SUMMARY:

• I am a software developer with over 15 years of experience in Information Technology.
• Primarily interested in back - end systems, designing data acquisition and processing to solve business problems.
• Looking for a position as a lead corporate application developer, database administrator, and general technology-related problem solver.
• I grew up learning various BASIC flavors (Level - 2/GW/QB/VB)
• My first higher level language was C, developing a multi-user text based game (MUD) for several years.
• This was an excellent intro to C-like languages.
• I have experience with basic web design techniques involving HTML, Javascript, and div/CSS web development techniques. This includes raw Javascript, AJAX, and working with the jQuery framework.
• LAMP: Linux administration, Apache, MySQL, PHP
• Bash scripting to automate various tasks, including web scraping using wget, grep, sed, awk techniques
• Some Java experience
• Hardware troubleshooting and repair, software management and upgrades
• Experience with version control systems: SVN, Git, Mercurial
• CakePHP 1.3, 2, 3; Laravel 5; Symfony 2; Zend 1, 2

EXPERIENCE:

LAMP Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• LAMP Development
• Porting existing Yii1 software to Yii2
• Developing existing internal CMS and customer enrollment projects

Senior Software Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• LAMP Development
• Laravel5 MVC Framework
• Updating legacy procedural scripts to work with new data sets
• Rewriting procedural scripts to be object - oriented in Laravel
• Porting legacy database to new structure following standard conventions

Senior Back-end PHP Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• LAMP Development.
• AWS configuration management.
• Rewrote pre-existing data import procedures that were taking 7+ hours with multi-threaded architecture so it now takes ~40 minutes.
• Network service, including WAN troubleshooting and repair.
• Configured and implemented NAS storage solution.
• Set up servers to provide services such as image sharing, a local Wiki, and task management/trouble tickets.
• Coordinate with outside development teams to ensure flow of data and ease of use.
• Wrote scripts using Expect to download daily calls from RingCentral
• Built system to manage targets for debt reclamation efforts, send text messages requesting payment, and handle actual settlements

Senior PHP Web Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• LAMP Development
• Laravel5 MVC Framework
• Automating tasks that were performed manually
• Exporting of order data from MySQL to MSSQL for pickup by Great Plains
• Email an XML summary of orders
• Development and scripting of daily tasks that did not exist before
• Sending emails to customers notifying them of tracking for their orders
• API calls for integrating with external customer satisfaction poll
• Scraping data from Twitter and Instagram for storage in S3 and use on website
• Set up local staging server to also run daily automation
• Built custom CMS to facilitate nontechnical users managing content:
• Product articles, Website coupons, Preferred Instagram content,
• Realtime order history, Product definitions, Trainer tips

Senior PHP Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Building social media site where users could register and upload video content
• LAMP development
• CakePHP3 MVC Framework
• MySQL back - end
• AWS with S3

Senior Software Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• LAMP development with Git revision control Bitbucket and GitHub
• Symfony2 Framework
• Building micro services to replace functions of existing monolithic enterprise architecture
• Testing code with PHPSpec, PHPUnit, and Behat

Web Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• LAMP development
• CakePHP 2 MVC Framework
• Updating web content and fixing mechanisms where previous developer left off
• Implemented Git revision control with Bitbucket
• Set up development virtual machines for graphics department
• Set up staging environment with an auto - deploy mechanism using Bitbucket callbacks

Lead Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• LAMP development with Git revision control
• CakePHP 2 MVC framework
• Importing transaction and payment data using APIs from affiliate networks such as LinkShare and CommissionJunction
• Used MongoDB for long - term archive storage, shifting actively needed data to MySQL

PHP Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• LAMP development with Git revision control
• CakePHP 1.3 MVC framework
• Developing pieces of a web application that facilitates communication between administrators and outside designers/photographers
• Worked with remote development team via regular Scrum meetings

PHP Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• LAMP development with SVN revision control
• Smarty front-end
• Sales reporting web interface
• Reworked billing system according to provided specifications, making constants for rates and fees configurable via a web interface

PHP Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• LAMP development on Amazon Web Services cloud.
• Using Mercurial revision control.
• Developed an interface to assist with product check - in at the warehouse.
• Web scraping to integrate products listed on partner websites into main catalog.

PHP Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Began with PHP5 development on IIS with MSSQL backend.
• Transitioned infrastructure to Redhat with MySQL database.
• Wrote scripts to handle importing and publishing catalog data for Google and Commission Junction affiliates.
• Developed system that uses XML configuration files to define the expected structure of import files, so that customers could submit their data sets in very flexible formats.
• Built load balancing router using open source software to handle automatic fail - over to multiple WAN connections.
• Maintained internal network, and employee machines.

Lead Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Expanded preexisting custom coded PHP5 billing system.
• Added support for billing pooled plans, where multiple lines draw from a single periodic allotment.
• Added support for money bundle allotments, where included usage is defined as a cost value, as opposed to minutes.
• Built web interface to allow an audit of all current satellite lines, allowing identification of unnecessary expenditures, and viewing history of assignment of each line for contract and rental lines.
• Developed RESTful web service and Java application to enqueue and perform SIM operations, such as triggered deactivation, on upstream providers' web interfaces.
• Wrote Bash scripts to spider through provider websites, scrape important subscription - related data and store in database for use in billing system.
• Used Zend Framework for some PHP implementation.

Owner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Windows 2000/2003 Server and network administration.
• PHP development of business utilities for clients
• Network wiring

Lead Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Handling software and hardware repair for walk-in clients.
• Small business support for Windows NT, 2000, and 2003 Servers and networks.
• Upgrading networks from Windows NT/2000 to Server 2003
• Programming in ASP and PHP for client companies.
• Built a 10GHz OpenMosix cluster with Gentoo to provide spam scanning services to client domains.