealing with millions of rows of heirarchical taxonomy data, and a variety of sources of longevity annotations for species.
Code on Github »Work Experience
- Worked on Artful.ly, a system for managing customers and selling tickets online.
- Turned the majority of Artful.ly into an open source Rails engine for use by other organizations.
- Developed a discount system for promoters and customers when selling and buying tickets.
- Developed advanced searching and list segment features for organizing customer lists.
- Founded The Make Space, a new hackerspace in State College.
- Regular speaker at the State College Ruby Group, with a series of talks on subjects like “New Elements in HTML5 and CSS3,” “EventMachine,” “ActiveRecord,” “Node.JS,” “CoffeeScript,” and “How to use Pry”.
- Tutored students in programming with Ruby and advanced HTML and CSS.
- Consulted several local startups on application development, effective UX design, software estimation, and object-oriented design.
- Worked on VIE Sports, a social networking site for athletes.
- Created the achievement system, rewarding users for actions taken throughout the site.
- Developed the "wall", the feed of your comments, competitions entered, scores, friendships made, and more.
- Developed a set of privacy layers, so you get to control which people get to see which things you've done.
- Designed other parts of the UI, including score entry and location search.
- Estimated, designed, developed, and launched websites out of several experimental technologies and ideas with MIT, Penn State, the Department of Transportation, and the Marine Biological Laboratory.
- Project lead on websites for several high-profile companies in Centre County.
- Represented the company at networking events.
- Assisted the hiring process for new employees.
- Respected for my opinion with the direction of the company.
- Developed a tool to manage virtual machines and application sequencing.
- Installed, configured, networked, and supported hardware for local businesses, including a 40+ thin–client installation at a free health clinic.
- Developed applications to assist with company roles, including resume management and production scheduling.
- Created and maintained the company intranet.
- Updated the public website.
- Repaired and installed computers and networking equipment at various remote locations throughout Pennsylvania and New York, including an airport control tower.
Graphic Designer
Menu Master
Spring Mills, PA- Designed eye-catching menus, place-mats and takeout menus.
- Communicated with 14-20 listed advertisers per project to ensure each advertiser was happy with the layout of their completed design.
- Collaborated with the company's print shop for project receiving and proper color matching.
- Designed a variety of graphic and web designs for local businesses and non-profit organizations, including a newspaper flyer for a muzzleloader supply store, a menu for a local diner, websites for student organizations, and wall flyers for student-run events.
College Education
Computer Science, Graphic & Online Design
Lock Haven University
Lock Haven, PAAs a graphic and web designer, I developed an appreciation of design principles and typography, and came away with a very serious eye towards my own work. For each assignment (like magazine articles or logos), we were given a few days to work on each piece. But “turning in” your work involved standing at the front of the class, presenting your piece, and watching idly while your classmates ruthlessly tore into your design. You would hear that your piece was ineffective at its goals, or that you didn't use space efficiently, or that it “just sucked”. It was an incredibly humbling experience, and gave me a fantastic appreciation of the amount of work it took to make something effective.
Portfolio of Projects
Lifeviz
lifeviz.org
I was the project lead on this web application, which takes longevity information from a several different resources, and creates a navigable table and parallel coordinates chart. Scientists have already found several new trends in the data, which were made possible by this new visualization strategy.
The PTI Bus Test Database
altoonabustest.com
I was a developer on this website. The Pennsylvania Transportation Institute tests buses in every way imaginable. They collect that data, and put it onto the new website in an easily navigatable format so governmental agencies and local municipalities can determine the safety and effectiveness of different bus models before they purchase them.
Imagination Captcha
In Development
The Imagination Captcha is a new way to stop bots from accessing forbidden parts of websites. It was devised by a small team at Penn State, and our task at West Arete was to turn it into a usable, sellable product.
Collegiate Athletic Travel
athletictravel.com
Collegiate Athletic Travel sells bowl packages to prospective travelers and college football fans. They wanted to redo their online presence to target a younger audience, and I was happy to be part of the development team to make that a successful reality.
Blue Mountain Quality Resources
coolblue.com
I was a developer on this project, a public website for a developer of asset management products and services, designed for the life sciences industry (like pharmaceuticals and biotechnology companies).
Recommendations
Clinton is a exemplary asset to our team. His work is consistently delivered on time, to spec, and within budget, and his code meets our high standards of test coverage, documentation, and maintainability here at COPIOUS. Clinton is a leading example of a well-balanced web engineer: he's equally adept at designing enjoyable user interfaces as he is at developing a strong database schema. I'm comfortable offering a wide variety of work to him, as he would make a great addition to any development team.
—Dann Stayskal
Clinton is a creative, enthusiastic web developer. At West Arete, he was always interested in learning and applying the latest technologies. He was able to quickly become comfortable with new languages and techniques and apply them to our problems. Given a specific task, Clint knew how to focus on it and work it to completion. On several of our projects, he showed an excellent ability to design classes and objects and separate responsibility between layers of code. Clint always had an even–keeled demeanor and was a pleasure to work with.
—Scott Woods
Clinton is a valuable asset to our team. He is very thorough with detail and solves problems creatively. I've had the pleasure to work side by side with him on several projects and am always impressed by his insights and abilities to methodically chunk down large problems into smaller manageable pieces. I highly recommend Clinton as a great addition to any team.
—John Marino
Contact Me!
110 Scenery Ct
State College, PA, USA 16801