Aaron J. Knoll

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Experience

PHP

Web Engineer/Technology Lead, American Social History Project at City University of New York

MySQL (New York, NY): July 2008 - Present

Javascript Wrote development specifications for a privately funded grant-based project, managed the project from

conception to implementation; directed meetings between external development team, client, UX/UI

Jquery team, graphic designers, and other stakeholders.

HTML/XHTML Built ten plugins for open source library cataloging tool built on the Zend Framework.

Engineered custom installation of open source cataloging tool; developed five custom plugins.

XML Collaboratively conceived and developed new uses of technology in history education for grant opportu-

CSS nities.

Created new themes from scratch for open source platforms from design team s Photoshop layouts; cre-

Sass & Less ated and implemented Javascript, JQuery and Mootools, wrote CSS, and created custom templates with

GitHub PHP and HTML.

Converted six websites from custom content management system backends to Drupal and Wordpress.

Wordpress Used organic SEO techniques to improve search rankings of organization s ten websites; all websites now

Omeka appear on Google s first page of search results for most important search terms.

Delegate and manage Project s technology needs with one part-time assistant programmer.

Drupal

Google Analytics Project Advisor, New Media Lab (New York, NY): July 2008 - Present

Advised Ph.D. students on technological options and best practices for digital scholarship.

SEO Teach classes for lab students on customizing Wordpress, using GIS, Photoshop, HTML, PHP, and CSS.

Linux / Mac / Windows Collaboratively setup and configured, independently managed daily operations of high-availability

LAMP stack web server; researched and implemented new tools with server team as requested (e.g. Ruby,

Microsoft Office TomCat, Solr).

Android / iOS

Community Outreach Coordinator, Harvest Astoria Community Supported Agriculture

UX/UI (Queens, NY): January 2010 - December 2010

Adobe Illustrator Managed outreach program to advertise and offer reduced price vegetables to low-income families.

Adobe Photoshop Web Developer, College Relations, Buffalo State College (Buffalo, NY): October 2006 - June 2008

Adobe Fireworks Collaborated with magazine editorial team and frontend UX/UI designers to design and build from-

scratch content managment system using PHP, MySQL and XML.

Adobe Dreamweaver Held weekly training classes for college faculty on College Relations web services.

Worked collaboratively with a team of designers to redesign Buffalo State College s web presence; devel-

Adobe Flash oped custom PHP scripts which integrated with XML, XSLT and existing main site.

Adobe InDesign

Lead Programmer and Assistant Manager, Campus Dining & Shops at University at Buffalo

Adobe Flex (Buffalo, NY): August 2002 - October 2006

Sencha Touch 2 Collaboratively and independently developed a wide array of custom software tools with PHP (e.g. a

scheduling assistant tool for restaurant managers; a bakery ordering system; an information technology

ArcGIS & QGIS inventory management system; a reservation system for restaurants; an online photo submission for

Google Maps campus ID Cards).

Built and managed daily operations of five websites and one intranet, each with custom-built content

Social Networking management tools

Project Management Led team of five programmers in developing software tools and maintaining websites.

Twitter/Facebook Freelance Programmer, Consultant, and Designer, Simple E Business/Digitalis Design:

Podcasting 2000 - Present

Met independently with clients to assess needs and develop comprehensive website/social media plans.

Audio Production Designed and wireframed site layouts in Photoshop, Fireworks, and Illustrator.

SPSS/SAS Statistics Implemented sites using Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, Wordpress, Movable Type, Omeka; modifications

varyed from slightly modified themes to custom plugins and completely from scratch skin and layout

Participatory Planning creation; developed custom scripts and add-ons to existing websites and platforms.

Grantwriting

Education

Wireframing Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY): August 2008 - May 2011

Accessibility M.S. in City and Regional Planning / GPA: 3.9

Familiar with many other University at Buffalo, (Buffalo, NY): August 2002 - May 2006

languages and technologies B.A. in Environmental Design, Minor in English Literature / GPA: 3.7

For more, please see my portfolio at AaronKnoll.com

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