New Hampshire Ruby Users Group

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People

People are the very heart of user groups such as ours. Here are some profiles of NH.rb members. If you’d like to see yourself added to this list, please contact us and provide a brief bio.

Dan Coutu

Dan builds complex data driven web sites using Ruby on Rails, PHP and Perl with RoR as his preferred platform. With expertise in Internationalization, e-Commerce, Single Sign-On, Content Management and social networking sites he is able to cover a broad range of client needs. He takes on both short and long term projects as the situation dictates. As a former CTO he is readily able to translate business needs into technical reality and deliver the results that his clients need to succeed.

Scott Garman

I was the original founder and co-chair of the NH Ruby Users Group, but have since migrated to the Silicon Forest in Portland, Oregon as of early 2009. My background is focused primarily in embedded Linux software development and systems administration, but I have fallen in love with Ruby and the Rails framework and seek to advocate its use when possible/appropriate.

One of my pet projects is CampaignLever, a web application intended to help grassroots groups organize and run effective letter-writing campaigns.

Tim Golden

Tim Golden is a Christian, husband, father of two teenage daughters, and two great dogs. He lives on the seacoast of New Hampshire in Dover, where he is a member of Durham Evangelical Church. During the day he is the Information technology director for RMC Research in Portsmouth, NH where he manages technology for 8 regional offices.

Tim is also a volunteer Technology Team leader, leading a great group of volunteers whose passion for technology reaches beyond the wires and into the hearts of the people technology can help. In his spare time, Tim enjoys spending time with his family, photography
photography, playing with his dogs, and watching his favorite TV shows.

Russ Jones

I’ve been developing for the web since mosaic was the in-thing. I have no concept of time or money, I just like to code. I enjoy talking about code and meeting others who do as well. I once taught myself Java by reading 11 Java books, 7 of them before writing a line of code. My interest in programming has sky rocketed since learning Ruby. Hit me up if you’re in the Portland, Maine area, love to chat!

Jon Linowes

Entrepreneurial executive, with over 20 years hands-on management and technical experience.

Several years ago I renewed my technical interests and retooled my technical skills, adopting open-source web development platforms, first Xaraya (php), and more recently Ruby on Rails. I’m having a great time developing numerous strategic web applications for various clients.

I’m living in northern New Hampshire, about 3 hours north of Boston, on a former dairy farm with my wife and four children. My satellite internet connection is ok, but isn’t great.

Nick Plante

Freelance software mercenary, currently working on a stealthy (no seriously!) new web startup. First found Ruby in early 2006.

I’m one of the organizers of the Rails Rumble software innovation competition and co-author of the book ‘Practical Rails Plugins’ (Apress, 2008). I also contribute to numerous open source projects, including the Rubydoc.info documentation project. Particularly interested in community building, startups, collaborative filtering, infoviz, and evolving web techniques for online and interactive storytelling and entertainment.

Ted Roche

Ted Roche is the owner of Ted Roche & Associates, a software development and consulting company based in Contoocook, New Hampshire USA. TR&A develops and maintains database-intensive web sites and rich-client applications for clients in a range of industries from wholesale commodities to produce to financial services, manufacturing and insurance. Software at TR&A is produced in the presence of nuts. A former nine-time Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, Ted now spends his time developing Free / Open Source solutions using Linux, Apache. MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP, Python and Ruby.

Ted is author of Essential SourceSafe, co-author of the award-winning Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro series, and a contributor to five other FoxPro books. He wrote 50 monthly Q&A columns for “FoxPro Advisor” and lead articles for that magazine and much-missed FoxTalk technical journal. After serving as lead author for the FoxPro Distributed exam (along with fellow lead author Whil Hentzen), Ted passed the tests to be a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (in the Visual Studio 6 era) and Microsoft Certified System Engineer (Windows NT). He currently holds a MySQL Core Certification and has held past certifications as First Responder, Senior Lifesaver, CPR, NASDS SCUBA diver and Throttleman.

In his spare time, Ted is the leader of the Central New Hampshire Linux User group and a board member of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group.

Brian Turnbull

Brian Turnbull started his programming career at the tender age of 10 on a Timex Sinclair 1000 and quickly progressed to writing BASIC on the Atari 400, Apple //e, and IBM PC. A degree in Electrical Engineering at Michigan State University, and 4 years working for Motorola Cellular Advanced Products Division and Tellabs Next Generation Product Development as a hardware design engineer couldn’t keep him from following his true softie calling. In 1999, he took a position as the fourth software engineer with Chicago-based startup Cadant writing embedded C/C++ device drivers, middleware, and management software for PowerPC and MIPS64 architectures.

Currently employed by ARRIS Solutions, Brian moonlights as a contributor to Ruby projects big and small, his favorite being the Rails Rumble competition. He is also active in the Ruby open source community, and a frequent speaker at local technology groups.

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