SUMMARY:

Having two decades of Internet development, system administration and database administration experience, I am looking for new Full Stack Development, PHP, Laravel, Front End Development, and DevOps opportunities, either permanent or contract, within a 30 minute drive of my home in Northwest Rhode Island, in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Eastern Connecticut, or 90 - 100% remote/telecommute positions. Please, no Java, Ruby on Rails, or Django.

SKILLS PROFILE:

SQL/Database Administrator : Microsoft SQL 2000, 2005, 2008, MySQL, Informix, TeraData, Oracle, Postgre SQL

NoSQL: MongoDB, Redis, Memcached

Internet/Web Development : HTML5, Perl, PHP, ColdFusion, JavaScript, JSON, Jquery, Jquery UI, Ajax, Node.js, Express.js, Back bone.js, Underscore.js, CSS, Bootstrap, Apache, Nginx, Responsive Design

System Administration : Linux, Windows, Unix, Shell, Perl

SKILL:

• MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server
• MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL
• Javascript
• Jquery/JqueryUI / Ajax / JSON
• D3, C3 (Charting, Graphs, Tables)
• Node.js, Express.js
• Vue.js
• Backbone, Underscore
• Perl
• PHP 5, 7
• Laravel & Lumen
• Shell Scripting
• Dockerfile, Docker Composer, Docker Machine
• XHTML/HTML5
• CSS, B ootstrap
• Apache (1.3x & 2.x), Nginx
• ColdFusion

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Senior Developer

Confidential, Woonsocket, RI

Responsibilities:

• Provide support, feature development, bug fixes for SupportLink, an internal tool, using Python and Django to support store hardware, software, and store operations in all of Confidential ’ stores.
• Provide development and counsel to other groups within Confidential regarding hardware, software and operational questions or issues.

Senior UI Developer

Confidential, Smithfield, RI

Responsibilities:

• Created Surveillance/Security Dashboard displaying charts, graphs and tables of possible SEC violations.
• Tools used were: Javascript/Jquery/JqueryUI, Bootstrap, D3, C3.
• I created a somewhat-generic set of classes that allows other developers to create new dashboards without having to “re-invent the wheel” in regards to ajax calls for data, handling the parsing of incoming data with parse rules/methods, handling the display of data with with parse rules/methods, and dynamically parsing/creating/displaying forms and form elements with incoming data, including setting DOM events on dynamically-created form and page elements.
• Used QUnit to write unit tests.

Senior Perl Developer

Confidential, Burlington, MA

Responsibilities:

• Used Perl, Shell, Javascript/Jquery, CSS, and Git to support internal and customer-pointing web applications, fixing bugs and adding new features, and integrating third-party APIs with existing code.
• Used various Test::* modules to write unit tests

Internal Applications Developer

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Developed responsive UI utilizing internal Confidential -created nested grid system The purpose of the project was to provide an interface to wealthy
• Confidential customers to donate assets (e.g., stocks, bonds, commodities, etc.) to various charities.
• Created single-page web App utilizing Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB with Mongoose.js on the back-end/middle-tier; utilizing Bootstrap, Backbone and Underscore on the front end.
• Created and administrated virtual machines (either Windows Server or Oracle Linux); installed and configured needed software (e.g., Apache, Nginx, MongoDB, Node.js, Express.js); addressed and fixed server issues; scheduled jobs via cron; set processes to auto-start at specific run-levels.

Platform Developer

Confidential, Burlington, MA

Responsibilities:

• Member of Development team responsible for front-end, back-end and middle-tier of Confidential.
• This includes aspects of Responsive Design, since the online store must accommodate desktop/laptop computers as well as mobile devices.
• Most site interaction is accomplished with Ajax utilizing an older version of Jquery.
• However, I have successfully implemented multiple version of jquery on specific internal/admin pages in order to allow old functionality to continue to work as before whilst utilizing new Jquery features for new application requirements.
• Utilized Ruby on Rails and PostgreSql to engineer a RoR batch job to remove targeted content from the Confidential Store. It entailed running a batch job that was “aware” of the current status of a given phone application, first “unpublishing” the application from the store, then deleting the application from the store metadata on a subsequent run.
• Implemented changes to a Java code-base to add new metadata to the Distributed Caching Construct for the Confidential Store.
• Used PHP5 and Zend, Javascript and Jquery to extend and support the Confidential Store, specifically adding support for localized Age Ratings for Confidential Store Content.
• Quick-patched the Confidential Store app ratings and comment moderation system when our the third party vendor handling this disappeared without warning.
• Used JUnit to write unit tests for Java queue handler between 3rd-party app store and newly published apps to be published pending verification.

Software Engineer

Confidential, Canton, MA

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the Lead Architect in solving production issues related to the generation of electronic documents
• Utilized my knowledge of Advanced Perl to maintain and extend currently-existing code base
• Advised, taught, assisted and directed other developers in regards to implementing Advanced Perl data structures and syntax to maintain and extend currently-existing code base

Software Engineer

Confidential, Warwick, RI

Responsibilities:

• PHP4/5, JavaScript/jQuery/JSON, Ajax, CSS, MySQL
• Support bug fixes and feature enhancements to the platform
• Document the code base
• Write proposals for code upgrades and rewrites
• Develop Object-oriented PHP classes to extend current code base
• Implement API’s from external resources, e.g., Facebook, Twitter.
• Write code generator to to auto generate PHP 5 class stubs based on the data model contained in the MySQL database
• Utilize jQuery to enhance customers' UI experience within the Confidential Mobile Site Administration Dashboard
• Utilize HTML, CSS and Jquery to implement Responsive Design principles in our customer-facing web sites (i.e., admin dashboard and pages we served for customers).
• Modify and extended MySQL database model to support features and extensions to the existing products

Software Engineer

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Primary developer of PHP5 Web application for internal product to administer Exchange Funds.
• Utilized PHP5 (Object -oriented), HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, JSON, Microsoft SQL Server
• Met with business users to gather requirements
• Met with other IT staff to integrate web application into overall IT architecture.

Software Engineer

Confidential, Waltham, MA

Responsibilities:

• Used PHP, Jquery, Ajax, JSON, HTML, and CSS to maintain the “Webon” (now “Zeeblio”) web-based website-builders, and to add new features.
• Redesigned the data model for “Webon” (now “Zeeblio”,) Confidential ' web-based Website Design product, (The data model supports the data needs of Angelfire and Tripod).
• Wrote a PHP/jQuery tool that migrated sites back and forth between old and new data models, essentially a selective migration and reversion tool.
• Wrote an ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) script that migrated the millions of customer sites from the old data model to the new. The script is constructed in such a way that team members with little or no data modeling or migration experience can safely add new migration instances should the need arise,
• Advised team members on best practices for constructing and implementing database tables to support added functionality to the Webon product.
• Completely rewrote and revised the crontabs and invoked scripts to support internationalization of Angelfire and Tripod.
• Provided second and third-tier support to customers using Angelfire and Tripod.

Consultant/Software Engineer

Confidential, North Kingston, RI

Responsibilities:

• Migration of data and functionality from old Allaire Spectra Content Management System to internal Confidential content management system;
• Lead Web Developer and MS SQL Data Modeler for new Learning Management System for public-facing web site; designing and coding UI and middle-tier and server logic to support Confidential Partner ability to schedule Confidential -provided training and manage training opportunities as well as track current training and education status.

Consultant/Software Engineer

Confidential, Pawtucket, RI

Responsibilities:

• Normalized the data in the Microsoft SQL 2000 database that currently supports Confidential .com;
• Designed a new data model and architecture to support the normalized data;
• Developed mapping and fuzzy-logic methodologies to migrate and/or transform questionable legacy data into usable data for the new data model, based on defined business requirements and a newly-developed taxonomy.
• Designed and implemented a daily migration suite (written in Perl) to migrate data from the old data model to the new, to support existing and new operations, until the Confidential is ready to migrate completely to the new architecture, using Perl and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005;
• Designed and implemented a hierarchical data model to support Confidential 's externally-developed web site taxonomy;
• Designed and implemented a Coldfusion and Ajax-based web tool to facilitate management of Confidential 's website taxonomy (adding/editing hierarchy levels); the tools are CFC-based.
• Designed and implemented a Coldfusion and JSON/Ajax-based fuzzy-logic matching tool to match PDF documents to Confidential products, based on matching document title and/or file name, to Confidential products; the tool is CFC-based (i.e., object-oriented).
• Assisted in the completion of migrating Confidential .com from Microsoft IIS to Apache 2.2;
• Deployed Apache 2.2 and ColdFusion 8 into local development environments for fellow contractors; the local environments matched and merged with Confidential .com's development environment and development server;
• Designed (but have not yet implemented) upgrade and migration of Confidential .com's Subversion server.

Consultant/Software Engineer

Confidential, Pawtucket, RI

Responsibilities:

• Utilized (X)HTML, JavaScript, CSS, ColdFusion, Apache2 and Microsoft SQL as technologies for internationalizing Confidential product/brand websites from their U.S. layouts to layouts and content containing appropriate language and cultural content;
• Designed and began implementation of Confidential 's migration from the Microsoft IIS web server to the more stable and robust Apache2 web server. Implementation halted when my contract ended, but was resumed when I began my second contract with Confidential .