Arnel Estanislao

Technical Director / IT Consultant

Las Piñas City, Metro Manila, Philippines • +63-917-***-**** • adxhxa@r.postjobfree.com • linkedin.com/in/saklay Arnel Estanislao has more than two decades of professional practice in the computing field. He brings to the company various competencies he has mastered from previous roles as multimedia programmer, software engineer, consultant, and a remote, independent contractor. As Code and Theory Manila’s Technical Director, he leads a team of developers and assures project health by working closely with the producer and development team.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Technical Director December 2015 – Present

Code and Theory, Manila, Philippines

● Analyze wireframes or designs and breakdown tasks, create timelines and monitor project backlogs

● Develop highly scalable and maintainable web applications, and recommend hosting configurations (cloud or dedicated)

● Recommend to internal technology stakeholders and client stakeholders (technical and non-technical) the appropriate process, technology architecture and front-end framework to bring experiences to life.

● Direct the process of gathering requirements for a new project

● Collaborate with other team members across UX, Visual Design and Engineering

● Manage sprint process, daily tasks, and team workload efficiently, while communicating progress, blockers, and goals clearly with the bigger team.

● Carry out regular code reviews, enforce coding best practices, source control and deliverables.

● Regular performance check-ins, coordinate with the team and provide a path for personal and professional progression

● Evaluate procedures and technology solutions to improve processes

● Enforce clear, cohesive, comprehensive and well-written technical documentation at all times, in-code files and external documentation

Front End / UI/UX Developer (Consultant) May 2015 – November 2015 My-Checkpoints, Manila, Philippines

● Carry out project plan for website projects

● Work closely with business units to deliver winning products

● Run beta and pilot tests/programs; communicate results & recommend solutions

● Develop web page infrastructure and application related to pages with specific graphics and functionalities

● Assure quality and integrity of web pages

● Monitor web server and site technical performance; communicate the same to concerned units

● Documentation, reports & stats generation; system housekeeping Front End Architect November 2009 – August 2013

Moontoast, Inc., Nashville, TN

● Responsible for converting all PSD files to xHTML and CSS.

● Integrate new layout designs to Symfony codes.

● Implemented JQuery functionalities on certain parts of the site.

● Debug IE related layout issues.

● Incorporated Wordpress in the Marketing site, annually created custom themes, used jQuery and other JavaScript frameworks like Parallax, and used SASS. Front End Developer March 2007 – June 2009

Solution Grove, Winchester, MA

● Reponsible for the development of reliable and maintainable code using OpenACS.

● Work with Architecture team and provide improvement recommendations to existing code.

● Implemented XHTML/CSS to existing client site and integrated YUI to current templates.

● Integrated Moodle, Elgg, and LAMS on some client sites CEO/Founder August 2004 – August 2007

ZeCon Media, Manila, Philippines

ZeCon Media, a Manila-based virtual company, provides Offshore Software Development, Software Outsourcing, Website Design, and Web Application Development Services to clients globally. Some of our focus industries includes real estate, ecommerce, marketing, medical, and finance investments. Client list includes companies based in Europe and US. All projects are done remotely.

● Responsible for revenue of US$100K gross.

● Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company.

● Negotiated and developed long-term partnerships with customers and clients.

● Wrote business plan and chief architect for all projects.

● Negotiated contracts, directed long-range planning, prepared and monitored budgets, and conducted ROI studies.

● Hired and supervised team members, established project goals and timelines, assigned tasks and monitored progress.

MIS Manager / Software Engineer October 2004 – February 2007 Dynamic Investment Solutions, San Rafael, CA

● Administered Windows NT servers remotely.

● Worked on internal projects, mainly in the real estate industry, using PHP and MySQL, MooTools

● Integrated e-commerce module using osCommerce including payment gateways like 2CheckOut, Paypal, and Verisign.

● Developed disaster recovery plan

Chief Technology Officer October 2004 – January 2005 Semizone Information Services, Manila, Philippines

● Managed technical infrastructure operation and development

● Managed implementations of LAN deployments

● Managed Internet services, Firewall implementations,, Dedicated hosting solutions, switching, IP telephony, Wireless networks, desktops and servers, OS systems such as Win9x,NT, 2K, Mac OSX, and Linux flavors. Interim General Manager / Chief Technology Officer February 2003 – October 2004 Infinite Information, Manila, Philippines

● Reviewed technology infrastructure of the company, proposing enhancements, managing implementation projects, and assessing results.

● Hired and supervised team members, established project goals and timelines, assigned tasks and monitored progress.

● Responsible for all software development using OpenACS.

● Managed implementations of LAN deployments

● Managed Internet services, Firewall implementations,, Dedicated hosting solutions, switching, IP telephony, Wireless networks, desktops and servers, OS systems such as Win9x,NT, 2K, XP, Mac OSX, and Linux flavors.

● Worked with corporate officials for small, medium and large businesses.

● Organized and co-authored the company's business plans to diversify revenues, expand the scope of services, and deploy growth initiatives.

Programming Director June 1997 – February 2003

Infinite Information, Manila, Philippines

● Managed technical infrastructure operation and development

● Reviewed technology infrastructure

● Developed use cases and wire frames based upon business requirements and best practices in e-commerce and online marketing.

● Created project schedules and authored coding and database standards.

● Set up development, staging, and production environments.

● Leveraged client-side techniques including URL rewriting and dynamically generated navigation elements to reduce average page weight by 50K and improve the performance of pre-existing code base 100X.

● Managed the organization through a difficult period of rapid growth.

● Instituted best practices in web application development (QA, "go live", code libraries, etc) and project management.

● Rebuilt much of the corporate IT infrastructure including file, email, DNS, network, web, and database servers to support expansion.

● Developed architecture, standards, project and testing plans, and change management presentations. Multimedia Supervisor September 1996 – June 1997

Infinite Information, Manila, Philippines

● Managed all facets of the Multimedia department including Creative Design, Video/Audio, 3D Animation, and Multimedia Authoring.

● Supervised projects from Custom Kiosks, CD-ROM Development, and Multimedia Presentations Multimedia Author / Programmer March 1996 –September 1996 Infinite Information, Manila, Philippines

● Worked on projects including Custom Kiosks, CD-ROM Development, and Multimedia Presentations. EDUCATION

AMA Computer College, Makati, Philippines

Bachelor of Science — Computer Science

SKILLS & OTHERS

Management Utilities: Scrum, Agile, Slack, JIRA, Basecamp, Trello, Redmine, Source Versioning (SVN, CVS, Git) Programming Languages: Perl, CGI, Tcl/Tk (OpenACS), PHP (Symfony, CodeIgniter, Laravel) Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Illustra, MariaDB Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Services, Netlify, Vercel, WP Engine CI/CD: Deploybot, Beanstalk, Jenkins, Codeship

Content Management Systems: WordPress, Drupal, CraftCMS, Contentful JavaScript Libraries & Framework: jQuery, YUI, ReactJS (NextJS, Gatsby) Soft Skills: Analytical and Critical Thinking, People Management, Strategic Planning, Operations Management

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