Ryan Sims
Project Manager at San Antonio Sound & Light
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Sims is a project manager and business analyst with 10 years of experience delivering client-facing web products and operational support across HR and services domains. He led Insperity’s premier client portal efforts, driving 136 production deployments with a 99% success rate and championing practices like Behavior Driven Design and mob programming. Comfortable in both technical and stakeholder-facing roles, he has hands-on experience with backlog management in Azure/TFS, SQL/Informix troubleshooting, and creating test plans and release documentation. His open-source contributions improving oblique Mercator projection accuracy in the proj4js library reveal a detail-oriented engineer who values precision and QA beyond typical PM duties. Based in Porter, Texas, he blends field project leadership at construction and events firms with a formal MIS master’s background, making him adept at translating complex technical issues into actionable delivery plans. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves teams from discovery to reliable production outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San AntonioMaster's degree Management Information Systems General, Master's degree Management Information Systems General at Western Governors University
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
gis10
geospatial10
coordinate-systems10
testing10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
proj4js/proj4js
Apr 2019 - May 2019
JavaScript library to transform coordinates from one coordinate system to another, including datum transformations
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 29 days
Contributions summary:Ryan focused on improving the accuracy of the `omerc` projection within the proj4js library. Their contributions involved modifying the `omerc.js` file to address accuracy issues and updating the test suite (`test/testData.js`) with new test cases, specifically for the `omerc` projection. Furthermore, the user added tests for different projections and units, demonstrating a focus on quality assurance and the verification of coordinate transformations. The user's work directly contributes to the library's ability to accurately transform coordinates using various oblique mercator projections.
javascriptepsggisgeospatialdatum-transformations
Esri/shp-write
Dec 2018 - Nov 2020
create and write to shapefiles in pure javascript
Contributions:1 release, 62 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 11 months
javascript
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