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Free Ruby on Rails Workshop at Blue Apron

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keep calm and learn ruby on rails
I am teaching at a free 1.5 day weekend workshop geared towards introducing women to Ruby on Rails. The goal of the course is to help women build their first database driven website. In this workshop, we’ll take you through building a complete web application using Ruby on Rails. By the end of the day, you’ll have an application that connects to a database and reads and writes information. This workshop will be focused on developing web apps and programming in Ruby.

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Groupon Landing Page

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I was helping a Jewelry designer market and sell her jewelry on the Internet. To achieve the goals, I developed a plan, designed and coded a landing page and added key functionality to her web site to facilitate SEO and SEM. As a result, she was able to sell out her entire inventory of earrings in less than 36 hours using Groupon.  Gross sales revenue exceeded $121K and there were over 4050 orders from customers nationwide.

Web Syndication

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Company wanted  to increase sell through at major retailers web sites. It also wanted to automate distribution on web content to major retailers website. Product line up was very complicated however. There were many variations of each product according to color and style. It was difficult to make sure all retailers had updated web content, images, videos, etc. for their specific product line. I came up with a solution for web content syndication. Evaluated vendors and finally negoitiated 10% discount with the best vendor. As a result Sales Increased by 41%, Visibility Increased  by 122% verified by web metrics.

Workflow

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PhpCollab SoftwareSaved company over 20% on development and project management costs by revamping web content management work flow by using PDF and project collaboration bulletin board software between a 5 member team. Business process improvements allowed marketing and product management teams to implement new content at website in efficient and predictable manner.

Developed and installed Bilingual Search engine at TEPCO

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Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) wanted a search engine for use on their Intranet.  Luckily Perl can process incoming data using either single or double byte.

I was able to modify an existing Perl script to search double byte Japanese language text. I also installed Perl on their server in order to run code to run.

My search engine code was installed at TEPCO‘s Human Resources (HR) department intranet on a Sun Solaris workstation.