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Highly Motivated Web developer (seattle)

Date: 2012-07-29, 10:58PM PDT

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Senior PHP/jQuery/MySQL/MongoDB

REST API Programmer

Linux/Unix & AWS Admin

Software Architect/UI Engineer

Solid understanding of high-performance website design. Elite PHP/jQuery/REST programming

skills. Broad knowledge of business and the web. I've been studying the web and developing

web-based software since 2001. In a nutshell, I'm a programmer with a good bit of business

sense.

Seeking a 30-40 hr/week relationship (preferably C2C, but open if the opportunity is

right) with a company that is doing some awesome things and can offer good pay in.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PHP Programming. Elite PHP/MySQL programming skills. Extensive experience developing

large database-driven websites that interface with outside APIs. Solid knowledge of OOP

and design patterns. I've developed using stand-alone classes as well as MVC in Zend,

CakePHP and CodeIgniter. Extremely solid background creating REST APIs and developing

custom applications that combine PHP, jQuery, third-party APIs, and MySQL/Mongo in complex

ways. If it can be done in PHP/jQuery, I can do it.

MySQL/MongoDB. Fifteen years experience designing and managing databases. Solid

understanding of database theory. Advanced knowledge of SQL. Extensive experience with

MySQL -- storage engines, schema design, indexing, complex queries. I've worked with some

fairly large data sets involving parallel processing applications. Solid understanding of

transactions, replication, data sharding, and other scaling issues. Very strong knowledge

of XML. Experience with Sphinx. Good working knowledge of NoSQL, schema-less databases,

particularly MongoDB. Also worked extensively with DynamoDB.

REST API Programming. Working with APIs is one of my specialties. I've developed solid

REST API servers in PHP (most recently, I created a REST server for American Airlines).

I've also built advanced REST clients around Google's APIs, Facebook, Twitter, Twilio,

Authorize.net, PayPal, Stripe, MailChimp, ExactTarget, Yahoo GeoPlanet, LinkedIn, and a

number of others. Extensive, low-level knowledge of REST, SOAP, XML, JSON, JSONP, OAuth,

OpenID and other web services protocols.

jQuery. Very strong skill hand-coding jQuery. I've spent a tremendous amount of time

digging into the jQuery API documentation, building complex jQuery applications that

interact (via $.get, $.post, $.ajax, $.getJSON, etc) with REST API servers that I created

for clients. Exceptional overall knowledge of jQuery Ajax. Also, extremely familiar with

the jQuery UI components and with jQuery Mobile. If you need to do some awesome things

with jQuery/PHP, I can get it done.

Linux/Unix & Amazon Web Services (AWS). Solid knowledge of Linux/Unix server

administration. Sendmail, DNS, Apache, MySQL, NFS, firewalls, SVN and Git. Solid knowledge

of all flavors of Linux, including RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu. Bash

scripting. Very strong knowledge of building software that makes use of Linux to get

things done. Extensive experience with Amazon Web Services, including S3, EC2, DynamoDB,

Route53, CloudFront, and SES. I've also worked extensively with Rackspace Cloud.

UX/UI Engineering. Advanced HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery. Extensive experience designing user

interfaces, although I usually let someone else take my pencil/paper designs and create

the .psd mockups. My strength is in overall design/architecture and in

development/programming. I am very adept at gaining a deep understanding of the business

that will be supported by the software and designing the UI and other architecture

accordingly.

Project Management/Client Relations. Experience with Saleforce.com, SugarCRM, Assembla,

Basecamp, Subversion and Git. Also very strong with client relations, project management,

talent acquisition. Familiar with writing Statements of Work, handling change requests and

rescoping projects, creating project plans, requirements documents, and maintaining

rapport with a client throughout the project life cycle. Very strong communicator, talent

recruiter, and team-builder.

WordPress, Magento & Open-Source. I've been dabbling with open-source for a good while.

Extensive experience developing custom WordPress themes and plugins and custom Magento

themes and modules. I generally prefer building custom applications, but I've definitely

earned my spurs with WordPress and Magento. Complex projects are welcome.

Interactive Marketing & Social Media. Extensive knowledge of online advertising -- PPC,

SEO, social media, email marketing. Strong knowledge of Facebook API programming, Facebook

app development and social APIs in general. Experience with email marketing and ESPs. I've

done from-the-ground-up programming to track opens, clicks, and bounces. Experience with

the ExactTarget platform and MailChimp, including software development involving

integrations with their APIs.

e-Commerce. Experience creating and deploying end-to-end e-commerce solutions. Shopping

carts, Authorize.net, PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net, Dwolla, Google Checkout, SSL,

merchant accounts. Magento, Zen Cart, osCommerce, various WordPress e-commerce plugins.

Also comfortable with custom shopping cart and e-commerce development.

RELATED WORK HISTORY

This section lists some of the more interesting projects I've worked (or continue to work

on).

(2010 - Present)

Core specialties: Custom PHP/jQuery web applications, REST API programming, social apps &

APIs, and Linux cloud support. I've worked with a number of clients large and small.

(

2010 - Present)

I have been heavily involved in the development of a company for a number of years. The

company was incorporated in 2010, but the earliest research began in 2002. This came into

a number of APIs (Twilio for call processing, Stripe for payment processing, Facebook and

Google for login and contacts). Currently redeveloping the codebase and UI and preparing

to roll out a REST API that will expose some of GB's core functionality as a set of web

services..

PHP/jQuery, AWS & REST API Development

(

2012 - Present)

Currently working to deploy the Road Warrior Community. The work involves development of

a new Ajax software architecture involving heavy jQuery and REST API programming.

Extensive work integrating the community with Amazon Web Services (AWS) API, including

work with DynamoDB, S3, and SES. Integration with Echo StreamServer (a Backplane server)

for session management and social sign on. Also developed several Facebook apps for Social

Media Team.

SEO Consultant

(2011 - 2012)

Currently working to overhaul the URL structure. Building an application that will allow

marketing department to completely control what URLs are visible to search engines. The

application hides existing JSP-based URLs and, instead, exposes only SEO-friendly URLs. A

number of technical challenges presented by the server environment and site architecture

prevented the use of .htaccess for this project. This is the first of several marketing

solutions I am working on .

Consultant

(2011)

Work with the ExactTarget platform, using SQL, AMPScript, and data feeds from Demandware

and Coremetrics to perform list segmentation and create highly targeted email campaigns

for enterprise clients. Help scope and implement new projects and assist with client

relations. Also assist with implementations that require ExactTarget API integration.

Consultant

(2011)

Handled the Facebook integration for ReviewAnalyst . Work involved Zend Framework, MySQL,

Facebook Graph API. Added new functionality that allows hotels and restaurants to track

brand mentions and competitor mentions on specific Facebook pages as well as on Facebook

in general.

Lead Developer

(2010)

PHP/MySQL programming via a custom framework. Work involved some Ajax, jQuery, Yahoo

GeoPlanet API and Google Maps API.

PHP Programmer

(2010)

Debugging and adding new features on a site built on SocialEngine. I added a Q&A forum

system to the site that closely mimics the functionality of LinkedIn's Answers forum. Also

added new search functionality search feature.

FreelanceDeveloper/Programmer

(April 2001 - 2010)

During this period, I pretty much cut my teeth on web development, mostly as a

freelancer. I developed websites using VBScript/ASP with Microsoft Access as a database.

All of the sites I built during this time were hosted on Windows servers. In late

2003/early 2004 I began migrating to LAMP. It was during this period that I also began

experimenting aggressively with online marketing, including pay-per-click, SEO, affiliate

marketing, and email marketing.

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