SUMMARY:

• Cut company’s web hosting costs in half while improving performance and response time.
• Tripled open/click - through rates of marketing emails by implementing responsive designs.
• Reduced page load times by 6 seconds on high-traffic, global nonprofit membership site.
• Reduced malicious traffic, blocking 99% of fake account creation (and 100% of fake account logins).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

DESIGN: Adobe Creative Cloud (CC), Creative Suite (CS), Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, GIMP, Inkscape, Bluegriffon

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

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

SYSADMIN / DEVOPS Linux:, Apache, Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB/Percona, PHP (LAMP/ LEMP Stack), MongoDB, AngularJS, Express, Node.js (MEAN Stack), IIS, cPanel, WHM, Plesk, Ajenti, ServerPilot, phpMyAdmin, SequelPro, Ansible, Chef, Puppet

PERFORMANCE / SCALABILITY Redis:, memcache(d), mod pagespeed, CloudFlare, APC, Zend Opcache, Varnish, Squid

FRAMEWORKS / LIBRARIES: 960GS, HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr, jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile, MooTools, Zurb Foundation, Bootstrap, Blueprint CSS, AngularJS, React, Cordova, Ionic, React Native

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

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

Email / Social Media: Constant Contact, MailChimp, HootSuite, Buffer, IFFFT, Scoop.it, Flipboard, APIs

VM / Containers Vagrant:, VMWare ESXi/Server, Parallels, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, Xen, KVM, LXC, Docker

OS Windows 200010 / Server 2003: 201 2 R2, Mac OS X 10.4-10.10, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS

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

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

PROJECTS / TASKS / COMMUNICATION Slack:, Trello, Gitter, HipChat, Asana, Pivotal Tracker, Microsoft Project, Outlook, Toodledo, Todoist, Wunderlist, Harvest, Timeneye, TimeCamp, Mavenlink

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Lead Full-Stack Developer / Curriculum, Course, and Interaction Designer

Confidential

• 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 AngularJS and Ionic/Cordova (mobile) or Electron (desktop).

TECHNOLOGIES: Node.js, Drupal, Canvas LMS, H5P, SCORM, TinCan xAPI, Vagrant, AngularJS, Ionic, electron, Cordova

Developer / Designer / Technical Writer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• 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 created 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.

TECHNOLOGIES: Drupal, Vagrant, Pandoc, Node.js, HTML5, CSS 3, jQuery, Bootstrap, LESS, Gulp

Systems Administrator / Full Stack Web Developer,

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.

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

Owner / Roaster / Web Developer,

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.

TECHNOLOGIES: 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 reference 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.

TECHNOLOGIES: Saba LMS/Cloud, DITA OT, Node.js, Grunt, Git, HTML5, CSS 3, Bootstrap, LESS, JSON

Front End Developer / Web Content Manager

Confidential, Galveston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Migrated HTML 4.01 table-based ASP/ASP.NET 2.0 to responsive HTML5/CSS 3 ASP/ASP.NET 4.0.

• Assisted/educated other developers in use of HTML5, CSS3 pseudo-selectors, Foundation, jQuery
• Improved load times, compatibility errors, custom JavaScript/CSS/ASP in websites/templates.
• Wrote custom jQuery multi-level menu highlighting, HTML5 form validation/ASP spam honeypot back-end.

TECHNOLOGIES: ASP, ASP.NET C#, Zurb Foundation, HTML5, CSS 3, IIS, SASS, Grunt, Prepros

Full Stack Web Developer / Web Content and Marketing Manager,

Confidential, Cypress, TX

Responsibilities:

• Improved security, stability, performance through CDN, DNS/spam filtering, IP blacklist lookup.

• 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.

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

Systems Analyst

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Pre-staged and joined Windows and Mac desktops and laptops to Active Directory domain via Likewise.

• Encrypted Windows 7 and Mac desktops and laptops with WinMagic SecureDoc full-disk encryption.

TECHNOLOGIES: Windows XP-7/Server 2008 R2, OS X, Quest ActiveRoles Server, XenServer, Altiris

Systems Administrator,

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Assisted developers with IIS, DLL, PHP and FastCGI setup on Windows Server 2003-200 8 web servers.

• Racked, set up and managed Windows Server 2003-200 8 file, print, and web servers.
• Wrote VBScript to migrate printers from Server 2003 to 200 8, with user default chosen via HTA GUI.

TECHNOLOGIES: OS X, Powershell, CMD/BAT, PHP, IIS, Avast Professional Antivirus (via ADNM)

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.

TECHNOLOGIES: Windows 2000-7/ Server 2003-200 8 R2, WhatsUp, WireShark, Kaspersky Anti-Virus