Dennis Collinson
VP Sales at GP Precision, Inc.
Hackettstown, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDennis Collinson is a seasoned sales executive with 17+ years leading business development and client relationships as VP Sales at GP Precision, a full-service sheet metal fabricator founded in 1966. He pairs a Bachelor of Business Administration from Roger Williams University with deep institutional knowledge of prototype-to-production manufacturing, helping customers translate designs into finished assemblies. Uncommonly for a sales leader, he also contributes technical code to open-source projects—working as a full-stack/front-end developer on the Diaspora social network—demonstrating hands-on problem solving across UI, backend APIs, and testing. Based in Hackettstown, New Jersey, Dennis blends commercial acumen with practical engineering instincts to bridge customer needs and shop-floor capabilities. His profile reflects a rare hybrid of long-tenured sales leadership and active software contribution, earning him a reputation—wryly noted on GitHub—as a North American folklore hero.
17 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) at Roger Williams University
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
front-end-development10
backbone10
backbonejs10
handlebars9
html8
back-end-development8
ruby-rails6
rails6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
react3
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
diaspora/diaspora
Dec 2011 - May 2012
A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:203 commits, 2 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Dennis primarily focused on front-end development within the Diaspora social network project, with code changes spanning JavaScript files related to view logic, template rendering, and user interface interactions. They also contributed to back-end functionality involving database interaction and REST API responses. The user implemented changes to post viewing, comment systems, and profile features. They also performed some test related contributions.
social-networkprivacyrailsp2pprivacy-aware
denniscollective/quick_and_dirty
Apr 2009 - Nov 2010
Contributions:21 commits in 1 year 8 months
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