Donnie Ray Jones

Objective

Work in a culture where clean code, continuous learning, and delivering value are the highest priorities.

Knowledge & Experience

• Developed applications on Windows and Unix systems
• Most recent experience with the following languages, technologies, and tools:
  • React Native, TypeScript/JavaScript
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Visual Studio Code, Vim

Work Experience

Self-Employed

 

Sep 2024 - Current

New Zealand

• Apps
  • Finding Color - a mobile app for iPhone and iPad that allows users to search for coloring pages (via Bing's Image Search API) then print or color within the app.
• Languages, Technologies, and Tools
  • React Native / Expo
  • TypeScript / JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • Amazon Web Services (API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB)
  • Terraform
  • Visual Studio Code / Vim

Stay-At-Home Dad

Dad

Mar 2020 - Current

New Zealand

• Responsibilities
  • 4 kids 🤪

Mama Doctor Jones

CFO

Feb 2020 - Current

New Zealand

• Responsibilities
  • Accounting & payroll
  • Contract negotiations
  • Soft goods product design

Tyler Technologies

Software Engineer

Jun 2009 - Jan 2020

Texas / Remote

• Achievements
  • Started as a Software Developer in 2009 and ended as a Senior Lead Software Engineer in 2020.
  • Winner of division-wide developer contest [2013] Developed a payment solution for cities to accept money from residents more easily
  • Winner of division-wide developer contest [2014] Developed an iPhone app that allows residents to pay their bill using Apple Pay
  • Winner of product-wide developer Contest [2015] Developed an IVR system that allows residents to pay their bill over the phone and store their credit card for future payments via text
• Projects
  • A PCI compliant digital wallet and payment processing platform for use by the entire company
  • A payment portal for cities and energy companies that handles over 10 million payments with $1.3 billion processed (as of January 2020)
  • A web API that enables cities to securely store credit cards off-site and process recurring payments, removing themselves from the scope of PCI
  • A web API that enables cities to certify and presort USPS mail for bills
  • A web application that enables content developers to create and manage videos and quizzes to be used in an online defensive driving course
  • A mobile web application (and Google Chrome extension) that provides quick access to the health and stats of production servers, processes, and data
  • An application that monitors automated telephone calls and calculates billing information
  • An internal web application that enables the company's 1,800+ employees to sign up for text message and voice alerts
  • A web application that enables users to search for court records by querying data over web services
• Languages, Technologies, and Tools
  • C#
  • HTML, CSS (Sass), JavaScript
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • PowerShell
  • Twitter Bootstrap, Backbone.js, jQuery
  • Web Services (REST and SOAP)
  • SQL Server
  • Visual Studio, ReSharper
  • TeamCity
  • Octopus Deploy

Texas A&M University

Senior I.T. Associate

Aug 2008 - Jun 2009

College Station, TX

• Projects
  • An online voting system driven by voting ballots created through an intuitive web application that relies on Ajax techniques to build XHTML forms
  • An online order management system for the Department of English
  • An integration between two applications (a calendar and a content management system) to streamline creation of website announcements
• Languages, Technologies, and Tools
  • PHP, MySQL
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript
  • Eclipse

Net Perspective

Developer

Apr 2008 - July 2008

College Station, TX

• Wrote the backend of three websites using the LAMP stack

Education

Awards & Scholarships

• Industrial Affiliates Program Scholarship Recipient at Texas A&M University (2 years)
• Graduated Magna Cum Laude from Texas A&M University