Software Engineer Project Management

EDUCATION

BS Information Systems Programming - Feb 2006

DeVry University, Colorado Springs, CO

AAS Information Systems Programming - June 2002

Denver Technical College, Colorado Springs, CO

TECHNICAL SKILLS

L.A.M.P. web server platform (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Python)

Object Oriented PHP5 with MVC frameworks (Kohana, Zend, PEAR)

Client-side: CSS, Javascript/AJAX, jQuery, [X]HTML

Experience with multiple Linux distributions including RedHat, Gentoo and

Ubuntu

Setting up and configuring Subversion and GIT repositories

Eclipse/PDT and/or Komodo with Xdebug for PHP development

Agile/SCRUM software development process

XML parsing and data manipulation using SimpleXML functions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE and ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Essential Elements, North Kansas City, KS Apr 2010 - Jul 2010

PHP Programmer

Member of 3 person team providing application development and support to

multi-million dollar vending and food services company.

Rewrote credit card processing and gateway to update for a new provider and

improved functionalities and new features.

Updated existing project management application to include back-end XML-RPC

communication to Trac project management site.

Forsalebyowner, New York, NY Feb 2009- June 2009

Sr. Software Engineer

Member of 4 person team focused on updating and maintaining customer facing

websites as well as internal website.

Facilitated weekly "tech talk" to discuss new ideas and explore possible

new software/tools.

Produced and maintained XML data feeds for licensing clients.

Closed an average of 2 issues/bug fixes a week.

Conductor/LinkExperts, New York, NY Sept 2007 - Jan 2009

Sr. Software Engineer

Member of 4 person team focused on updating and maintaining customer facing

websites as well as internal website.

Facilitated weekly team architecture meetings to brainstorm new product

features and evaluate current processes.

As Scrum master, used agile development processes emphasizing iterative

development, automated functional/unit tests, user acceptance testing, and

a high degree of client interaction.

Added new features and maintained functionality for on-line order system to

facilitate purchase of advertisements and exchange of ad space to

publishers.

Used "presentation engines" to reduce duplicate data generation across

multiple disparate views between HTML pages and spreadsheet exports.

Implemented product inventory for search using Sphinx server PHP API.

Money.net, New York, NY Jun 2006 - Aug 2007

Principle Web Developer

Redesigned and rewrote back end infrastructure for www.pcquote.com,

implementing OO approach with PHP5 for new web site.

Updated and maintained existing websites for money.net.

Interfaced to legacy data feed via socket connections.

Administered and maintained web server farm, ensuring web servers operated

at peak capability and efficiency.

Maintained and updated site-wide advertising using phpAdsNew/OpenAds.

SI International, Colorado Springs, CO Aug 2005 - Apr 2006

Lab Manager

Provided desktop support for 26 Enterprise Architects.

Maintained 9 classified systems in development labs.

Maintained classified server with software updates and weekly data backups.

Built web-based computer and software inventory system with PHP and MySQL.

Evans Army Community Hospital, Ft. Carson, CO Jan 1999 - Aug 2005

Systems Specialist and Computer Operator

Administrated and maintained Electronic Medicals Records database servers.

Installed software updates and change packages to keep system up to date.

Ensured system performed at optimum level; maintained 99.99% system

availability.

Assisted customers in procedures and daily activities.

Ensured that integrity of daily and weekly backups was maintained.

Built web-based software and inventory system with PHP and MySQL.

Ensured greater than 97% customer satisfaction as measured by quarterly

surveys.

U.S. Naval Hospital, Rota, Spain Feb 1997 - Aug 1998

Webmaster and Hardware/Software Technician

Wrote hospital web site using MS FrontPage98, MS Word97, and JavaScript.

Programmed web-based databases using MS Access97 and Cold Fusion and ASP.

Taught a monthly class on HTML techniques and conventions.

Administered and maintained hospital web page on MS IIS 4.0.

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