Web Consultant Resume
Santa Ana, CA
OBJECTIVE:
To secure a challenging position as Web Developer. Seeking an organization in need of an energetic, detail - oriented person to improve personal and professional service.
SUMMARY:
- Results-oriented professional with a solid background in designing and maintaining websites.
- Strong planning, organizational, communication and interpersonal skills.
- Skilled in independent problem-solving and follow-through.
- Proven ability to manage simultaneous projects and meet deadlines.
- Extensive experience with PHP, Javascript, Linux, SQL databases, and Apache.
- Effective in dealing with top management.
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE:
- Superior analytical, project management and problem-solving skills
- Strong interest in website design, deployment and administration
- In-depth knowledge of economics and mathematics
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
- HTML5/CSS3; Sass; WordPress theme & plugin development
- WP-CLI; PHP
- Laravel
- PHPUnit; JavaScript jQuery
- Backbone; Go; MySQL administration stored procedures and database design; Amazon Web Services; MVC Architecture; Unix-like administration; Vagrant; and Git/Mercurial source control.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Web Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Assist with custom styling and enhancements for the Confidential
Confidential, Santa Ana, CA
Software Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain and extend custom themes and plugins written in PHP for WordPress that drive the various online magazine sites that Confidential publishes.
- Conduct code reviews and provide guidance to junior colleagues.
- Applied responsive design (HTML5, jQuery, and CSS3) to company rebranding and redesign using table-free design practices.
- Validating all the user's inputs through JavaScript and Web controls.
- Diagnose, profile, and identify performance bottlenecks in production sites using XDebug’s profiling feature and MySQL’s .profiling capabilities.
- Streamline custom database queries with an eye towards correctness and security.
- Produce a streamlined article and image copying feature to synchronize content and gallery images between different WordPress sites in a multisite installation.
- Enhance Google Accelerated Mobile Pages templates to better match baseline website features on that platform.
- Develop a server-side interface with a RESTful service that provides vehicle details used to generate web pages for current vehicle makes and models.
Confidential, Huntington Beach, CA
WordPress Developer
Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain and extend custom themes and plugins that turns a WordPress install into frontend user-generated content management system.
- Build a RESTful API bridge for WordPress sites to serve as a backend for e-commerce mobile apps, working with Woo Commerce running on a WordPress site.
- Automate theme building and deployment, using Gulp.js and Git hooks.
- Project involved development of HTML5 responsive designs on a PHP back-end with the use of CSS, jQuery and JavaScript
- Evaluate and audit an existing Laravel applications for project bidding.
- Integrate an XMPP server into a WordPress site that together powers a synchronized party music playlist app via a custom-built JSON API.
- Provide direction for my coworkers.
Confidential
Web Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Assist clients with WordPress site maintenance and development, working to extend themes and plugins' PHP code.
- Administer Apache and Nginx webservers hosted on Ubuntu.
Confidential, Aliso Viejo, CA
PHP Developer
Responsibilities:
- Work with the in-house MVC OOP PHP framework to maintain and extend the ecommerce administration backend.
- Maintain and extend the interface with WePay for payment auditing.
- Develop the API for direct access to the internal transaction database.
Confidential, Irvine, CA
Web Developer
Responsibilities:
- Produce and maintain themes and plugins for WordPress sites, and other custom PHP websites.
- Build the technological backend to deploy new topic-oriented websites within a minimal timeframe.
- Provide a standardized framework for maintaining and deploying updates to the Institute's network of websites using Git and Mercurial source control.
- Use of F3 (Fat-Free-Framework) PHP OOP framework & a custom MVC in-house framework for dynamic database-driven sites written under best practices.
- Improved process for development and updates for PHP, JavaScript and CSS.
- Use Search Engine Optimization techniques to make The Institute’s websites more prominent in topical search results, and report these results to The Institute's officers.
- Extend and maintain a Django site developed to serve educational videos.
- System administration of Apache and MySQL servers, hosted on CentOS.
Confidential, Alexandria, VA
Web Developer (Associate)
Responsibilities:
- Developing time-critical public-interest websites whose purpose is to connect individuals with their legislators to see that the clients' legislative interests are met. Technologies used: the Microsoft .NET stack, in-house custom XML-based page-building framework, and SQLServer.
Confidential, McLean, VA
Actuarial Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Developing, updating and maintaining the company website, which includes client web applications, in Classic ASP with an Access database backend.
- Data mining and analysis of health care claims and pension plan populations, using SQL queries, and Perl scripts.
Confidential
Driver to Manager
Responsibilities:
- Oversee operations, including preparation of Profit & Loss statements, staffing, inventory control, food and labor cost, budgeting and customer service.
Confidential, Columbia, MO
Math Instructor, Math Department
Responsibilities:
- Taught Calculus with Mathematica, Intermediate-level and College-level Algebra.