Seneca Hinds
Doral, Florida 33178
Phone number: 248-***-****
Email Address: ***********@*****.***
Professional Summary:
Keen Web Developer, who recently moved to Miami, has over 10 years of experience conceptualizing, planning, and developing client websites. Experience in configuring Azure web apps, Azure App services, Azure Application insights, Azure Application gateway, Azure DNS, Azure Traffic manager, App services, Analyzing Azure Networks with Azure Network Watcher, Implementing Azure Site Recovery, Azure stack, Azure Backup and Azure Automation. Relevant experience includes: extensive experience utilizing the Adobe suite, including Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, etc.; multiple projects involving the design and development of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) applications; strong development experience with HTML, CSS/CSS3, PHP, jQuery, Flash, and JavaScript as well as numerous other technologies/tools; collaborating and brainstorming with users and clients to gather and define detailed requirements during the creation and development stages; performing and participating in code reviews; quality assurance and testing; provide maintenance and post production support. Continuously maintains an understanding of current web design principles, navigation, content presentation and usability. Possesses outstanding communications skills, has a high degree of aptitude for quickly learning new technologies and business environments, and is capable of working independently or in a team environment. Technical Summary:
Adobe (up to CS6): Web Development: Key Skills:
Photoshop CSS/CSS3 Requirements Gathering/Analysis Flash PHP Prototyping /Mockups
Dreamweaver HTML/XHTML Graphic Manipulation/Modification Illustrator JavaScript Collaboration/Brainstorming Fireworks ASP.NET Design/Development
Operating Systems/Platforms: XML Presentation Creation/Facilitation Windows .NET Data Driven Design
UNIX/Linux Python Implementation/Go-Live
Mac OS Java Cloud Architecture Development
Tools: Ajax Database/Tools:
NetBeans JQuery SQL Server 2000/2005
MySQLWorkbench Crystal Reports MySQL
MS Visual Studios BIDS T-SQL, SSRS
Sublime C# C++ Oracle
PHPStorm Angular AWS, AZURE
Professional Experience:
Lennar (Miami, FL)
Azure Cloud Engineer 11/17-07/19
Interact with website developers, network and server technicians.
● Provide Deployment, administration and operational support for corporate web entities
● Provide technical expertise in the diagnosis and resolution of web site related issues and coming up with respective solutions
● Developing scripts for build, deployment, maintenance and related tasks using Jenkins, Docker, Maven.
● Designed CD platform using Docker and Jenkins.
● Responsible for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process implementation using Jenkins along with Python and Shell scripts to automate routine jobs.
● Installed and Configured the Nexus repository manager for sharing the artifacts within the company.
● Implemented container-based deployments using Docker Images, Docker registries.
● Created local repository to connect Linux servers to RHEL site for downloading packages.
● Migrated the Azure CXP Tools to HTTPS based authentication using SSL encryption.
● Creates and maintains web application environments on multiple platforms
● Works with FTP servers to provide access for internal and external resources and setting up virtual
● directories, user permissions and SSL protocols
● Migration, configuration and deployment of MySQL databases for staging and production environments
● Works with Network and NOC engineers to ensure proper web site monitoring, load balancing,
● VIP provisioning, failover and high availability of web applications and services
● Applies industry best practices to increase reliability and performance of web properties and systems
● Participate in weekly calls with Corporate Communications team and act as a liaison between their web initiatives and resources and teams with IT
● Domain name administration including acquisition, auctions, renewals, DNS
● SSL certificate administration and support
● 24x7 coverage and response to alerts during after-hour periods
● Ensures that requests for web sites, server configurations and DNS entries get routed properly through change management
● Apply communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate and resolve systems issues
● Draw upon deep technical knowledge to assist internal teams in making informed decisions Technical Environment: .Net, ASP, PHP, MS Azure, AWS, Workbench, Bash, Cloud Shell,ServiceNow, Microsoft Azure (IaaS& PaaS), JIRA, Subversion, JBoss, MySQL, PostgreSQL, python, Apache, Nginx, FTP, Splunk, Docker, Windows Server 2003, HTML, HTML5, Bootstrap, Ansible, SonarQube, Shell Scripts
Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions (Warren, MI) DevOps Engineer 5/17-11/18
Interact with website developers, network and server technicians.
● Maintained and scheduled build scripts to automate DEV/QA/UAT builds.
● Design roles and groups for users and resources using AWS Identity Access Management (IAM).
● Used AWS command line (CLI) client and management console to interact with Dependent resources and APIs.
● Managing Ansible Playbooks with Ansible roles, used file module in Ansible playbook to copy and remove files on remote systems.
● Implementation of AWS Cloud services which include EC2, EBS, S3, S3 Glacier, Storage Gateway, VPC, Route 53, Snowball, direct connect, Storage Gateway, CloudFormation, Dynamo DB, RDS, ELB, EMR, ECS, Cloud Front, OpsWorks, Elastic Cache, Cloud Watch, CloudTrail, Kinesis, Redshift, Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, SNS, SES.
● Diverse experience utilizing tools in Microservices architecture applications using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud config, Pivotal Cloud Fundry, AWS, Rabbit MQ, My SQL, Restful Web Services.
● Used AWS Beanstalk for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, PHP, Node.js, Python, Shell/Bash, and Docker
● Created private cloud using Kubernetes that supports DEV, TEST, and PROD environments.
● Worked with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker Hub and Docker-registries and Kubernetes
● Designed and setup CI/CD pipeline to deploy containerized applications in the cloud.
● Used Docker to containerized Micro services in cloud and managed clusters using Docker Swarm and Kubernetes. Developed Private cloud system solution on CoreOS using Kubernetes.
● Focused on containerization and immutable infrastructure, Docker has been key to this experience, along with Mesos, Marathon and Kubernetes.
● Design and Develop Compensation Application using MS SQL Server and Tableau Desktop. Developed ad hoc Tableau visualizations for executive team. Design Views and publish workbooks. Migrate Cognos Cubes to Tableau Desktop for sales admin team.
● Responsible for designing logical and physical data modeling for multiple sources into AWS Redshift.
● Migrated Oracle data warehouse to AWS Redshift. Wrote AWS Redshift views to replace Oracle Views.
● Integrated Puppet with Apache in the Linux AWS Cloud environment using Puppet automation, developed load tests, monitored suites in Python, and integrated puppet modules into Jenkins jobs for CI/CD framework.
● Used Chef to automate the infrastructure by creating Chef Cookbooks, tested those Cookbooks using Food critic & NG.
● Deployed and configured Chef and Chef Solo including bootstrapping of Chef Client nodes for provisioning, creating roles, cookbooks, recipes, and data bags for server configurations, deployments.
● Used Chef Cookbooks to setup Continuous Delivery pipeline with Jenkins & Sonar server to run packages, supported software components like Maven.
● Coordinate/assist developers with establishing & applying branching, labelling conventions using Git source control, resolved conflicts related to merging of source code.
● Installed & Managed Monitoring Tools like Splunk, Nagios for Resource Network & Log Trace.
● Worked with Red Hat RHEL.5.x/ 6.x, CentOS, Solaris & VMware ESX environment. Administered LDAP, NFS & NIS in Linux, implemented Samba for sharing resources between Linux & windows environment, involved in Remediation & patching of Unix/Linux Servers.
● Configured Apache web servers & Tomcat application containers in a Red Hat Linux/CentOS environment.
● Create documents on build process and flow, build script maintenance, user guide for developers for local builds.
● Managed multiple patch releases by working closely with QA team and development teams.
● Set up Jenkins master/slave to distribute builds on salve nodes.
● Monitors daily operation and administration of internal or external websites ensuring systems are available for intranet and internet traffic. Resolves any problems encountered.
● Deploy both new websites and databases in addition to updates while maintaining synchronization between environments.
● Evaluate code prior to implementation or promoting to production.
● Responsible for enforcing security compliance, polices and permissions.
● Responsible for the overall ownership of delivering quality projects.
● Ability to identify issues and determine root cause and solve or partner a solution when site abnormalities are encountered.
Technical Environment: . Windows, Linux, Java, HTML, CSS, Angular, Ajax, Boot strap, Python, Restful, JSON, GIT Jenkins, Maven, Junit, Jquery, Bash, PowerShell, Kubernetes,AWS, (1AM, EC2, Elastic Load balancer, Auto Scaling, VPC, Route 53, RDS, Lambda, Elastic Cache, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Watch, CloudFormation, Snowball, SNS Data Consultant Grout (Detroit, MI) 8/15 – 3/16
Java Developer
Information Technologist with exceptional performance in technical framework design, application specific solution discovery for business requirements, excellence in Java based code design, development. Specialties: Java/J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, JSF Frameworks (plus JQuery and Ajax),
● Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance.
● Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.
● Write well designed, testable, efficient code.
● Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications.
● Prepare and produce releases of software components.
● Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.
Tweddle (Clinton Township, MI) 4/15 – 06/15
Software Engineer I
Application Development, team this role will perform various programming tasks using a variety of programming languages. Under the guidance and support of senior software engineers, this role will help to define and establish development best practices while developing and deploying a range of mission-critical systems.
● Perform daily programming tasks to ensure team velocity.
● Actively participate in backlog elaboration, sprint planning and commitment meetings as appropriate.
● Continuously act to enhance knowledge of new technologies, business processes, and development life cycle methodologies as a method of personal growth and growth of the IT knowledge base.
● Develop performance criteria and ensure that the system operates at or better than those criteria. Embrace a distributed development model where necessary, working with other people to address and resolve the issues to create the most effective development environment possible.
● Participate and perform situation analysis and recommend solutions.
● Recommend proactive courses of actions to ensure successful projects and maintain cost effectiveness and competitiveness.
PrintSites.com (Fenton, MI) 12/14 – 03/15
Application Developer
Knowledge of and experience using a high-quality full-featured content management system (Magento, Drupal, Concrete5, etc.) in a large-scale environment. This position is responsible for building out the core CMS framework of a highly scalable e-commerce Web site, integrating custom developed components into the CMS, and providing expertise to other developers on the details of the CMS. Our next phase will involve rapid spin-up of new CMS instances, so knowledge of “multi-site” configuration is a plus.
● PHP/MySQL developer with an object-oriented mindset
● 5+ years’ experience programming in PHP Web Application Development – back-end experience required.
● Ability to develop applications and write code from scratch
● Maintain and enhancing code to meet changing internal and industry needs
● Project-oriented individual with a background working in a LAMP environment and administering Linux servers
● Experience with networking/LANs, TCP/IP protocol and VMware environments is preferred.
● Previous experience writing, developing and programming mobile applications. Blayzer (St. Louis, MO) 08/13 – 08/14
Web Developer
Blayzer is a hosting company that consults on various different projects. My primary role for the company was to develop the company website using Wordpress, Drupal, and Magento; including performing technical support on whatever project they may need support in as well. Technical Environment: PHP, CakePHP, Magento, Drupal, Wordpress In the Box Hosting (Farmington Hills, MI) 11/09 – 03/11 Web Developer
In the Box Hosting is a hosting company that consults on various different projects. My primary role for the company was to develop the company website; including performing technical support on whatever project they may need support in as well.
Project Highlights:
City of Flint, MI:
Contracted for the Mayoral Office in the City of Flint as a Webmaster to maintain their website. Maintained, updated, and debugged the company website ( www.cityofflint.com ). In the process of developing and launching a redesigned site, the company improved usability and efficiency. There were 5+ web applications written in ASP.NET and I was responsible for both frontend and backend solutions.
● Designed and deployed all internal advertising material, including brochures, flyers, presentations, magazine ads, online promotions, and email marketing campaigns. Used Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Fireworks regularly to create graphics materials for both online and print. This involved both generating content from scratch and optimizing content (resizing, reformatting, color touch-ups).
● Gathered requirements and worked with Department Head to find a solution as to how to best present site content.
● Designed and implemented the web solution from start to finish. Presented the supplementary materials, including some interactive features using .Net.
● Worked with the development team to analyze site code and provided recommendations based on SEO best practices.
● Conducted on-page marketing activities to increase conversion rate such as identifying seasonal promotional opportunities; maintained banners on the site and changed them periodically to promote different offers/products; and maintained rebate, clearance and special offers pages and updated them regularly.
● Procured quality inbound links from blogs, forums and other relevant, content-specific sites.
● Created content (articles, press releases, etc.) to submit to various platforms/sites.
● Made appropriate comments on relevant, do-follow blog sites to procure backlinks.
● SEO Copywriting/Editing.
Technical Environment: .Net, ASP, HTML, MS Access, Google Analytic, SEO Imperial Marketing
Served as a Business Analyst/Web Developer to develop an internal report portal which allowed users to access reports that track the sales of the representatives.
● Completed the project using Visual Studio and SQL Reporting Services leading to the deployment of over 40 new or enhanced reports.
● Performed testing on SQL reports created for a large leasing company leading to the immediate recognition and resolution of several major issues.
● Managed and tracked submission of data to press for large printing jobs on strict deadlines.
● Troubleshot production manager software and servers.
● Coded more complex variable data solutions using SQL and VBA Technical Environment: SQL Server R2, BIDS, VBA, MS Excel, MS Access Synergetic Marketing
Assigned to Synergetic Marketing as a SEO specialist to manage all stages of website development projects from start to completion.
● Coordinated the efforts of the graphic design and web development teams.
● Provided the teams with information about customer needs, specifications, design targets, development process, design standards, techniques and tools to support task performance.
● Provided an interface between Management and the design/development teams to ensure effective and on-time and delivery of websites.
● Simultaneously managed multiple projects with the use of project management techniques.
● Dynamic web site design and programming using PHP, MySQL, HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Perl. Set up and administered web servers and server software. Online business consulting from securing domain names, project planning, logo and graphic identity development, to online marketing, search engine placement and promotion.
● Monitored organic search placement and generating weekly reports Technical Environment: Wordpress, HTML, Google Analytics, Flash CS4, PHP, Linux, PHP, MySQL, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, SEO
Technical Oasis
Employed as a Senior .NET Developer in IT Security department. Lead a team of two developers to plan, execute and maintain a risk management system used within Technical Oasis’ business process.
● Lead the project team and coordinated the project timeline. Provided regular project status and progress reports to the CEO.
● Developed and implemented action plans according to the agreed standards and deadlines.
● Established regular liaison with the clients on all project-related matters.
● Built main law firm website and many informational and case-specific websites.
● Marketed websites through low-cost organic search engine optimization (SEO) and link building, gaining first page ranking on Google for many highly-competitive, high-traffic, targeted keyword phrases.
● Built internal corporate Intranet, enabling interdepartmental collaboration.
● Used Photoshop, XHTML, and CSS for all website design.
● Used JavaScript and AJAX for all client-side scripting.
● Used PHP, Perl, and Java connected to SQL Server and MySQL for all server-side programming.
● Procured quality inbound links from blogs, forums and other relevant, content-specific sites.
● Created content (articles, press releases, etc.) to submit to various platforms/sites. Technical Environment: .NET, Photoshop, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, PHP, Perl, Java, SQL Server, MySQL, SEO
Access Interactive 04/07 – 11/09
Web Developer
Solely responsible for the development of Internet sites and Intranet/Extranet systems. Duties included website design, programming, and optimization for search engine placement. Gained high ranking for many competitive keyword phrases.
● Performed code review and worked close with team members to ensure consistence to code standards.
● Optimized application performance by 40%.
● Worked close to business users to review requirements and develop based on the gathered requirements.
● Implemented application business logic in C# with MVP design pattern to increase unit tests support.
● Integrated application with 6+ external systems using a combination of web services and APIs. In addition, the application featured a full text search engine (using Oracle Full-Text search) and scheduling abilities using Windows Services.
● Procured quality inbound links from blogs, forums and other relevant, content-specific sites.
● Created content (articles, press releases, etc.) to submit to various platforms/sites.
● Made appropriate comments on relevant, do-follow blog sites to procure backlinks.
● Design and deploy all internal advertising material, including brochures, sales flyers, presentations, online promotions, and email marketing campaigns. Used Adobe Photoshop regularly to create graphics materials for both online and print. This involved both generating content from scratch and optimizing content (resizing, reformatting, color touch-ups).
● Used jQuery to deploy an automatic slideshow and a calendar that can be edited using Google calendar.
Technical environment: DNN, SQL Server, Photoshop, C#, ASP, IIS 6, HTML, CSS, Google analytics, AAA 06/05 – 03/06
Web Developer
Originally brought on as a Contractor for many short-term contracts through Kelly Services. After completing a few of the projects listed below, AAA hired me on as a Full-time Web Developer to develop their company website.
● Responsible for front-end development of the application using JavaScript, jQuery services.
● Developed user interface using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript based on requirements from graphic designers.
● Provided unit tests coverage for middle tire.
● Used Flash API provided cross-domain communication between different parts of the system.
● Upgraded web UI for application to standard corporate AAA styles. Technical Environment: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Flash Kelly Services 2001 – 2005
Contractor
Served as a Web Developer for many short-term contracts to utilize my technical knowledge and creative abilities.
Notable Contracts/Projects:
AAA, “Show Your Card” project:
Served as a Marketing Analyst to create an automated reporting system to track vendors for AAA deployment nationwide. Used a Microsoft Access Data Project (ADP) front-end linked to a SQL Server back-end. The system determines and indicates which milestones are in jeopardy. This system replaced an Excel method that consisted of collecting spreadsheet information from 5 internal departments and pasting together a semi-weekly report.
CDC, “Employee Performance Application”:
Brought on as a Web Developer to design and develop an extendable multi-user web application to support employees work flow system for immunization records. System included user management systems and performance graphing tool for on-the-fly PDF report generation. Education:
Bachelor’s Degree, IT/Marketing
● Central Michigan
Certifications:
● Adobe Certified Expert (ACE)
● AWS Certified Solutions Architect
● Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Certifications Transition
● ITIL IT Service Management
● AWS Certified Developer
● Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS)
● A+ Certification
● MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist)