Project Manager Management

Professional software developer whose background and credentials include:

Specialist in Content Management Systems - Drupal, Web 2.0 Technologies and

Open Source Software (6 years)

As a senior Drupal consultant, I've performed work on multiple levels:

front-end ( drupal template design or themer 20% of the time), backend

(drupal module developer 35%), and as a project manager (used AGILE as SDLC

and SCRUM), a business analyst, and an implementer (45%).

What's an implementer? An implementer is a senior Drupal consultant that

knows how to select and use the right combination of modules to build a

site, knows when and how to write php code to fill the gaps between them,

can troubleshoot a variety of Drupal site recipes - multimedia, social

networking, brochure sites, etc., scales and tunes the site for

performance, knows how to read between the lines to satisfy business and

user requirements, and knows what the best practices are and how to make

them work in Drupal. In other words, an implementer is a hybrid position

that knows the technical side of Drupal, knows a lot about exportables (how

to create and use them) and staging, and other technologies as well as

having an understanding of business concepts, especially marketing and

business development.

Recent projects include:

ORC Networks (Mercer Consulting) (03/2010 - present)

. Re-architected a bad implementation of Drupal. Improved Design,

functionality and performance. Used ubercart for e-comm, panels,

ctools, og, views, cck, jquery, node-reference, imagecache, features,

boxes, strongarm (used these last 3 modules to create exportables and

then move them form dev site features to Q&A and then to Prod

environment). Used SVN as well as Agile and SCRUM. www.orcnetworks.com

Publicis (Imedstudios) (09/2009 - 02/2010)

. Developed and implemented a Drupal intranet application for a major

European Drug Company. Used a Drupal distro - Open Atrium as the base

for the application. Wrote lots of code around theme functions as well

as glue-code for some modules. Developed and implemented the theme

from PSD layouts. Wrote jscript code to add some theme elements. Used

features, boxes, spaces, and contexts modules as well as many other

Drupal contrib. modules.

The Goldmark Group (05/2009 - 07/2009)

. Developed a Drupal site that permits users to syndicate catalogs for

the jewelry industry, and used a lot of jQuery and special theme

functions. Site address: www.thecouturecatalog.com

Progenet (03/2009 - 05/2009)

. Developed and maintained a Drupal site which has hooks into the

company's e-commerce and salesforce.com back ends

Sony Music (08/2008 - 03/2009)

. Developed an advanced messaging system around an Oracle database that

posts news articles to and from Drupal sites

. Developed an install profile for Drupal sites that automatically

installs and configures over one hundred Drupal modules plus multiple

themes. Examples of the profile after theming can be found here:

http://www.pinkspage.com/us/home and here: http://www.britney.com/

. Worked extensively with CCK and views modules as well as Drupal's

theme template system

First Conference (2006 - 2007)

. Developed social networking application for the pharmaceutical

industry as well as a prediction market application using Drupal.

The Patriot Group (2005 - 2008)

. Worked on several Drupal sites as well as with other open source

software projects (Wordpress, CiviCRM)

Strong Web 2.0 technologies and social media experience

Owner, Advancing Insights, Inc., a development and consulting firm that

specializes in building applications using PHP / MySQL / jQuery / CSS

. social networking

. expertise/employee locator (similar to linkedin.com)

. collaboration platform

. social commerce

. enterprise blogging

. knowledge management

. community platform

. interactive portals

. content management

. open innovation platform

. classification bookmarking (similar to del.icio.us)

. idea management

. publishing and news platforms.

I have worked with Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, phpBB, SugarCRM, and

civiCRM (Drupal based), and have experience in information architecture and

setting up both structured and unstructured taxonomies.

Consulting background

During my career, I provided software and business development consulting

services including requirements definition; project planning and

management; design; development; content and user workflow and publishing;

security; search engine optimization; web services integration, and

implementation for several large firms including Land O'Lakes, 3M, St. Paul

Companies, Burlington Northern Railroad, Wells Fargo Bank, Sony BMG, United

Technology, First Conference, American Cancer Society, and the Patriot

Group.

Entrepreneur

Founded and operated several successful businesses, including a custom

software firm, a small advertising services firm, and an internet business.

In each endeavor, I managed consultants, agencies, and employees.

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