Todd McGrath
Grails Developer
Professional Profile
Todd McGrath has designed, developed and managed web based applications and technical teams for over 15 years. Todd's excellent communication skills complement his technical talent and business acumen, serving him well in working with all levels of management, clients, vendors and staff. He has a strong background in building and nurturing high volume database driven web applications.
Over the past few years, Mr. McGrath has focused on Grails application development.
Over 3 Years of Grails Experience
2010 - Present
Senior Grails Developer/ Front-end Architect
Non-Disclosure Agreement
- Enhance various aspects of health oriented, Grails application written by different developer
- AJAX (JSON via jQuery) to Grails controllers
- Photoshop designs to sliced xhtml/css/javascript
2008
Grails Consultant
Zigabid
- Grails based e-commerce and auction platform for concert, sports and other event tickets
- Architecture Design
- Interview and bring on additional Grails developers to the team
- Web Service integration with Payment gateway
- Web Service integration with Shipping providers
2008 - Present
Grails Application Developer
Textron
- Developed two hosted Grails applications for dealer lookups
- AJAX (JSON via jQuery) to Grails controllers
- UI / CSS development
- Google Maps integration
2008 - Present
Application Developer
Non-Disclosure Agreement
- Design and Develop hosted Grails application used by large consumer electronics retailer and computer manufacturer to facilitate in-store deployments
- Multi-level, role based security implementation
- Quartz based timers for notifications
2009
Cloud Integration Architect
Non-Disclosure Agreement
- Lead developer for Grails application with custom synchronization between EventBrite and Salesforce.com
- Spawn thread for background processing with AJAX based status updates
- Sophisticated batch updates, logging and exception tracking
- Integration with custom Salesforce objects
2010
Grails Rewrite
Non-Disclosure Agreement
- Migrate J2EE based Content Management System and Publish management application to Grails
- Multi-level, role based security implementation
- Tracking and auditing
- Multi-tenant custom views
Technical Skills
Accomplished, 3 years
Grails
Developed and deployed real-world applications used by startup e-commerce sites to huge multinational organizations
Accomplished, 8 years
Spring and Hibernate
After a couple of years of Entity and Session beans in Enterprise J2EE, Spring and Hibernate became welcomed tools of choice
Accomplished, 5 years
Web Services (REST and SOAP)
Learned the "hard way" through all kinds of integration scenarios
Accomplished, 12 years
Database (SQL)
Comfortable and available to contribute to design and performance tweaking of mySQL, Oracle, MS SQL and Postgres
Accomplished, 15 years
Development Environment Tools and Environments
Agile, White boards, Index cards, Screen sharing, IM, IntelliJ, Eclipse, SVN, CVS, Basecamp, Fogbugz, Redmine, Jira, Bugzilla
Education
University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN)
Bachelor of Arts- Japanese Studies (1994)
The first person to graduate from St. Thomas with Japanese Studies degree. In addition to 3 years of Japanese language study, Mr. McGrath spent a year living in Japan.
As you can assume from his degree and his professional experience, Mr. McGrath enjoys the challenge and rewards of communication in foreign and computer languages.