About Netphase
History
Scott Nedderman has been operating under the name of Netphase for many years, but it was in 2007 when the Netphase you know and love was
officially formed.
Scott met Chris Beck, who had his own web consultancy called Third Day Development, Inc., in the Spring of 2007. The meeting was actually
prompted by our wives, who after talking at a park day realized that they were basically married to the same person: we both were wild about
developing in something called Ruby on Rails; we both have an RV and enjoy camping; we both play guitar; and, we both are homeschooling fathers
of several children. Although, Scott has been a little bit more active in that category :)
Soon afterwards, we decided to join forces and unleash our passion for Ruby and Rails on the rest of the world (or at least the Southeast). Here
is a little bit of info on each of us...
Scott Nedderman, El Presidente [@scottned]
Scott is passionate about writing creative and elegant software and has written production applications for Priceline, Prodigy, The Gartner Group, Texas Instruments, Burlington Coat Factory and others.
Some of his more memorable projects have included: building (in the early 90's) an object-oriented framework in C (yes, it's possible) to handle retail transactions for Burlington Coat Factory; building a healthcare information system for Sabre Decision Technologies (that's right, the "travel" company); creating one of the first instant messaging applications for Prodigy almost a year before AOL came out with theirs (too bad they didn't listen to him and give it away for free). He also built much of the infrastructure for Priceline where he was awarded a patent on his design for managing session state in a web farm.
Somehow he also manages to be a vocalist, play guitar and penny whistle, occasionally perform in musicals, enjoy camping and be a homeschooling father of 6.
Check out Scott's blog.
Chris Beck, Partner and Comic Relief [@thirddaydev] - aka Jersey Guy
Chris got his start in programming by coding multi-user dungeons and football games back in the early 80's. He started his first web consultancy
in 1995 by offering to build websites for some of the restaurants he was working for. Soon after, he took over as webmaster for a Silicon Valley
start-up named PlanetWeb, where he also had the pleasure of working on the Sega Dreamcast video game
system. Later, he started consulting for Quovera, a fast-growing tech firm in Foster City, California.
While working for Quovera, he was able to return home to Charlotte, NC, and telecommute while working on the award-winning
Branders.com project, of which he was one of the original architects.
After the Dot-Com bubble burst, Chris opted for a job closer to home by consulting for Compuware in Charlotte. It was through them that he landed
a gig at Wachovia as one of the lead-developers on their 401k management application. Chris worked there as a Java Architect for 6 years, until...
Bam! Ruby on Rails hit him like a runaway freight-train (sorry for the pun). Once Chris got his head wrapped around that framework, he knew his
Java days were numbered. It was not long after that when Chris shifted the focus of his development company, Third Day Development, into being a
Ruby on Rails-only shop. A year or so later, and Chris left Wachovia to pursue full time Ruby on Rails development.
In addition to consulting on web apps for Netphase, Chris also serves as Manager of Technical Solutions for Datric, Inc., a Charlotte-based SAP
consulting and technology company - using nothing but Ruby on Rails, of course!
Check out Chris' blog, his Tumblr, or stalk him
on Twitter.