SUMMARY:

• Developed NW.js (similar to Electron) application to convert 10 years of material—in multiple (X)HTML layouts—to a single HTML knowledge base format with print - friendly CSS, via simple 3-button interface for non-technical publishers.
• Cut company’s web hosting costs in half while improving performance and response time.
• Tripled open/click-through rates of marketing emails with responsive designs.
• Reduced load times by 6 seconds on high-traffic, global nonprofit site.
• Reduced malicious traffic, blocking 99% of fake account creation (and 100% of fake account logins).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

LANGUAGES / SCRIPTING: HTML5, XHTML, CSS 3, PHP, JavaScript, Node.js, JSON, YAML, Ruby, VBScript, ASP, LESS, SASS, Twig, Smarty, Moustache, Handlebars, Jade/Pug, Haml, CoffeeScript, Markdown, XML, XSLT, BASH, Drush, wp-cmd, BAT/CMD, Powershell

FRAMEWORKS / LIBRARIES: D3, Angular, React, Vue, Riot, Cordova, Ionic, React Native, Zurb Foundation, Bootstrap, HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr, jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile, MooTools

VERSION CONTROL: Git, SVN, GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, SourceTree, GitKraken, TortoiseSVN, RabbitVCS

PROJECTS: Slack, Trello, JIRA, Gitter, HipChat, Asana, Pivotal Tracker, MS Project, Toodledo, Harvest

VM / CONTAINERS / DEVOPS: Docker, VMWare, Parallels, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, Xen, KVM, LXC, Vagrant, Ansible, Chef, Puppet

SERVERS: Apache, Nginx, PHP, Express, Koa, Connect, IIS

DATABASES: MySQL/MariaDB/Percona, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL

RUNNERS / BUILD SCRIPTS: Grunt, Gulp, Make, Ant, Composer, Bower, NPM, Slush, Yeoman, apt

PERFORMANCE: Redis, memcache(d), Pagespeed, CloudFlare, APC, Varnish, Squid

CMS / GENERATORS: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, MODX, Jekyll, Assemble, Metalsmith, Wintersmith

ECOMMERCE: ZenCart, PrestaShop, Magento, UberCart, Drupal Commerce

DESIGN: Adobe Creative Cloud (CC), Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP, Inkscape

IDEs / EDITORS: NetBeans, Atom, Eclipse, Visual Studio, VS Code, Brackets, TextWrangler, Sublime Text

EMAIL / SOCIAL: Constant Contact, MailChimp, HootSuite, Buffer, IFFFT, Scoop.it, Flipboard, APIs

OS: Windows, Windows Server, OS X/MacOS, Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, CentOS

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Lead Full-Stack Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed Node.js-based automated platform for content curation and social media marketing tying into Buffer and other social APIs.
• Developed custom RESTful LMS backend based on Drupal, with multimedia courses, curriculum, and tracker/planner features.
• Integrating Canvas LMS backend to allow additional 3rd party MOOC providers.
• Currently developing cross-platform, (nearly) single-codebase front-ends for web, Windows, Linux, OSX, iOS, and Android based on NativeScript (mobile) and Electron (desktop).

TECH: Node.js, Drupal, Canvas LMS, Moodle, H5P, SCORM, TinCan xAPI, Learning Locker, Vagrant, AngularJS, Ionic, Electron, Cordova, NativeScript

Development / Design / IT / Technical Writing

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• End clients include/have included: NASA, University of Washington, University of Texas, RealNetworks, Futron, Acxiom, State of Washington, and many more.
• Developed React/Redux and D3.js frontend and Node.js/Koa backend to IT network outage dashboard (with incoming data from ServiceNow CMDB, Zenoss, and others) with correlation and remediation recommendation engine.
• Developed Electron-based desktop apps for unit and end-to-end testing of web apps with both automated tests and recorded visual feedback.
• Developed custom notifications for content editors, links to related (on- and off-site) articles, custom real-time traffic maps, camera feeds, and alerts, etc.
• Developed intranet sites for internal communication, employee benefits portals, etc. based on PHP, Node.js, Drupal, classic ASP (VBScript).
• Wrote user guides for writers/editors/site managers of CMS sites.
• Developed custom CMS/shopping cart modules/plugins and responsive themes, responsive website retrofits/redesigns.
• Designed logos, PDF menus, cut vector and printed raster signage, edited photos, and other graphics.
• Wrote DevOps provisioners for development, staging, and production servers with Vagrant and BASH.
• Writing Markdown/WYSIWYG editor desktop application capable of multiple output formats (HTML, PDF, DOCX, PPTX) based on Electron, Node.js, and Pandoc.

TECH: Drupal, Vagrant, Electron, Moodle, SCORM, TinCan xAPI, Learning Locker, Pandoc, Node.js, HTML5, CSS 3, jQuery, Bootstrap, LESS, SASS, Gulp, Grunt, React, Angular, ASP, ASP.NET C#, Foundation, IIS

Full Stack Web Developer / Systems Administrator

Confidential, Seabrook, TX

Responsibilities:

• Migrating to WordPress with custom responsive theme and shopping cart for gift card sales and online appointment booking with Google Calendar integration.
• Designed responsive/mobile-friendly email marketing templates, increasing read rates.

TECH: APC, CloudFlare, mod pagespeed, HTML5, CSS 3, jQuery, Bootstrap, LESS, Gulp

Owner / Roaster / Web Developer, enlighten

Confidential, Webster, TX

Responsibilities:

• Developed bare PHP/jQuery UI/CSS3 site with ecwid shopping cart for online orders.
• Migrating to Drupal Commerce with Solr product search for better SEO/store/content management.

TECH: memcache, APC, MongoDB, CloudFlare, mod pagespeed, HTML5, CSS 3, jQuery UI

E-Learning Web Developer

Confidential, Round Rock, TX

Responsibilities:

• Created a custom DITA Open Toolkit XML/XSLT plugin for SDL LiveContent Architect.
• Developed NW.js (Node-Webkit) application to convert multi-page HTML material to single-page format with anchor link navigation in Oracle Knowledge (with separate print-only CSS).
• Led coding standards effort among front-end developers, improved UI/UX for LMS.
• Wrote custom jQuery AJAX 5-star rating and feedback form (with Google Forms/Sheets back-end).
• Assisted Learning and Development team in creation of mobile-friendly content in Saba LMS.

TECH: Saba LMS, Electron, DITA OT, SCORM, TinCan xAPI, Node.js, Grunt, Git, HTML5, CSS 3, XML, JSON

Full Stack Web Developer / Web Content and Marketing Manager

Confidential, Cypress, TX

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Drupal module to assign user role based on employee status and company’s member status.
• Managed social networks and curated content via APIs, HootSuite, Buffer, Scoop.it, Flipboard, etc.
• Improved PageSpeed/YSlow scores to 97, scaled via memcache, APC, CloudFlare, cache modules.
• Migrated 30,000+ user Drupal 6/CiviCRM 3 site (with corrupted database) to Drupal 7/CiviCRM 4.

TECH: Drupal, Drush, HTML5, CSS 3, jQuery UI, Bootstrap, LESS, git, SCORM, OS X, Mavenlink

Client Support Technician / Anti-Virus Administrator

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Assisted client developers with PHP and classic ASP (VBScript) web development/troubleshooting.
• Created and administered managed anti-virus as a service that was pure profit after 3 months.
• Created custom live CD with scripted multi-engine virus scan, hardware tests, password recovery, etc.

TECH: Windows 2000-7/Server R2, WhatsUp, WireShark, Kaspersky Anti-Virus