Ronaldo Barrera

****-**** ******** ****

Toronto, ON M1M 1L7

Mobile: 647-***-****

ac28yt@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVES

I am looking for a position with a progressive organization where I can utilize my creativity and breadth of technical skills to contribute to their success and my own.

PROFILE

An accomplished web developer specializing in Object-Oriented Design and Analysis with extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software development process. More than 10 years of experience developing e-Commerce and other systems.

• Extensive experience designing and developing web-based applications using Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL and JavaScript/AJAX.

• Knowledge of and practical ability to select and deploy technologies like XHTML, CSS, XML, and other technology as they emerge.

• Advanced experience and understanding of SQL and database design, developing entity-relationship diagrams and specifications (UML).

• Practical systems administration skills in Linux, OSX and Windows environments.

• Competence in producing standards-compliant, clean HTML and XHTML pages that leverage CSS for design.

• Additional experience working with RESTful API, AJAX, CURL, RSS, XML-RPC, SOAP, SVN/git, and Project Management.

• Possesses a high technical aptitude, a high level of analytical ability and loves to learn new and emerging technologies.

• Team player, problem-solver, persistent, and detail-oriented.

• Exceptional organizational and communication skills.

• Delivered standards compliant websites. PCI DSS, 508, PHI

• Trained and practiced modern development methodology like Continuous Integration and SCRUM.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

Programming Languages

PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL, XHTML, CSS

CMS/Forum Software

Expression Engine, Joomla, WordPress

Development/Deployment Tools

PHPStorm, Textmate, Photoshop, Illustrator, Coda, SVN, Git, Mercurial, Capistrano, Slack, Basecamp, Pivotal Tracker

Office Tools

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Frameworks and Operating Systems

Windows, OSX, Linux, VMWare, AWS, CodeIgniter, cakePHP, Yii

EXPERIENCE

Oliver’s Learning 08 2017 - present

Team Lead

Managed a small group of developers remotely tasked in making them more competent in writing codes that is easily maintainable and reusable.

Developed new modules using the YII PHP framework and ExpressionEngine plugins.

Knowledge Translation Program 08 2015 - 08 2017

Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute

St. Michael’s Hospital

Research Applications Support Specialist

Coding, process re-engineering, collaboration and communicating with scientists, vendors and stake holders are my primary role. Tasked to re-engineer the Knowledge Translation tool that the Knowledge Translation program used for research article screening.

Aside from the synthesis tool mentioned, I also re-developed most of the computational and informational web properties of the program while training 3 junior web developers and delivering this web properties to adhere with PHI and 508 standards,

Development and systems administration task becomes a day to day activity, I managed both Windows and Linux operating systems to run our applications and database infrastructure. This is my first true exposure to DevOps environment due to the lack of available skills in the team. Mixed technologies are applied like VMWare, CentOS, Windows, LAMP, Yii Framework, MySQL/MariaDB, WP, various RESTful API, jQuery, CSS3 and bootstrap to deliver the solutions that the program requires.

All applications was delivered on time and within budget while we resolve reported issues within a reasonable threshold.

LittleGeek / Tripspot Inc. 06 2012 - 06 2015

Senior Applications Developer/Architect

LittleGeek aims to take an spark of an idea morph into a full blown, massively successful enterprise solution.

I am tasked to create that solution from that idea using the awesome YII framework along with a sprinkling of bootstrap and jQuery. We are enabled our build process to employ new but stable technologies that we are comfortable with like ansible, docker and vagrant for shorter release cycles and safe release environment in our integration server but still capify our builds to use the more trusted deployment strategy when releasing live.

Our applications are massively RESTful and we consume APIs that we know we cannot do better to build a similar ones.

Techs/APIs consumed: Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN), Mailchimp, Skylink, AWS, Stripe, Canada Post, EasyPost (USPS), Google apps, and tons of Social Network APIs.

Mundo Media Inc. 01 2012 - 04 2012

Senior Web Applications Developer

Mundo Media is a new media technology company joining advertisers and affiliates. With a strong suite of custom-developed tools, Mundo Media provides many services to the end user, especially mobile devices.

As a Web developer, I am an expert in using the dynamic programming tools and languages that fuel the Web. I might work independently or be part of a team that builds and integrates interactive Web sites, applications, and services for both internal and public sites. My role is to make it work, which means developing Web applications and testing them on various browsers, enhancing and modifying them as necessary to ensure the best experience for the user. As a web developer, I might also architect websites, design data-driven applications, and find efficient client-server solutions. I have an in-depth understanding of the software development lifecycle and be able to communicate project status, issues, and resolutions.

Thane Direct Inc. 05 2009 - 12 2011

Web Applications Developer

• Developed and maintained the Business Management System which includes Finance, Inventory, Logistics and Issue Management (Customer Service).

• Maintained and improved eCommerce and Call Centre applications.

• Implement 3rd party web services integration from providers from different

countries and languages like Innotrac (US, logistics), RBS (Europe,

payment - formerly bibit), MOE (Europe, logistics), Datacash (Australia,

payment), Kount (US, risk management), Paypal (Global, certified payment),

Metapack (UK, logistics) and more.

• Created machine/human readable labels using fPDF and php barcode

generators

• Handled various request/bug reports from various subs from 12 countries in

a timely and efficient manner.

Nvision-IT Inc. 11-200*-**-****

Senior Applications Developer

• Developed a social network application based on the Facebook API

leveraging the cakePHP framework.

• Coded valid XHTML code.

• Revamped the User Interface look, feel and usability by applying

jQuery/AJAX based enhancements

• Optimized/bypassed queries generated by the active record class of cakePHP

to maintain application’s QOS.

• Updated header information to prepare the pages for SEO/SEM

Impulse Leads, Inc. 01-10 2008

Lead Developer

• Developed a lightweight object oriented PHP Development Framework

utilizing RESTful JSON/XML technology.

• Developed cool Web 2.0 ajaxified widgets

• Designed/developing a dynamic advertising campaign management system

• Established a code testing framework

• Technologies used in order of frequency: mySQL, PHP, AJAX, JavaScript,

HTML

• Software applications used: Textmate, Dreamweaver, Zend Studio for

Eclipse

TRS Consulting 2001-2007

Senior Programmer, Applications Developer

• Determine appropriate technologies and platforms for client projects

• Developed and maintained code for several websites and intranets. Most sites featured use of database, server-side scripting, and custom account/membership management features

• Set-up, configured and customized content management systems, blogs and forums based on joomla, phpBB and expression engine

• Established coding methodologies, source control, and documentation processes

• Wrote proposals, functional specifications, and gathered user requirements

• Technologies used in order of frequency: mySQL, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CodeIgniter framework

• Software applications used: Dreamweaver, Zend Studio, Photoshop

Education

Fujitsu, Manila

Diploma in Programming

(Fujitsu Scholarship Grant)

Mapua Institute of Technology – Manila

B.Sc. Chemical Engineering

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