Philip Ramsey

• Management of the development of a LAMP based e-procurement system for a project funded by the World Bank.
• Website development for a specialty motorcycle dealer in Sterling Virginia.
• Developed XML solutions, data structure analysis and data transforms in support of the American Library Association.  Consulted on Website/Portal architecture for one of IMT’s internal websites.
• Developed a process to automate news feeds being received by Keesings from the BBC

Mobile

• Leading the mobile development effort at Bloomberg BNA and acting as primary designer and project manager for all of Bloomberg BNA's mobile applications.
• Developing designs to retrofit existing designs to work properly in a mobile environment.
• Helping push the knowledge of how to build for a mobile environment.

Web

• Developing designs for applications that fall outside the scope of normal development.
• Assisting with the adoption of technologies such as jQuery into Bloomberg BNA's development toolkit.
• Developing reusable designs.

Marketing

• Assisting marketing with our mobile development push.

• Mobile Platform Research/Design - iPhone, BlackBerry, Kindle, etc...
• Widget Design and Development
• Researching the and suggesting methods of implementing TinyURL-like based solution.
• Consulting on the use of Twitter, Facebook and other Social Media sites for professional delivery of information.
• Leading design efforts on iPhone and other Mobile devices.
• Designing and Developing prototypes for Kindle
• Developing ADA/Section 508 Guidelines.
• Developing SEO Guidelines.
• Working on the Taxonomy team researching search engine capabilities for handling Taxonomy and Thesaurus based indexing and searching.
• Researching alternative methods of video hosting.
• Redesigning portions of existing internet publishing websites to employ modern design techniques and to simplify the user interface.
• Working on Special Projects that require both technical, business and process knowledge.
• Develop Whitepapers on ADA, SEO, Customer Feedback methodology.
• Develop design specifications for use with development staff.
• Reviewing RSS Requirements.

• Worked closely with CSC and USCIS (US Customs and Immigration Service) staff to better understand requirements needed to define the life cycle.
• Managed both directly and indirectly a team of over 30 developers, business analysts, architects, database administrators, and network administrators.
• Actively participated in hiring and firing decisions.
• Documented the specific milestones and delivered a highly detailed life cycle to minimize risk and lag time.
• Analyzed risks that impacted development and suggested methods to increase the productivity of the development team.

2005 – 2007Director of Operations

• Implemented Kayako SupportSuite to allow the GVPi help desk to more effectively track support issues and maintain a knowledge base for known issues.This allowed a Tier I support technician to handle 90% of cases, many of which were previously forwarded to development.
• Planned and installed a VOIP system that allowed remote workers to use the GVPi phone system and saved GVPi several thousand dollars a year in phone usage.
• Implemented server-based software to better manage servers and to be notified of any potential issues before they became critical.
• Managed all development.
• Managed all internet connectivity within GVPi.
• Managed hosting facility for GVPi.
• Minimized risk within GVPi by enforcing the sharing of process knowledge within GVPi.

2000 – 2005Director of Research and Development

• Managed all development efforts within GVPi.This required managing multiple small to large internet implementations and maintaining adequate knowledge of each application.
• Extended development methodology to streamline repetitive events and allow the customer to publish information without developer involvement.
• Worked directly with customer in design requirements and as initial contact to help insulate the development team from the customer.
• Researched alternative delivery methods, including WAP and Acrobat.

1995 – 2000Manager of Research and Development

• Developed GVPi hosting service.
• Implemented a content management solution for use within the GVPi hosting service.
• Managed all development efforts within GVPi.
• Managed design and development of SecureCenter and AlertCenter tools for use in GVPi’s hosting service.
• Developed and standardized methods within GVPi to automate processing of customer information.This allowed fewer developers to work more effectively on more applications.

1991 – 1995Lead Developer

• Developed CD-ROM based search applications.
• Analyzed data and worked with customers to help provide better products.
• Wrote applications to programmatically process data.
• Researched methods to better install applications.

 Manager of Publishing Services

• Acted as direct contact for publishers using the Folio software.
• Provided customer support to the publishers using Folio software.

Software Testing

• Tested Folio Views application along with several tools to support Views.Many of the tools required me to give specific input that affected the design of the product.In this role I was known for the creative and completely out-of-the-box testing methods employed to test the applications.
• Acted as test lead for the Folio development tool FSR.This required learning the full-text regular expression language used by FSR and suggesting to the developer ways to optimize the tool.
• Acted as technical lead on documentation for Views 2.0 product.

Code Analyst

• Reviewed and optimized existing source code within the publishing services group.
• Developed tools for publishing services group.

Degree in Mathematics (emphasis in Theoretical Mathematics), also pursued interests in both sciences (Astronomy/Archeology/Computer Science) and humanities (French/Logic/General Humanities).

Phil Ramsey has an intense work ethic that permits him to remain tightly focused on a task from its inception through to successful completion.

Phil is incredible! Most people think inside the box, few can think outside the box but very few don't see a box. Phil is one of those few. He is also very, very dedicated to his job. He's the type of person that will wake up at 4:00 AM and start work and go until 6 or 7 at night. His mind is always working on a solution for any problem you throw his way.

Phil is an absolute pleasure to work with. He picked up project managing a very large program for a US federal government client very quickly and was a fantastic asset for us. His client skills and people management skills are excellent. He is very strong technically, is committed to the very end and I'd work with Phil again in a heartbeat.