Working With Rails

William is the owner, manager, and lead engineer at Outer Banks Design Works. William brings more than 15 years of real-world, industry experience to the table as an expert graphic artist, web designer, and web application developer. Never content to rest for too long, William is constantly learning and striving to find better ways to work by exploring new ideas and implementing new technologies and is considered by friends and colleagues to be the consummate “early adopter.”

William has an extensive background in Perl, ColdFusion, PHP, and Java development for the private sector and for several US Government agencies. More recently he began to focus on Ruby along with the Rails and Merb frameworks using what are commonly referred to as agile software development methodologies. Not many Web developers can claim to have software built more than 7 years ago still being used in production, but several of William’s government projects are still in use today.