SUMMARY:

• More than 10 years of comprehensive experience in IT operations managing multiple projects.
• Strategic thinker in high - demand adept in recognizing new developments in IT technology that can be applied to meet business needs.
• Rapid career progression marked by advancement from Systems Analyst, to Programmer Analyst, and Web Developer to Lead Developer. Identify long-term needs for systems.
• Proficient in identifying, determining, meeting, and surpassing specific client needs. Well-versed in Software Development Life Cycle.
• Skilled in managing the budgets, as well as change and project management.
• Recognized for ability to leverage strong project management skills, consistently exceed client expectations, and meet all project deadlines, budgets, and specifications.
• Personable, flexible team player able to collaborate across multiple functions. Excel in managing stakeholder communications and expectations, working with end-users to gather requirements and communicate technical information in a clear manner to technical and non-technical staff.
• Adept at full team leadership and team building. Determine and meet specific customer requirements.

CORE SKILLS INCLUDE:

• Agile Software Development & Management Project Management Technical Writing Technical Support
• Software Deployment Software Migration Technical / Software Needs Assessment
• Change Management Client Training Author Training Documentation

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: HTML5, CSS3, PHP 5, JavaScript/jQuery, Python, AngularJS, C#, JAVA/J2EE, NodeJS and Ajax

Applications: Salesforce, Magento, Zend Frameworks, Laravel Frameworks, Basecamp, Wordpress, Crystal Reports, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, JIRA, AWS Code Commit, and Subversion

Methodologies: Agile, and Waterfall

Cloud Services: Amazon Web Services

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB

Operating Systems: Windows and UNIX / Linux

ACHIEVEMENTS & EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St. Charles, IL

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led communications with stakeholders regarding product goals and progress and project progress.
• Ensured vendor agreements were valid.
• Conducted client training sessions in new software functionality after creating training documents.
• Interviewed and managed interns to assist on various projects.
• Created various mockups of websites and presented them to various clients using Mockflow.
• Assisted in maintaining various client’s Apache servers and MySQL services on the Amazon Web Services.
• Assisted in maintaining and setting up the budget for various projects.
• Met all deadlines without requiring any corrections.
• Created an Estate Tax Flow site that calculated the client’s finances after they have passed away. The technologies used for this project as Objected Oriented PHP and MySQL. Worked with the client to make sure everything was done to specs and the project is on time.
• Created a Medical Survey site that transmitted data to a lab and received information from a lab to create rotation plan. The rotation was based on the patient’s answers to the survey. The technologies used for this project was Object Oriented PHP, MySQL, and Oracle. Occasionally used AngularJS when it was needed. Worked with the client to make sure everything was done to specs and the project is on time.
• Involvement of gathering of requirements to full completion of the project.

Confidential, Peoria, IL

Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Managed the development team that created Web and mobile user interfaces for the company Android app.
• Made sure the medical tracking website was up-to-date. The technologies used was PHP, MySQL and jQuery.
• Modified existing software to correct errors, upgrade interfaces, and thus improved performance. Using PHP and MySQL.
• Maintained the company apache servers that was on the AWS.
• Performed various Linux administration tasks that in case there was a need to.
• Assisted in the deploying the Thingworx web application for various clients.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Senior / Lead Production Developer

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with business, UX, and marketing teams to drive brand development and messaging.
• Drove market research and built early-feature prototypes using wireframes and mock-up tools.
• Translated technical specifications into detailed product requirements.
• Provided analysis to Project Managers.
• Completed average 5 personal UI design, code reviews, and programming projects each quarter.
• Completed various fixes using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, and PHP.
• Also worked on the Zend Platform for various projects.
• Led communication with stakeholders regarding product goals and progress made.
• Mentored Junior Developers in case they had some questions.
• Migrated various updates that was done to the custom made CMS was updated on the Linux Server.
• Modified various user’s permissions and shell scripts on the Linux server when the need arises.
• Made sure the offshore developers were compliant in the development standards set by the company.
• Assigned various projects to different developers with various tasks based on their skill level and their availability
• Interviewed potential candidates when there was a job opening within the company.
• Created a web page that will allow people to submit tickets from a web page using PHP Curl.

Confidential, Buffalo Grove, IL

Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed shared central authentication system in PHP for intranet applications.
• Modified the websites using PHP and JavaScript.
• Wrote and implemented scripts to enhance user experience; integrated scripts with the CMS.
• Developed code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
• Highly-involved in Software Development Life Cycle.
• Created a script that linked the form information from the website to go into Salesforce.
• Created a web page that uploaded data from a MySQL Database into Salesforce. The page was created using PHP5/SOAP technologies.
• Produced various reports using Crystal Reports and in Salesforce that was requested by various users.
• Created web page that integrated Google Maps. The page was created using PHP 5 with a LDAP login system. The data is automatically uploaded every week using a script that extracts a data from a file and then have it uploaded in the MySQL Database.