Jedidiah Hurt

Chief Technology Officer

• Defined, architected, and built Hybrid's technology platform, which drew on my skills in visual design, devops, and full stack engineering.
• Concepted and built a high-reliability live video streaming platform (on top of Google Cloud) to address long-standing architectural issues with de-facto live streaming solutions. Its most intensive application has been twice facilitating a distance learning environment with 14 locations broadcasting 6 hours per day, 5 days per week, for 6 weeks straight. Over 10,000 students watched these lectures every day. Not a single support ticket has been filed due to a technological failure. In fact, no live stream has gone offline for any period of time since the introduction of the platform.
• Single-handedly created a proof-of-concept hardware product which represents the company's multi-year vision of becoming a hardware and software provider. Demoed the prototype to our largest partner at their worldwide HQ in June.
• Built meaningful and collaborative relationships with our clients in order to help them define requirements for their events, empowering them to clarify and then realize their goals.
• Managed 5-10 conferences per year where we provided AV services—my responsibilities included architecting and implementing high-reliability, redundant live streaming and video capture solutions, crewing, travel arrangements, on-the-ground technical direction + crew management (usually a crew of 5-15), crew training, quality control, and final deliverables.
• Built a real-time, collaborative web app for on-site crew management during events. The app intgrates with our quoting software and gives our crews a clear and reliable accounting of all work needed to be accomplished on a show. Feedback from our crews (who gig for many AV companies) has been that our shows are the most well-managed and organized of any they have ever worked.

Deployed production systems using Bootstrap, React, Ramda, Flow, GraphQL, Auth0, Ruby, myriad REST APIs, Nginx, AWS, Google Cloud, and Docker.

Partner, Full Stack Engineer

Founded in 2005, Reformation Studios is a web development and design firm owned by myself and my wife. Our work over the years has varied greatly in scope and has resulted in satisfied clients with products, both physical and digital, which have improved the success and profitablitiy of their companies.

• Provide full stack web development, branding, video production, and design services
• Collaborate closely with a multitude of small businesses to help them envision how technology can help their ventures

Deployed production systems using Bootstrap, React, Redux, Ramda, Flow, GraphQL, Auth0, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PHP, WordPress, myriad REST APIs, Firebase, AWS, Google Cloud, and Docker. Provided design and video work using Premiere, After Effects, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

Producer, Co-Director, & Full Stack Engineer

A cause-based indie documentary about the developer ecosystem created by the App Store and the post-iPhone world we all find ourselves in. The film takes a somber look at the power we wield as developers, and calls for an intentional, thoughtful approach to the work we put into the world.

This project was a grass roots, Kickstarter funded film undertaken by myself and a long-time friend. My titles included Producer and Co-Director. I also provided branding, design, cinematography, editing, motion graphics, full stack web development, and process automation.

Coming away from this project, I am determined to use my skills to empower individuals from all walks of life to be more creative, to be more functional, and to have a voice in this technological world.

Deployed production systems using Bootstrap, Jekyll, Stripe, Ruby, MySQL, myriad REST APIs, AWS, Digital Ocean, and Docker. Provided extensive editing, design, and motion graphics utilizing Premiere, After Effects, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

Engineering Manager, Web Team

Managed the design direction, architecture, implementation, and maintenance of several of KickBack's customer facing tools. Worked closely with several of KickBack's largest clients in a project manager role.

During my tenure at KickBack, I:

• modernized development practices throughout the organization
• introduced Vagrant, Docker, automated testing, and continuous integration
• built the web team from 2 developers to 8
• worked closely with the Quality Assurance team, helping them establish repeatable processes for testing, and mentored the QA lead to learn programming and begin practicing automated testing
• modernized several of KickBack's HTTP APIs to bring them more in line with RESTful standards, as well as designing several new REST APIs and managing the backend developers implementing them
• designed, built, and managed the infrastructure to deploy all of KickBack's web-based tooling and properties, used by tens of thousands of clients around the world
• regularly undertook extensive reporting and analysis tasks against a MySQL cluster using raw SQL
• led the web team I built to deliver a very well received $1.5m client-funded project on time and on budget. The software built during this project represents the bulk of KickBack's customer facing reporting, analytics, and loyalty program management tools to this day
• travelled with our CEO and Director of Development to present the above tooling to our client's board of executives at their worldwide HQ
• though not technically in my purview, automated a multitude of KickBack's internal monthly billing and reporting processes, drastically reducing errors, and saving my co-workers hundreds of hours annually

Deployed production systems using Flash, Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0, Bootstrap, Angular, Underscore, Ramda, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Cucumber, Chef, Terraform, CI/CD, Jenkins, PHP, WordPress, myriad REST APIs, AWS, and Docker

Creative Director & Full Stack Engineer

Note: my values and beliefs now differ significantly from those espoused by this organization

When I started here, all design work was accomplished by the secretary using Microsoft Publisher. Upon leaving, the organization had a cohesive and modern brand represented throughout its campus, print and broadcast materials, and online presence. It had well established processes and technological tooling for end-to-end weekly production and delivery of its TV show, as well as a functional and user friendly website, containing the entirety of the organization's media archive, catalogged and searchable, with another end-to-end production and delivery pipeline for putting its various media online.

• Designed all visual collateral for the church's sermon series, special events, ministries, and branding (including all interior and exterior signage).
• Designed and developed the church website.
• Spearheaded the church's video ministry, which included a weekly broadcast on a local TV station. Responsibilities included designing and building the end-to-end production pipeline, which included a library of scripts to aid in process automation.
• Designed and installed AV systems (projection, digital signage, and closed circuit monitoring) throughout the 50,000 square foot building.
• Provided on-site PC troubleshooting and support throughout the organization.
• Lead drummer for the band

Deployed production systems using Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Underscore, MySQL, myriad REST APIs, and AWS. Provided extensive video editing, design, and motion graphics work utilizing Final Cut, Apple Motion, Blender, Cinema4D, Processing, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

Adjunct Professor - Flash ActionScript

I returned to my alma matter the semester after my graduation to teach the design department faculty about programming in ActionScript. The class was well received and I thoroughly enjoyed the role of the teacher. The faculty finished the class with a much deeper grasp and newfound confidence around the ActionScript material they were expected to teach.