Web Development

• Zend Certified PHP5 Engineer
• PHP (4 and 5) (Web and CLI), Zend Studio/Zend Studio For Eclipse/Core/Platform/Framework/Server, Eclipse, Aptana, NetBeans
• Javascript (jQuery, YUI, Prototype / Scriptaculous, mooTools), (D)XHTML, CSS 1-3,
• XML, XSL/XSLT, AJAX, JSON, REST / SOAP (SAAS),
• SQL (MySQL)
• Joomla, Drupal, Magento

Server Administration

• Linux and FreeBSD server administration including: Apache 1 and 2, MySQL, phpMyAdmin and CLI, vsftpd, proftpd, sshd, Samba, NFS, DHCP, VMWare, software firewalls, (re)building software / kernel from source, etc.

Other Programming

• C, C++, Bash, VB, VBA, AutoIt Basic, Pascal, QBasic

OS

• Linux (Fedora/CentOS/RHEL, Kubuntu/Debian, Gentoo, Slackware), FreeBSD 4/6/7, OS X, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista

July 2009 - Present

Owner / Consultant – Lucianux | San Francisco, CA, 94107

Senior Software Engineer - Tripping International | San Francisco, CA, 94129

• Architecting, designing, and implementing the core web application for a new startup (http://tripping.com/) (see beta site at: https://beta.tripping.com/ (user: beta pass: trip415) using PHP 5, Zend Framework 1.9, jQuery / jQuery UI, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, AJAX / JSON, XML, external REST/SOAP APIs

Contract

• Helped to launch a new e-commerce store for Jeff Dunham of Comedy Central doing Magento side projects, customizing Magento to fit specific needs both front and backend: http://www.jeffdunham.com/shop/

March 2009 – July 2009

Software Engineer -
Mercantila, Inc. | San Francisco, CA 94133

• Developing a new vendor platform using Zend Framework as well as a new store frontend with Magento as a base using PHP 5, JS (jQuery / YUI), CSS, XHTML, AJAX, XML, XSL, XSLT, JSON, MySQL, REST, etc. eventually to reside on Amazon EC2 instances
• Working on the legacy storefront to add new features that have been shown to drive revenue including a new “Top Sellers” window shade, a “Top Sellers” block on product pages, a “Recently Viewed Products” block all build using jQuery and jQuery UI as well as other plugins that are completely front-end and use cookies to grab the necessary information and then renders it dynamically using Javascript/JSON
  • An example product page from one of our hundreds of stores (they all use the same template system). To see the recently viewed products, please browse around a few products: http://www.rowingmachines.com/p/lifecore-fitness-r100-apm-premier-rower-rowing-machine
  • 3 million unique visitors per month
• Optimizing the page load times by minifying and combining JS/CSS files, pushing them to Amazon S3 / Cloudfront servers, and creating conditional includes so that they are served properly: gzipped if possible (not natively supported by either S3 or CF) and making https requests come strictly from S3 as CF does not support this yet
• Using Keynote services to monitor uptime and load times to know what needs to be optimized and keep page load times to a minimum
• Working with existing legacy code to increase company profit while we are developing new products. Improving SEO, Revenue from advertisements, mutivariate testing, UI/UX improvements, etc.
• Using Google Website Optimizer / Analytics

July 2008 – March 2009

Software Engineer -
oingOn, Inc. | San Francisco, CA 94107

• Developed websites and a new platform for building dynamic websites with the engineering team at GoingOn using PHP, JS, CSS, XHTML, AJAX, XML, XSL, XSLT, JSON, MySQL, etc.
• Working on LAMP, Drupal based projects, front, middle, and backend development.
• Created a fully AJAX based UI using jQuery and jQuery UI for administering Drupal in a quick and simple way that an end user can use easily and intuitively (initially developed with MooTools then transitioned over).
• Set up, customizing, and maintaing systems for code control (Subversion-DAV/SVN), internal project development (ProjectPier), bug tracking (Mantis), and wiki (WikiMedia)
• Worked with a team of engineers to develop socially enabled sites and an open source platform for educational social networks (our main focus) that connects with traditional learning, e-learning, or both for universities, colleges, and other learning institutions: University of Pennsylvania: http://www.pennlpscommons.org/
• We also created other socially enabled sites as well as well as the Javascript widgets as we were looking for our startup direction: http://beautopia.goingon.biz/, http://kadus.goingon.biz/, and http://reggaejourney.com/ as well as a site that will be at http://alwayson-network.com/ in a few of days.

March 2008 – June 2008

Software Engineer - LiveNation / SignaturesNetwork | San Francisco, CA 94107

•  Worked with: Magento, PHP5 (OOP), Zend Framework, Javascript (AJAX, Prototype/Scriptaculous, jQuery), MySQL 5, (D)XHTML, CSS, XML, Subversion (CLI), Debian Linux (Xen Virtualized), Bash, Navicat, phpMyAdmin, Trac
•  E-commerce: Skinned and customized Magento's amazing open source e-commerce platform: http://www.magentocommerce.com/ from beta releases to the 1.0 stable release: http://b2b.signaturesnetwork.com/ (unfortunately the store was replaced due to lack of funds for contracting work and maintenance)
• Customized both the front and backend of Magento to make it a business to business e-commerce platform rather than a traditional customer store
• Wrote supporting documentation and worked with my project coordinator to establish goals and tasks

June 2005 – March 2008

Olson Research Group, Inc. | Ewing, NJ 08618 | Los Altos, CA 94022

Senior Programmer / Developer (promoted from) ProgrammerWorking in: PHP, Javascript (AJAX, JSON), Perl, Python, MySQL, (D)XHTML, CSS

• Developed a tool to automatically download survey data (PHP-CLI), export it through SSI Web (AutoIt Basic), and process the resulting SPSS files (SPSS Syntax)
• Managed the company's critical FreeBSD and Linux (recent switch) web servers. Conducted the migration from older / obsolete servers to newer servers both between FreeBSD and Linux. Optimized and maintained servers running smoothly and reliably.
• Currently developing an online scheduling tool that uses the Google Calendar and Google Maps API to allow our administrative assistants to schedule doctors’ appointments with our clients and allow qualified doctors to schedule their own appointments through the Internet (PHP)
• Using AJAX (prototype.js) (PHP / MySQL on server side), developed a method to track the actual time a respondent spends on a survey, taking into account idle time, etc.
• Constantly expanding the capabilities of SSI Web using Javascript, AJAX, PHP, MySQL and AutoIt Basic (to automate windows tasks). Developed a tool to speed up common tasks and add shortcuts to SSI Web since SSI Web does not have definable shortcuts.
• Developed a shared codebase for programmers to use for common survey programming tasks such as validation of questions
• Designed a website for one of Olson’s Principals sister’s company: http://www.bauercompostandgravel.com/

Programmer – Voted Employee of the Year 2005

• Developed an online price quoting tool used by our largest clients that allows them to create, change, track, and submit pricing quotes quickly and easily (PHP / Javascript). http://www.olsononlinesystems.com/zs/
• Programmed hundreds of complex online medical surveys from simple Word documents using SSI Web, Perl, Javascript (prototype.js scriptaculous, YUI), and AJAX (PHP/MySQL).
• Designed http://www.olsononlinesystems.com/ as well as the Olson Online Demo Survey: http://www.olsononlinesystems.com/oos2/oos2logn.htm

Oct. 2004 – June 2005

The College of New Jersey | Ewing, NJ 08628

Assistant Scheduling Manager (promoted from) Administrative Assistant

Designed, implemented, deployed, and supported custom Access databases for scheduling in a networking, multi-user environment. Databases were programmed in Access using VBA. Wrote supporting documentation, led tutorial seminars.