SUMMARY:

Innovative professional with application, web creation, and project management expertise seeks a challenging Front - End Developer position where current technical expertise can be enhanced and where transferable skill sets can be applied effectively. Energetic, driven and result-oriented Web Developer/Software Engineer with comprehensive technical and business skill sets in software applications and multiple programming languages, including Microsoft .Net Technologies. Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced industry while coordinating numerous time sensitive projects with minimal direction and supervision.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Computer Software: MS Office 2013 & 365 Suite, Adobe Product Suite, Microsoft Exchange Shell and Console, Visual Studio, and Microsoft Active Directory.

Content Management System: Sitecore v. 6.5 - 8.1, WordPress, Shopify, and Amazon AWS.

Customer Relationship Management: Sales Force Suite, Hubspot and Zoho Suite.

Project Management Tools: Atlassian (Confluence & Jira), Zoho Projects, Wrike and Basecamp.

Programming Languages: C#, XSLT, ASP, ASP.Net, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML4, HTML5, XHTML, DHTML, PHP, CSS(Bootstrap), CSS3, Ajax, and SOAP

.NET Skill Set: Framework 4.7 and CTS, .NET Class Library, Win-Forms, Web-Forms, ASP.NET, XML, XSLT, UML, Web Services, API’s, WCF, Web Matrix and MVC

Javascript: ReactJS, JQuery, and Bootstrap

Operating Systems: Mac OS, UNIX, Linux, Exchange Server 2007 and 2016, Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 10.

Database Systems: MS SQL Server Management 2008R2-2014, Mongo DB (XDB) and MySQL

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York City/Austin, TX

Sitecore / Web Developer / Content Production / Design & Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Maintain Sitecore (CMS) by creating, updating, and maintaining web content.
• Adhere to style, format consistency and brand guidelines.
• Work alongside other Web Producers who create, update, and maintain web content in Sitecore.
• Implement scheduled Web promotions and track results.
• Conduct QA testing, follow up to resolve issues, and load finished material into CMS.
• Support the creative/functional development, troubleshooting, QA/UAT, and launch of new strategic initiatives.
• Inform the identification of technical and functional requirements and needs of new products for Sitecore business users.
• Work with developers to create new design elements, such as tools, forms, or templates that enhance the presentation of material, as needed.
• Front-end web development with Visual Studios IDE.

Confidential, New York City/Austin, TX

Lead Sitecore / Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Conducts daily project review with overseas development team in the United States and India via remote.
• Leads and coordinates development projects.
• Review developer’s code/application to insure it aligns to the business and technical requirements.
• Researches and recommends appropriate application development best practices, and tools.
• Participates in and leads application development projects in order to achieve project objectives.
• Provide client support by presenting data, information, ticket resolution and day to day support actions by monitoring client requirements.
• Coded .aspx and .ascx extensions to content management system following guidelines set by Principal Architect.
• Built data mapping/transformation elements as needed.
• Constructed HTML for complete pages and for fragments of pages expressing patterns defined in page layout requirements.
• Leveraged existing CSS style definitions and adds to CSS style definitions as required

Confidential

Sales & Online Marketing

Responsibilities:

• Accomplish marketing and sales human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting,, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures.
• Achieve marketing and sales operational objectives by contributing marketing and sales information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change.
• Meet marketing and sales financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Determine annual and gross-profit plans by forecasting and developing annual sales quotas for regions; projecting expected sales volume and profit for existing and new products; analyzing trends and results; establishing pricing strategies; recommending selling prices; monitoring costs, competition, supply, and demand.
• Accomplish marketing and sales objectives by planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating advertising, merchandising, and trade promotion programs; developing field sales action plans.
• Identify marketing opportunities by identifying consumer requirements; defining market, competitor's share, and competitor's strengths and weaknesses; forecasting projected business; establishing targeted market share.
• Update job knowledge by participating in al opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.

Confidential

Lead Sitecore Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead Consultant for Sitecore interface implementations, development, and customizations for SAS.
• Confidential ’s sole Sitecore Developer, overseeing a team of .NET Developers onshore and offshore.
• Provided Solutions and Counsel for Sitecore offerings; CMS interface implementation, development, customization of layouts/new feeds/templates/Email Campaign Module, documentation, and .
• Documentation for Sitecore implementation, development and custom modules for development team.
• Lead and coordinated development projects for Sitecore related initiatives and client requirements.
• Conducted daily project reviews with overseas .NET development teams in Europe and India.
• Review of developer’s code/application to insure it aligns to the business and technical requirements.
• Researches and recommends appropriate application development best practices and tools to client.
• Participates in and leads application development projects in order to achieve project objectives.
• Engage with client executives to discuss Sitecore version upgrades; budgeting, project scope, workforce requirements, resource allocation, documentation, tutorial development and .
• Provide client support by presenting data, information, documentation, ticket resolution, and day to day support actions by monitoring client requirements.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Senior Sitecore Developer

Responsibilities:

• Development of multi-tier front-end interfaces, web services, and form applications using Sitecore, a .NET based CMS on an IIS server, SQL Server Management Studio, Visual Studios 2010 & 2012, and Photoshop.
• Following the SCRUM, Creation of new website layouts, templates and controls for existing website. Transferred existing stand-alone websites to Sitecore.
• Coded .aspx and .ascx extensions to content management system following guidelines set by Principal Architect.
• Built data mapping/transformation elements as needed.
• Constructed HTML for complete pages and for fragments of pages expressing patterns defined in page layout requirements.
• Leveraged existing CSS style definitions and adds to CSS style definitions as required.
• Assisted school faculty members during Sitecore classes on Sitecore development, best content editing practices, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5 and CSS.
• Defined and documented UI best practices for CSS and JavaScript patterns, Sitecore application development, deployment, and testing processes; defined best practices for Sitecore development.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Senior Web Developer / Designer

Responsibilities:

• Utilizing ASP.Net to develop company intranet to enhance inventory, reporting and marketing statistics by retrieving submitted/barcode scanned data from custom designed web-based forms.
• Developed database queries, macros, tables, and indexes. Engineered data source connection from Windows to Linux OS on Apache server.
• Developed and provided cosmetic as well as back-end modifications to company’s sub-sites with assistance of web portals (Joomla, WordPress, and Magento).
• Coded custom sites templates, web pages and style sheets with various programming languages (C#, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS/CSS3) including cross-browser compatibility engineering.
• Developed and custom designed company’s YouTube web page to commercialize marketing products.
• Photoshop utilized for custom company template designs, logos, headers, and backgrounds. Photograph enhancement and touch-ups.
• SEO engineering to all custom sites (Meta tags, Keywords, Site registration with major SE sites, google analytics, merchant, and webmaster accounts created and monitored for each site).
• Google Base and Merchant synced with Magento accounts to provide accurate statistics of online sales within company’s product line.
• Ecommerce site redesigned and modified. Site security and risk management practices applied to custom web pages (shopping cart, check out, credit card).

Confidential, Austin, TX

Software Engineer/Support

Responsibilities:

• Interact with clients to help troubleshoot and resolve highly complex product problems or issues.
• Diagnose and resolve complex client questions or problems over the telephone/Internet in the areas of system configurations/setup, product functionality, and bugs/enhancements.
• Document problems and solutions to train lower-level support on how to properly address client or product problems.
• Communicate with product development department to improve on current design or to identify possible problems with design.
• Stay abreast of current technology in products, design changes, and new products offered.
• Modify, repair, or expand existing databases to correct errors, increase efficiency, upgrade interfaces, or improve performance.
• Develop database queries, macros, tables, and indexes.
• Build or configure windows, screens, and reporting solutions.
• Perform analysis on implemented database software and systems.
• Monitoring database and performance tuning/optimization.
• Diagnose and resolve clients open API’s (Ex. Social Media & Custom Forms), web services and various programming language source codes (Ex. Java, C#, C++, Html, PHP and JavaScript).

Confidential, Austin, TX

Software Operations Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Offers troubleshooting of network and server issues. Proactively assist with help desk duties, supporting hardware, software and related technical issues.
• Provide mission essential support with respect to internal/external processes, policies and procedures.
• Modify Active Directory profiles and groups permissions for H.D. clientele.
• Able to implement, maintain and test operating, application and network management systems of medium to high complexity.
• Acts as a technical resource in assisting users to resolve problems with specialized and dedicated technology systems; implements solutions or notifies outsource providers as required.
• Usage of hardware and software products that expedite continuous preemptive monitoring of local and remote systems while undertaking problem identification, recording and resolution for H.D. clientele.
• Resolving break/fix issues on corporate UNIX servers using existing scripts.
• Resolving break/fix issues on corporate Linux servers using existing scripts.
• Resolving break/fix issues on corporate Windows servers using run books.
• Troubleshooting and minor testing for syntax (Html/JavaScript) errors.

Confidential, Jamaica, NY

Certified Kitchen Designer

Responsibilities:

• Comprehensively identified, researched and presented design solutions that meet client’s needs and requirements by utilizing 20/20, concept boards, drawings, and product binders.
• Managed design projects from inception through final installation to ensure customer satisfaction by facilitating their interior requirements
• Continuously displayed an independent work ethic by completing projects with minimal to no supervision.
• Ensured brand and visual merchandising consistency was upheld in the store.

Confidential, Port Washington, NY

Computer Operator

Responsibilities:

• Supervised, operated and maintained the Data Network and associated components.
• Provided Data Centre Level 1 support to user calls.
• Monitored servers (network and production), communications and connectivity to local providers, and batch processing (daily, weekly and monthly) ran on Linux and Windows application servers.
• Performed standardized maintenance tasks.
• Escalated Level 2 problems to appropriate support staff or vendors.
• Implemented mechanisms for Disaster Recovery and emergency operations and assist in business continuity scenario testing.
• Recorded and provided daily status reports on the Data Centre environment and monthly reports on servers and metrics.

Confidential

.Net Developer / Computer Tech / Graphic Designer

Responsibilities:

• Provided designs, solutions and development of small application projects to meet client’s requests by utilizing Microsoft Visual Studios.
• Development and innovation of custom web sites built or enhanced with various software languages (Action Script, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, Asp.net, C#).
• Photo enhancement and touchups. Custom designs of logo, flyers, banner, book cover, CD and DVD covers for clients while utilizing Adobe Photoshop.
• Desktop and laptop hardware and software installation (Ex. Hard drive, memory, processors, sound and video cards, laptop monitor replacement).
• Desktop / laptop hardware and software troubleshooting. Operating system optimization.
• Data recovery and disk-imaging for clients by utilizing Norton Ghost, Casper, Windows Data Recovery software.