Lead Developer
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Michael O'Neil
Lead Full Stack Developer at Infinity Direct
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Lead Application Developer with over 17 years experience in creating high-availability, high-traffic web applications. Creator of the open source project Laravel Zap, a Laravel powered static site generator: https://laravelzap.com.
Experience
Infinity Direct
April 2014 - Present
Lead Developer
Lead team in PHP application development in Laravel 5 framework, also custom WordPress plugin and theme development. Streamlined and modernizing the development (front-end and back-end) workflow using Git, Bootstrap, Laravel Forge and Digital Ocean to continuously deploy responsive applications. Reduced cost of hosting by over 75% saving my company thousands of dollars a month. Architected and developed dozens of applications for international multi-billion dollar corporations. I am in charge of the DevOps and have built, developed, and manage all of the company's servers and set up Continuous Integration deployment of our applications. http://www.infinitydirect.com/profile/michael
The Lacek Group
March 2012 - April 2014 (2 years 1 month)
Senior Application Developer
Led the initiative to move all future development in the company from ColdFusion to PHP. Architected the platform built on the Yii Framework used for all PHP development. Team Lead for two international, multi- billion dollar, corporate clients. Created numerous high-traffic, high-visibility web applications for marketing campaigns within the agency. Designed and architected a data amalgamation application that interfaces with all client marketing campaigns to collect, compile, and parse social data using a Yii Framework front-end/ admin combined with a Yii console application that collects the social data from the various social networks via multiple scheduled cronjobs leveraging a multithreaded process capable of fetching 1000 API calls a second. Architected and developed a custom CMS based on the Yii framework for internal and client use.
Lead Application Developer
June 2010 - March 2012 (1 year 9 months)
Develop, maintain and redesigned high-traffic government-contract associated websites that allow end users to determine their eligibility for government food, drug, and welfare programs. Migrated backend database from Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to MySQL. Migrated from ColdFusion code on the front-end to a fully customized PHP front-end incorporating WordPress as the base of a custom content management solution.
Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI)
May 2009 - June 2010 (1 year 1 month)
Lead Web Application Developer
(1099 Contractor) Developed high-traffic, high-profile web sites in-house for large corporation using ColdFusion 8 with an Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server, depending on the site. Managed more than fifty websites, each with its own custom look/feel and functionality. Extended the functionality of proprietary content management system with custom code to enhance usability. Migrated all sites and the content management system that powers them from Scriptaculous/Prototype to jQuery; rewrote all functions to be compatible with jQuery.
Racersites.com
December 2008 - May 2009 (5 months)
Lead Web Application Developer (Contract)
(1099 Contractor) Lead developer of website development company specializing in the racing industry. Maintain more than sixty different sites for a very active client base using ColdFusion 8 with SQL Server 2005 backend. Streamlined development process and introduced Subversion source control to stabilize code base. Developed and launched half a dozen fully interactive sites with full content management since coming aboard.
The Zanzico Agency
Lead Web Application Developer (Contract)
December 2007 - December 2008 (1 year)
(1099 Contractor) Lead developer of multi-million dollar advertising agency specializing in Joomla, the Zend PHP Framework and ColdFusion based content managed websites. Successfully launched high-profile corporate websites and maintained nearly two dozen others using ColdFusion 8/MSSQL or PHP/MySQL. Managed developers and designers in creating high-quality corporate, high-traffic online presence.
Wray Ward Advertising
Lead Web Application Developer
June 2005 - December 2007 (2 years 6 months)
Managed more than a dozen client websites with each requiring custom programming in ColdFusion MX 7 or PHP/MySQL; designed and developed custom email marketing web application in ColdFusion MX 7 with full click-thru tracking, auto-detect HTML/Plain text email, and bounces with full campaign and subscriber management; created successful music download "under the cap" sweepstakes for major soft-drink company; coded a web-enabled supply chain management tool in ColdFusion MX 7 using Dreamweaver MX as a development platform to enhance a consumer facing interior design tool, allowing customers to construct a plan built to users' specific needs.
Taleo
November 2004 - June 2005 (7 months)
Software Engineer (Contract)
Juggled a number of disparate projects simultaneously, from architecting and designing custom specifications for major corporate internal and external websites in ColdFusion 6 and MX 7 using Dreamweaver to debug complex ColdFusion and SQL code; implemented code for major, high-profile companies such as JetBlue, Owens Corning, Coca Cola, Herman Miller, L.L. Bean, and T-Mobile, among others.
Frye Regional Medica Center
Lead Web Developer/Systems Analyst
September 1998 - September 2004 (6 years)
Developed an Intranet for the hospital in ColdFusion 4 which was the first of its kind in the corporation, a chain of 111 hospitals; created custom web modules used by different departments to run reports, track patient information, post information to a calendar of events, purchase items from the company store, etc; built and maintained the servers which were running on Linux and Apache and Windows NT and IIS; project manager for a number of different software and hardware installations. Created the public-facing site in PHP3/MySQL.
Education
Appalachian State University
1996 - 1998
Master’s Degree, English
Appalachian State University
1994 - 1996
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English/Philosophy and Religion,
Honors & Awards
Best of NAMA 2013 - First Place – Interactive Marketing Tools
NAMA - Region 4 - First Place - Multimedia Campaigns - National
2007 Addy Award
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