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title: Me, Professionally
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date: 2016-07-26
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-modified: 2023-09-20
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+modified: 2024-12-04
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author: john melesky
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category: about
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+You want to work with me, and that's great! I'm available for both part-time and full-time work as a leader or IC, and am currently located in Portland, OR, USA. Here's [my resume]({static}/assets/resume_jmelesky.pdf), and some more background on me:
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I've been in the industry since before the dot-com boom of the late
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nineties (I almost said "late twentieth century" there, but that makes
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me sound much older than I'd like to be).
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@@ -19,16 +21,15 @@ number of reporting systems, and am comfortable enough with databases
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that I spent a few years working as a DBA.
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Nowadays, although I have capable technical chops, my strengths lie in
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-management. In particular, I enjoy growing groups of individuals into
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-high-performance teams. I pay attention to research, and found the
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-recent paper on [Developer
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-Thriving](https://www.pluralsight.com/resource-center/guides/developer-thriving-research-paper)
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-very insightful.
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-At the moment, I'm looking for work! If you have need of a manager of
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-software developers or infrastructure engineers, then I might fit the
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-bill. Here's a [recent resume]({static}/assets/resume_jmelesky.pdf) (PDF
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-format), which includes contact information.
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+leadership. In particular, I enjoy growing groups of individuals into
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+high-performance teams. My leadership approach is focused on empathy
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+and open communication, and values retention, teamwork, and growth of
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+capacity over growth of team size.
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+I'm not an academic, but I pay attention to academic research, and
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+there's quite a bit of interesting stuff that has come out over the
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+past few years around software development. The "developer thriving"
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+framework has transformed how I think about teams and teambuilding.
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