“Wesley and I collaborated to manage the day-to-day operations of a liberal arts college helpdesk and IT support team. His efforts to hire new employees, simplify processes and focus on professionalism elevated our support team to a new standard. Wesley has many great ideas, communicates them openly, and he's easy to work with.”
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A parent, org designer, technologist, gamer, futurist, community organizer, woodworker…
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Experience & Education
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Volunteer Experience
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fog Maintainer
Open Source
- Present 15 years 3 months
Science and Technology
- fog is the Ruby cloud services library: https://github.com/fog/fog
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excon Maintainer
Open Source
- Present 14 years 10 months
- Usable, fast, simple Ruby HTTP 1.1: https://github.com/excon/excon
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Computer Science Mentor
Grinnell College
- Present 10 years
Education
Meet weekly with students to coach them on projects and careers.
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Board Member and President
Iowa City Public Library - Board of Trustees
- 2 years 10 months
Social Services
Lead through strategic planning and covid-19 response.
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Board Member and President
Iowa City Public Library - Friends Foundation
- 6 years
Social Services
- Served as director at large, Secretary, and President.
- Refined bylaws, updated meeting facilitation, and built financial dashboard. -
Conference Organizer
Mission Creek
- 5 years
Arts and Culture
- Lead Art, Life, and Tech (ALT) conference as part of multidisciplinary annual festival.
- Designed and implemented networking and connection events.
- Identified and made all arrangements for speakers.
Projects
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HTTP API Design Guide
See projectStyle guide for HTTP+JSON APIs, originally extracted from work on the Heroku Platform API.
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excon
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See projectUsable, fast, simple Ruby HTTP 1.1. Great as a general HTTP(s) client and especially in API clients.
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fog
- Present
See projectfog is the Ruby multi-cloud services library; providing common abstractions, requests, and mocks.
Honors & Awards
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CBJ Forty Under 40
Corridor Business Journal
The Forty Under 40 awards recognize forty leaders under the age of 40 who have made a significant impact in their business and community early in their careers.
Organizations
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Association of Professional Futurists
Full Member
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