Skills Summary

I am a results' driven Front End Engineer who is an expert of the Agile/SCRUM Development, Responsive Design, Content Management Systems Development Lead, and 508 Compliant web standards. I have over 8 years' experience working as an IT professional. I currently work for The US Department of Health Human Services as a sub Contractor with IBM. My previous assignments with Blue Cross Blue Shield, AOL, and AKQA on the United States Postal Service website gave me the opportunity to perform my programming duties using the MVC Model View Controller approach to software and web development. My ultimate career aspiration is to become a software and web architect.

Work Experience

Confidential

senior front - end web Engineer

Responsible for Front End Web Development for the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Agency SAMHSA . Some of the duties I have:

Highlights

• Developing a style guide, Coding Standards, and Naming Conventions for, Web Applications, AND the Intranet.
• Developing and Implementing Responsive Web Design for the redesign of the beta site will launch in February 2013, SAMHSA Web Applications, and SAMHSA Intranet.
• Developing an SAMHSA web API for third party developers who access SAMHSA data and other technical resources.
• Implementing JavaScript Framework for an SAMHSA Web Applications, Internet, and Intranet.

Confidential

senior front-end web developer

Responsible for developing and implementing public and internal company facing sophisticated web applications.

Highlights

I am currently building the Android, Iphone, and Ipad native mobile Apps for the Eservice website of Federal Employee Plan Operations Center FEPOC . I completed the Secrue Messaging Center application for E-Service which will deploy in 2013. I continue to work on the original web projects from 2011 that are multifaceted. These projects center around two enterprise web applications. I am working on the second version of a.ka. EService. This application has over 250,000 users who access this membership site as US Federal Employees who have their health insurance through Blue Cross Blue Shield. The other application is called FEPDirect which is a web based Customer Relations and Accounts Receivable Management site. This site is being completely overhauled because of the new federal laws enacted as a result of health care reform. I am currently working on the first phase of this implementation which is the 999 Charge Line Web Expansion Project.

Goals Objectives:

• Built a Secure Messaging Application that has a CRM portal and Client-side Web Application similar to the new Yahoo Mail Interface and LinkedIn's messaging system.
• Building the Mobile Eservice Iphone, Ipad, and Android App.
• Work with the chief software architects and technical leads on design and development of Eservice and 999 Charge Line Web Expansion Project.
• Accountable for meeting the milestones set for the projects.
• Conduct code review, unit testing, and integration testing.
• Document system design, development and Unit testing.

Confidential

software engineer for front-end web development

Responsible for developing and implementing sophisticated WEB AND social networking experiences. i am an expert with front-end web development practices. Specifically I am on the Tech team THAT builds and maintains all of aol's 700 or more websites. i particulary am tasked with writing the client side JAVASCRIPT aol uses the jquery javascript library, css, htaccess, xml, and html markup code. I am also upgrading the social networking applications on their sites.

Highlights

I worked for AOL Confidential as a Software Engineer for Front End Web Development. Some of the 700 AOL web properties I am currently task to migrate to Web 2.0 standards and build and implement web and social networking apps particularly Twitter and Facebook on are as follows:

Key Projects Achievements:

• I work as part of the technical team that designs, develops, implements and maintains AOL Media Technology Team systems.
• Work closely with UI/Design and other development teams to ensure successful implementation and integration of dashboards and interactive web applications
• Converts specifications and requirements into functional web pages and works with the back-end developers to create database-driven templates for functional web pages.
• Well versed in behavior related to the use of different DOCTYPE declarations, character encoding, W3C standards compliance and accessibility issues
• Understand and adhere to industry and AOL best practices for delivering fast loading web sites
• Is an active participant in an Agile/SCRUM environment
• Participates in sprints on a weekly basis
• Break down projects into tasks with time estimation
• Proactively identify and communicate issues
• Work in a team environment with other developers, designers, product managers, business analysts

Confidential

Creative/Web Developer -USPS Phoenix 1.2 Project

Responsible for developing sophisticated digital experiences and proficient with front-end web development practices. Specifically I was on the Tech team THAT DEVELOP the presentation layer of the usps.com redesigned website. The website is being built using an MVC model 2 architectural PATTERNS with my team being responsible for the View layer. The main component I worked on was the Registration Component.

Highlights

In February 2011, I am completed my contract on the Phoenix 1.2 of the United States Postal Service website and redesign and rebuild. I also got the chance to contribute as a web developer on Volkswagens website at the same company. I approach my career as metamorphosis personified. I understand that technology is constantly changing and I continuously adapt, persevere, and find innovative ways to enhance my career. This has allowed me to thrive on projects like USPS Phoenix and VW World.

Key Projects Achievements:

• I consider my finest achievement on this project was that I provided the best documentation amongst web developers according to QA and PM's who worked with me.
• I always performed my tasks successfully ahead of schedule so as to be able to correct any errors that I made in the process.
• Wrote code for .jsp pages utilizing ATG ecommerce dsp tags and standard JSTL for non-ecommerce components.
• Used the JIRA Project Management System to fix code css, html, and JavaScript bugs and perform creative review site improvement assigned by Quality Assurance and Project Managers.
• Led development, testing, and implementation of 508 compliant code on all USPS Phoenix components. I also routinely performed html and css code fixes that may have occurred because of the standards that need to be maintained.
• Helped develop, extend, fix, test, and implement JavaScript and Dojo 1.3.2 modules and made sure that it was truly object oriented so that it could be reused in other components.
• Learned how to optimize JavaScript by building profiles modules and minifying the thousands of JavaScript objects that were being used.
• Worked with HP Hewlett Packard Developers daily who were responsible for the backend development and wiring of the site. I primarily worked on AJAX using JSON as the primary method of data transfer, and making sure our code was in sync with their SVN repository.
• Worked on All projects working in Windows Vista which was mounted in VMWare.
• Used the Eclipse version of IBM's Rapid Application Developer as the main IDE.
• Performed use case design and realization when testing the usps site for 508 compliance.

Creative/Web Developer - Volkswagens VWworld.com Website Launch

• My biggest achievement was to be able to commit to working overtime on this project while working on USPS Phoenix 1.2.
• I wrote static html code and assisted lead web developers who need assistance with writing backend PHP code, or documentation.

Confidential

Software Programmer Hand Coder, .Net Dynamic Web Developer

Responsible for planning, designing, and developing Web and Windows Applications for business who are looking to launch new websites or need to upgrade their existing website.

Key Projects Achievements:

• Successfully developed and built Perma Staff Associates website using standard SQL and Relational Database design in Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Web 3.
• Successfully implemented, customized, and was the database administrator for
• Migrated website back office recruiting software from Classic ASP to .Net 3.5 and programmed the new software in Visual Studio 2008 using C as the programming language.
• Designed and websites and Content Management Systems for, and many more companies using technologies such as Zend, Joomla, CakePHP, PHP5.2.0 with tools such as Dreamweaver, Aptana Studio, Notepad, and Visual Studio.
• Developed a mobile application for in Visual Studio 2008 using C, AJAX, HTML..
• Developed Twitter and Facebook extensions for the Internet and Joomla.
• Currently developing a C WPF Window Presentation Foundation add-on called the Glimmer Box for the open source application Glimmer from Microsoft Labs.

Confidential

Web Developer

Successfully helped PSA Perma Staff Associates, LLC become a national staffing company by implementing an online customize staffing and recruiting web application.

Key Projects Achievements:

• Successfully implemented, customized, and was the database administrator for recruiting software Big Biller .
• Migrated website back office recruiting software from Classic ASP to .Net 3.5 and programmed the new software in Visual Studio 2008 using C as the programming language.

Drupal Development Training:

Over 12 hours of online training for Drupal development of modules using CCK Content Construction Kit, Views, and their supportive modules such as:

CCK Content Construction Kit Sub Modules

• Content Text User
• Option Widget Content Permissions Field group
• Content Copy Number Date
• Image cache