Jay Smith is a Lead Programmer Analyst with Tyson Foods, Inc., based in Fayetteville, AR. Prior to joining Tyson Foods in April 2, 2001, Jay worked as a Windows Server Engineer for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in Bentonville, AR. Jay has worked on a variety of web based applications for internal use, as well as, worked with internal teams to improve team efficiency and developer practice adoption. Jay focuses on building, growing, and enhancing the developer community in the Northwest Arkansas area while specializing in Software Architecture, Agile Practices(Scrum and Extreme Programming), and ASPNET MVC.
When Jay is not presenting at events you can probably find him organizing one. Jay has been the chairman for the 2011 Northwest Arkansas GiveCamp, 2010 Northwest Arkansas CodeCamp, and the ever popular Community Leadership Town Hall (Houston TechFest and Tulsa Techfest).
Jay is has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in ASP .NET for 2008, 2009, 2010. You can view his MVP Profile here.
Jay often presents to the community on various topics including Agile Software Development, Object Oriented Principles, and Application Architecture.
You can view my resume here.
Projects
Here I keep a list of many of the projects I contribute to.
Give Camp Start Site
Description: Template website for those running a Give Camp.
Role: Minor contributor
Event Server
Description: Small CMS designed for coordinating a small, session based event
Role:Project coordinator and Developer
Peepster – Tweet Faster
Description: Small unobtrusive twitter client for sending a tweet quickly without cluttering up the screen with incoming tweets.
Role: Project coordinator and primary developer
Podcast Jukebox
Description: A small WPF application I use to stream the current episode of all subscribed podcast. Automatically cycles through the episodes off all subscribed podcast.
Role: Project coordinator and primary developer
Tweet Wall
Description: A fork of HashWall modified to utilize TweetSharp for reading tweets and implemented bad word filtering
Role: Project coordinator
Previous positions in the community:
2011 Northwest Arkansas GiveCamp Chairman
2010 Northwest Arkansas CodeCamp Chairman
2010 Secretary of the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group
2009 Creator and Facilitator of the Arkansas User Group Leadership Committee
2008 President of the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group
2007 President of the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group
2006 Tulsa TechFest Committee Member
2006 Vice President of the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group
2005 Web Administrator for the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group
2005 Founding member of the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group
Feel free to contact me at:
Voice: (479) 422-0122
Blog: jaysmith.us
Email : jay@jaysmith.us
Twitter: twitter.com/JaySmith
Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jaywsmith
Delicious: http://delicious.com/jay.smith
Trip It: http://www.tripit.com