Me by Myself

I often describe myself as an Internet Software Engineer with business sense. When I say that, it reflects some characteristics of my background as well as some of my outlook.

My educational background is as an electrical engineer. That, as well as other studies leads me to assume more of an engineering or systems approach to software design, as compared to the contrary approach, which mirrors much more a kind of creative writing approach. I like to think of myself as more of a software engineer than a software author. Being from a hardware engineering background, I like to approach problems with a receptive view toward using the most efficient tool to solve a problem if possible. Sometimes this means using a solution that is inherent in the UNIX system, the Apache Server, or an available library, instead of forcing a solution based on a higher-level language (sometimes with a shoe-horn). However, several years of experience managing people, systems, projects and programs encourages me to consider reasons other than technical ones for any particular approach. As an example, one of the most difficult things for an organization to procure is competent talent. Bearing this in mind, it often makes business/management sense to craft a solution that uses a talent that is more available. As an example, it is much easier to find talented programmers who can solve a problem by using PHP than to find systems people who are talented at crafting configuration files for Apache servers. I consider myself to be language agnostic, but realistically, I am more current in PHP than other languages. My Interests

I find that I am not happy being ‘pigeon-holed’ into working on a single element of a project. At the very least, I prefer to work the entire request-response cycle, including back-end.

Ideally, I am involved in technical decisions, managing developers or technology, and have interface with customers. I have a personal interest of late in Android, and serverless (Jamstack) technologies. I am also interested in remote work opportunities. My Goals and Desires

I am always interested in opportunities that can excite me intellectually, places and teams that I feel will be interesting and challenging, and occasional travel. So, my goal will be to find an opportunity that embodies all these things that I love. My Recent Work

I have recently build a light-framework for PHP, a light-framework for JAMSTACK projects, a single-page application, as well as some small applications to gain familiarity with Service Workers, This was capped by an extensive online application that interfaces with an online MMORPG to provide data visualization and executive control of teams. This particular application involved user-scripts for injecting controls, and extensive RESTful APIs and NoSql data stores. These were all completed during the COVID “vacation”. My Employment Status

I retired early in 2019 (Just before Covid), and realized within a short time that I did not like being retired. I dedicated my time to expanding my skill set by developing those items mentioned in “My Recent Work”. I want to find interesting work that will keep me happy for at least 5 years. I am comfortable working W-2, 1099, or Corp-to-Corp. James Jeffrey BURT

Philadelphia, PA and Austin, TX

Preferred contact: adus7s@r.postjobfree.com

Alternate contact : 267-***-****

Website: www.jamesburt.com

Updated: 2022-03-15

COVER LETTER

Peter E. Costello and Sons Inc / Early Retirement / Covid Sabbatical Manhattan, NY / Philadelphia, PA

November 2019 to Present

Architect / Developer / Business Analyst

Technology: PHP, MVC, MVVM, NoSql, Responsive Design, jQuery, CDN, heavy cacheing. Developed projects that used interesting technologies:

A Jamstack/Serverless framework.

Serviceworkers for offline content cacheing.

JSON web tokens for server-server authentication. CoreDial Inc

Plymouth Meeting, PA

July 2019 to November 2019

PHP Developer

Technology: PHP, jQuery, MySql, Kubernetes, Docker.

Served as a PHP developer for the in-house billing program that served as a customer-portal for clients. The company was implementing Agile + Scrum.

Peter E. Costello and Sons Inc

Manhattan, NY / Philadelphia, PA

July 2015 to July 2019

Architect / Developer / Business Analyst

Technology: PHP, MVC, MVVM, NoSql, Responsive Design, jQuery, CDN, heavy cacheing.

Phonegap/Cordova SMS messaging application.

Created a lightweight PHP framework.

A series of APIs to enhance an MMORPG, also integrating browser user-scripts and application storage.

A mobile/responsive single-page application website in which I got to implement online image-editing, create an interesting API for geographical coordinates and distances, and some no-SQL solutions. For this project, I got to learn about Google SEO and their webmaster tools.

Deployment Engineer / Team Leader for a firm that uses offshore developers.

A mobile/responsive website for a nightclub, that allows the manager to update real-time which performers are on stage each evening. Lots of forward cacheing.

James Jeffrey BURT

Philadelphia, PA and Austin, TX

Preferred contact: adus7s@r.postjobfree.com

Alternate contact : 267-***-****

Website: jamesburt.com

Updated: 2022-11-12

APPLICATION DEVELOPER / ARCHITECT / TEAM LEADER

Most of my experience has been with Fortune-100 financial institutions. Internet Software Engineer with business sense and management experience. Undergraduate education as an electrical engineer. Engineering approach, more of a systems engineer than a software author. Recognizes that human capital, critical path, and total cost of ownership outweigh the “beautiful technical solution”. Security Clearances: US-DOD Secret, US-DHS Secret. Programming Languages: PHP, JavaScript, Java, KORN, C-Shell. Libraries: jQuery, PEAR, FPDF, TCPDF, PdfLib,

Data Exchange: AJAX, APIs, JSON, JSON-Webtoken, XML, SOAP, REST, XML-RPC, JSON-P. Administrator: Apache, Linux.

Environments: JAMstack, Codeigniter/Laravel/Struts, Linux, SQL, NoSQL, Memcached. New York Life Insurance

Manhattan, NY

April 2010 to July 2015 (Contract Ended)

Architect / Developer / Business Analyst

Technology: PHP, Codeigniter, Laravel, MVC, Memcache, Oracle, jQuery, Financial APIs. As the senior developer of a financial application, I produced full-stack modules in a continuous integration environment. The project was an incubator environment team that employed a RAD approach.

Sole responsibility for security features (XSRF, server hardening, upload scanning, authorization control.)

Sole responsibility for financial API feed creation.

Sole responsibility for memcached implementation.

Extended the Codeigniter framework.

Real Estate Development

Philadelphia, PA

September February 2009 to April 2010

Real Estate Development

During this time I managed the construction and upgrade of some real estate I own. Human Capital Management

Client: DePersico Creative Group

Havertown, PA

September 2008 to February 2009

Architect / Developer / Business Analyst

Technology: PHP, AJAX, MAC-OS.

Sole Architect/Developer for complete overhaul of an employee-facing application that performs time-accounting and billing, with graphics upload and archive functionality. The project offered me the opportunity to do substantial system administration on MAC-OS

(Leopard). I implemented Object-Oriented PHP, with AJAX, and PHP system calls to object-oriented encapsulations of ImageMagick.

Architect and Developer for complete overhaul of an employee-facing application in PHP and MySQL (LAMP). Peter E. Costello & Sons Inc.

Philadelphia, PA

September 2007 to December 2008 (Concurrent)

Architect / Developer / Business Analyst

Technology: PHP, AJAX, PDFlib, Google Map API.

Architect and developer for a customer-facing application in PHP and MySQL (LAMP). The application performs real-time construction of a PDF catalog of properties for sale, as well as geocoding the locations and presenting a mapping application interface. (Demo-2) Estate Resolution and Graduate Education

December 2005 to September 2007

Cared for a terminally ill parent, resolved estate affairs, and completed graduate-level education in Military Strategy. U.S. Army

Afghanistan

June 2004 to December 2005

Embedded Trainer / Military Advisor

Performed missions with the Afghan Army. Concurrently, rewrote the payroll program for the Afghan Army. PFPC-PNC Bank

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

April 1998 to May 2004

Senior Web Developer / UNIX System Administrator / Netscape Administrator Technology: Java, Tomcat, Weblogic, Solaris, IBM CICS Transaction Gateway, VAX VMS, Oracle. Senior developer for web-to-host Java applications. I selected the technology, and was also the Solaris Administrator. Chubb Computer Schools

Springfield, PA

2002 (Concurrent)

Adjunct Instructor

Instructor at evening courses in J2EE program, I taught the JavaScript course. U.S. Army

Prior to 2002

Army Officer

Army Officer managing various organizations.

EDUCATION

US Military Academy 1976

Excelsior University 1984

University of Oklahoma 1987

CAREER INTERESTS

I like organizations that encourage people to take ownership in some part of the product.

I like to work in organizations that encourage breaking barriers between teams.

I have an interest in Android and server side JavaScript.

I have an interest in remote work.

MY HOBBIES YOU MAY NOT HAVE ANTICIPATED

Parkour

Translating / subtitling modern German Operas (youtube.com/jamesjburt) MMORPG

Camping

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